The high school years are commonly a tumultuous and challenging time for teenagers. At this point in their lives, most teens are facing intense pressure from various sources—whether it’s to maintain good grades, keep up an active social life, excel at their co-curricular activities or a combination of these. Many are also contemplating big questions…
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The Importance of Keeping in Touch With Your Teen
Read moreHow often do you call your teen? Text them? Send a message on Facebook or Instagram to let them know how much you love and care for them? If the answer is not as often as it should be, this blog post will help. Here are why it’s crucial to stay in touch with your…
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Five Key Secrets To Motivating Your Teenager
Read moreTeenagers. They’re notoriously known for being difficult, slovenly and spend most of their time asleep. Motivating a teenager is much like trying to motivate a sloth to wake up: it feels impossible most of the time. The thing is, you are very much underestimating your teenager if you think that you won’t be able to…
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Reasons To Get Your Teenager Driving
Read moreParents want the best for their teenagers, but sometimes the best thing feels epically scary! Getting your teenager to shower and get up out of bed in the morning is hard enough, and yet here you are considering getting them behind the wheel of the car to teach them how to drive. It’s terrifying as…
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Substance Abuse And Your Teen. 3 Signs Parents Shouldn’t Ignore
Read moreFor parents, the idea of their teen engaging in substance abuse is their worst nightmare. It not only has a direct impact on their lives in the here and now, but substance abuse has the potential to ruin their lives before they’ve even really begun. The longer an addiction goes undetected, the harder it will…
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The Best Things About Having Teenaged Kids
Read more“Sure, they’re cute now. But just you wait until they’re teenagers!”. How many times have Dads (and Mums for that matter) heard words to that effect? How many prognostications have doom and gloom have we heard about the moody and belligerent monsters our kids are going to be? How often are we told to enjoy…
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AD|Guide For Buying Your Teenager A MotorCycle
Read moreThe idea of riding a motorcycle, having a vintage bike to do up, and the freedom to hit the open road can be very exciting for teenagers. Lots of teens start asking their parents for a motorbike, which can be nerve-wracking, to say the least. Even if you’re a fan of motorbikes yourself, it’s natural…
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Is Social Media Contributing To Teenagers Detaching Themselves From Real Life?
Read moreIn my new series of posts I will be looking at how the world we live in now will impact upon our children. One of the fastest moving parts of our everyday lives is technology, in particular social media. We now have a generation of teenagers that do not know life without the internet or…
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Is Putting A Tracker On Your Child’s Phone An Invasion Of Their Privacy?
Read moreThe mobile phone or smart phone is now well and truly a part of modern society. There is no doubt that the benefits of a smart phone completely outweigh the disadvantages. However, a couple of difficult questions I have been asking myself recently are: what age should children have a smart phone? Should we be…
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Dads! Do You Talk To Your Daughters About Periods #Pads4Dads Campaign
Read moreDid you know that nearly half of all dads in the UK have not talked to their daughters about periods? In addition, only 1 in 3 dads have purchased period products, 4 in 10 dads never learnt about periods at school, and 45% of dads are unsure what the signs are that a girl might…
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My Mental Health: The Stigma Of Mental Health Needs Eradicating For Our Young Peopled
Read moreFirst of all I would like thank Susie over at So Happy In Town. She has inspired this post with her amazing campaign. #itsoktofeelshit. The stigma surrounding mental health has certainly been broken down a lot since I was first diagnosed with depression in my teenage years. Back in those days I was quite simply…
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Did Instagram Contribute To A 14 Year Old Taking Her Own Life?
Read moreLast week there was numerous newspaper articles and television stories about a father who is convinced that Instagram contributed to his 14 year old daughter taking her own life. This is because of the content that is readily available on Instagram concerning self harm and suicide. She was apparently viewing this very easily on the…
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Instagram Event At Facebook HQ London Protecting Our Teens In Association With Mumsnet
Read moreOn Monday I travelled up to London for an Instagram event at Facebook HQ. To a lot of people that might not be a big deal, but for me it was a very big deal! I have been blogging for a long time now and I have lost count of the amount of times I…
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When Do You Start Conversations About Sex Education With Your Children?
Read moreCome on then! Who has had these conversations, or do you shy away from conservations about sex? It’s that subject that parents still get embarrassed talking about with their children, but at what age do you start educating your children about sex? Let’s be brutally honest, schools and the education system are letting our children…
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Those Teenage Years
Read moreTwo of my children are no longer teenagers and do I miss those days of indecision, hormones and being told, “Dad! You don’t understand!” As if I was never a teenager, which if I’m honest initially would annoy the hell out of me, but I got to the point where it simply went over my…
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Advising Your Children In Their Teens: Don’t Do It
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I am a father of five children, two of them have left their teenage years oh yes! Thank god for that, one is still a teenager, please oh ! Please let the next two years go quickly, haha! And of course I have five year old twin…
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Piercing And Our Teenagers: Wales Leads The Way
Read moreIn the last few days Wales has made it illegal for anybody under the age of 18 to have intimate piercings. This is really groundbreaking, and being welsh and living in its capitol city it makes me very proud to be welsh. Image The Guardian Growing up through the 80’s, pierced ears for men was…
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As Parents Do We Have The Right To Look at Our Teenagers Smart Phones
Read moreTeenagers and their smart phones. We have all seen it. You know they’re walking down the pavement with their eyes glued to their phone. I’m amazed they don’t walk into a lamp post or stray out into the road, but this is what the life of a teenager is like in 2017. Regular readers of…
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Beware Of Teenage Daughters! Let Them Pick Their Boyfriends
Read moreI have four daughters, two of which have gone through their teenage years and during those teenage years, easily the biggest minefield is when they discover boys and decide its time for a boyfriend. This was the time when I nearly chewed right through my tongue to stop myself from saying what I was really…
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Predicting My Twins Tastes When They Are Teenagers
Read moreAbout a year ago I wrote a post about my five year old twin girls and how their personalities and characters are so completely different. They are without a doubt my little superhero and princess. It’s fascinating that they are only two minutes apart in being born, but can be so totally different. The one…
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The Teenage Years
Read moreI have lived a few years and looking back at life, I have often wondered what were the toughest years to live and for me it’s a no brainer. The teenage years were easily the hardest as they are for a massive percentage of young people. We all have changes in our lives, but more…
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