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Bodgies, widgies, midlife OEs and the Red Hat Society
Three new Te Ara entries look at New Zealanders of different ages – teenagers and youth, midlife adults and older people. Together with the recent entry on childhood, they explore what it means to move from childhood to adolescence, middle age and old age.
What is it like to be six, 16, 56 or 66? Why did The little red schoolbook generate so much fuss? When did people start to talk about ‘teenagers’? What can older people learn from adolescents? What does it mean to be ‘the sandwich generation’? Who gets to live longest and what do older people do all day? These entries have answers to these and many other questions... Read more
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‘Gr8 cu l8r sk8r boi lol.’ The texting language used by teenagers can be near-impenetrable to older people – and that’s the way...
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Midlife adults in the 2000s were sometimes called the ‘sandwich generation’ – sandwiched between dependent children and elderly parents...
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Older New Zealanders report the highest level of happiness with their lives of all age groups. They may earn less money than others...
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Midlife crises
Some midlife adults make a radical career change out of dissatisfaction with their working lives. Horowhenua man Don Howden worked for 16 years as an insurance agent and later ran a flooring company. After a self-described midlife crisis, Howden and his wife Julie Sperring moved to a lifestyle block in Manakau, where they ran an organic free-range egg farm.
Did you have a midlife crisis?
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Highlights from Signposts, our blog-
By Kerryn Pollock
One recent Saturday the family and I were milling around at home on a cold, grey day. Cabin fever appeared to be imminent on the part of the youngest member of the household, so a Radio...
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By Andy Palmer
The other week I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Tauranga, though I wasn’t there entirely just for pleasure. I spent three-and-a-bit days in a windowless room at the Tauranga Heritage...
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By Nancy Swarbrick
‘Every man should have a hobby,’ the saying goes – and so should every woman in my opinion. High on my list of preferred pastimes is gardening. I spend much of my time indoors working at a...
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