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Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug

Rachel Richards

Hello, I"m Rachel Richards, former BBC Correspondent, CNBC Europe World News Anchor and mum, on a mission to make parenting teens much less stressful, and even enjoyable.Why not try listening to my award-winning ‘hug’ where you can put down the baggage your parents handed you and relax.It’s your chance to reflect on what"s in your baggage; what"s still working, and what needs to be tossed aside. You"ll also pick up skills and ideas to help you navigate each new stage of your parenting journey.Each

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36:49

129: Work: What we parents can do to help our kids...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/03/05

Send us a textAnother day another newspaper headline that says young people aren't working.According to the Financial Times newspaper, 13.4 per cent of people in the United Kingdon in the 16 to 24 age group were not in employment education or training - “NEET” - at the end of last year.The ONS figures showed a higher rate of young men outside work or training, with 14.4 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds classed as NEET compared with 12.3 per cent of young women. and mental health issues seem to

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43:02

128: Culture clash: When the ‘black sheep’ of the...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/02/26

Send us a textParenting is a hard enough, but doing it in a culture that is different from the one we grew up in creates an extra layer of challenges to navigate. When it's our kids who have the greatest connection to that new culture it can be their demands that make us grow the most in our role.It might seem strange, because I'm a white woman who always spoke English and had English parents, but arriving in the UK from the African continent aged 10 was a total shock to my system. There

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38:49

127: Worries about skin care obsessions? The social...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/02/19

Send us a text Most teens go through a phase of being hyper-focused on looking good; whether it's clothes, bodybuilding, skin-care or makeup. What can seem like an obsession could be a normal part of the process, so when should we start to worry and how should we step up? When Clare wrote in worried about her daughter's skin-care regime she was hoping to get a teen perspective. Here's what she said. I would like you to advise on though and maybe your daughters can help? My 13 year...

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40:28

126: Parenting stages: Coaching and mentoring teens...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/02/12

Send us a text 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 years as a mother panicking and reading everything; having learnt that I was wrong about how complicated the job is. Susie and I are in a similar stage with our kids but feel differently about it, so I thought it would be lovely to bring her in to have an open, honest conversation about how the stages unfold and what it really feels like for us. What do...

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27:31

125: Supercharge your teen's life skills with a...

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2025/02/05

Send us a textSponsored by JENZAPositively life changing is how I would sum up the time I spent working abroad during my gap year. I met people with a completely different world view, different language, and learnt to navigate many challenges alone. It gave me a positive, can-do attitude to life.Now my teens are 16 and 18, I want to make sure they have the confidence to meet whatever life throws at them head-on. Given my own experience, I'm convinced that a working holiday is an ideal way of

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52:10

124: How to be a good parent to teenagers, using...

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2025/01/29

Send us a textIt's one thing to get advice on how to parent, it's another to have independent studies that give real evidence on how well one approach works rather than another. Faced with raising two young kids in a COVID lockdown, social scientist and skilled researcher Matilda Gosling looked for a book that gave her advice that was based on sound evidence. She discovered that such a book didn't exist, so set out to write it.Described by investigative journalist Hannah Barnes as

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17:04

Community catch up: Relaxing, skin care obsessions,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/01/24

Send us a textThis is Community Catch-Up: Your bonus episodeBOOKS MENTIONED:Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves10-25: The Science of Motivating Younge People - David Yeagerhttps://www.teenagersuntangled.com/motivation-how-to-motivate-your-teenager-and-why-blame-and-shame-doesnt-work/The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety and more - Elaine Taylor-Klaushttps://www.teenagersuntangled.com/108-how-to-support-struggling-complex-kids/Ken Rabow on Failure to Launch:https://www.t...

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34:18

123: Avoid parenting burnout and troublesome chore...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/01/22

Send us a textStress can be a major problem for parents who're constantly juggling tasks and responsibilities. The mental load can feel overwhelming at times and the list literally never ending. So when I discovered Sam Kelly has a brilliant way to: ✅Avoid burnout.✅Have a happier home life.✅Help our kids to be successful in life.✅Avoid nagging.✅Break the old stereotypes cycle.I had to get her on the show. A mother and feminist coach, Sam is teaching parents how to share the mental load with the

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60:12

122: How to get our teens to love learning and why...

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2025/01/15

Send us a textWe parents are deluding ourselves about how much our kids enjoy school, according to research for the book The Disengaged Teen. In survey responses 65% of parents thought their 10th grade kid loved school, whilst only 26% of 10th graders actually said they did. A lot of educators admit that things go wrong in the teen years, and many fine minds are trying to work on ways to tackle the problem. In the meantime huge numbers of teens spend most of their time disengaged. Some take a

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121 Enduring sibling relationships: Why some last and...

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2025/01/08

Send us a textThere are siblings who love spending time with each other as often as possible, some tolerate it once or twice a year, and there are others who would rather eat glass than have to speak to each other.Why? What happens to their relationship? Is there something we parents can be doing to set our kids to be the ones who love and support each other as we age and after we die.When one listener asked for a deep dive on siblings who don’t talk to each other later in life it came at the...

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20:42

120: New Year 2025: resolutions, stress, being more...

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2025/01/01

Send us a textMAKING RESOLUTIONS: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/70-new-years-resolutions-love-them-or-loathe-them-the-question-is-how-can-we-make-them-work-for-u/ https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/blog/Be-the-person-you-want-to-be-not-the-person-others-think-you-should-be/PARENTING STRESS: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/109-parenting-stress-is-now-a-major-health-issueTOO MANY CHOICES: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/concentration-and-the-troubling-effect-of-too-many-choices/NAGGI...

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30:24

119: Family gatherings without the fireworks, and...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/12/23

Send us a textConnection is at the root of human happiness, but staying connected through the turbulent teens and keeping family traditions and gatherings positive can be a challenge. In this episode we help Helen with her question about how to stay connected with her daughter who's on the brink of becoming a teenager. We also talk about hosting gatherings, drawing on advice from the expert, Priya Parker. How to put nutrients back into our family earth; avoid straying into topics that cause p...

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44:58

118: Suicide: How to talk about it with teens, and...

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2024/12/18

Send us a textIn a recent column in The Times, Caitlin Moran wrote about how five young men in her social circle have taken their lives in the past 18 months. She's not alone. My daughter has experienced this, as has Benedicte's son, the listener who contacted me to suggest I cover it in an episode. In the UK, the leading cause of death for men under the age of 50 is suicide, and the statistics in the US are even worse. Boys are particularly vulnerable, and we know that there's the risk of so...

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32:56

117: Community: It takes a village to raise a...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/12/11

Send us a textSo many of us bemoan the loss of a village, but do we really know what we mean by that? Being in a village or community requires us to give as well as take; often not on our own terms. It also means that we have to brush shoulders with people who might have radically different viewpoints from us on things like politics or religion. Many of us have got used to our busy, overscheduled lives, and don't have time to offer what's needed to create community, whilst complain...

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32:10

116: Girls: Talking with teens about beauty...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/12/04

Send us a textEncouraging our kids to make the most of themselves is a vital job for parents, but how do we talk with girls about the barriers they face? From the subtle expectation that girls and women be humble to the not so subtle focus on their worth based on body parts and beauty, we parents are left with a tricky path to tread. We want to encourage our girls to be bold, and try to achieve their dreams, but how do we do that without being honest about the pitfalls of being ambitious, and...

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Community catch up: University applications,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/11/29

Send us a textEPISODES: How not to overreact: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/over-reactions-how-to-not-overreact/WHAT TO WATCH:University admissions scandal - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81130691The Durrells - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80989475BOOK: How to Get Your Teenager Out of Their Bedroom by Anita CleareGRATITUDE:Mark Hyman MD says Gratitude is the ultimate biohack. It reduces stress, improves sleep, strengthens your immune system, and even aids digestion. The ...

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115: The dangers of cancel culture, and how we can...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/11/27

Send us a textThe suicide of a young man at Oxford University has prompted a warning letter to the UK Government about 'cancel culture' on campus. The review into his death 'identified evidence of a concerning practice of social ostracism among students, often referred to as a cancel culture,' according the coroner.'[The review's] evidence was that this behaviour, where individuals are isolated and excluded from social groups based on allegations or perceptions of wrongdoing, poses a signific...

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Community catch up: Allowances, chores, robot...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/11/22

Send us a textALLOWANCES:https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/money-giving-teens-and-tweens-an-allowance-two-years-on-my-daughter-talks-about-how-its-impacted/PERFECTIONISM:https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/perfectionism-help-your-teen-and-yourself-overcome-the-need-to-be-perfect/GRADES:https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/102-why-our-obsession-with-grades-fails-everyone-an-interview-with-exam-nation-author-sammy-wright/MASCULINITY AND FEAR OF SHAME:https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/114-friends...

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47:57

114: Friendships, frenemies and boy banter. Parenting...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/11/20

Send us a textFriendships, and fitting, in are everything to teenagers. You could argue that understanding the dynamics, and supporting our kids through the turmoil of the teen years, is one of the best things we parents can do. Former Headteacher of 18 years, Andrew Hampton FRSA, is no stranger to the issue. He's not only raised two girls he's also had to deal with the fall-out in school when friendships go wrong. Having set up the organisation, Girls On Board, which aims to educa...

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113: The damage of an emotionally immature parent

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2024/11/13

Send us a textIf we genuinely think about how many of us are emotionally mature before we become parents the number is probably pretty low. The act of caring for someone else, and having to manage our own feelings, can be incredibly challenging, particularly when we were raised by parents who were immature themselves.Being able to spot the difference between being emotionally immature, and the normal pressures of parenting, can be really helpful. We all have outbursts at times; we're human. T...

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