Health and Wellbeing, Help & Advice, Parenting Perspective
Is your teen getting decent sleep? From blockout blinds to podcasts, these strategies may help your teen get the better rest their body and brain needs. The teen body clock is often a major frustration for parents. For many teens, their instincts are to seek later...
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,...
Health and Wellbeing, Parent Self Care
Stress is a form of psychological pain and we all encounter it every once in a while. But did you know a little dose of stress can also be beneficial to your health? According to studies, stress has two ways of affecting your mental and emotional state, in one way it...
Behaviour & Development, Better Communication, Health and Wellbeing
Establishing and reinforcing cell phone rules for tweens and teens can be really tricky because their generation uses cell phones differently to ours. After all, most of us parents did not even grow up owning a cell phone so knowing what apps, cell phone tricks,...
A Teen's World, Better Communication, Health and Wellbeing, Help & Advice
13 Reasons Why – the Nextflix series airing in 2017 and focusing on the sensitive topic youth suicide – came under fire and created much controversy amidst graphic scenes and then fear of copy-cat behaviours. This year a second series has been released and is...
A Teen's World, Behaviour & Development, Health and Wellbeing, Help & Advice
Teenage sleep seems to be a hot topic as just this week on the Teenage Survival Coach Facebook page I’ve shared a couple of articles about schools accommodating their timetables to better sync with teen sleeping patterns. Maybe it’s newsworthy because...
