Tag: children
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Mother’s Guilt and The Mindfuck Caused by Parenting
Anyone worked out ‘parenting’ yet? When you do, you will inbox me, won’t you? The great thing about these summer holidays is that they have given me lots of time to reflect, focus, over-analyse and privately condemn my parenting skills. Again. Family relationships have been tested and redefined this holiday. Indian Drum by Agelakis at…
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Helicopter versus Satellite Parenting
There has been a surprising amount of accusation levelled at me by both the old man and the teens about my mode of parenting recently. The minute I am caught stalking, probing, over-organising, suffocating (NC’s words), or indeed ‘parenting’ (my words), NC starts making patronising whirring noises above my head. Helicopter versus satellite parenting. She…
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Halloween Humbug
It’s Halloween tonight. (SIGH). So here’s the thing. I’m wondering what the general consensus is vis a vis me hiding at the back of the house (with my earphones on), while the trick or treaters are doing the rounds? To avoid them. Obviously. The problem is, that we appear to have messed up geographically (big…
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