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[cat_mioux]

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[jack*in*a*box]

Woops. Excuse the typos back there :8}

A friend of mine is taking me out to dinner tonight for my birthday 🙂

Have a good night

[dtrh3]

cj :-xsorry to read about miss 14..must be pretty tough at home at the moment..

hang in there,she ll probably sort herself out-I would take it as a good sign that she is not consistently feral..perhaps its a case of hanging tough with her at the moment-most kids wise up when youre consistent,as hard as that can be.Just a thought-is anything happening at school-that she could be reacting to?(good thats shes achieving well,btw)..

Enjoy your dinner out-you deserve it-have a good night!

[jack*in*a*box]

Thanks dtrh. I'm waiting to get picked up now. I'm looking and feeling rather good tonight.

[dtrh3]

morning all:-)

hope you are healing nicely ms Cat :-xis today the first day of your holidays?I hope its a good day!

cj :-x how did you enjoy last night?good food+good company?

I am off to retailworld today-hope its a good day for all:-)

higs and hugs to those who may need them,keep up the healing

you can do it you can do it you can do it

[kyliecrv]

I bet your sister is wrapped Kylie. I hope you enjoyed your night out and Samantha slept well for you overnight.

My sister is over the moon! Her fiance is a wonderful young man. He has always been there for my other kids after their dad died and a great member of our family, Samantha is a lucky girl to have so many people LOVE her as they do!

ALso my sis has been a part of this babys life long before her arrival wth my being pregnant at work with her, and her being at the birth!

Pretty sure she knew they were going to be asked as Godparents, but now it's official!

*Of course the middle sister might be a bit sulky about this, she always gets 'funny' about me & youngest sis, being 'too close'! (middle child syndrome)

Bubba was great after wedding, she'd had a good night with her Aunty/Uncle & sibblings so not unsettled at all!

We are finally into a good sleeping/ feeding pattern now, so Im slowly getting happier to take her out in the day while everyone is at school/work! Last week we visited my grandparents, and tomorrow I will visit my mum for one-on-one time with bubba, it's hard to have quality time when our whole family gets together!!

[kyliecrv]

So... Ms Mioux is on holidays now, is that right!?? Woohoo... enjoy and relax lovely! ♥ Hope your cyst healed up well.

C*J- Goodluck with the teen girl, my Miss is turning 16 this year and I know how teen girls are on a rollercoaster of emotions/ dramas. She will straighten out, just hanging there and be consistant. Great that your ex is involved and supportive too.

Ohh... And Re: that Wedding that everyone stood up for hours on end with no food/ drinks.... OMG!!! Apalling! Seriously that is soooo not on!

I cannot WAIT for my lil sisters Wedding in November, will be here before we know it! Time flies.... Samantha is 10 weeks old today!

[cat_mioux]

*cat waves to little Samantha* 10 weeks old!

Hi everyone :-x

Just a quick one .. I'm helping my daughter fill out rental applications then we are going to wash our cars at the car wash then off to buy something nice for dinner. Tomorrow I'm off to visit a friend then go to a Buddhist meeting in the evening.

Yes this is my first day of holidays! Last night at work I was counting down the minutes and right on finishing time the boss asked me to write an email. 😐  I don't what I wrote but it was the quickest work email I've ever written! :^O

Re: difficult teenagers. I asked my daughter about this and this is what she said.

It was the kids whose parents tried to ground them and refused to let them go out that got into the worst trouble. The parents that gave freedom but set boundaries did the best. i.e yes you can go to the party. Yes I will buy you alcohol (even though you are underage but I prefer to know what and how much you're drinking than have you hanging around the bottle shop waiting for some creepy adult to buy your alcohol etc). I will drive you to the party and pick you up at 1am. You want the teenager to be able to phone you at 3am if they are in trouble rather than not being able to because you think they are home asleep in bed. Anyway, that's my sensible wise daughters advice.

Apparently the more strict a parent was the more rebellious the teenager was. I was strict but I've since found out when I grounded my kids they snuck out the window and went to the parties anyway 😮

Oh the things you learn when your teenagers become adults. :^O

[jack*in*a*box]

Happy Holidays Cat and good morning all

I was raised with 'respect' for my mother and my family. I was allowed a LOT of freedom..mum was hardly ever home so we ran the streets and got up to all sorts of trouble mum never knew about. I started smoking, drinking, smoking marijuana and having intercourse very young. Not sure I want the same for mine. I will never buy her alcohol until she is of legal age. She will be allowed a glass of something when she is 17 at an appropriate event (probably at home). Miss 14 does sports on a Saturday night where the bus drops her home approx. 10-11pm. It is fully supervised. She is allowed to hang out with friends but she has a curfew (which she consistantly breaks) and is found NOT where she tells us she is going. *sigh*

I think she was very embarrassed on the weekend after the POLICE paid us a visit.

Anyway, not much has been said about that event since, and fingers crossed she will pull her head in and smarten up. She was happily doing homework last night and asking for my help. She really is a lovely kind hearted and intelligent girl just that the demons called hormones and trying to find herself are interrupting her usual nature. 🙂

I came home from work last night to find my son and my ex's cars in the driveway. Instantly thought, what's happened now? They were cooking me dinner, helping with our youngest and washing up. :-x I really am blessed.

Have a great day everyone.

[kokomobua]

Jacks, when we had my stepdaughter living with us (from age 8-11) a very wise swimming teacher (SD's mother had never bothered to get her to swimming lessons, so poor little bugger was in with the teenies at age 😎 advised us to try and get her hooked on a sport or a similar pursuit.  She reckoned it was the safest way to raise a teenager, as they are so focussed on their sport or other endeavour that they have no time for shennanigans.

I don't know if it's too late to start at age 14, but does she show any aptitude for a sport or interest in a hobby?  If so, perhaps you can really get her hooked into that before she gets any older.

I was a fair little sod from around 13-16 (16 when I left home) and the things I got up to would have turned your hair white over night.  Dad buggered off when I was 11 and poor Mum was at her wit's end trying to control me as a single parent.

When I was a bit younger I was a horse fanatic, unfortunately my parents were frightened of horses and we didn't have the money for me to take it up, but looking back I reckon if I had had the opportunity to get seriously stuck into horseriding, I might have been far too focussed on that to get up to the mischief I did.

If it's any consolation I turned out okay, into a (reasonably :^O) respectable adult, but looking back I was in some very dangerous situations as a teenager and it was only by sheer good luck that I'm still around today.

I reckon we should be able to put kids on ice just before they hit the terrible teens, then unfreeze 'em again when they finally reach some sort of maturity!

[jack*in*a*box]

I reckon we should be able to put kids on ice just before they hit the terrible teens, then unfreeze 'em again when they finally reach some sort of maturity!

Me too! Her dad and her sister own horses and motorbikes. She is not into horses but can ride a motorbike and enjoys it when she gets the opportunity. Miss 14 is very sporty, participates in all sports at school and after school events, she is heavily involved in school, loves to dance too. I am looking at getting her back into dance classes. She'll enjoy that.

I was also raised by a single mother (dad not around, not even phone contact). Mum did as well as she could. I reckon I've turned out OK too.B-)  I am lucky that I have Miss 14's dad in the picture and takes a great deal of interest in her. We unite when it comes to parenting. I didn't go through this with my 19 year old daughter thankfully.