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The 'do hard things', or 'less validation' model. 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 w…
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 tha…
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 many of us begin afresh every new year wit…
This blog is long, but it's my attempt to give you the best I know in understanding how to approach this as a parent. I've broken it into sections and highlighted some messages in bold so they're easier to scan. I'm going to start by saying somethi…
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. …