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Parenting Teens Untangled - Realistic, science-backed teen & tween parenting advice — 210 episodes
Empty Nest: How to Cope When Your Teen Goes off to College or University. Vintage
Exam Results: What if my teen doesn't get the A level grades they want? Vintage
How to Prepare Your Child for College & University: The Teen view on Friends, Safety, Study, Money and Freshers Week.
How to Be a Calm Parent to Teens using Boundaries with Diane Sorensen
Blended Families: How to Connect With a Child Who Doesn't Accept You
Parenting Myths That Make Mothers Miserable
The vital parenting shift: becoming a mentor to your teen
Reading Festival Advice From Teens: Vintage
The talk about money most parents leave until too late
School Stress and Exams: The Secret to Parents Helping Teens and Tweens Thrive
The Life Skill Parents Forget to Teach: Engaging in Society
What's a Good Parent? A Bonus Episode in Which I Ask My Own Teenager
What Teens Are Trying to Tell Us: The Crisis of Connection and Masculinity
The Hidden Problem of Teen Gambling — and What Parents Can Do
Parenting Thriving Teens using Science
Prepare for the Inevitable: The Guide to Grief for Parents of Tweens and Teens
The Vital Skill Parents Can Teach Teens and Tweens: Critical Thinking
Parenting in High-Conflict Homes: Protecting Your Kids When Your Partner Won’t Change
The Manosphere for Parents of Teens: Signs Your Son Is Being Influenced (and How to Respond)
‘Lazy’ to Motivated: Parenting Revision, Homework & Exams. Hear a Teen On What Really Helps
Phones: Bedtime Battles for Parents of Teens AMA
Parenting teens for connection not perfection
Parenting Teens Through Love & Heartbreak: What we do wrong and what helps
Parenting teens through failure and on to university
Parenting Teen Boys In The Age of the Manosphere - Vintage
Cutting it as a parent? Parenting teens as a surgeon, author and mother of four with Gabriel Weston
Parenting teens in an age of AI, Nudes and Online Blackmail
The Thing Parents, Tweens and Teens Need Most: Mattering with Jennifer Breheny-Wallace
Parenting Teens So They Don't Stop Talking to Us When They're Older
Tween and teen parenting for a healthy body image, and getting teens to do chores. Vintage
Intense tween and teen friendships and the most important things a parent can say
Positive Parenting: Using Strengths to Motivate and Understand our Tweens and Teens
Parenting Teens Who're Online: Protecting Them From Predators
How parents of teens can raise happy, successful adults
The One Thing Your Teen Really Needs From a Parent: Emotional Regulation
The secrets to real change, and parents breaking negative family cycles
Anxious Teens: The vital role we parents can play. Vintage
Parenting Teens Without Overreacting: How to handle emotions calmly - Vintage
How Important are Dads or Fathers?
Top Friendship Tips for Teen Girls: Lessons from Real-Life Sisters.
Motivational feedback, a happiness hack, and letting your teen sleepover after a party
Christmas and other family gatherings with teens. Magic or misery? Vintage
The Parenting 'Super System' to Help Teens Stay on Task; Even Those With ADHD
Parenting Teens Who Can Speak Their Mind Without Fear
Talk to your boys: Parenting around masculinity, gaming, sexuality and emotions.
Your Teen Is Already Using AI: How Parents can Talk About It
Mental health problems in teenagers. Parents can't just blame phones.
Drugs: 1 in 2 teens exposed to them by 15. Parenting teens through the reality
Grief, university, rules and consequences, raising boys, chores and phones. Community Catch Up
Most teenagers aren't getting enough sleep. Here's how parents can fix it.
Parents teens and tweens in a way that keeps them from developing eating disorders.
Parents, stop pushing your kids: The science of success, resilience, and reduced stress.
Transforming difficult, disruptive teens
Conflict resolution skills for parents of teens. Vintage.
Teens Talk: Parents listen. The good and bad of smart phones and social media.
School Problems: Parenting teens through education issues
Mental Health, and Teen Phone Use with Oxford Psychologist Lucy Foulkes.
Adult kids who go no contact: Lessons in parenting
Teens, screens and mobiles: The online safety expert's view of bans and boundaries.
Why Parents Judge Each Other — And How to Stop.
Why Mothers Aren't Happy: Burnout, Mental Load and the Second Shift.
Angry teenagers: Parenting teens and tweens through their anger - Vintage.
Boundaries when parenting teens Vintage.
Motivation: The parent's guide to motivating a teen or tween: Vintage.
Alcohol. A Smart Parents' Guide to Helping Teens Take a Healthy Approach.
Talk: How to talk so your teenager will listen, and teens wanting to sleep together.
Puberty, toxic friendships and 'Pick me' girls - teens talk.
Starting University and College: Parental support that makes all the difference.
Stop a downward spiral before it happens with Dr Greg Walton 'One of psychology's greatest'.
Teen love, breakups & LGBTQ: What parents can do and say.
Parenting teens around sex, loneliness, puberty and finding hobbies.
Why school exam systems need to change and how to support our own kids now.
Success: Are siblings and community more important than parents?
Respect, artifical intelligence and toxic femininity - the teenage view.
Senior school, friendship groups, and those awkward talks about porn and sexting.
Parenting teens to get them out of their bedroom, even one who's into gaming.
Identity formation - the main job of a teenager?
Inheritocracy: Are education and hard work less important now than parents?
Adolescence: Help for parents with the core themes.
Empty nest? Plan ahead for an life that's full of possibility.
Work: Helping our Teens Avoid the NEET trap
Parenting the Teen You Have, Not the One You Imagined
Skin care obsession: The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective.
Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults.
Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.
Using facts to be a good parent to teenagers: The evidence.
Stress and the mental load: changing from chores to responsibility
The teen who's checked out: why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.
Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart.
New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more fun and the most interesting books.
Family gatherings without the fireworks, and staying connected with your young teen.
Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.
Support: It takes a village to raise a child... as long they do it my way.
Girls: Sexism, beauty standards, entitlement and misogyny.
Cancel Culture and Teens: When Calling Out Goes Too Far
Parenting teen & tween girls: Friendships, frenemies and banter.
The damage of an emotionally immature parent.
Masculinity and image: the Looksmaxxing hashtag that boys follow but parents don't see.
Boundaries: How to set them and why they’re so important.
Motivation: How to motivate your teenager. With eminent Psychologist David Yeager.
Stress - the major health issue for parents in our 'culture of comparison'.
Parent complex teens and tweens with ADHD or other differences.
The hardest part of parenting a teen? We discuss the 18-22 year stage.
Therapy. Should all teens get it? Also, do boys actually need male role models?
How grades harm kids and what we parents can do about it.
Teen weight and body image: The teen view.
Reading Festival tips - straight from the mouths of teenagers.
Exams and Grades. Parenting teens in a world obsessed with them.
Driving lessons - Top tips for a smooth road ahead.
Rachel's top ten lessons to celebrate 100 episodes!
Boys who're failing exams and seem apathetic.
Teen boys: Emotions, masculinity vaccinations, and online influencers.
Shyness: How to support a teen who lacks self-belief and confidence.
Sleeping in until late during the holidays.
Public displays of affection and sex in your home.
Switching parental gears for their new school year.
Screen time advice for parenting teens & tweens: What works and what doesn't.
Summer flip or summer flop? What will your teen be doing with their summer?
Is your teen being lazy, or could they be lacking a key executive skill?
Values, and how being strong about our own can help teens navigate a society of desires.
Exams, depression, work, national service, Sigma and Bigorexia,
Failure to Launch: How to Help an Adult Child Move Forward
Missing out: The pain of FOMO. Why it’s particularly bad for teens.
Nagging: Using routine to reduce the friction of parenting teens.
School: Angry kids, bad behaviour, and school avoidance.
Where’s my village? The stress of parenting in the ‘sandwich generation’.
Perfectionism: Overcoming a parent and teen's need to be perfect.
Money: Giving teens and tweens an allowance. Two years on.
Fun: Having fun with our teens, and the bonding power of laughter.
Parenting teens to develop GRIT: Growing Resilience In Teens
Concentration, and the troubling effect of too many choices.
Eldest daughter syndrome and the trouble with parentification.
Taking things personally, coping with adversity, teen love and changing our minds when we get new information.
Manners: Parenting to help teens succeed in life by teaching the importance of good manners.
Admitting our mistakes - talking to our kids about our own teen years.
Standards: Parenting teens setting high expectations without too much pressure.
Girls Online: What to say about Biikini photos. Help!
Diet: Does my teen need to lose weight? Diet culture.
Regrets? Things we parents would do differently.
Coping with an Inconsistent or Alcoholic Parent: Guidance for the Parent Who’s There
Back to school, third places, manners and our favourite podcasts, shows, books and apps.
New year's resolutions. Making them work for us.
Presents: Why is my teen so ungrateful?
Favourite lessons: Online, education, anxiety, consequences, and the pressures of parenting.
Online grooming and sextortion: protecting our teens and tweens.
Eating disorders: An interview with Beat representative Umairah Malik.
Parenting styles that enable teens to grow into capable adults.
How to Talk to Your Teen About Porn Without Shame or Panic.
Should Your Teenager Pay Rent or Is There a Better Way to Teach Responsibility?
Exercise: are teens doing enough?
‘Trans’ and gender confusion: what to say to teens when we’re often more confused than they are.
Triggers and emotional spirals, mobile phone bans and do schools know what to teach kids anymore?
Navigating divorce while raising teens.
Teen dating. Talking about relationships or 'help, my son's come home with a hickey!'
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Gap years: What is a gap year and should our teens take one?
Grief: Supporting our kids through the worst.
Anxiety: How to help your teen with anxiety.
Christmas and holiday stress with teenagers and tweens.
Transitioning to secondary school: What we wish we'd known.
Memory: The critical tool that helps us do far more than pass exams.
Parenting teens with a Snapchat addiction; why tweens and teens want it so much
Bigorexia: Teens eating everything in the house, muscle building, and Bigorexia.
Anger issues: Parenting tips for dealing with an explosive, angry teen.
Masculinity, and positive ways of supporting our teenage boys
New relationships: Introducing your new partner to your teen
Risk-taking teens; the good news about bad behaviour.
Teenagers Untangled: Who we are and how you can use the podcast.
Social media: help your teens be their best selves online.
Sleep: Your teen's free performance enhancer with no side effects.
Parenting teens using conflict resolution skills
Exam revision - Parenting through the pressure.
Relationships and sex: how young is too young?
Why should we parents talk to our teenager's teachers.
Emotional issues for parents. How to not overreact.
Stress: Techniques for dealing with the pressures of parenting. 36
Vaping teens. How parents can educate and discourage them.
School avoidance: Parenting teens and tweens when your teen is missing school.
Masculine role models: Andrew Tate, misogyny, and the manosphere.
Parents creating rules and consequences, and the teen who doesn't seem to care.
Make habit changes that actually work.
Step-parent of tweens and tweens. Coping, and thriving, with a blended family.
Parties for teens and tweens. Invitations, gatecrashers and alcohol.
Giving presents: Is your teen ungrateful?
Friendships: How to support teens to build their social skills.
Parenting difficult teens: How do I stop my teenager from being entitled?
Why is teen identity such an issue? Also, smelly teens.
Do Manners Still Matter? And Why Empty Nest Syndrome Hits So Hard
Parents’ Guide to Teen Girls’ Clothing Choices, Plus How to Handle Changing Finances
Disagreements over parenting styles, and future careers.
Drugs: How to talk to my teenager, and divorce and kids staying over.
Mom guilt, and parenting teens & tweens when you don't like their friends
Lying teenagers, and sibling comparisons.
Favourite parent; and teenagers trying to ‘express’ themselves?
Boy friendships. Also what the %#*!😳 we should do about swearing?
Parenting a tween or teen who's self-harming. Also, what's your talking style?
The Advice No One Tells Parents About Teens and Anxiety.
Pornography:What you need to know before having THAT talk.
Bullying teens, and the best way to tackle it. Also, dealing with teen backchat.
Lone parenting and Understanding Teen Mood Swings.
Friendship: Girls and toxic groups, also building resilience
Screens and teens and healthy eating.
Parenting teen and tween sibling rivalry, also the vaping teenager.
Covid's impact on our teens, also the teenage sleep conundrum.
Body image and getting teens to do chores.
Motivation and giving up: When do we let them quit?
Mobile phone photos/sexting, and money management using an allowance.
Talk so your teenager will listen, and dealing with teen sex in your home.
Discussing alcohol, and how to stay connected
Your parenting toolbox and teenagers tidying their rooms