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TEAM TALK
Crafty Critters Corner
By Karina
CRAFTY TIPS FOR CRAFTY PARENTS
On Teenagers
‘Nice food’ is eaten in minutes of arriving from supermarket or squirreled away to bedrooms by Mr Nobody?
Put all desirable in the cleaning cupboard or tea towel drawer, guaranteed they will NEVER look in there
Use too many towels? Buy each child their own coloured towels, it’s called branding – stops overuse and over-
crowding in the laundry, ditto sheets
Throwing clothes into laundry basket perhaps because it is so very hard to put them away or pick them off the
floor?
Buy each child a washing basket for their 14 th or 15 th birthday…surprise darling! Watch the washing line reduce
overnight.
Watching t.v. nonstop, won’t study? Take the remote to work, while you are at it, take the PS cords too, you may as
well be really mean, reduces options that is all
Car gone missing, teenager missing, maybe both together, will not answer texts
First try: Always get a few friend’s text numbers, text them
Second: Facebook them, works wonders
Pick your battles
Resist raving or turning everything into a lesson on life, remember when your parents did that. PS try and not
sound like your parents
Make their friends very welcome in your house, (you need them), they are the ones you text!
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