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A Better Way for Parents to talk to Teens About Screen Time: Fear Less & Wonder More

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Banning Social Media Won't Work: How Parents Can Actually Help Teens

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Nagging Your Teenager? We Parents Talk Family Routines, in the Wonder Room

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Teen Girls Mental Health, Intense Pressure, and How Parents Can Help

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Curiosity: What’s wrong with my teen? At the Big Hug Community Cafe

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Starting Secondary School: How to Help Your Child With Friends, Homework & the Big Transition

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Teenagers, AI & Friendship: Is ChatGPT Changing How Our Kids Connect? Parenting Unpacked in the Wonder Room

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Teen Friendship Problems: How to Help Your Teen Make and Keep Friends

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Empty Nest Syndrome: How to Cope When Your Child Leaves Home Vintage

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Exam Results: What if my teen doesn't get the grades they want? Vintage

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Is Your Teen Ready for University? What Parents Need to Know INTERVIEW WITH MY TEEN

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How to Stop Yelling at Your Teen: Stay Calm, Set Boundaries & End Power Struggles

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Step-Parenting Teens: Why Connection Matters More Than Discipline

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Parenting Guilt: Bad Parenting Science, The Motherhood Myth & What Actually Matters

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The vital parenting shift: becoming a mentor to your teen

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Reading Festival Advice From Teens: Vintage INTERVIEW WITH MY TEENS

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Teaching Teens About Money: Investing, Gambling & the Money Lessons Schools Miss

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Teen Exam Stress: How to Help Without Nagging, Pressuring or Taking Over

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How to Raise a Good Citizen: Teaching Teens Critical Thinking, Politics & Civic Responsibility

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What's a Good Parent? A Bonus Episode in Which I Ask My Own Teenager

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Why Teenage Boys Pull Away: The Crisis of Connection With Dr Niobe Way

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Teen Gambling Is Surging: How Gaming & Loot Boxes Are Hooking Our Kids

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Teen Brain Health: Screens, Dopamine, Junk Food & How to Raise a Thriving Teen

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Teenagers and Grief: How to Support Your Teen Through Death or Serious Illness: Vintage

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Is Your Teen Being Manipulated Online? Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

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Parenting Teens With an Angry or Critical Partner: How to Handle Conflict at Home

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Is the Manosphere Teaching Your Son to Hate Women? How Parents Can Respond

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Teen Exam Stress & Motivation: What Actually Helps (and What Makes It Worse) INTERVIEW WITH MY TEEN

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Phones: Bedtime Battles for Parents of Teens AMA

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How to Connect With Your Teen: Stop Trying to Be the Perfect Parent

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Teen Dating, First Love & Heartbreak: What Parents Need to Know

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When Your Teen’s Dream Falls Apart: Helping Them Cope With Failure & Rejection

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Andrew Tate, the Manosphere & Teen Boys: What Parents Need to Know - Vintage

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Think You’re Failing as a Parent? You’re Probably Doing Better Than You Imagine

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Sextortion & AI Fake Nudes: What Every Parent of a Teen Needs to Know”

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Teen Anxiety & Achievement Pressure: How to Raise Successful Kids Who Know They Matter

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Estranged Adult Children: Why They Cut Parents Off & What We Can Do Now

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Teen Body Image & Social Media: How to Protect Their Self-Esteem. Vintage

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Teen Friendship Problems: How to Help When Your Child Is Struggling Socially

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Help Your Teen Thrive: Science-Based Hacks for Focus, Anxiety, ADHD & Big Emotions

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Is Your Child Being Groomed? 4 Warning Signs That Could Protect Your Child

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How parents of teens can raise happy, successful adults

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The One Thing Your Teen Really Needs From a Parent: Emotional Regulation

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How to Be a Better Dad: Connection, Presence and Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids

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Anxious Teens: The vital role we parents can play. Vintage

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Parenting Teens Without Overreacting: How to handle emotions calmly - Vintage

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Do Fathers Really Matter? Why Dads Are More Important Than We Think

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Teen Friendship Problems: How to Help Without Making Things Worse INTERVIEW WITH MY GIRLS

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Motivational feedback, a happiness hack, and letting your teen sleepover after a party

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Christmas and other family gatherings with teens. Magic or misery? Vintage

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Homework and Motivation for the ADHD Child: How to Help Your Teen Get Things Done

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Why Teens Are Afraid to Speak Their Minds — and What Parents Can Do

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How to Get Your Teenage Boy to Talk: Sex, Screens, Anger, Drugs & More

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Is AI Making Our Kids Worse at Learning? What Parents Need to Know

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The Science Behind the Teen Mental Health Crisis: It's Not Just Phones

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Teens and Drugs: What Every Parent Needs to Know — Before It’s Too Late

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Grief, university, rules and consequences, raising boys, chores and phones. Community Catch Up

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Teen Sleep: Why Your Teen Isn’t Getting Enough — and How to Fix It

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Teen Eating Disorders: How to Help Your Child Have a Healthy Relationship With Food

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The parenting science of success, resilience, and reduced stress for teens.

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Things Every Teen Needs to Thrive: Belonging, Purpose & Connection

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Conflict resolution skills for parents of teens. Vintage.

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Social Media Through Teen Eyes: What Parents Don’t See INTERVIEW WITH MY GIRLS

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How to Complain to Your Child’s School Without Making Things Worse

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Teen Mental Health: Is It Anxiety or Normal Teenage Struggle? | Dr Lucy Foulkes

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Adult kids who go no contact: Lessons in parenting

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Teens, screens and mobiles: The online safety expert's view of bans and boundaries.

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Why Parents Judge Each Other — And How to Stop.

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Why Mothers Aren't Happy: Burnout, Mental Load and the Second Shift.

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Angry teenagers: Parenting teens and tweens through their anger - Vintage.

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Boundaries when parenting teens Vintage.

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Motivation: The parent's guide to motivating a teen or tween: Vintage.

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Alcohol. A Smart Parents' Guide to Helping Teens Take a Healthy Approach.

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Talk: How to talk so your teenager will listen, and teens wanting to sleep together.

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Toxic Friendships, Puberty & ‘Pick Me Girls’: What Teen Girls Want Parents to Know INTERVIEW WITH MY TEENS

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Starting University and College: Parental support that makes all the difference.

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How to Build Your Teenager’s Confidence, Self-Esteem and Resilience — Dr Greg Walton

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Teenage First Love: How to Help Your Teen Through Love, Breakups & Heartbreak INTERVIEW WITH MY TEEN

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Parenting teens around sex, loneliness, puberty and finding hobbies.

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Why school exam systems need to change and how to support our own kids now.

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Success: Are siblings and community more important than parents?

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Respect, artifical intelligence and toxic femininity - the teenage view.

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Why Is My Teen Rude to Me? Teens Answer Your Parenting Questions INTERVIEW WITH MY TEENS

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Teen Always in Their Bedroom? Why They Pull Away & How Parents Can Reconnect

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Identity formation - the main job of a teenager?

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Inheritocracy: Are education and hard work less important now than parents?

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Adolescence: Help for parents with the core themes.

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Empty nest? Plan ahead for an life that's full of possibility.

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Work: Helping our Teens Avoid the NEET trap

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When Culture and Parenting Collide: Breaking Generational Cycles and Staying Close to Your Child

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Skin care obsession: The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective.

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Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults.

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Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.

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Using facts to be a good parent to teenagers: The evidence.

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Stop Nagging About Chores: How to Teach Teens to Take Responsibility

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The teen who's checked out: why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.

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Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart.

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New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more fun and the most interesting books.

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Family gatherings without the fireworks, and staying connected with your young teen.

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Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.