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Praise causes failure!

I know it does, but I still do it; it is ingrained in me that praising is proper parenting behaviour and I am really having to work hard to break the habit. It starts with “What a clever girl, you ate all your greens!” and goes on “What a brilliant picture!” and on “You’re a [...]

Posted on 8 March 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Puberty is private!

I have found adolescence to be a time when a girl particularly needs to have someone older who she can talk to, someone who is not her mother.  This is not because there is anything wrong with her own mother, or their relationship, it is just that many girls want the distance that another woman [...]

Posted on 22 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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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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Do you dare to dream?

Children dare to dream: I’m going to be an Olympic gymnast. I want to be a pop star. I’m going to be a writer. I’m going to be on television. I want to be an astrophysicist. I’m going to be a clothes designer. Children are so delightfully open to being inspired.  Well, they see others [...]

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Posted on 17 August 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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