Tag Archives: eating disorders

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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Teen Need for Sleep

Did you know that teens need an hour or two more sleep than children or adults, but they get less than either? And that they become night owls for a bit, feeling drowsy later and needing to sleep in longer? And that over three-quarters of teens are officially sleep-deprived. Here’s the tricky thing: – Teens [...]

Posted on 14 November 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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Stop photoshop!

It is making us miserable. – who can help comparing themselves to the images that fill the bill-boards, screens and magazines? It is fake and dishonest. – is this not just plain wrong? 
It is encouraging our daughters to aspire to an impossible ideal. – no diet, surgery or personal trainer can give the idealised [...]

Posted on 28 June 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Body Beautiful

A baby girl reaches for her toes, fascinated as they dance in and out of her vision. A little girl pulls up her top to display her round belly proudly. A young girl dances up and down the hallway, delighting in her nakedness before a bath. A young school girl insists on wearing the same [...]

Posted on 15 June 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Aspiring to the Impossible

First women wanted to look like Marilyn Munroe, then Twiggy, and now Cheryl Cole. Only now, what we see of Cheryl is not even real. Not only are our stars possibly no longer in possession of their original bustline or lips or hips but their digitally-altered images bear little resemblance to the person herself. Our [...]

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Posted on 13 October 2011
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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