Howdy Peeps! Happy Waitangi day to New Zealand! Happy ascension day to Queen Elizabeth who has smashed Queen Victoria's record and has held the throne 68 years today!!! She rocks, God bless her! A little closer to home, my baby girl has a very significant birthday today... legally she's allowed to do a lot more [...]
Morning Peeps! Anyone out there with exam kids? I took my baby girl to her college open day yesterday! We're in the midst of mock exams, college applications and real-world changes. The college was great by the way, definitely has the courses she wants/needs. She received her NI number in the post this morning (for [...]
Howdy Peeps! Been crazy here today so I apologise for late post. I started busy and over-booked my morning. I've been waking the teenager up half hour earlier this term as she wanted to have tine for yoga and Spanish revision. To start with it was a struggle (for both of us) but this last [...]
Howdy Sunday Peeps! Y'all know I have a teenager, she's pretty great and easy-going, but there are always parenting decisions to make. There have been a couple of times recently when she's asked to go somewhere we haven't been, or go further away on the bus with friends, or to stay out later. We only [...]
Morning Peeps! Happy Youth Day! 🙂 I love working with teenagers, they teach me as I teach them. They'll explain the latest slang/text abbreviation/dance craze without hesitation and tell you exactly what they think/feel about certain things. We should be encouraging them to speak up more, not telling them to hush. So many young people [...]
Well Hello There Peeps! I was talking to a friend yesterday about teenagers and sleep and hadn't realised before that conversation that I was doing anything she would find surprising, so I thought I'd share with you and see what you think. My daughter and her boy are similar ages and she said he needs [...]
