The Teen Age
How to nail your child’s modern perm…
Cue the ‘80s nostalgia; perms for boys are trending on TikTok… It happened slowly, then all at once… the perm ...
Young Adult Novels Every Teenager Should Read
Nine challenging ‘young adult’ books that every teenager should read in 2020. Young adult literature, or YA as it’s commonly ...
Feminism… Kardashian style?
Do consumerism and feminism mix? Our daughters are embracing a curious kind of bodily autonomy, and we parents need to ...
Putting the I in identity
Your teen’s identity might as well be represented by a great big question mark right now – they’re still working ...
How low is too low for a teenagers mood?
Dr Kirsten Wooff, Clinical Psychologist and Director at Resilience Clinical Psychology, explains when you need to worry about your teen’s ...
Do you know the difference between supporting and enabling?
What is “enabling”? “Enabling” used to be a positive word – it described giving someone the means to do something. ...
Team up your tween with a book
It can be a struggle to get Tweens off their screens and into a book. Diana Noonan has 10 tips ...
Social distancing?! 90 excellent pastimes (for teens)
With social distancing now being the norm, spending all our time cooped up inside isn’t healthy, particularly if you spend ...
Everything You Need To Know About YA Books
What are Young Adult Novels? The Young Adult (YA) genre is a relatively recent phenomenon. Most of us (parents of ...
Let them sleep!
Remember the Spirit of Christmas Past? No, not the one from Scrooge– the one in your own household? Roughly a ...
Teens’ first relationship and breakup
Their first relationship can happen at 11 or 17, it can last a week or three years – but no ...
How to beat the summer laziness, maybe
If the summer holidays seemed long to us parents when the kids were in primary school, they are a fortnight ...
