Stop trying to be your child’s best friend

Libby-Jane Charleston
4 min readNov 1, 2020

Your kids have enough friends, they only have one mother

Libby-Jane sons, Sydney

The job of parenting is incredibly complex. You love your children with all your heart but there comes a time when you have to exhibit ‘tough love.’ You need to discipline them so they get a grasp of boundaries that we all must fall within throughout our lives. You might find yourself torn between wanting to be a ‘fun parent’ that…

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover