Hi welcome to my blog.
my name is Claudine I am a forty year old woman who is raising kids through what I feel is the hardest part of their journeys as a teenager and preteen. I find that everywhere I look there is a never ending amount of advice for young mums on how to cope with babies and toddlers. Unfortunately I don’t see the same advice readily available for raising preteens or teenagers. I am hoping this blog will offer some insight to other parents who going through the same journey.
I am a mum of my darling teenrager and little Miss Diva, life is not easy when you are raising a 17 nearly 18 year old who is going through the transition from teenager to man. trying to guide him alone the right road though it feels at every turn he knows what is best for him. There is a point where you have to let them make mistakes and deal with the consequences but at the same time you still want to protect them, so all we can do is be there to pick them up when these things go wrong and in this house it is a daily occurrence. Little Miss Diva is eleven going on twenty one, she is at a challenging age where hormones are kicking in. She will also be going to secondary school in September which comes with its own fears and trepidations .
We really are an average family which deal with every day issues, as do all families, except in our journey we have had a few curve balls thrown in along the way. I am a domestic abuse and divorce survivor. we have had a hard journey and we are still on a road where we don’t always know what the outcome will be but we will always stick together no matter what. This blog will be an insight into our everyday life complete with the good, the bad and the ugly.
teenragers and divas 