Tag: Teenagers
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8 Survival Tips For Middle Age
When I was young and had no concept of my own mortality and thought that being over twenty-five was like SOOOO fucking old, I found it hard to believe that life could possibly begin at forty. Well, I’m now approaching fifty and I’m thinking I might have been right all along. Admittedly, there are some…
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Time Out Strategies for Mums of Children With ADHD
We are working with Kurt’s new school to help find strategies for him in the classroom, so that he and his teachers have some chance of survival until the end of the school year. Common strategies might include a shared signal that the teacher will give to him when he is beginning to be too disruptive…
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Happiness Is: When The Kids Go Back To School
Happiness Is My High!! by Cinnerrr at http://www.flickr.com The school summer holidays are SERIOUSLY F*CKING LONG holidays when you’re a working mum of teenagers. So it is with barely concealed excitement, (skipping around the house whistling… maybe), that I am preparing Kurt for his return back to school. In my defence, I do mean to…
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Being Promoted from Parent To Bank By Teenagers
That time when you transition from parent to bank with your teenagers. The thing about teenagers is that their brains are still not fully developed and they can act impulsively. So the minute you diss them or flip your lid at them or do something parentally-incorrect (like tell all three of your readers about their…
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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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What To Do When Teenagers Treat Home Like A Hotel
There have been two fundamental changes this year in NC’s relationship with us: Dysfunctionality House has now officially become her local hotel. The old man and I have been officially replaced in her affections by the boyfriend. I thought I was ready to let my baby out of the nest, let her spread her wings…
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The Christmas Party and The Hangover Part 4
We still haven’t quite worked out how the Princess Spoodle managed to get stuck in NC’s shower cubicle the morning after the Christmas party. We’re praying she didn’t have an all-nighter in there, but it was highly reminiscent of the tiger scene in The Hangover. Who did this? Did she actually have the skill to…
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20 Ways To Get Back At Your Teenagers
After extensive experience, I have come to the conclusion that much like oil and water, Kurt and school do not mix. Singer Britney Spears was one of the best selling female performers of the 2000s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Much of my time this week has been spent brown-nosing to school officials, inventing new punishments for…
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My Boy’s All Grown Up
So the boy is finally growing up. A Brand New James Bond by S Marcu at http://www.flickr.com He didn’t scrub up too badly for his Formal, once I wiped the Nutella off his chin and exchanged the safety pin earring for a diamante stud. He was almost Beckham-esque in stature. It hurt physically to shop…
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Parenting Teenagers and Ignoring Their ‘Right To Privacy’
English: A small and simple white mortar and pestle, on bamboo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sometimes us mothers have to do things we are not proud of. I admit that I have inadvertently found myself, on more than a few occasions, skimming through my children’s Facebook pages or stalking their friends; I may even have mistakenly…
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What Really Happens On A Girls Night Out?
The following video is an educational film about the degenerative effects of alcohol on the brains of middle-aged and teenage women. Oh Dear, oh dear, oh dear… We understand if you feel the need to turn off your screen if your preconceived ideas about women and how they should behave in public areas are compromised,…
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The Lethal Cocktail of ADHD And Depression
Deutsch: Cocktail (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We’ve had a bad week with Kurt. You might remember that in my last post I caught myself foolishly romanticizing about how fantastic life was – it was like I’d discovered God or something and would be joining those rockster Christians in our local church on Sunday for a non-alcoholic…
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