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Oct. 9, 2024

108: How to parent complex kids with ADHD or other differences

Send us a text How to parent kids who struggle with ADHD, anxiety and life Nobody wants their child to struggle, but it's inevitable at some point. Many of the problems our kids face will be part of a well-worn path through …
Oct. 9, 2024

How to support struggling, complex kids

How to parent kids who struggle with ADHD, anxiety and life Nobody wants their child to struggle, but it's inevitable at some point. Many of the problems our kids face will be part of a well-worn path through the teenage yea…
Oct. 3, 2024

Moving Up and Moving Out: The empty nest and the terrible eighteen to twenty two's

One of my husband’s long standing friends moved to Florida when he graduated, but he always stays with us when he’s in the UK. His daughters were home-schooled and we’ve vaguely followed their progress all …
Oct. 2, 2024

107: The hardest part of parenting a teen? We discuss the 18-22 year stage.

Send us a text A recent Tweet focused my mind on something I've only really glimpsed with a side-eye. We hear so much about the challenges of the early teen years that it's easy to forget young adults have their own issues. …
Sept. 27, 2024

Body image #podcast #parentingteens #beauty #educatingparents

Www.teenagersungangled.com It's so hard to feel good about ourselves when we're bombarded with messages that imply we fall short of some ideal. Self-love and acceptance isn't a vapid concept, it's something radical we can…
Sept. 25, 2024

106: Should all teens get therapy? Also, do boys actually need male role models?

Send us a text When an anonymous listener posted this question we thought it would be a great topic to discuss; one that many of our listeners could be wondering about. The listener said, Hello, I absolutely love your podcas…
Sept. 18, 2024

How grades harm students and what parents can do about it.

00:00 The impact of grades on students 04:44 Strategic learning and feedback v's grades 09:01 Teacher bias and the role of feedback 11:52 Alternative grading models and their benefits 18:45 Parental role in supporting studen…
Sept. 18, 2024

105: How grades harm school students and what we parents can do about it.

Send us a text Grades are used in education the world over, but why? With the growing mental health crisis in teenagers I've been exploring how experts are asking whether perhaps it's time we looked again at the role grades …
Sept. 14, 2024

Insider Tips for Surviving Your Teen's First Music Festival

I never went to a festival as a teen. I didn’t have any money, and I didn’t know anyone else who did. Still, I did some pretty ‘exciting’ things at the age my kids went to their first festival alone. …
Sept. 12, 2024

Talking to teens about weight and body image: #podcast #weightloss #parenting teens

Teenagers can be very stressed about the changes their bodies undergo. When we parents feel stressed too it simply compounds the negative messages. In our latest episode my daughter and I talked about how it feels to put o…

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Moving Up and Moving Out: The empty nest and the terrible eighteen to twenty two's

One of my husband’s long standing friends moved to Florida when he graduated, but he always stays with us when he’s in the UK. His daughters were home-schooled and we’ve vaguely followed their progress all the way to the latest sta…

Insider Tips for Surviving Your Teen's First Music Festival

I never went to a festival as a teen. I didn’t have any money, and I didn’t know anyone else who did. Still, I did some pretty ‘exciting’ things at the age my kids went to their first festival alone. I was sixteen when I mov…

The top ten parenting tips I've learned while making this podcast

I began this podcast in December of the year my youngest was 13. To be honest, if my friend hadn't told me she needed me to make a podcast to help her it simply wouldn't have occurred to me to start one. Yes, my skillset is audio/visual and present…

About the Hosts

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Rachel Richards

Host

My main career was as a BBC Correspondent, World News Anchor for CNBC Europe, BBC World New Radio, and roving reporter/newsreader on local radio.

I’ve always been fascinated by parenting so loved being a Parenting Supercoach for Parent Gym, working in the most deprived boroughs of London.

I’m now the mother of two step-daughters and two teenagers. A failed dog-trainer (you try it in a house where everyone else gives them cheese) and terrible, but enthusiastic, gardener. I’m a long time lover of Ashtanga yoga, jogging, hiking, skiing, reading, music, and all types of adventurous travel.

I was born in Zambia and lived in six different countries by the age of ten, before settling in the UK.

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Susie Asli

Co-host

https://www.amindful-life.co.uk
Susie started practising mindfulness over a decade ago, after a particularly stressful time in her life. It was so effective that she decided to train in Mindfulness with the NHS and the Mindfulness in Schools project to become a Paws b and dot b practitioner, which enables her to teach mindfulness both to primary and secondary school children.

Susie teaches adult groups, 1:1s, families, in schools (children & teachers) and students (at the Guildhall College of Music & Drama).

She's also a qualified psychotherapist (from the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Copenhagen) and a trained musician (working and playing as a freelance viola player and chamber musician, as well as teaching children and adults).

Susie is mum to three children whom she has parented alone for 12 years