This is part of my monthly series on Parenting Teenagers. Almost five years ago I wrote a series of posts reviewing the excellent book by Celia Lashlie, Growing gorgeous boys into good men. You can see the posts here. I have been re-reading these posts and feel that I am overdue to read this book [...]

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This is an annual post I write here on Planning With Kids. While I write on the blog to share ideas of what we do in our family, to hopefully help other families, it also provides a fantastic record of what is happening in our life. As the kids grow older, I realise now how [...]

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This is part of my monthly series on Parenting Teenagers. Over the last month I have tried really hard to think before I speak and act around the teenager. I will admit to not having a perfect hit rate at this, but in terms of things I mentioned in my last month’s post like being [...]

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This post is part of the Family Eating series. How To Get Kids To Eat? This is a very common question I receive in emails from readers, so I thought I would develop a fuller answer than what I usually give via email. Before I start, as you would know, I am not a nutritionist, [...]

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“It’s not you, it’s me.” A fairly well known phrase, generally for relationship break ups, but this post about parenting teenagers, take this very philosophy.  In my first post on parenting teenagers, I wrote mainly about the behaviour of our eldest son (14 years old). This month I have been thinking more about my behaviour; what [...]

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This post is the final in my literacy series which has been running over the last few weeks.  The other posts in the series were: What Is Phonics? Early Literacy For Children With Additional Needs Is your child being taught to spell well? Decodable Books I was pleased to have a number of experts contribute [...]

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