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Drugs: How to talk to my teenager, and divorce and kids staying over.
Season 1 Episode 20
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Drugs are everywhere; whether they are being peddled by pharmaceutical companies to fix medical problems, used as performance enha…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mom guilt, and parenting teens & tweens when you don't like their friends
Season 1 Episode 19
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As a parent, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer size of your job and the range of the responsibilities it involves? Do yo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Why Teenagers Lie: What Parents Should Do When Their Teen Won’t Tell the Truth
Season 1 Episode 18
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Why do teenagers lie — and what should you do when you discover your teen hasn't been telling you the truth?
Lying can feel like a …
4 years, 3 months ago
Favourite parent; and teenagers trying to ‘express’ themselves?
Season 1 Episode 17
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Do you have a teen at home who's all sweet and loving with one parent, but treats the other like they're a bad smell? Karen says s…
4 years, 3 months ago
Boy friendships. Also what the %#*!😳 we should do about swearing?
Season 1 Episode 16
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When we covered the issues of friendship groups, with girls in mind, we had a massive reaction from parents who have been struggli…
4 years, 3 months ago
Teen Self-Harm: Why Teenagers Do It and What Parents Can Do
Season 1 Episode 15
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Discovering that your teenager is self-harming can be frightening and overwhelming. Why are they doing it? Does it mean they're su…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Advice No One Tells Parents About Teens and Anxiety.
Season 1 Episode 14
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The anxiety epidemic:
In 2020 the UK charity Mental Health Foundation surveyed more than 2,000 children and found 50 per cent of te…
4 years, 4 months ago
Pornography:What you need to know before having THAT talk.
Season 1 Episode 13
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WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT.
Pornography is probably as old as art itself. Whether you indulge, or wouldn't go near it, there has n…
4 years, 5 months ago
Bullying teens, and the best way to tackle it. Also, dealing with teen backchat.
Season 1 Episode 12
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A definition of bullying: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918673/
Negative physical, verbal, or relational actions t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Why Teenagers Untangled was created, and how you can use it.
Season 1
4 years, 6 months ago