Tag: Teenagers
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Teenage Relationships and Emotions
NC* is finally ‘seeing’ someone. Relationships have always been complex for NC. You see she analyses every step of the dating process and usually comes to the conclusion that it’s not worth the effort. In reality, relationships don’t involve cute little tweeting blue birds, hyperactive mice, pink ribbons and hearts, and for NC they are…
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Horrible Homework
Smarties British Candy (Photo credit: fritish) I muscled in on a discussion between some irate mums about homework on Twitter yesterday. Apparently it is a universal issue of monumental proportions and I am not the only parent with the grey hair and eye twitch to prove that my child refuses to do his homework. There are…
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What Do Therapy and Cooking Have In Common?
Moroccan Chicken tagine with Olives (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s been a shocker of a week in Dysfunctionality House. It’s funny how something as simple as fusing the toaster on Monday morning, (which tripped the electrical switch so that I couldn’t get out of the garage to go to work), could set off such a chain…
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Sibling Rivalry and The Difference Between Rocks and Rock Music
Rock Me Baby (Photo credit: Bruce McKay Yellow Snow Photography) Sibling rivalry can be a bitch when we’re growing up, although it does serve some purposes. It toughens us up, prepares us for personality clashes that we may have to deal with later in life, and generally metamorphoses into lifelong familial friendship. Sometimes, however, it…
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Position Vacant: House Cleaning Fairy, Sydney
Fairy Wings (Photo credit: thor_mark) Reaching middle age has affected my health in many ways. I am unarguably larger in size, most definitely losing my marbles, but I’m also mentally far less tolerant to…well, just about everything. My biggest and most recent ‘intolerance’ is to house cleaning. The sheer banality of housework, when there are so…
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Teenage Dating and Sibling Baggage
SUITCASES ARE USED FOR SEATS AS MEMBERS OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION WAIT FOR A TRAIN IN NEW YORK CITY’S PENNSYLVANIA… – NARA – 556705 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So Nerd Child casually slipped into the conversation that a male friend of hers would be staying over at Dysfunctionality house next week. Just like that. My Mumdar…
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How To Cope With ADHD For Breakfast
English: Symptoms of ADHD described by the literature (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Kurt is particularly vocal in the morning; some might call it manic. Which makes it hard for the rest of us Dysfunctionals, because none of us are particularly great in the morning. ADHD for breakfast is not how I would choose to start my day.…
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Middle-Aged Divorce Race: Who’s With Me?
I’m slightly peeved about the timing of the recent research into divorce rates in Australia. Apparently, the number of divorces among empty-nesters and (what my father describes as) ‘lifers’ has increased. The release of the stats from the Australian Institute of Family Studies is already creating tension on my domestic front, and I hadn’t even finished…
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How Can Our Teenagers Still Be Smoking?
So Kurt (Cobain), our son with ADHD, has started smoking. I’m devastated. How can our teenagers still be smoking? No Smoking by machechyp at http://www.flickr.com His decision isn’t exactly a surprise – smoking is a rite of passage for a lot of those rebellious teenagers who are drawn to living life on the edge. It can…
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The Mothers Day Grinch
I might be mildly excited about Mother’s Day if I was getting a real treat this year – just for me – TIME OUT from my kids, say? Does that make me bitter? A Mother’s Day Grinch? Mothers Day Grinch Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids, but I spend the other 364 days…
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What I Learnt About Teenage Boys This Week
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may be aware that our ‘hotel’ was fully booked this week, with an influx of British testosterone; in the shape of three eighteen-year-old teenage boys. We had never met these boys before, which might have been a potentially awkward situation. And it was. Their friend, our nephew, (who…
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The Teenage Transition From Boy To Man
I’ve been demoted in my role as Mum by my teenage son now. Steve Biddulph warned me it would happen in his books, Raising Boys and The New Manhood, but I thought I would be the mother to prove him wrong. Steve obviously knows what he’s talking about. “Most men today live behind masks. They…
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