Margaret Lynch
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 29, 2026
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- Jul 25, 2026
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Parenting: Teenage TikTok rebrands, back to school hauls and the battle of the bank card (opens the original)
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IT IS ONCE again time for my teens to launch their annual Autumn rebrand. Back in the day, we used to call this ‘back-to-school shopping ’, but apparently that is now ‘cringe’ and ‘very much a 90’s thing’. Feelings are hurt, but we persevere. My younger daughter recently announced that she had made a list. Already, I was filled with worry, because she has never once made a list that was in any way grounded in reality. I obviously knew we needed some things. She is starting the senior cycle, for
Parenting: I always wanted a sister, until I had two daughters (opens the original)
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I ALWAYS WANTED a sister. As a child, I was wildly jealous of my friends who had older sisters. Not younger sisters; they seemed like a right nuisance, but people with older sisters might as well have lived with literal celebrities. They looked somewhat like us, only they were infinitely cooler, with perfect hair, better clothes, incredible taste in music and entire bedrooms filled with exciting and forbidden things that we had no business rooting through. Unfortunately for the older sisters, be
Parenting: I don’t want another baby. So why can’t I stop thinking about having one? (opens the original)
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LET ME BE clear and start by saying: I do not want to have another child. I have been a parent for 16 years now, so I have a fair bit of experience under my belt. I know what I’m talking about. I’ve been pregnant twice, which is a perfectly reasonable number of times to try something before deciding it isn’t for you. Childbirth can also get in the sea. If you ask me, there is nothing natural or magical about it. We have two wonderful, amazing, brilliant and lovely kids. Our family has been bless
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