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Episodes

Feb. 21, 2025

Spilling the tea: Exams, family get-togethers and a Big Hug

Send us a text Exams discussions. How to parent through the pressure: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/exam-revision-parenting-through-the-pressure/ How exams fail everyone: An interesting interview with Sammy Wright on the...

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Feb. 19, 2025

127: Worries about skin care obsessions? The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective

Send us a text Most teens go through a phase of being hyper-focused on looking good; whether it's clothes, bodybuilding, skin-care or makeup. What can seem like an obsession could be a normal part of the process, so when shou...

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Feb. 12, 2025

126: Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults

Send us a text Before I had kids I literally had no real idea of what I should expect. I think that's partly why I have spent the years as a mother panicking and reading everything; having learnt that I was wrong about how co...

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Feb. 5, 2025

125: Supercharge your teen's life skills with a working holiday.

Send us a text Sponsored by JENZA Positively life changing is how I would sum up the time I spent working abroad during my gap year. I met people with a completely different world view, different language, and learnt to navig...

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Jan. 29, 2025

124: How to be a good parent to teenagers, using evidence. An interview with Matilda Gosling

Send us a text It's one thing to get advice on how to parent, it's another to have independent studies that give real evidence on how well one approach works rather than another. Faced with raising two young kids in a COVID l...

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Jan. 24, 2025

Community catch up: Relaxing, skin care obsessions, leaving school and finding work and boredom.

Send us a text This is Community Catch-Up: Your bonus episode BOOKS MENTIONED: Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves 10-25: The Science of Motivating Younge People - David Yeager https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/motivation-how-...

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Jan. 22, 2025

123: Reduce parenting stress and improve our kids' core skills with this simple fix. An interview with Sam Kelly

Send us a text Stress can be a major problem for parents who're constantly juggling tasks and responsibilities. The mental load can feel overwhelming at times and the list literally never ending. So when I discovered Sam Kell...

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Jan. 15, 2025

122: How to motivate our teens to love learning and why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.

Send us a text We parents are deluding ourselves about how much our kids enjoy school, according to research for the book The Disengaged Teen. In survey responses 65% of parents thought their 10th grade kid loved school, whil...

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Jan. 8, 2025

121 Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart, and how we parents can help

Send us a text There are siblings who love spending time with each other as often as possible, some tolerate it once or twice a year, and there are others who would rather eat glass than have to speak to each other. Why? What...

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Jan. 1, 2025

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

Send us a text MAKING RESOLUTIONS: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/70-new-years-resolutions-love-them-or-loathe-them-the-question-is-how-can-we-make-them-work-for-u/ https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/blog/Be-the-person-yo...

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Dec. 23, 2024

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

Send us a text Connection is at the root of human happiness, but staying connected through the turbulent teens and keeping family traditions and gatherings positive can be a challenge. In this episode we help Helen with her q...

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Dec. 18, 2024

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

Send us a text In a recent column in The Times, Caitlin Moran wrote about how five young men in her social circle have taken their lives in the past 18 months. She's not alone. My daughter has experienced this, as has Benedic...

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Dec. 11, 2024

117: Support: It takes a village to raise a child... as long they do it my way.

Send us a text So many of us bemoan the loss of a village, but do we really know what we mean by that? Being in a village or community requires us to give as well as take; often not on our own terms. It also means that we hav...

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Dec. 4, 2024

116: Girls: Talking with teens about beauty standards, entitlement and misogyny an interview with Jo-Ann Finkelstein

Send us a text Encouraging our kids to make the most of themselves is a vital job for parents, but how do we talk with girls about the barriers they face? From the subtle expectation that girls and women be humble to the not ...

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Nov. 27, 2024

115: Cancel culture. Bullying or bravery?

Send us a text The suicide of a young man at Oxford University has prompted a warning letter to the UK Government about 'cancel culture' on campus. The review into his death 'identified evidence of a concerning practice of so...

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Nov. 20, 2024

114: Friendships, frenemies and banter. What to expect and why.

Send us a text Friendships, and fitting, in are everything to teenagers. You could argue that understanding the dynamics, and supporting our kids through the turmoil of the teen years, is one of the best things we parents can...

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Nov. 13, 2024

113: The damage of an emotionally immature parent

Send us a text If we genuinely think about how many of us are emotionally mature before we become parents the number is probably pretty low. The act of caring for someone else, and having to manage our own feelings, can be in...

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Nov. 6, 2024

112: Masculinity and image: the Looksmaxxing hashtag that boys follow but parents don't see

Send us a text What we see on TikTok often starts on message boards in fringe groups then spills over into the mainstream. This is true of the Looksmaxxing social media trend that's been gaining more and more currency among t...

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Oct. 30, 2024

111: Boundaries: How to set them and why they’re so important.

Send us a text Boundaries exist, regardless of whether we're conscious of them or not. The first place we experience them is in our own home, and the way they are created, managed and enforced can set us up for a lifetime of ...

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Oct. 23, 2024

110: Motivation: How to motivate your teenager. An interview with eminent Psychologist David Yeager

Send us a text When kids hit puberty they become driven by a core motivation that many of us adults don't fully appreciate. It's not simply fun, or sex; they're looking for experiences that give them social status and respect...

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Oct. 16, 2024

109: Stress - the major health issue for parents in our 'culture of comparison'.

Send us a text Over the last decade, parents have been consistently more likely to report experiencing high levels of stress compared to other adults, according to a report issued by the US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy. A...

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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 t...

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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. A...

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Sept. 25, 2024

106: Therapy. Should all teens get it? 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 podcast...

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