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Triggers and emotional spirals, mobile phone bans and do schools know what to teach kids anymore?
Season 3 Episode 6
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In most episodes Rachel uses her journalistic background to trawl through studies and find out what a range of experts think about…
2 years, 11 months ago
Navigating divorce while raising teens.
Season 3 Episode 5
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Deciding to split can be an incredibly challenging time for any married couple, but knowing the impact it can have on our kids can…
3 years ago
Teen dating. Talking about relationships or 'help, my son's come home with a hickey!'
Season 3 Episode 4
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Stacy messaged to tell us that her son had come home with a hickey for a second time, and she wasn't sure whether her reaction was…
3 years ago
How to Build Emotional Intelligence in Teenagers: Empathy, Self-Awareness & Self-Regulation
Season 3 Episode 3
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Why does your teenager struggle to explain how they feel? Can emotional intelligence actually be taught — and what can parents do …
3 years ago
Gap years: What is a gap year and should our teens take one?
Season 3 Episode 2
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I'd never heard of a Gap Year until I took one, but it was life-changing; in a good way.
Whether your teen is starting out at seni…
3 years ago
Grief: Supporting our kids through the worst.
Season 3 Episode 1
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Parenting tweens and teens is challenging enough, but when someone in the family becomes seriously ill or dies, it can feel overwh…
3 years, 1 month ago
Anxiety: How to help your teen with anxiety.
Season 2 Episode 33
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For most of our episodes I research a topic and discuss it with Susie. We covered anxiety some time ago in that format, and it's c…
3 years, 1 month ago
Christmas and holiday stress with teenagers and tweens.
Season 2 Episode 32
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A holiday is when someone is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax. That's according to the Cambridge Dictionary.
The…
3 years, 1 month ago
Transitioning to secondary school: What we wish we'd known.
Season 2 Episode 31
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The transition from junior to senior school can be thrilling; the chance to meet a much bigger group of kids, and gain more of the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Memory: The critical tool that helps us do far more than pass exams.
Season 2 Episode 30
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In this interview with Danielle Winton of Memory Strategy we talked about:
* Why we should care about memory stategies.
* Key thing…
3 years, 2 months ago