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  • What to do if your teen is social media obsessed

    It is rare that I meet a girl who doesn’t have a phone in her hand. She usually has at least one eye on her online status while she is talking to me. Some may find this rude, but I personally don’t. I understand why. If teenagers aren’t online they don’t exist, so they stay […]

  • How you can deal with your social media obsessed teen

    It is rare that I meet a girl who doesn’t have a phone in her hand. She usually has at least one eye on her online status while she is talking to me. Some may find this rude, but I personally don’t. I understand why. If teenagers aren’t online they don’t exist, so they stay […]

  • How to Deal with an Entitled Teen

    Given 963 million people go to bed hungry every night and 150 million children between the ages of under 14 years old are engaged in child labour worldwide we can safely say that our teens lives aren’t that bad. “Try convincing my daughter of that!” one mum recently said to me. “She hasn’t stopped making […]

  • How to Deal with a Social Media Obsessed Teen

    It is rare that I meet a girl who doesn’t have a phone in her hand. She usually has at least one eye on her online status while she is talking to me. Some may find this rude, but I personally don’t. I understand why. If teenagers aren’t online they don’t exist, so they stay […]

  • How to say no to SEX… teenage style

    I’d like to introduce you to a young lady who has been a client of mine for some time.  She is strong, smart, creative and a bit cheeky.  You’ll know exactly what I mean when you read the below Facebook message, which she sent to her boyfriend who was pressuring her to have sex.  The […]

  • How to Support a Young Person Who is Self-Harming

    I saw cuts on her leg and she told me she had fallen over on sharp grass during PE. I actually believed her at the time.  I didn’t think about it anymore until I saw cuts on her arm. That is when it clicked. That was at least 2 years ago now. Given current national […]

  • What to do if Your Daughter is Sexting

    49% of young people have sent a sexually suggestive image and 67% of young people have received a sexually suggestive image. I want you to take away two things from these statistics – Sexting is a serious issue but a very common one. If your daughter has sent a nude image remember she is not […]

  • The key questions to ask your teenagers

    When my kids were small, they lived life blissfully unaware of any potential danger around them. They would run onto the road to chase a ball or climb a fence they had no way of getting down from.  I worked really hard to keep them safe, and besides a few broken bones (which happened when […]

  • When your child experiences anxiety

    A wonderful mother phoned me today. She was very concerned about her daughter who seldom went out with friends and was becoming increasingly worried about going to school. As we talked a little more I realised that the core issue was not her social skills but anxiety. Her daughter was able to interact well at […]