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Self-harming teens – why do they do it?

Cutting, starving, bingeing, burning, drinking, drugs, promiscuity… these are the most popular ways for self-harming. Many parents harbour a secret fear that the teenage years might bring these things.  At the same time, parents assume that their child won’t.  We protect ourselves by believing that teens that turn to self-harming behaviour come from other families, [...]

Posted on 14 March 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Do as you’re told!

Don’t we all have times when we wish they would? Who hasn’t wished for a request to be met by instant compliance.  Life would be so much easier if we were spared the ‘Why?’ or the ‘In a minute…’ (which never happens) or the extended debate designed for a wriggle out. Compliant, agreeable children seem [...]

Posted on 29 November 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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High heels at thirteen?

High heels at thirteen – or make-up, or boys, or staying out later, or a myriad of other ways that our girls seek to feel more grown up.  All teenagers want to know that they are not the children they used to be – they want to know it for themselves and they want us [...]

Posted on 28 May 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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Staying safe through risk taking

When our children were young I had to train my husband to allow them to fall off a piece of furniture that was wobbly, rather than reaching out to steady it. He was horrified when I stood by, just watching, as our child climbed atop a stool that was clearly not stable. My reasoning: this [...]

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Posted on 15 January 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting teenagers
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