Tag: Teenagers
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‘Experimentation’ Is A Big Part Of Being A Teenager
Found on fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net I am obviously the very LAST person in Australia to watch Puberty Blues. For those of you who haven’t seen this wonderful Australian television series, Puberty Blues is set in the seventies, near Sydney’s Cronulla beach, and depicts the journey through puberty and the coming of age of two close friends, Sue…
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School Parents Evening and The Wine Drip
Outside Guy’s Hospital (Photo credit: guy.p) On the good side, the inhabitants of Maggot City are obviously in the process of re-strategizing and haven’t sent any more special envoys into the battlefield that is my pantry. Perhaps they haven’t noticed that I killed a core member of their flying squad yet? Their timing is uncharacteristically…
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Mother Love And Taking Revenge On Your Teenagers
Sometimes God smiles down on us. Sometimes, during this life sentence they call parenting, we parents are given a tantalizing reprieve – a few precious moments to exact some revenge on our little monsters. I love my children and I certainly don’t begrudge them the interminable sacrifices I have been forced to make over the…
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Do You Let Your ADHD Teenager Fail?
Kurt turns seventeen in a month’s time. There was a time when I couldn’t believe how quickly he was growing up, but the last year has moved intolerably slowly at times. As many of you know, we survived a tumultuous year with our ADHD son last year. If the word ‘teenager’ makes you shudder, then…
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Teenage Friendships and The Role Of Food
Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon) penalty kick in the Heieneken Cup (Photo credit: Sum_of_Marc) Kurt has had a best friend for a while now. He got to know him at the performing arts school he started at last year, just before the unfortunate series of events that led to the gaping hole in his classroom wall which…
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‘Bringing Sexy Back’ Into Your Marriage
Real men go commando! So everyone knows that maintaining a level of intimacy in our relationships with teenagers around is even harder than when the kids were little. For lots of reasons, but mainly because they go to bed later, become aggressively interrogatory when doors are locked. If there is the mere suggestion that we…
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Do I Really Need The Blood Of The Easter Bunny On My Hands Too?
Can I Really Kill Of The Easter Bunny As Well? It came as a surprise when Kurt asked me casually the other day if the Easter Bunny was still coming on Sunday. I knew it was a test. You see, I thought that his childhood had been jettisoned out of the window some time ago;…
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18 Awesome Tips for Surviving The School Holidays With Teenagers
Teenagers (Photo credit: kamshots) Day 1 of the school holidays and the fridge is already empty, the sofas are piled high with bodies I don’t recognise and our home has been re-categorised as a hostel for depraved youth by wotif.com. Some of the younger parents amongst you, who still have cuties for children, will embrace…
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Driven Insane By Kurt Cobain.
So I got a new motor this week. kurt cobain (Photo credit: seattlewhat) I can’t say it was a purchase that the old man took lightly – as many of you know, there is very little manoeuvrability within the old man’s pockets – but after fifteen years of nagging and providing him with several very…
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What Do You Get When You Mix ADHD With PMS?
Tyrannosaurus rex, a theropod from the Late Cretaceous of North America, pencil drawing (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The ambience in Dysfunctionality House has been ‘tetchy’ this week – a direct result of girl hormones creating chaos. When I was a young girl and packed off to a girls’ boarding school, we all took part in a…
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Parenting Teens and Toddlers: The Similarities and The Differences
toddler (Photo credit: fionnaigh) I revisited toddler-world today for the first time in a long time, when I had two under- fours in the back of my car. One had diarrhoea and we had to stop the car every five minutes and the other didn’t want to be in the car at all – and…
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Middle-Aged Drinking And Your Relationship With Alcohol
Tetra Pak® – Couple on beach with Tetra Classic® packages, 1960s (Photo credit: Tetra Pak) I think I AM probably one of those happy people in denial about their drinking. The last time I went for a medical and was asked about how many units I consumed on average in a week and answered ‘thirteen’,…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 