FRESH EPISODE: The highs and lows of being a Sandwich Generation parent.

Season 4

Oct. 11, 2023

Divorce: Marriage problems; how to talk to a teenager about what’s happening.

58: Deciding to split can be an incredibly challenging time for any married couple, but knowing the impact it can have on our kids can make it even harder to navigate the complex untangling of a life together. We were asked b...

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Oct. 4, 2023

Dating: Talking to teens about dating and relationships or 'help, my son's come home with a hickey!'

57: Stacy messaged to tell us that her son had come home with a hickey for a second time, and she wasn't sure whether her reaction was the right one. My goodness, parenting can be hard. Remember when you had your very first d...

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Sept. 27, 2023

Emotional intelligence and how we can help ourselves, and our teens to develop it.

56: Everybody knows intelligence is important, but until the 90's we relied on the testing of IQ to measure it. The problem was that IQ didn't really predict success. When the term emotional intelligence began being used it b...

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Sept. 20, 2023

Gap years: What is a gap year and should our teens take one?

55: I'd never heard of a Gap Year until I took one, but it was life-changing; in a good way. Whether your teen is starting out at senior school, or about to hit a transition year, it's worth talking with them about whether ta...

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Sept. 13, 2023

Illness: Talking about cancer and death: Most of us are terrible at talking about it, so how can we support our teens?

57: Parenting tweens and teens is challenging enough, but when someone in the family becomes seriously ill or dies, it can feel overwhelmingly difficult. In all honesty, we Westerners are terrible at talking about death, ofte...

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Aug. 30, 2023

Anxiety: How to help your teen with anxiety, an interview with Renee Mill, Senior Clinical Psychologist.

53: For most of our episodes I research a topic and discuss it with Susie. We covered anxiety some time ago in that format, and it's continued to be one of our most popular downloads. So, when I was given the opportunity to i...

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Aug. 23, 2023

52: Christmas and holiday stress with teenagers and tweens.

A holiday is when someone is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax. That's according to the Cambridge Dictionary. The problem with teenagers, is that what they want to do for several weeks over summer - such as s...

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Aug. 16, 2023

51: Transitioning to secondary school: What we wish we'd known about preparing our tweens & teens, and ourselves.

The transition from junior to senior school can be thrilling; the chance to meet a much bigger group of kids, and gain more of the independence that's part of growing up. But change is always stressful, and when you combine a...

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Aug. 10, 2023

Memory helps us do far more than pass exams. So why not train it in the same way we work our muscles in the gym?

50: In this interview with Danielle Winton of Memory Strategy we talked about: * Why we should care about memory stategies. * Key things parents can do to support their teens. * How to link a number to music. * Everyone can p...

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