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Hello, I'm Rachel Richards, former BBC Correspondent, CNBC Europe World News Anchor and mum, on a mission to make parenting teens much less stressful, and even enjoyable.
Why not try listening to my award-winning ‘hug’ where you can put down the baggage your parents handed you and relax.
It’s your chance to reflect on what's in your baggage; what's still working, and what needs to be tossed aside. You'll also pick up skills and ideas to help you navigate each new stage of your parenting journey.
Each week, I pick a topic, research it, and find you the best answers. Whether interviewing experts, chatting with my mindfulness guru friend, Susi Asli, or getting the lowdown from my own teenagers.
You'll hear what experts are saying about the problems we face and the way other parents are struggling. It’s a chance to think about your parenting, shame and judgement free.
As the world leading expert on your own child you can then make your own choices about what works for you and your family.
Do you have a question, a story, or just need to vent? Drop me a line at teenagersuntangled@gmail.com (total privacy, no judgment, promise).
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The Fatherhood Gap: How Society Is Failing Dads (and Our Kids)
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Top Friendship Tips for Teen Girls: Lessons from Real-Life Sisters.
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Christmas and other family gatherings with teens. Magic or misery? Vintage
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Motivational feedback, a happiness hack, and letting your teen sleepover after a party
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Super System To Help Teens Stay on Task; Even Those With ADHD
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Being in control, and gendered marketing - Community catch-up
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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How to Model Healthy Free Speech
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Anxiety, finding your tribe, perfectionism & rethinking our thoughts. Community Catch Up
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Talk to your boys: Masculinity, gaming, sexuality and emotions.
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Your Teen Is Already Using AI—Here’s How to Talk to Them About It
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Mental health problems in teenagers. We can't just blame phones.
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Drugs: Half of 15 year olds have been exposed. How to talk with your kids about drugs.
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Grief, university, rules and consequences, raising boys, chores and phones. Community Catch Up
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Most teenagers aren't getting enough sleep. Here's how to fix it.
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Preventing our kids from developing eating disorders.
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Stop pushing your kids: The science of success, resilience, and reduced stress.
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Transforming difficult, disruptive kids. x
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Conflict resolution skills for parents. Vintage. x
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Teens Talk: The good and bad of smart phones and social media.
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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When School Goes Wrong: How Parents Can Advocate, Support, and Turn Things Around
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Mental Health, and Teen Phone Use with Oxford Psychologist Lucy Foulkes.
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Lessons in parenting from adult kids who go no contact:
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Teens, screens and mobiles: bans and boundaries.
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why Parents Judge Each Other — And How to Stop. x
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Why Mothers Aren't Happy: Burnout, Mental Load and the Second Shift. x
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Angry teenagers: How to parent tweens and teens through their anger - Vintage.
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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How to Set Boundaries That Actually Work With Teens: Vintage.
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Motivation: How to motivate a young person, teen or tween: Vintage.
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Alcohol. A Smart Parents' Guide to Helping Teens Take a Healthy Approach.
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Talk: How to talk so your teenager will listen, and teens wanting to sleep together.
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Puberty, toxic friendships and 'Pick me' girls - teens talk.
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Starting University: The supportive thing that makes all the difference.
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Stop a downward spiral before it happens with Dr Greg Walton 'One of psychology's greatest'.
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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First love, breakups & LGBTQ: What to do and say.
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May 28, 2025 |
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Underage sex, loneliness, puberty and finding hobbies.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Why school exam systems need to change and how to support our own kids now.
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May 14, 2025 |
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Success: Are siblings and community more important than parents?
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May 06, 2025 |
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Respect, artifical intelligence and toxic femininity - the teenage view.
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Secondary school, friendship groups, and those awkward talks about porn and sexting.
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How to get your teenager out of their bedroom - even one who's into gaming.
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Identity formation - the main job of a teenager?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Inheritocracy: Are education and hard work less important now than parents?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Adolescence: Help for parents with the core themes. x
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Empty nest? Plan ahead for an life that's full of possibility.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Work: What we parents can do to help our kids end up with a meaningful role in society.
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Accepting our kids for who they are, not what our culture tells us they should be.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Skin care obsession: The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Using facts to be a good parent to teenagers: The evidence. x
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Stress and guilt: reducing the overwhelming mental load.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Motivatng teens: why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart. x
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more fun and the most interesting books.
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Family gatherings without the fireworks, and staying connected with your young teen.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Support: It takes a village to raise a child... as long they do it my way.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Girls: Sexism, beauty standards, entitlement and misogyny.
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Cancel culture. Bullying or bravery?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Friendships, frenemies and banter. What to expect and why.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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The damage of an emotionally immature parent.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Masculinity and image: the Looksmaxxing hashtag that boys follow but parents don't see. x
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Boundaries: How to set them and why they’re so important.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Motivation: How to motivate your teenager. With eminent Psychologist David Yeager. x
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Stress - the major health issue for parents in our 'culture of comparison'. x
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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How to parent complex kids with ADHD or other differences.
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The hardest part of parenting a teen? We discuss the 18-22 year stage.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Therapy. Should all teens get it? Also, do boys actually need male role models?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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How grades harm kids and what we parents can do about it.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Teen weight and body image: The teen view.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Reading Festival tips - straight from the mouths of teenagers.
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Grades. Our obsession with them fails everyone.
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Driving lessons - Top tips for a smooth road ahead.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Rachel's top ten lessons to celebrate 100 episodes!
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Boys who're failing exams and seem apathetic.
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Boys: Emotions, masculinity vaccinations, and online influencers.
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Shyness: How to support a teen who lacks self-belief and confidence.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Sleeping in until late during the holidays.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Public displays of affection and sex in your home.
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Switching parental gears for their new school year.
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Screen time for tweens and teens: The latest on what works and what doesn't.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Summer flip or summer flop? What will your teen be doing with their summer?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Is your teen being lazy, or could they be lacking a key executive skill?
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Values, and how being strong about our own can help teens navigate a society of desires.
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Exams, depression, work, national service, Sigma and Bigorexia,
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May 29, 2024 |
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Failure to launch: What we can learn from struggling young adults.
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May 22, 2024 |
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Missing out: The pain of FOMO. Why it’s particularly bad for teens.
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May 15, 2024 |
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Nagging: Reducing the friction using the magic of routine.
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May 08, 2024 |
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School: Angry kids, bad behaviour, and school avoidance.
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May 01, 2024 |
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Where’s my village? The stress of parenting in the ‘sandwich generation’.
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Perfectionism: Overcoming the need to be perfect.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Money: Giving teens and tweens an allowance. Two years on.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Fun: Having fun with our teens, and the bonding power of laughter.
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Resilience: Growing Resilience In Teens, or GRIT.
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Concentration, and the troubling effect of too many choices.
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Eldest daughter syndrome and the trouble with parentification.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Taking things personally, coping with adversity, teen love and changing our minds when we get new information.
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Manners: Parenting to help teens succeed in life by teaching the importance of good manners.
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Admitting our mistakes - talking to our kids about our own teen years.
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Standards: Setting high expectations without the pressure.
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Social media and girls posting bikini photos. Help!
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Diet: Does my teen need to lose weight? Diet culture.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Regrets? Things we parents would do differently.
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Coping with an Inconsistent or Alcoholic Parent: Guidance for the Parent Who’s There
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Back to school, third places, manners and our favourite podcasts, shows, books and apps.
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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New year's resolutions. Making them work for us.
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Presents: Why is my teen so ungrateful?
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Favourite lessons: Online, education, anxiety, consequences, and the pressures of parenting.
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Online grooming and sextortion: protecting our teens and tweens. x
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Eating disorders: An interview with Beat representative Umairah Malik.
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Parenting styles that enable teens to grow into capable adults.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How to Talk to Your Teen About Porn Without Shame or Panic.
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Living at Home, Paying Bills, Growing Up: Global Truths About Today’s Teenagers
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Exercise: are teens doing enough?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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‘Trans’ and gender confusion: what to say to teens when we’re often more confused than they are.
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Triggers and emotional spirals, mobile phone bans and do schools know what to teach kids anymore?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Navigating divorce while raising teens.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Teen dating. Talking about relationships or 'help, my son's come home with a hickey!'
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Developing Emotional Intelligence
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Gap years: What is a gap year and should our teens take one?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Grief: Supporting our kids through the worst.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Anxiety: How to help your teen with anxiety.
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Christmas and holiday stress with teenagers and tweens.
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Transitioning to secondary school: What we wish we'd known.
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Memory: The critical tool that helps us do far more than pass exams. 51
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Snapchat addiction; why teens want it so much
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Bigorexia: Teens eating everything in the house, muscle building, and Bigorexia. 48
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Anger issues: tips for dealing with an explosive and angry teen.
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Masculinity, and positive ways of supporting our teenage boys
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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New relationships: Introducing your new partner to your teen
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Risk-taking teens; the good news about bad behaviour.
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Teenagers Untangled: Who we are and how you can use the podcast.
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Social media: help your teens be their best selves online.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Sleep; the free performance enhancer for our teens with no side effects.
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Conflict resolution skills to deepen your relationship with your teen
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May 10, 2023 |
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Exam revision - Parenting through the pressure.
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Relationships and sex: how young is too young?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Teachers: how, and why, we should talk to our teenager's teachers.
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Emotional issues. How to not overreact.
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Stress: Techniques for dealing with the pressures of parenting. 36
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Vaping teens. How to educate and discourage them. 35
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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School avoidance: what to do if your teen is missing school.
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Masculine role models: Andrew Tate, misogyny, and the manosphere.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Rules: Consequences, and the teen who doesn't seem to care.
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Make habit changes that actually work.
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Step-children. Coping, and thriving, with a blended family.
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Parties for teens and tweens. Invitations, gatecrashers and alcohol.
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Christmas presents: is your teen ungrateful?
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Friendships: How to support teens to build their social skills.
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Entitled teens: How do I stop my teenager from being entitled?
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Why identity is such an issue. Also, smelly teens.
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Do Manners Still Matter? And Why Empty Nest Syndrome Hits So Hard
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Girls clothing choices, also talking about a change in your finances.
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Disagreements over parenting styles, and future careers.
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Drugs: How to talk to my teenager, and divorce and kids staying over.
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Mom guilt, and what if you don’t like your teenager's friends.
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Lying teenagers, and sibling comparisons.
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Favourite parent; and teenagers trying to ‘express’ themselves?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Boy friendships. Also what the %#*!😳 we should do about swearing?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Self-harm. Also, what's your talking style?
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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What No One Tells You About Teens and Anxiety.
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May 20, 2022 |
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Pornography:What you need to know before having THAT talk.
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May 09, 2022 |
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Bullying, and the best way to tackle it. Also, dealing with teenage backchat.
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Lone parenting and Understanding Teen Mood Swings.
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Friendship: Girls and toxic groups, also building resilience
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Screens and teens and healthy eating.
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Sibling rivalry, also the vaping teenager.
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Covid's impact on our teens, also the teenage sleep conundrum.
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Body image and getting teens to do chores.
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Motivation and giving up: When do we let them quit?
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Mobile phone photos/sexting, and money management using an allowance.
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Talk so your teenager will listen, and dealing with teen sex in your home.
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Discussing alcohol, and how to stay connected
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Your parenting toolbox and teenagers tidying their rooms
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Dec 16, 2021 |