Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 The audio hug for parents of teens and tweens.

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We’re living through an age where it can feel like our teenagers’ entire lives are happening behind a screen we can’t see. 

Meanwhile mental health problems in teens are a rising problem that is being blamed on their devices. 

The ins...

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Are smartphones and social media really damaging our teenagers’ mental health – or are we looking in the wrong place? In this episode, Rachel Richards talks with Professor Candice Odgers, a leading expert on adolescent mental hea...

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As a teenager, I grew up in a home with almost no routines. No one talked about what needed to happen when, and I remember constantly thinking, “What am I supposed to do now?” Life felt like reinventing the wheel every day. I didn’t feel...

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If your teenage daughter says, “I have anxiety,” “my ADHD was out of control today,” or calls a friend “toxic,” it can feel both strangely sophisticated and oddly shallow at the same time. She has language. She has labels. But somehow, you’re sti...

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