Tag Archives: Parenting

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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Healing times

*  Your daughter looks pale and is complaining of a sore throat and can’t sleep *  or she is flushed, her body aches, and the thought of homework overwhelms her *  or your daughter feels crampy, weepy and just wants to stay home. Do you see this as an opportunity for her to feel your [...]

Posted on 26 February 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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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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Stealing time

Who ever comes to the end of their life and wishes that they had done more housework, spent more time at work, tweeted or Facebooked more, or watched more television?  And yet how often do we fill our lives with these things and then say we have no time for other more pleasurable pastimes.  No [...]

Posted on 14 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Parenting – a lifetime of letting go

From the moment of giving birth and cutting the umbilical cord, parenting is a lifetime of letting go.  While letting go is liberating it can also be scary and painful. We have to trust that our children will be capable. Our children need us to believe in their competence. We have to trust that they [...]

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Posted on 10 September 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls
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