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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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49:21

The One Thing Your Teen Really Needs From You:...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2026/01/07

Ask Rachel anything Updated to correct the music issues at the beginning: This episode will change how you see “bad behaviour” and might just change how you see yourself, too. In this powerful conversation, with Dr Jody Carrington unpack what every parent and teacher needs to know about emotional regulation – and why you’re probably doing better than you think. In this episode, we cover: What emotional regulation really isThe “flipped lid” model and the role of the prefrontal cortexWhy ...

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43:15

The secrets to real change, and breaking negative...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/12/31

Ask Rachel anything I thought we'd kick off the new year with an episode on how building our own community of people we admire can dramatically change our future and break from a difficult past. In this episode, I talk with Mitchell Osmond, who transformed his life from financial instability, marital strife, and addiction to a thriving marriage, debt repayment, and personal health. Mitchell attributes his turnaround to two pivotal moments: a marital fight and a funeral that made him questi...

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51:02

Teens and Anxiety: The Role We Parents Can Play. ...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/12/24

Ask Rachel anything teenagersuntangled.substack.com Support the show Please hit the follow button if you like the podcast, and share it with anyone who might benefit. You can review us on Apple podcasts by going to the show page, scrolling down to the bottom where you can click on a star then you can leave your message. Please don't hesitate to seek the advice of a specialist if you're not coping. When you look after yourself your entire family benefits. My email is teenagersuntangled@gma...

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35:57

Emotional issues. How to avoid overreacting. Vintage

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2025/12/17

Ask Rachel anything None of us likes blowing a fuse when our teen does something that triggers us, but we all do it at some point. Nicky asked us to discuss this topic after she felt she'd overreacted to bad feedback from her son's teachers. We know it fixes nothing and leaves us feeling worse than before, but can we keep smoothing it over with an apology? Click the link at the bottom to access all the tips from the episode and also a parent’s worksheet to help you unpack your fe...

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33:03

The Fatherhood Gap: How Society Is Failing Dads (and...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/12/10

Ask Rachel anything What's the point of fathers? Michael Ray, father and gender equality campaigner says the way they're portrayed in the media and advertising sends the impression that they are either bumbling idiots or not an important part of raising kids. It was only when Michael was left raising his daughter alone that he became conscious of how little support there is for men taking on less traditional roles in the home. He highlights the lack of representation of fathers in media and a...

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39:54

Top Friendship Tips for Teen Girls: Lessons from...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/12/03

Ask Rachel anything It's our connections, whether friends or partners, that make us want to get up and face our challenges every day. So when kids start a new school, college or university it's a time when friendships become the most important thing. With Phoebe about to leave for university, and Amelia recently started at a new college we thought it would be a great time to reflect on the evolving nature of friendships. In the conversation, the girls emphasize the importance of h...

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8:57

Motivational feedback, a happiness hack, and letting...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/12/02

Ask Rachel anything The happiess hack article by Dana Millbank: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/24/happiness-purpose-community-contribution/ Checkout my Substack: teenagersuntangled.substack.com Support the show Please hit the follow button if you like the podcast, and share it with anyone who might benefit. You can review us on Apple podcasts by going to the show page, scrolling down to the bottom where you can click on a star then you can leave your message. P...

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45:11

ADHD: Executive Function and What Parents Really Need...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/26

Ask Rachel anything Explore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻 https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventures Struggling with homework battles, school stress, or understanding ADHD in your teen? In this episode I was joined by executive skills coach Sean Geraghty—author of “I’ll Do It Later”—to unpack the real challenges (and hidden strengths) of...

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15:44

Being in control, and gendered marketing - Community...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/25

Ask Rachel anything Explore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻 https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventures My substack, where you can access a readable version of this episode: teenagersuntangled.substack.com Explore Worldwide Family Holidays Click here for adventures your children will never forget. Support the show Please hit the follow button if

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41:36

How to Model Healthy Free Speech

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/19

Ask Rachel anythingExplore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventuresIn this episode clinical psychologist, Dr. Chloe Carmichael discusses the increasing anxiety among people about expressing their opinions due to fear of being "cancelled" or socially isolated. What she is seeing is that this fear extends

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15:01

Anxiety, finding your tribe, perfectionism &...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/17

Ask Rachel anything Explore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻 https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventures Anxiety episode: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/anxiety-in-teenagers-also-rules-and-how-to-set-ones-your-teens-will-follow/ How to help complex kids: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/108-how-to-support-struggling-complex-kids/ Sleep

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58:28

Talk to your boys: Masculinity, gaming, sexuality and...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/12

Ask Rachel anything Explore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻 https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventures There's so much talk about masculinity and how boys should be, but not an awful lot of advice for parents on raising confident, caring young men in today’s world. If you’ve ever wondered how to really connect with your son, or how to navi...

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12:24

Creating an open nest, new starts, family traditions,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/09

Ask Rachel anything Explore Worldwide Holidays - Click here for an adventure your child will never forget: 👇🏻 https://www.explore.co.uk/experiences/family-holidays?utm_source=teenagers-untangled&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=family-adventures A little community catch-up with my nuggets of ideas for this week and a listener question about connecting and staying close to his son who is pulling away. Links to recommended episodes: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/vintage-how-to...

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38:03

Is A.I. hijacking your child's growth? The parenting...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/11/05

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? "Learning is struggle, and kids need to get comfortable struggling with learning." That's according to Jenny Anderson, who spends much of her time writing about what is happening at the frontline of parenting, education and AI. She explains that the big problem for educators and parents who want the best for their kids is that Silicon Valley is trying to take away as much of the struggle as possible. "The ...

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48:13

Mental health problems in teenagers. We can't just...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/29

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? Why is it that so many teenagers today seem to be struggling with mental health? In this conversation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel reveals the surprising science behind adolescent development, explaining why teens aren't 'difficult' they're doing an important job and how there's a fundamental mismatch between biological adolescent development and the world in which we now life. One of th...

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54:27

Drugs: How and why it's vital to talk about them now,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/22

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover?To lose a child is one of the worst things any of us an imagine. To lose him at 16 to a recreational drug is an unbearable pain. That's what happened to Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE, but she has turned her pain into an incredible quest to turn her 'I wish I'd known', suffering into a book, a drugs education foundation, and support for all of us parents so we never have to go through the pain she has

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39:41

Grief, university, rules and consequences, raising...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/19

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? For this Sunday catch up I was joined by Susie Asli to discuss the challenges of parenting during times of personal loss, such as the death of a pet or a parent. We share our experiences of our children’s different reactions to grief and the importance of allowing them to grieve in their own ways. We also talk about the transition to university, the generational differences in parenting, and the impo...

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45:01

How to fix your teen's sleep with Jessica Bryant. 163

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/15

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? Sleep's a FREE performance-enhancer, so why are so many teens not getting enough? For us parents, sleep is the thing we all obsess about when we first bring our babies home, but if you're anything like me by the time they hit teens we've become pretty lax around that solid bedtime routine. In fact, research shows that around 2/3rds of teenagers aren't getting adequate sleep. Why does this happen? In my case, I...

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54:37

Preventing our kids from developing eating disorders,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/08

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? Whatever food fears we've inherited, or learned, will be passed on to our kids unless we understand and challenge our beliefs, according to food psychologist, Dr Anna Colton. As she rightly points out, fear-mongering about killer bars or toxic foods is way more dangerous, long-term, than the food itself. In this episode we talk openly about my own struggles with my family's attitude to food, and Dr Colton...

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58:03

Stop pushing your kids: The science of success,...

Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly Hug ·

2025/10/01

What do you think of this episode? Do you have any topics you'd like me to cover? Is your kid stressed or lacking motivation? What if the antidote was pushing them less and giving them more of a sense of control over their lives? It doesn't mean giving up your authority as a parent. As elite teen coach, Ned Johnson, explains the science tells us we can help our child sculpt a brain that is resilient, and ready to take on new challenges if we stop taking over. In his practice he uses sci...

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