If you recognise the song from my title then you may well be as old as I am, which means we've had a lot of time to evolve over the years. Still, making changes that stick is so difficult that it's a wonder many of us begin afresh every new year wit…
This blog is long, but it's my attempt to give you the best I can offer in understanding how to approach this as a parent. I've broken it into sections and highlighted some messages in bold so they're easier to scan. I'm going to start by summarisi…
When I started the podcast I had absolutely no idea where it would go. I just felt it was important; both for my personal growth, and to share with others who found parenting this year group particularly tricky. It's our two year annive…
It’s rare that I’m asked to research a topic then discover I’m not comfortable producing a thirty minute podcast on my findings. The gender movement is one such topic; it’s too political and I risk too much by wading in on th…
Our story started in a conversation with a wonderful friend @alexpodell whom I’d met through my daughter’s school.She insisted I should make a podcast about parenting teenagers because I was a parenting coach, and had a background i…
Going through a break-up is incredibly stressful, but it can feel so much harder when you have to convey the situation to your children. I'm not going to opine on the subject, because I haven't personally been through a divorce. I have, howev…
This week I had the rare pleasure of sitting with an old friend in the lunchtime sun, talking about everything and anything. It’s so unusual for us to have this luxury that I didn’t even know about the accident her son had suffered. He&…
I started school over and over again as a child, because we moved countries repeatedly. I went to four different schools after I arrived in England - between the age of ten and thirteen - and then two different colleges before going to University. …
My daughter's friend is coming to stay. My daughter has just said 'I can see her on Snapmaps. She's at the airport. I don't know why she's riding an armadillo though.😂'Snapchat is a tricky app, because it's so much a part of being a teenager now, it…
Top tips from our listeners: Give them their own cupboard/fridge shelf with foods they are allowed to eat. bermudatriangle loves the idea of sending them food shopping with their own money to start understanding the prices. fp-massage sugge…
