Tag Archives: role model

Informing your daughter ~ an on-going conversation

Who teaches your daughter about bra sizes?  Or what to expect as puberty approaches?  Or how to manage the heart ache of first relationships? You could leave it to the occasional lessons in school, but who can ask questions in that kind of setting?  Or it could be her peers, but do they really know?  [...]

Posted on 5 November 2012
Musings: Coming of age, 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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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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Blind bit of difference…

    The ball rattles, opponents must call as they go in to tackle, and miraculously nobody crashes! This is blind football.       My children just spent an afternoon learning how to play football blind-folded with the GB Paralympic Football coach, Gary Knight.  I love any challenge that takes people out of their [...]

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Posted on 22 August 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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