Fighting with our teens is so exhausting, and yet so important. However, in a world where it is possible to fight about everything from smoking to cereal, it becomes essential to pick your battles. It is a matter of mental […]
There is only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent – and that’s being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred […]
Arguing is not only healthy it is essential for your teen, but the endless exercise of persuading and bickering can drive a parent distracted! The Broken Record Technique will help to moderate the endless hours of argument and help you […]
Our children are (supposedly) capable of adult behaviour as young as age 12 ( I was told this by a Child Psychiatrist), and I know this can be hard to believe! However, here IS a caveat; adolescents are capable of […]