Fearless parenting
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b'The \'do hard things\', or \'less validation\' model.\r\n The whole point of my podcast is to hand back some agency to parents who\'ve grown accustomed to thinking they don\'t really know what they\'re doing, or that they know exactly what they\'re doing and won\'t allow any questioning of their mantra. Both come from a place of fear. Judgement is rife in our society, and whilst it can be protective by asking people to pause and question their choices, it can also cause us to hand over responsibility to \'experts\' or dig in our heels to prove that we\'re right.  \r\n Teenagers Untangle ..read more
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Setting expectations without piling on the pressure
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1M ago
b' Every loving parent wants their kid to succeed and be happy. The difficulty is that success and happiness are ephemeral concepts.  Sure, there are lots of books and articles about children who’ve achieved great things, and the parents that supported them in getting there. Taylor Swift was naturally very driven, but would she really have reached the dizzying heights she has if her parents hadn’t been able to move to Nashville and had a lot of money with which to back her in the first place? The truth is, we’ll never know. And we’ll also never know how much of a role their parenting actu ..read more
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Ch, ch, ch, ch, changes: Be the person you want to be, not the person others think you should be, and take time to appreciate all of your wins.
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2M ago
b" If you recognise the song from my title then you may well be as old as I am, which means we've had a lot of time to evolve over the years. Still, making changes that stick is so difficult that it's a wonder so many of us begin afresh every new year with hope in our hearts that this time we'll do it better. I'm one of them, but I want to tell you about the way I make them in a way that genuinely works for me.  \r\n It's so effective that over the years the process has been life-changing. \r\n Firstly, write your list somewhere that won't get lost or forgotten. I use a simple paperback t ..read more
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Mobile phones, social media, and online access. What I would do if I had my teens or tweens again.
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3M ago
b' I feel compelled to write about this after something became crystal clear that I\'ve suspected all along. \r\n There is nobody but us looking out for our kids. We parents, and our kids, are at the frontier of a new era; part of a massive social experiment to which we haven\'t given our consent. \r\n None of the apps they download, or the sites they can access, care as much about safeguarding as they do about money. Look no further than Facebook, which recently implemented end-to-end encryption on its platform. It means that paedophiles can share images of child abuse, using Facebook, w ..read more
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Two years on, and some of the episodes that have impacted me most.
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3M ago
b' \r\n \r\n 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. \r\n   \r\n It\'s our two year anniversary, and I think we can all benefit immensely from standing on our current hill and taking time to gaze down the route we\'ve climbed. My family have grown so much, navigated some really difficult issues, and I can honestly say that the sense of mutual love and connection that we share is one of the main factors that\'s helped u ..read more
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Eating disorders - the sneaky, stealth bomb.
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4M ago
b' 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 the subject. The other is eating disorders. Why? An eating disorder is a mental illness that even professionals struggle to manage. \r\n Whilst it can develop rapidly, realising there’s a problem can take time. You see it’s a sneaky, stealth bomb. Eating disorders creep into our lives beneath baggy clothes, in the words of kids who say they’ve already eaten, the missing s ..read more
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The best self-improvement podcast
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5M ago
b' 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 in TV and radio. The only problem was that I knew nothing about podcasting, or the technicalities involved. \xf0\x9f\x98\xac I decided it was worth a try, but didn’t want it to be just me blathering on. I vaguely knew Susie, and loved her mindfulness messages, but it was only when I messaged her to ask if she wanted to be involved that I realised she ..read more
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When love breaks down:
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6M ago
b' 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.  \r\n I\'m not going to opine on the subject, because I haven\'t personally been through a divorce. I have, however, had some fantastic tips from people who have lived through one; including a teenager.  \r\n I\'ve turned them into these checklists to make it really simple to absorb at a time when everything feels really confusing and complicated. \r\n If you\'d like me to write more about the nesting technique that one of our listeners used, I ..read more
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The Gap Year: A break in continuity or a leap into a new paradigm?
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6M ago
b' 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. \r\n He’d been in Paris one evening, calling for an Uber, when a car mounted the pavement and drove into him. Apparently, it wasn’t even an accident. She tells me it’s a thing in Paris now; some kind of cruel ‘game’. The car had different number plates back and front and the occupants haven’t yet been traced. Meanwhile, his body and mind needed time to heal just ..read more
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Moving to senior school: The few things a parent can do that REALLY make a difference to your teenager.
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7M ago
b' 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. \r\n I was so used to moving mid-term/mid-year, that I got used to walking into a sea of faces who\'d turn and stare at me; I\'d just put on the new school uniform and turn up. That said, I used to wet the bed, and wake repeatedly in the night, put on my school uniform, and wake my parents because I was convinced we\'d be late. To my parents I was ..read more
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