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Parenting teens using conflict resolution skills
Season 2 Episode 20
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Conflict is normal - but it often escalates during teenage years because our kids are trying to assert their own wishes, and proba…
3 years, 5 months ago
Exam revision - Parenting through the pressure.
Season 2 Episode 19
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It's pre-exam time of year again, and oh boy it's tough for our teens.
Does yours have a colour-coded revision schedule, carefully-…
3 years, 5 months ago
Relationships and sex: how young is too young?
Season 2 Episode 18
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Most first world countries agree that the age of consent is around sixteen, but teenagers don't suddenly awake to their sexuality …
3 years, 5 months ago
Why should we parents talk to our teenager's teachers.
Season 2 Episode 17
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We all want our kids to do well at school, but when they become teenagers there's a tendency for both schools and parents to ease …
3 years, 6 months ago
Emotional issues for parents. How to not overreact.
Season 2 Episode 16
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Nobody likes blowing a fuse when their teen does something that triggers them, but we all do it at some point.
Nicky asked us to d…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stress: Techniques for dealing with the pressures of parenting. 36
Season 2 Episode 15
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The stress of parenting doesn’t go away when they’re teenagers, it just changes. We may have more physical space, but finding ment…
3 years, 7 months ago
Vaping teens. How parents can educate and discourage them.
Season 2 Episode 14
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Nicotine is considered highly addictive, and sales of vapes to teens are illegal, but the numbers of teens vaping nicotine in coun…
3 years, 7 months ago
School avoidance: Parenting teens and tweens when your teen is missing school.
Season 2 Episode 13
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The 'social contract' between families and schools has been broken during the pandemic, and ongoing absence of kids is a 'deep and…
3 years, 8 months ago
Masculine role models: Andrew Tate, misogyny, and the manosphere.
Season 2 Episode 12
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We've been asked by a listener to discuss how we talk to our boys about influential online figures like Andrew Tate, who act both …
3 years, 8 months ago
Parents creating rules and consequences, and the teen who doesn't seem to care.
Season 2 Episode 11
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Having kids can seem like a non-stop obstacle/crash course in how you get another living being to do things, whether for their own…
3 years, 8 months ago