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Re: How do you keep your children grounded?

I agree with the 2 posters above. To add something we do as well is to explain the true cost of things, how much one must earned to be able to afford what they have. They know how much we need to earn so we cab pay their private (including the vat now) education, or when travel and our holidays. I a...
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Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:15 am

Re: How Do You Manage Elderly Parent Care as a Couple?

I agree with all the posts above as this is a situation where there is no rules to follow it is up to different individuals and differenr relationships. In general i dont want to be involved in the day yo day caring of my parents in law even though I have a great relationship with everyone. When I m...
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Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:23 pm

Re: Which home improvements do you LOVE?

Drop down screen is in the big kitchen dining living but isnt the main tv although it is now considered the main one… we also have a tv in the drawing room. Screen was my husband toy! A few things to consider - it needs to go up as soon as you turn the TV off so it isnt an eye sore - you either need...
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Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:12 am

Re: White at a wedding?

You re answer is in this paragraph “ My daughter is getting married and my wife, who does enjoy being the centre of attention and may, just may, be struggling with the symbolism of seeing our daughter take centre stage, is planning on wearing an outfit that our daughter swears is white.” No it s not...
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Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:46 pm

Re: Which home improvements do you LOVE?

Aged well Natural stones floor throughout the ground floor Wooden floor in drawing room Quooker tap The kicthen i designed - amazing space The pantry - amazing too Steam oven Bookshelves made to measure and bespoke The drop down screen amd projector The tiles in all the bathrooms Etc Didnt aged well...
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:35 pm

Re: Seeking Advice on Balancing Family Expectations and Personal Life

I absolutely agree with the two posters above. You really want to set up your boundaries now otherwise in 20yrs from now you ll be resentful. But to show the other side of the coin - my family has more gathering than my husbands one - you have to understand (and it isnt easy i admit) which ones are ...
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Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:14 am

Re: Parent smacking someone else’s child

Inam a safeguarding officer in one of my kids sports and i have been trained on the subject. 2 things she needs to do. 1) I would tell A’s mum that she absolutely need to tell the school. The school have all the pieces of the jigsaw. If something dark is happening behind closed doors they would know...
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Fri Dec 06, 2024 1:58 pm

Re: Blending Families: Struggling to Balance My Teen Daughter's Independence and New Dynamics

I think it shows great maturity from your daughter, she has obsviously thought it through and reflected on how it may affect her. I am not in this situation so i m not qualified per say to comment, but I am a mother of 2 teens one of them being 16. I would treat it the same way i treat any “demands”...
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Fri Dec 06, 2024 1:35 pm

Re: Traditional Christmas is causing issues with girlfriend

I do agree with Scottov to some extend but I also agree with Chorister’s answer. It s a fine line between being a good guest and being a good host. 20yrs ago and counting I spent my first christmas at my in laws. It was the most fun (board games) and the most boring christmas I had ever been to. The...
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Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:22 am

16 yrs old Christmas present

Hi all. Hoping you can help me. We have this thing going on since they ve stopped believing in Santa which is stocking and 1 need 1 want 1 read. My daughter works hard and is 16 but she is also super cool (as teen goes 🤣🤣🤣 and I mean it with a lot of love I promise). So I m wondering if like me you ...
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Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:28 pm

Re: Garden designer? Landscape designer? Help needed!

Hi I have bought a derelict house and lived in for 2 yrs so I could understand the house before the big reno. Therefore we did the garden so we could enjoy and we were right as covid had hit us. But…. The builders destroyed it. And you really cant blame them as they re doing their job: scaffold, con...
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Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:05 am

Re: Did it help partner's career when you gave up work?

Firstly I want to correct one poster; as they grow up it isnt that our children needs us less. It s just different needs. It might look like it is less because they are more independant in the everyday run of things ie. Going to school, to their clubs, homeworks, etc. But when they need you it is of...
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Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:47 am

Re: Don't want to have husband's friends daughter and son to stay for 6 months but feel mean.

I am with Cari qnd the other poster who talked about the gained experience. I grew up with an open door extended family policy. My great great grand parents were geologists and travelled extensively in central america and northern Canada, I have aunts who married internationally, i have “assimilated...
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Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:25 am

Re: Laundry facilities. Cellar or first floor?

On the first floor. It is life changing. @abbevillemummy I told my kids that if they wanted clean they had to bring them every evening. The didnt believe me when I had said I wont wash and I wont chase them. After the first time they didnt have a clean uniform they were peeved. The second time they ...
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Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:10 am

Re: No actual idea what my husband earns

To answer your question Julian, the only thing that I can put my finger on in terms of why it is bothering now is possibly that a close friend is going through a divorce and whilst i don't think that we have anything other than a great relationship, it may have got me thinking about how I would sta...
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Tue Jul 02, 2024 2:39 pm