Teens and Tweens Round-up: Tissues, tough times and teenage girls

Welcome to the very first teens and tweens round-up. Because parenting doesn’t stop when kids start school. In fact, it moves into a whole different phase. There’s no nappies and weaning to worry about it, but there’s a whole load of angst heading your way.

The tween and teen years are a bumpy ride. Strap yourselves in and scare yourself silly (if you’ve still got it to come) or shake your head (and maybe cry a bit) in recognition if you’re in the throes of it right now.

The tween years are about friends, sports and hobbies, school and the dreaded transfer to secondary. Then there’s the beginning of puberty as they sail headlong into the teenage years and early adulthood.

There’s some great bloggers out there writing about the tween and teenage years. Every month I will bringing together the best of them for you.

How rude of me, I ought to introduce myself. I’m Sarah and I blog over at MumofThree World – more from me later. I am the proud owner of two male tweens, with a female of the species heading for her tween years too.

If you have yet to own any, you may not know what a tween is. A tween is in between a child and a teenager – a kid aged 9-12. Jennifer at Jennifer’s Little World wasn’t sure what a tween was, either. So I wrote her this guest post introducing her readers to the wonderful world of tweens.

Over at The Olivers Madhouse, Jaime’s 12 year old daughter is going through some tough times and has made a difficult decision Tissues at the ready for this one! I was relieved when the situation resolved itself As the parent of a year 7 child myself, I really felt the family’s pain.

At A Quirky Kook Jodie is lamenting the invention of the tween as her tween daughter seems to have been taking lessons in stroppiness from her teenage sisters. Possibly I’ve come off quite lightly so far with having tween boys rather than girls?

The tween years can be a vulnerable time and our children (and their friends!) are getting more internet savvy. That’s why Suzanne at 3 Children and It has started to question just how much she should write about her children on her blog This is something I have considered from the very start on my blog.

And so to my blog, where I am sharing a post that was tough to write about a situation you don’t expect your 11 year old to find themselves in and how he dealt with his own feelings. 

There seems to be a lot of humour in blogs about teens. By laughing at or with their teenagers, parents manage to keep their heads above water through these sometimes difficult years.

Over at Best Dad I Can Be, Mark has an issue with the ownership of the car now his daughter can drive. You’ve got to admire Jessica’s cheek.

Teenagers like to think they’re all grown up and worldly, so I love the naiveity of Izzie’s daughters at The World According to Izzie in a discussion about song lyrics This time at least, mum is the more worldly one!

Having battled with my sons and their untidy bedroom lately, I am loving Suzanne at Chicken Ruby’s style. She’s decided to stop getting cross with her sons, look after herself and leave them to sort out their own mess

Emma Lee-Potter is pondering the eternal question of why teenagers don’t wear coats and is surprised by her 18 year old son’s choice of outerwear in the recent cold weather.

But the teenage years aren’t all about having a laugh at our kids’ expense. They are dealing with some serious issues as they grow up as Mammasaurus shares in this very honest post about her son’s depression

That’s all for now. If you’ve got any tween or teenage posts you’d like to share, please add them to the linky below and if you want to be included in next month’s round-up be sure to tweet more your links @sarahMo3W

About Sarah Wood

Sarah is mum to a teenage boy and a tween boy and girl. When it comes to primary school stuff, she's got it sussed. But she's realising that as secondary school and puberty hit, she's still got a lot to learn! Between tweeting, blogging and parenting, Sarah is a freelance PR and copywriter, who still finds time to run long distances and eat a lot of chocolate. It doesn't leave much time for housework.

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