Tag Archives: parenting teenagers

What did you most want at thirteen?

For me it wasn’t bigger breasts or Boots17 latest or even a boyfriend. I mean I sort of did want a boyfriend but only in the abstract. I probably did long to be the kind of girl who knew how to get, and then what to do with a boyfriend, but since I wasn’t, I [...]

Posted on 27 March 2013
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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The bedtime gateway

“All I can get out of my daughter these days is that she’s ‘fine’ and ‘nothing really happened’ during her day.” “My daughter’s not happy, I know she isn’t.  But either she can’t, or else she just won’t, tell me why.” “She used to tell me everything – too much sometimes – but now I [...]

Posted on 19 March 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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What’s way more important than maths or English?

- knowing your own mind, and trusting it. Does your daughter know what intuition feels like? Does your daughter know her own mind? Is she allowed to trust and follow this? Having a daughter who knows her own mind can be challenging, but can you celebrate it? she’s more likely to find a path in [...]

Posted on 29 January 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Just Listen to Me!

Teens tell me that they don’t talk to their parents because their parents don’t listen. I wanted to think that this was not true for me and my teen, but then I observed myself, and have to admit that sometimes I don’t listen properly. When your child comes to you with something that is bothering [...]

Posted on 4 December 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Heavy Periods

I have been moved to write after hearing about the struggle with heavy periods of a local teen that I’m fond of.  She’s not alone, heavy bleeding is not uncommon for teens (and women approaching menopause) but it is not easy to cope with.  I know of too many women and girls who come to [...]

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Posted on 22 November 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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