Family Teenage Times 

What Comes First?….The Chicken or the Egg?

After the recent episode with our frisky 12yo son Max being caught ‘manhandling’ the girls at school with hugs, I am not sure that a sex education lesson two days later is appropriate!:-) I am also reminded of the time back at Max’s old primary school when we attended a sex education night as a family. Max was very enthusiastic this night with the Q & A section and would shoot his hand up as high as he could almost begging to be asked to answer each question. The educator…

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Teenage Times 

Do you approve of teenage sleepovers?

“Nothing good comes from a sleepover!”. This is the mantra that I tell my two boys everytime they ask if they can stay over at a mate’s place. Can someone please tell me what the purpose of a sleepover is and why as parents we allow them to happen? I don’t know about you but my boys come back the next day as tired, snotty little ferals with a whole heap of gangster attitude that us parents have to put up with for the rest of the weekend. What are…

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