Better Communication, Family, Help & Advice, Parenting Perspective
Parenting a teen doesn’t come with a book of instructions. Unfortunately! Just imagine if it did! Life with them would be so much easier don’t you think? In all honesty, the teen years are often dreaded by parents. I see it, and hear it all the time. Just...
A Teen's World, Better Communication, Health and Wellbeing, Help & Advice
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world and while the government and business are scrambling to get things back to some sense of “normal”, we mustn’t forget about the many ways coronavirus has affected the lives of families. Although in many places,...
Behaviour & Development, Better Communication, Family
“Want to stop screaming at your teen? Easy. Then just stop screaming at your teen.” How could it ever actually be that simple? There is the truth that screaming doesn’t work all that well, especially if your teen has become so used to hearing you yell that it...
A Teen's World, Behaviour & Development, Better Communication
Many parents really don’t understand why their teenagers sometimes behave in an impulsive, irrational, or dangerous way. There’s a single word explanation though and that’s BIOLOGY. It’s an undisputed fact that a teenage brain functions very differently than an...
Better Communication, Parenting Perspective
What makes constructive criticism different from just being criticised? Constructive criticism is often confused with downright being criticised. And it can bite. Hard. It hurts to think that your efforts or behaviours are perceived poorly by others and to be told so...
A Teen's World, Behaviour & Development, Better Communication
Raising teenagers can be the biggest challenge of your parenting career as this is the time of their development when most unpredictable things can – and do – happen. Your child isn’t a little kid anymore, and that’s not always an easy concept to...
