Relationships

Are you living with an Entitled teenager? Worried you have raised an entitled young adult? You aren’t alone, and there is hope (and help.) Entitlement, in teenage terms, is when your kid thinks [...]

As a parent building trust with your teenagers is important, but not always easy. Here is a simple guide to creating a high trust relationship with your teenager.

How should you respond if your teenager’s behvaiour means you are unable to trust them anymore? This is a problem faced by most parents of teenagers at some point during their child’s [...]

How many of us would walk into a shop to purchase something without making sure we had a means to pay for it? When you go to buy something you make sure you have the means of providing payment, [...]

There is a good reason that the stereotypical view of modern teenagers is they are lazy kids who just want to sleep in, play computer games, surf the net and hangout with their friends. The [...]

This weekend was Father’s Day here in Australia. While the focus of Father’s Day is to honour and say thanks to dads for all they do, it got me thinking about exactly what it is we, [...]

Lots of parents with teenagers find themselves in a bind. On the one hand they want, or need their teenager to contribute around the house and learn responsibility. On the other hand, they don’t [...]

Does your teenager lie to you? Research conducted by Dr Nancy Darling of Penn State University found that over 96% of teenagers tell lies.  Of 36 potential topics presented in the study, the [...]

Recently I have been doing a fair bit of reading about teenage self-esteem and resilience for a book I am writing.  Working through the material I have been struck by how many modern [...]

Teenage friendships are never boring.  There is rarely dull moment. It seems drama, or melodrama, is never far away. Amongst all the ups and downs have you noticed that your teenager seems [...]