13+ Yrs: - from teen rebellion to leaving home

• Teenage behaviour
• Drink & drugs
• Sex & relationships
• Social life
• Ask our teenage expert
• Teens & independence
• Teenage health
• Teenage emotions

• Family changes
• Parenting skills
• Adolescent development
• Education
• University & college
• Teenagers & finance
• Teens & their siblings

Teenage behaviour

• Staying out late
• Mobile bills out of hand
• Rebellion and confrontation
• Messy teenagers
• Music's too loud!
• Computer-obsessed teen
• Teens and piercing
• Teenagers moving out

Drink and drugs

• Underage drinking: 6 Facts
• Drinking responsibly
• Teenagers and smoking
• Warning signs of drug use
• Talking to teens about drugs
• Smoking cannabis
• Marijuana and motivation
• Drugs and the law

Sex & relationships

• Mum - I'm pregnant!
• Should boyfriends/girlfriends sleep over?
• When teen romance goes wrong
• When the age-gap is too wide
• Is a 14-yr-old ready for sex?
• Chatroom 'friends'
• Secretive about sex
• Decoding your teen's text messages

Social life

• Mixing with a bad crowd
• Teenager with no friends
• Teen party animal
• Coping with peer pressure

Ask our teenage expert

• Absent dad has left...again
• My daughter's turned into a stranger
• Told my daughter to leave home
• Why is step-parenting teens such hell?
• Teenager embarassed by success
• My son thinks he's gay
• Teenage son won't work for exams
• I read my daughter's diary
• Self harming - a plea for help?
• He forged his school report
• Daughter wants to move in with boyfriend

Teens & independence

• Thinking for themselves
• Teens leaving home
• Learning to let your teenager go
• When they won't leave home

Teenage health & wellbeing

• How much sleep does your teenager need?
• Anorexia - signs and symptoms
• Bulimia - signs and symptoms
• Healthy attitudes to food and body image
• Help your overweight teen
• Teenagers and diets
• Carb-free diet and teenagers
• Period pain and PMT
• Glandular Fever
• Late onset of periods
• When only one breast is growing
• Teens and depression
• Teenage toothgrinding

Teenage emotions

• Getting a quiet teen to talk
• Adolescent anger
• Teenage mood swings
• Loss of confidence
• Unmotivated teenager
• No concept of personal space!
• Is your teen emotionally ready for college

Family changes

• Moving town or house
• Teenagers and divorce
• Taking 'sides' in a divorce
• Teenagers and your new partner
• Teenagers and step-siblings
• Teenagers and a new baby

Parenting skills

• What teenagers want from you
• Parenting teens: Starting from scratch
• Parenting teens: Setting the boundaries
• Listening to your teenagers
• Praising your teenager
• Labels: Don't give your teen a bad name
• Labels: Change the label; change the behaviour
• Avoiding argument flashpoints
• Arguing with teenagers
• Mending a damaged relationship
• Helping teens be responsible
• Are you over strict?
• Helping teens solve their own problems
• Teens leaving home

Adolescent development

• 13-15 yr olds: Friends and Romance
• 13-15 yr olds: Physical changes
• 15-17 yr olds: Becoming a woman
• 15-17 yr olds: Becoming a man
• 15-17 yr olds: Teen social life

Education

• When they won't do their homework
• Declining grades at secondary school
• Is boarding school the answer?
• Getting teens to meet coursework deadlines
• GCSE options - academia vs fun subjects
• Teenager won't do any schoolwork
• Forged school report problem
• Unmotivated after GCSEs
• Should my kid have more homework?

University & college

• Is gap year a good idea?
• Worried about grades for uni
• Poor A-level results - what to do next?
• Choosing the right uni and course
• Is your child emotionally ready for college?
• Practical preparation for college
• Student banking tips

Teenagers & finance

• Finding your teenager a job
• Teaching teens to manage money
• Lowering car insurance costs for your teenage driver
• Student banking choices
• Should you buy your teen's student housing as an investment?

Teens & their siblings

• Why teens squabble
• Beat the bickering
• Teenage sibling rivalry
• When one sibling is a high achiever
• Why comparing siblings doesn't work
• Treating siblings fairly but differently
• Guilty of favouritism?