Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 The audio hug for parents of teens and tweens.
Welcome to your weekly audio hug where no question is a bad question, and curiosity beats judgment every time.
I'm a former BBC Correspondent, and mum, on a mission to bring parents of tweens and teens stability, calm and humour. Most of all, I want to help us all get better at connecting with our teens so we can genuinely enjoy parenting them.
Each week, I take a topic, research it, and find you the best answers. Whether interviewing experts, chatting with my friend Susie, or getting the lowdown from my own teenagers.
Susie - friend, Mindfulness guru, and fellow parent in the trenches - brings her wisdom and personal stories to help us contemplate a different perspective.
No one has this parenting thing mastered—even parents or experts who seem like they do. Making mistakes isn’t failing, it’s learning. And good parenting? It’s a lifelong journey.
At the heart of it all, our kids just want to be loved for who they are, not just what they do so ditch perfection and choose connection.
💌 Do you have a question, a story, or just need to vent? Drop me a line at [email protected] (total privacy, no judgment, promise).
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🗣️ “The advice in this podcast is universally helpful—not just for parents of teenagers.”
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😂 “The chemistry between Rachel and Susie is fantastic. It’s like sitting down with smart, funny friends who actually get it.”
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 157
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
139: Secondary school, friendship groups, and those awkward talks about porn and sexting
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In this episode my teens, Phoebe and Amelia, joined me in the studio to help answer some questions emailed in by liste…
138: How to get your teenager out of their bedroom - even one who's into gaming.
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So many parents feel a deep loss when their teenager begins to separate from them; staying in their room and behaving …
137: Identity formation - the main job of a teenager?
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In psychology, the term "identity" is most commonly used to describe the distinctive qualities or traits that make an …
136: Are education and hard work less important now than parents?
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I grew up believing in a meritocracy; with hard work - and government funding of my university education - I eventuall…
135: Adolescence: Help for parents with the core themes. How to discuss and connect with our kids
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The mini-series, Adolescence, is a global hit, topping Netflix charts in 71 countries and amassing 24.3 million views …
134: Are we too cynical? Helping our kids see hope in a world of cynicism.
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Twenty years ago The Times asked young people in Britain a series of questions. The new Millenials gave answers which …
133: How to plan ahead for an empty nest that's full of possibility
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Empty nest syndrome is real, and can be very painful to navigate. I've already discussed it with Susie, including idea…
132: Work: What we parents can do to help our kids end up with a meaningful role in society.
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Another day another newspaper headline that says young people aren't working.
According to the Financial Times newspape…
131: Accepting our kids for who they are, not what our culture tells us they should be.
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Parenting is a hard enough, but doing it in a culture that is different from the one we grew up in creates an extra la…
130: Worries about skin care obsessions? The social media 'Sephora' kid craze from a teen perspective
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Most teens go through a phase of being hyper-focused on looking good; whether it's clothes, bodybuilding, skin-care or…
129: Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens and young adults
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Before I had kids I literally had no real idea of what I should expect. I think that's partly why I have spent the yea…
128: Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.
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Positively life changing is how I would sum up the time I spent working abroad during my gap year. I…
127: How to be a good parent to teenagers, using evidence. An interview with Matilda Gosling
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It's one thing to get advice on how to parent, it's another to have independent studies that give real evidence on how…
126: Momguilt: reducing the overwhelming mental load to decrease stress. An interview with Sam Kelly
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Stress can be a major problem for parents who're constantly juggling tasks and responsibilities. The mental load can f…
125: How to motivate our teens to love learning and why parents are the missing piece of the puzzle.
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We parents are deluding ourselves about how much our kids enjoy school, according to research for the book The Disenga…
124: Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and others fall apart, and how we parents can help
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There are siblings who love spending time with each other as often as possible, some tolerate it once or twice a year,…
123: New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more fun, most interesting books, and most downloaded.
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MAKING RESOLUTIONS: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/70-new-years-resolutions-love-them-or-loathe-them-the-question-…
122: Family gatherings without the fireworks, and staying connected with your young teen
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Connection is at the root of human happiness, but staying connected through the turbulent teens and keeping family tra…
121: Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.
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In a recent column in The Times, Caitlin Moran wrote about how five young men in her social circle have taken their li…
120: Support: It takes a village to raise a child... as long they do it my way.
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So many of us bemoan the loss of a village, but do we really know what we mean by that?
Being in a village or communi…