As the mum of 3 boys, you might think I’d be an expert on parenting boys – not so! As anyone with 3 the same will tell you, they can be wildly different. Same gene pool, very different children. In a way, my eldest (now 20) taught me very little as he’s always been easy, […]
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The transition from child to teen
Parenting a teenager is something that’s crept up on me really if I’m honest. One minute they were toddlers, looking to me to meet their every need, then, almost without me realising it, they morphed into older, more independent young people. It sounds cliched I know, but it really did all happen too quickly. There’s […]
My daughter’s anorexia
One summer, I can distinctly remember saying to myself how happy I was with life and how well everything was going; not sure I’ve ever done that before but I sure won’t do it again. Not many weeks after, our lives turned upside down and have never been the same again. I started to notice […]