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Parents’ hopes and fears

What is your vision for your daughter? Many parents start by saying that they just want their children to be happy. Healthy and happy. We might go on to say that we want our child to be joyful, to love life, to have fun, to know what she wants and have the confidence to pursue [...]

Posted on 26 April 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Tackling niggles…

Family life can be full of little things that are calling out for our attention – whether it be the leaking tap, the rise in consumption of junk, creeping increase in screen time, bags dropped by the back door, tatty shoes, a paperwork mountain, a toaster that singes, split ends, fraying tempers, or runny noses. [...]

Posted on 30 October 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Blessed illness

I was ill recently – and what amazing things I was shown! I was feverish, and fussing ineffectually about the kitchen, and my fourteen year old suggested I go to bed, and then he did the washing.  My nine year old cooked dinner.  My seven year old sorted the clean clothes and kept checking to [...]

Posted on 22 October 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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The seasons of our parenting

If our parenting-life were to be one full cycle of seasons, where in yours are you? The forerunner of spring, when we are just coming out of hibernation, would be the baby time. The springtime of our parenting would be the fresh early years, followed by the blissful summer of those relatively easy middle years [...]

Posted on 2 October 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Morning moods

My great-grandmother used to brush my grandmother’s hair one hundred times every morning. My grandmother did the same for my mother. My mother didn’t have time. Now all too often we associate doing our daughter’s hair in the morning with hurry and stress. Tension arises as hair is tugged, child remonstrates, and mother chastises.  We [...]

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Posted on 27 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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