Children leaving home | LOUISE ALLAN

Parenting Lessons Learned in 2014

by Louise Allan | Dec 7, 2014 | FAMILY AND PARENTING

All the calendars tell me it’s December, but I’m not ready for the end of another year. Time is not just marching on—it’s moving so fast, it’s exceeding the speed limit. I want it to slow down and return to the...

Letting Go

by Louise Allan | Feb 12, 2014 | CHILDHOOD ABUSE & TRAUMA, FAMILY AND PARENTING, MEMOIR, WRITING

Our daughter is leaving home in just over a week. She’s moving interstate to go to university. There’s a good uni ten minutes down the road, but she wants to experience a different city, live in a different part of Australia, and who knows where she’ll go...

Bittersweet

by Louise Allan | Dec 8, 2013 | FAMILY AND PARENTING, WRITING

It’s that time of the year, busy with Christmas preparations, end-of-school services, speech days, and a graduation: The spec family Our eldest has finished school. Hard to believe, really, as I still think of our family as looking like this: 2003 But no, this...