What's wrong with you? : 101 things only mothers of girls know : how to survive the tweens to the twenties

Sunday Times bestseller 'The mothering manual we all need' Claudia Winkleman Mums: are you feeling lonely, confused or worried? Are you panicking that maybe you're getting everything wrong? Does it, in the words of Lorraine Candy's own teenage daughter, 'suck to be you' (Mum) right now? Welcome to the most challenging part of your parenting journey: the teenage years. It was all going so well and then, out of the blue, the little girl you love to the moon and back turned into an irrational, fire-breathing dragon. She lives in a messy pit of wet towels and sticky mugs, hoarding other people's phone chargers and eyebrow tweezers, while rudely rejecting maternal intervention or affection. Do not worry. You're not alone. Parenting columnist Lorraine Candy, a mum of four (including three teens), is here to help. Her warm and witty family memoir will lead you to a more harmonious parenting place. Alongside a wealth of hilarious personal anecdotes, Candy offers you useful, easy-to-follow, well-researched guidance from experts. This is a survivor's guide for mums. This book will help you connect with your daughter and feel good about your mothering as you raise the bright and brilliant young women of tomorrow. There are 1001 things you don't know about teenage girls until you live them. We are all familiar with the hormones, the illogical rage, the awful time keeping, and the daily dramarama. However, you don't know that they will steal your stuff (and claim you never had it in the first place), bruise your self-esteem just as you hit your melancholy midlife, and love/hate you all day long with exhausting regularity seconds after turning 13. This stage of motherhood is not for the fainthearted. These are the loneliest of maternal times filled with pockets of shame you cannot share with anyone. You're going to need help getting through this. Enter Lorraine Candy, mother of four children, three of whom are teenagers, and a long-term parenting columnist. In this very funny memoir, she also gives down-to earth advice and experts talk. She lights the way for other mums facing life with teenage girls, other mums caught in the perfect storm of parenting tomorrow's bright and brilliant women just as they go through their own midlife unravelling. Most importantly, she is the woman who loves and lives with dragons One Minute You Are Sniffing The Top Of Your Baby's Delicious New Born Head, Lost In A Soft Velvety World Of Endless Love And The Next You Are Receiving The Full Force Of A Self-righteous Teenage Meltdown.