Are you struggling to connect with your teenager? Don’t know how to relate to your kids as they get older? Here are some tips on how to stay connected to your teen, and a podcast episode featuring a mum who’s done an excellent job of it!
This podcast episode deals with the impact of divorce on teenagers, and also looks at how easy it is to stay stuck in a rut as a midlife parent, feeling a bit blah, and what to do about it.
Friendship issues don’t end when your daughter hits the teenage years, but our ability to step in as parents does. Here’s a different take on how to support our daughters when they fall out with their friends.
Emma Campbell talks on the podcast of her feelings of failure as the mother of a teenage daughter, and how she manages to find joy in the relentlessness of parenting teens. Plus, 9 rules that will make living with a teenage girl easier.
Is acne getting your teenager down? Sarah Wood – severe acne sufferer – joins me on this episode of the podcast to talk about her experience, and how she’s helped her own teenagers with severe acne.
EFT tapping for anxiety in teens. This article and podcast explains what tapping is, how it works and the benefits of tapping. Read a step by step guide to EFT tapping for beginners, and listen to a live session to see how tapping reduces anxiety instantly.
When your teen starts dating it can be a difficult time as a parent as we second guess ourselves in relation to how involved we should get. Here are some of the red flags we should look for when we suspect our teenager is in a problematic relationship.
In this episode of the Teenage Kicks podcast, ‘Sleep Whisperer’ Dr. Chris Winter talks to Helen about how to recognise sleep problems in teenagers, and what they need us to do to help them. Dr. Chris says that he’s seeing more and more incidences of sleep disturbance in his clinic, especially in teens and young adults. Listen to the podcast, and read on for some of his sleep tips for teenagers. Should I let my teenager sleep all day? As a parent, it can be difficult to understand why teens stay up so late and struggle to get up in …
The world is set up for dual parent families, says today’s podcast guest Sarah Thompson, who discovered all sorts of hurdles were placed in her way when she became a single mother. However, there is a silver lining; Sarah thinks children can benefit from divorce, and that includes teenagers with single mothers. However, there is a silver lining, and Sarah has written a compelling book about everything she thinks her children have benefited from since their parents’ separation. Listen to the podcast to find out why solo parenting can work out well even when you have teenagers. The world has …
When your children leave home it’s natural to worry about how you’ll feel. This podcast offers tips for surviving the empty nest, and why it doesn’t have to be as hard as you imagine.
This important episode of the Teenage Kicks podcast deals with narcissism – specifically the experience of growing up with a narcissistic mother. We talk about how it feels as a child and teenager, and how to heal from being raised by a narcissist to break the cycle in your own family.
What parents need to know about unconscious bias and how to talk to your teenagers about it.
There’s this instinct when you’re the parent to protect, and then I realised I cannot protect her from this, this is her journey. *Please be aware that this post contains references to self-harm and suicide. When Brenda realised her 11 year old daughter Faith was sexting with an older boy she was shocked. Over the next few years Faith continued to send nudes on her phone and became suicidal, despite her parents’ best efforts to support and guide their daughter. Brenda says she eventually realised this: you can’t control your child’s behaviour, or their pain. Letting go of your own …
It took me a while before I actually went to the hospital, and I almost died How to deal with stress and anxiety in a teenager Are you worried about a teenager with anxiety? I’ve been thinking a lot about anxiety recently. I’ve had episodes of anxiety throughout my life, and I’ve tried to pin it on one or other lifestage. But in reality I think I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. I have no idea where it began for me, but I’ve always chewed my nails, from a young age. I have very early memories …
*Trigger warning – episode contains references to sexual abuse. The crazy thing… was that I felt really guilty Has your teenager been groomed? Or are you a young person experiencing grooming? In this episode Emma Cantrell talks about her experience of grooming from the age of 12 over a number of years. What does grooming mean? The NSPCC defines grooming as follows: Grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them. Children and young people who are groomed can be sexually abused, exploited or trafficked. Anybody can …
How do you get the best GCSE results you can during Covid-19? If your child was expecting to be sitting GCSEs in 2021 the chances are they and you have been been feeling quite stressed since the announcement that GCSEs will not go ahead “as normal” in 2021. Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash The uncertainty around how GCSEs will be graded has certainly caused some worry in our house as our daughter prepares to achieve exam grades based on something completely different to what she was expecting. And the lack of clarity over what exams will look like in the summer …
