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Welcome to your weekly audio hug where no question is a bad question, and curiosity beats judgment every time.
I'm a former BBC Correspondent, and mum, on a mission to bring parents of tweens and teens stability, calm and humour. Most of all, I want to help us all get better at connecting with our teens so we can genuinely enjoy parenting them.
Each week, I take a topic, research it, and find you the best answers. Whether interviewing experts, chatting with my friend Susie, or getting the lowdown from my own teenagers.
Susie - friend, Mindfulness guru, and fellow parent in the trenches - brings her wisdom and personal stories to help us contemplate a different perspective.
No one has this parenting thing mastered—even parents or experts who seem like they do. Making mistakes isn’t failing, it’s learning. And good parenting? It’s a lifelong journey.
At the heart of it all, our kids just want to be loved for who they are, not just what they do so ditch perfection and choose connection.
💌 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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Sunday Service Community Catch Up
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Aug 31, 2025 |
Mental Health, and Teen Phone Use with Oxford Psychologist Lucy Foulkes. 157
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Aug 27, 2025 |
Lessons in parenting from adult kids who go no contact: 156
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Aug 20, 2025 |
Teens, screens and mobiles: bans and boundaries: 155
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Aug 13, 2025 |
Criticism and judgement. Is it possible to offer support without making parents feel bad? 154
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Aug 06, 2025 |
Why Mothers Aren't Happy: Burnout, Mental Load and the Second Shift. 153
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Jul 30, 2025 |
Angry teenagers: How to parent tweens and teens through their anger - Vintage. 152
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Jul 23, 2025 |
How to Set Boundaries That Actually Work With Teens: Vintage. 151
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Jul 16, 2025 |
Motivation: How to motivate a young person, teen or tween: Vintage. 150
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Jul 09, 2025 |
Alcohol. A Smart Parents' Guide to Helping Teens Take a Healthy Approach - 149
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Jul 02, 2025 |
Vintage: How to talk so your teenager will listen, and teens wanting to sleep together. 148
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Jun 25, 2025 |
Puberty, toxic friendships, 'Pick me' girls - top tips for parenting teenagers from teenagers. 147
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Jun 18, 2025 |
Support Your Teen Starting University: Including the thing that makes all the difference. 146
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Jun 11, 2025 |
145: How to stop a downward spiral before it happens with Dr Greg Walton 'One of psychology's greatest'
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Jun 04, 2025 |
144: First love, breakups & LGBTQ. How to support your teen.
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May 28, 2025 |
143: Underage sex, loneliness, puberty and finding hobbies. Support for you and your teen.
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May 21, 2025 |
142: Why school exam systems need to change and how to support our own kids now
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May 14, 2025 |
141: Success: What really shapes who we become and are parents that important?
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May 06, 2025 |
140: Respect, artifical intelligence and toxic femininity - the teenage view
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Apr 30, 2025 |
139: Secondary school, friendship groups, and those awkward talks about porn and sexting
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Apr 23, 2025 |
138: How to get your teenager out of their bedroom - even one who's into gaming.
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Apr 16, 2025 |
137: Identity formation - the main job of a teenager?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
136: Are education and hard work less important now than parents?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
135: Adolescence: Help for parents with the core themes. How to discuss and connect with our kids
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Apr 01, 2025 |
133: How to plan ahead for an empty nest that's full of possibility
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Mar 11, 2025 |
132: 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 |
131: Accepting our kids for who they are, not what our culture tells us they should be.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
130: Worries about skin care obsessions? The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective
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Feb 19, 2025 |
129: Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults
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Feb 12, 2025 |
128: Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.
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Feb 05, 2025 |
127: How to be a good parent to teenagers, using evidence. An interview with Matilda Gosling
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Jan 29, 2025 |
126: Momguilt: reducing the overwhelming mental load to decrease stress. An interview with Sam Kelly
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Jan 22, 2025 |
125: How to motivate our teens to love learning and why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
124: Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart, and how we parents can help
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Jan 08, 2025 |
123: New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more fun, most interesting books, and most downloaded.
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Jan 01, 2025 |
122: Family gatherings without the fireworks, and staying connected with your young teen
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Dec 23, 2024 |
121: Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
120: Support: It takes a village to raise a child... as long they do it my way.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
119: Girls: Sexism, beauty standards, entitlement and misogyny an interview with Jo-Ann Finkelstein
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Dec 04, 2024 |
118: Cancel culture. Bullying or bravery?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
117: Friendships, frenemies and banter. What to expect and why.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
116: The damage of an emotionally immature parent
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Nov 13, 2024 |
115: Masculinity and image: the Looksmaxxing hashtag that boys follow but parents don't see
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Nov 06, 2024 |
114: Boundaries: How to set them and why they’re so important.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
113: Motivation: How to motivate your teenager. An interview with eminent Psychologist David Yeager
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Oct 23, 2024 |
112: Stress - the major health issue for parents in our 'culture of comparison'.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
111: How to parent complex kids with ADHD or other differences
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Oct 09, 2024 |
110: The hardest part of parenting a teen? We discuss the 18-22 year stage.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
109: Therapy. Should all teens get it? Also, do boys actually need male role models?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
108: How grades harm school students and what we parents can do about it and nterview with Josh Eyler
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Sep 18, 2024 |
107: Teen weight and body image: Mother and daughter explore the issues.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
106: Reading Festival tips - straight from the mouths of teenagers.
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Sep 04, 2024 |
105: Grades. Our obsession with them fails everyone. An interview with Exam Nation author Sammy Wright
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Aug 28, 2024 |
104: Driving lessons - Top tips for a smooth road ahead
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Aug 21, 2024 |
100: Rachel's top ten lessons to celebrate 100 episodes!
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Aug 14, 2024 |
103: Exams: how to cope with boys who fail them and seem apathetic. Email from a step-parent
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Aug 07, 2024 |
102: Boys: Emotions, masculinity vaccinations, and online influencers an interview with Brendan Kwiatkoswski
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Jul 31, 2024 |
101: Shyness: How to support a teen who lacks self-belief and confidence.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
99: Sleeping in until late during the holidays. Tips for coping with teens and tweens who're waking up later and later.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
98: Public displays of affection and sex in your home. Listener email.
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Jul 10, 2024 |
97: Switching parental gears for their new school year.
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Jul 03, 2024 |
96: Screen time for tweens and teens: The latest on what works and what doesn't.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
Summer flip or summer flop? What will your teen be doing with their summer, and does it really matter? 94
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Jun 19, 2024 |
Is your teen being lazy, or could they be lacking a key executive skill? 93
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Jun 12, 2024 |
Values, and how being strong about our own can help teens navigate a society of desires. Listener email. 92
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Jun 05, 2024 |
Exams, depression, work, national service, Sigma and Bigorexia, we cover it all in our May chat. 91
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May 29, 2024 |
Failure to launch: What we can learn from struggling young adults about how to help our teens.90
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May 22, 2024 |
Missing out: The pain of FOMO. Why it’s particularly bad for teens, and how to help your teen. 89
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May 15, 2024 |
Nagging: Reducing the friction using the magic of routine. 88
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May 08, 2024 |
School: Angry kids, bad behaviour, and school avoidance. What can parents and teachers do? 87
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May 01, 2024 |
Where’s my village? The stress of parenting in the ‘sandwich generation’.86
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Perfectionism: Help your teen, and yourself, overcome the need to be perfect. 85
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Money: Giving teens and tweens an allowance. Two years on. 84
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Fun: Having fun with our teens, and the bonding power of laughter. 83
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Resilience: Growing Resilience In Teens, or GRIT. An interview with Dr Louise Randall. 82
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Concentration, and the troubling effect of too many choices. 81
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Eldest daughter 'syndrome' and the trouble with parentification. 80
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Taking things personally, coping with adversity, teen love and changing our minds when we get new information. 79
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Manners: Parenting to help teens succeed in life by teaching the importance of good manners. 78
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Admitting our mistakes - talking to our kids about our own sex and drugs and rock and roll teen years. 77
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Standards: Setting high expectations without the pressure. 76
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Social media and girls posting bikini photos. Help! 75
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Diet: Does my teen need to lose weight? How to navigate diet culture with Elyse Resch. 74
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Regrets? Things we parents would do differently. 73
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Unreliable parents: The absent or inconsistent parent who’s alcoholic. Also, supporting your teen back to school. 72
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Back to school, third places, manners and our favourite podcasts, shows, books and apps. 71
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Jan 10, 2024 |
New year's resolutions. Love them or loathe them the question is how can we make them work for us? 70
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Presents: Why is my teen so ungrateful? 69
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Dec 27, 2023 |
Parenting teenagers two years on: Online, education, anxiety, consequences, and the pressures of parenting. 68
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Online grooming and sextortion: protecting our teens and tweens. 67
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Eating disorders: An interview with Beat representative Umairah Malik. 66
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Parenting styles that enable teens to grow into capable adults.65
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Nov 22, 2023 |
How to Talk to Your Teen About Porn Without Shame or Panic. 64
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Charging rent: should you charge your teens and young adults rent? 63
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Exercise: are teens doing enough, and what can we do to encourage them? 62
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Nov 01, 2023 |
‘Trans’ and gender confusion: what to say to teens when we’re often more confused than they are. An interview with expert psychotherapist Stella O'Malley. 61
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Triggers and emotional spirals, also mobile phone bans and do schools know what to teach kids anymore? 60
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Divorce: Marriage problems; how to talk to a teenager about what’s happening. 59
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Teen dating. Talking about relationships or 'help, my son's come home with a hickey!' 58
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Emotional intelligence and how we can help ourselves, and our teens to develop it. 57
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Gap years: What is a gap year and should our teens take one? 56
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Grief: Supporting our kids through the worst. 55
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Anxiety: How to help your teen with anxiety, an interview with Renee Mill, Senior Clinical Psychologist. 54
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Christmas and holiday stress with teenagers and tweens. 53
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Transitioning to secondary school: What we wish we'd known about preparing our tweens & teens, and ourselves. 52
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Memory: The critical tool that helps us do far more than pass exams. 51
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Aug 10, 2023 |
Snapchat addiction; the app that's a fantastic way to connect, or a cynical exploitation of your teenager's time? 50
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Bigorexia: Teens eating everything in the house, muscle building, and Bigorexia. 48
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Jul 10, 2023 |
Anger issues: tips for dealing with an explosive and angry teen. 47
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Masculinity, and positive ways of supporting our teenage boys: An interview with Mike Nicholson from Progressive Masculinity. 46
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Jun 26, 2023 |
New relationships: Introducing your new partner to your teen.45
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Risk-taking teens; the good news about bad behaviour.. 44
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Teenagers Untangled: Who we are and how you can use the podcast.
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Jun 07, 2023 |
Social media, and how to help your teens be their best selves online, with Natasha Devon MBE. 43
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Sleep; the free performance enhancer for our teens with no side effects. 42
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Conflict resolution skills can deepen your relationship with your teen; here's how. 41
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May 10, 2023 |
40: Exam revision - Parenting through the pressure.
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Relationships and sex: how young is too young? 39
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Apr 18, 2023 |
Teachers: how, and why, we should talk to our teenager's teachers. 38
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Mar 27, 2023 |
Emotional issues. How to not overreact. 37
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Mar 17, 2023 |
Stress: Techniques for dealing with the pressures of parenting. 36
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Mar 03, 2023 |
Vaping teens. How to educate and discourage them. 35
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Feb 23, 2023 |
School avoidance: what to do if your teen is missing school. 34
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Masculine role models: Andrew Tate, misogyny, red pills, and the manosphere. 33
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Feb 03, 2023 |
Rules: Consequences, and the teen who doesn't seem to care. 32
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Jan 26, 2023 |
Make habit changes that actually work. 31
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Step-children. Coping, and thriving, with a blended family. 29
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Dec 12, 2022 |
Parties for teens and tweens. Invitations, gatecrashers and alcohol. 28
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Christmas presents: is your teen ungrateful? 27
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Nov 28, 2022 |
Friendships: How to support your ‘generation isolation’ teens to build their social skills. 26
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Nov 11, 2022 |
Entitled teens: How do I stop my teenager from being entitled? 25
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Nov 09, 2022 |
Why identity is such an issue for teenagers. Also, stinky teens and what we can do about it. 24
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Oct 14, 2022 |
How to cope with an empty nest. Also do manners matter? 23
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Oct 02, 2022 |
Girls clothing choices, also talking with your teen about a change in your finances. 22
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Disagreements over parenting styles, and future careers. 21
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Sep 09, 2022 |
Drugs: How to talk to my teenager, and divorce and kids staying over. 20
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Aug 27, 2022 |
Mom guilt and when you don’t like your teenager's friends. 19
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Lying teenagers, and sibling comparisons. 18
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Favourite parent; and teenagers trying to ‘express’ themselves? Blue hair? Tattoos anyone? 17
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Boy friendships. Also what the %#*!😳 we should do about swearing? 16
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Self-harm: What can I do if my teen is self-harming? Also, what's your talking style? 15
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Jun 06, 2022 |
What No One Tells You About Teens and Anxiety. 14
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May 20, 2022 |
Pornography:What you need to know before having THAT talk. 13
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May 09, 2022 |
Bullying, and the best way to tackle it. Also, dealing with teenage backchat. 12
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Lone parenting and Understanding Teen Mood Swings. 11
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Friendship: Girls and toxic groups, also resilience: how to get your teen to keep going instead of giving up at the first hurdle. 10
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Screens and teens and healthy eating. 9
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Mar 05, 2022 |
Sibling rivalry and how to deal with it as a parent. Also, the vaping teenager. 8
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Did Covid really have that much of an impact on our teens? and the teenage sleep conundrum. 7
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Feb 13, 2022 |
Body image and getting teens to do chores. 6
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Feb 05, 2022 |
Motivation: How to motivate your teenager when they’re not enjoying school, and what to do when your teenager wants to quit their instrument. 5
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Jan 29, 2022 |
Mobile phone photos/sexting, and money management using an allowance. 4
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Jan 21, 2022 |
Talking: How to talk so your teenager will listen, and dealing with teen sex in your home. 3
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Alcohol: How to discuss it, and staying connected. Should we be letting our teenagers drink and what should we be telling them about it? Also, how to stay connected.
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Jan 07, 2022 |
Your parenting toolbox and tidy teen rooms: Rummaging in your toolbox and how you get your teenager to tidy their room.
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Dec 16, 2021 |