When my daughter turned 13, it honestly felt like somebody had swapped my child overnight. The girl who used to sit on the kitchen bench chatting while I cooked dinner would now…
Tag: independence
As your child approaches their teenage years, they’ll want more independence, their emotions will run higher and you might see more disagreements in your household. By Simone Hain This is normal. Adolescence…
If you’ve ever found yourself cutting the crusts off a sandwich for a child who can now beat you at Wordle, welcome. You’re in the thick of the tween years, that curious…
Sadly, independence doesn’t show up on a our kids’ doorstep like a package we ordered on Amazon. Instead, independent humans are built little by little, in all the tiny daily moments we…
It’s true, we don’t track our kids. There’s no GPS attached to their phones. We don’t use apps that pinpoint their location or limit their phone use or block certain sites. There…
Sometime around the age of 11 – or possibly younger, if you are particularly unlucky – the back talk begins. Suddenly, your kid morphs from a reasonably compliant child into a sassy,…