Life with Tweens

“Quit bossing me around”…..”It’s not fair, you never want to do what I want to do!”…. Oh my stars…… Have you ever had to explain that Life is Not Fair to your daughter?  So the other day we were at the park after school with two sisters that are friends with my two girls.  The older sisters were together--because its not cool to hang around your younger sisters-- and the younger sisters ran to play on the one swing at the park….and what you might guess happened, happened…..yep they got upset with each other because they weren’t the one to...

Mean Girls…...no one is more vicious to girls than other girls! Mean girls will always be in your daughter's life, so it something she will need skills to deal with.      We experienced this in grade 2, when my daughter’s “best friend” started blaming her for things going wrong in her life and saying that she was leaving the school because of my daughter.  The “best friend” would tell my daughter “I hate you” and “I’m not your friend anymore” one day, and then want to be friends for a few days.  My daughter was so confused and would cry nightly...

How to Help My Daughter through her first Period   Well it happened sooner than I was ready for! Maybe it is one of the topics you dread talking to your daughter about, especially if you never had an open conversation about your time of the month when you were growing up.   When I got my first one I was 14 and then I never had another period until I was 16, but my mother had a hysterectomy when I was younger so there were no products in the house and the only people home were my brother and my...

How To Help My Daughter Work Through Her Anxiety Putting my daughters on the bus in the morning for school is always bitter sweet.  I enjoy my time to get things done around the house but my oldest daughter suffered from separation anxiety.   I was working afternoons, so I would put them on the bus in the morning and then not see them until the following morning.  After a full year of constant crying, clinging and eating issues, we sat down as a family and decided that I would apply for a weekend shift position, so that I could be...