Tag: unconditionallove
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The True Test Of Parenting Is Unconditional Love
We had an impromptu visit last night from one of Kurt’s friends. This boy’s last impromptu visit was on Christmas Day, and this impromptu visit was to apologise for it. This friend of Kurt’s is a bird with broken wings who makes my heart bleed at an haemophiliac rate. He bought with him a bottle…
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The Family Crazy
In my early teens, I used to lose myself in television shows like Little House On The Prairie and The Waltons. Those television shows encapsulated the idea of the utopian family for me. They represented proper families, something I aspired to have more than anything else, when I grew up. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/52434112 I craved the ‘happy ever after’…
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Midlife Mayhem – Fake Parenting
I am the ‘fraud’ parent at my daughter’s Parent Evening. While my seventeen-year-old has acquired a fake ID to get intoxicated, I often question my true ID as a responsible parent. A lot of us are guilty of ‘winging’ this whole nurturing lark. We’ve had to. The dissolution of the ‘extended family‘ has forced us…
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Midlife Mayhem – Who Stole My Daughter?
A pile of Maltesers candies and one split in half. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Apparently, I am one of the few mothers to have procured a ‘relationship’ with my teenage daughter. Out of the ashes of the domestic warzone that started seventeen years, there has been an armistice, although the fragile ties that now bind us…
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