PARENTING
Mental Health Week: How to support our kids through emotional ups and downs
It's World Mental Health Week this week, which is a wonderful opportunity to talk about our children's mental health and how best to support our kids through their emotional ups and downs. In the research I did on adolescence for my Tweens & Teens e-course, I learned that it is normal for mental health and ...
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PARENTING
How to Encourage Teens to do Household Chores
Giving children regular chores and responsibilities around the house is important for many reasons, and maybe more so for teens and tweens. However, if your teens are anything like mine, you will find that their reluctance to chores increases as they enter adolescence and their attentiveness when doing them deteriorates. For example, Quin, who is ...
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FASHION
Favourite clothing brands for tween and teen boys
Let's be honest. Shopping for boys is more difficult than shopping for girls. And shopping for tween and teen boys is even more difficult than shopping for younger boys, so the challenge becomes amplified. Not only are there fewer brand options for tween sizes, but, at that age, kids start to have their own say, ...
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FASHION
Stylish swimwear from Surlaplage
Summer is arriving and we did not even see it coming! One day it is cold and grey and then next the sun is everywhere and people are walking in the streets with a big smile on their face! I do love this time of year. Summer also means digging out all the summer clothes ...
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FASHION
#dogrowup
Even though the much-used #dontgrowup or #stopthetime hashtags are obviously meant in a sweet way, they always make me cringe a little. Of course we want our children to grow up -- we want them to flourish surrounded by love and support, to discover the world around them, to develop their own style, to build their characters -- guided by their parents ...
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FASHION
Tuesday Tips: shopping for tweens on Pinterest
I wanted to share with you this little tip, as my kids are getting bigger and are starting to have an opinion on what they would like to wear. We don't always have the same opinions and this results in a verbal wrangle in the mornings that we would all really like to avoid, ...
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KIDS
Sara, growing up (and Marie Puce)
Sara is now 9 1/2 -- not long before we'll have a teenager in the house! It's crazy to think back to the moment when we first found out we were going to have a baby. Tamar and I were living in Brussels at the time, we had just gotten married a few months prior, ...
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BABY
Marie Puce, for bigger and smaller children
Marie Puce is a sweet and stylish French label, designed and ran by two sisters based in the heart of Paris. They have a lovely brick and mortar shop in the 6th arrondissement, and there's an extensive (and newly revamped!) online store as well -- for those of us not lucky enough to live around the corner ...
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KIDS
One Sunday, for girls aged 8 to 14
One Sunday is an Australian brand and boutique solely specialising in fashion for girls 8 to 14 years old. The collections are designed by the owner Henrietta Cheshire, and are made sweat shop-free in Sydney from fabrics milled in New Zealand. I'm super glad I came across One Sunday, because my daughter Sara wears a ...
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