Tag Archives: teenagers

Do as you’re told!

Don’t we all have times when we wish they would? Who hasn’t wished for a request to be met by instant compliance.  Life would be so much easier if we were spared the ‘Why?’ or the ‘In a minute…’ (which never happens) or the extended debate designed for a wriggle out. Compliant, agreeable children seem [...]

Posted on 29 November 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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Teen Need for Sleep

Did you know that teens need an hour or two more sleep than children or adults, but they get less than either? And that they become night owls for a bit, feeling drowsy later and needing to sleep in longer? And that over three-quarters of teens are officially sleep-deprived. Here’s the tricky thing: – Teens [...]

Posted on 14 November 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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Stop photoshop!

It is making us miserable. – who can help comparing themselves to the images that fill the bill-boards, screens and magazines? It is fake and dishonest. – is this not just plain wrong? 
It is encouraging our daughters to aspire to an impossible ideal. – no diet, surgery or personal trainer can give the idealised [...]

Posted on 28 June 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Body Beautiful

A baby girl reaches for her toes, fascinated as they dance in and out of her vision. A little girl pulls up her top to display her round belly proudly. A young girl dances up and down the hallway, delighting in her nakedness before a bath. A young school girl insists on wearing the same [...]

Posted on 15 June 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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My toddler-teen!

We’re in the midst of GCSE exams – and I am learning a new and delicate dance that reminds me of a dance I had to learn in the toddler years. My teen wants me to back off.  No gentle reminders to revise required, thank you very much.  No help with devising a revision timetable.  [...]

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Posted on 13 June 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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