Teenagers
Talking to teenagers about money before they need it
Financial habits form earlier than most parents expect, and the useful conversations are specific rather than moral.
Teenagers
Independence, boundaries and conversations that go better than you expect.
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Teenagers
Teenagers pull away on schedule, and it is not about you
Increased privacy, peer orientation and irritability at home are developmental features. The relationship survives them if the door stays open.
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Social media and teenagers: what the evidence actually supports
The public argument runs a long way ahead of the research. What is reasonably established points at specific uses and at sleep, not…
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A curfew works better as a lift home than as a rule
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Revision that works, and the kind that only feels like work
Rereading and highlighting feel productive precisely because they feel easy. That fluency is what makes them fail.
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The alcohol and drugs conversation goes better before the party
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Phones out of the bedroom is the rule worth spending capital on
Of all the device arguments available, this one has the clearest mechanism and the largest return. Most households spend their…
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Low mood in teenagers: what to notice and who to tell
Ordinary adolescent moodiness and something more serious overlap enough to be genuinely hard to separate at home. General…
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Subject choices matter less than everyone says, except in a few specific ways
Most doors stay open far longer than the assembly implied. The ones that genuinely close early are a short and identifiable list.
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Consent, taught in ordinary unembarrassing instalments
The single big talk is the least effective format available. The version that works is a decade of small, awkward, low-stakes…
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Arguing with a teenager without losing the relationship
Conflict at home rises in adolescence for structural reasons and is not evidence of a broken relationship. What it does to the…
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Gaming is not automatically a problem, and here is what makes it one
Hours played is a poor measure of anything. What got displaced, how the game takes money, and who they are playing with tell you…