Nature or Nurture - or Just Good Old Tempus Fugit? Mother of Four Children. Always Complicated - Life...

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I've been vindicated. At last, after all these years of selfless mothering, the worry, the nagging, the curfews and the tantrums - mine not theirs. The insistence that the 16-year-old was to only read books with any literary merit; the lofty disapproval of the viewing of chavvy TV programmes, the expensive theatre trips, the traipsing around museums when I'd have far preferred the shops. It all paid off. It was a good investment. Her GCSE results were outstanding. So outstanding in fact that the Press wanted to take "one of those pictures" of her. The one where grinning girls jump into the air, holding their stellar results aloft.

I did in fact tap the photographer on the shoulder and say, "Oi, take one of me. Us mothers should be recognised for our children's success and not just given a hard time when they riot."

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Nature or Nurture - or Just Good Old Tempus Fugit? Mother of Four Children. Always Complicated - Life...

I was serious. Unless he has teenagers himself then he has no idea what these last 18 years have been like. Most of my friends are now breathing a well deserved sigh of relief and patting themselves on the back. Their eldest are off to unive...

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