When I started the podcast I had absolutely no idea where it would go. I just felt it was important; both for my personal growth, and to share with others who found parenting this year group particularly tricky. It's our two year annive…
It’s rare that I’m asked to research a topic then discover I’m not comfortable producing a thirty minute podcast on my findings. The gender movement is one such topic; it’s too political and I risk too much by wading in on th…
Our story started in a conversation with a wonderful friend @alexpodell whom I’d met through my daughter’s school.She insisted I should make a podcast about parenting teenagers because I was a parenting coach, and had a background i…
Going through a break-up is incredibly stressful, but it can feel so much harder when you have to convey the situation to your children. I'm not going to opine on the subject, because I haven't personally been through a divorce. I have, howev…
This week I had the rare pleasure of sitting with an old friend in the lunchtime sun, talking about everything and anything. It’s so unusual for us to have this luxury that I didn’t even know about the accident her son had suffered. He&…
I started school over and over again as a child, because we moved countries repeatedly. I went to four different schools after I arrived in England - between the age of ten and thirteen - and then two different colleges before going to University. …
My daughter's friend is coming to stay. My daughter has just said 'I can see her on Snapmaps. She's at the airport. I don't know why she's riding an armadillo though.😂'Snapchat is a tricky app, because it's so much a part of being a teenager now, it…
Top tips from our listeners: Give them their own cupboard/fridge shelf with foods they are allowed to eat. bermudatriangle loves the idea of sending them food shopping with their own money to start understanding the prices. fp-massage sugge…
I do hope you found my interview with Mike Nicholson of www.progressivemasulinity.co.uk helpful. For me, one of the most interesting points was that once boys know that they won't be instantly judged or shut down - and that we are genuinely trying t…
I hated going to sleep when I was a teenager. I simply couldn’t understand the point. It seemed boring, and pointless, and there was something thrilling about being awake when nobody else was. It felt empowering and rebellious. Of course, it a…
