Lucy and Kel bring you the complete, unmissable conversations from their week with parenting expert and author Michelle Mitchell. If you’re raising an 8–12-year-old and feeling a little overwhelmed, this is the episode you didn’t know you needed. Michelle covers everything from puberty, hormones, and body positivity to online safety and empowering our kids with confidence, […]
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How do you start a difficult conversation with a teacher? Here are four thoughtful openers you can use to set a positive tone and gently invite connection and collaboration. They also give you a moment to build trust before moving into the part of the conversation that might feel a little more challenging. Interestingly, a […]
After offering a Year 6 cohort of 70 students the opportunity to come and speak to me if they were experiencing anything unsafe online, approximately 25 kids lined up. Each child was prepared to skip a portion of their lunch break to speak privately with me. Out of 25 students, 8 had recently experienced significant […]
An Australian first study, headlines that 46.5% of 11 – 13 year olds are living with a chronic disease or developmental condition. The report surveyed 5000 adolescence and looked at asthma, fatigue viruses all the way through to mental health, and how lifestyle factors are impacting our kids. The suggested downfall of the report is […]
Tweens and teens feel big emotions – and those turning to self-harm to cope is more common than you think. Professor Jo Robinson, from Orygen, and teen expert Michelle Mitchell join Maggie Dent, host of Parental As Anything, to help parents understand why young people self-harm, how to have those initial conversations and how to […]
Yesterday, I spent time with a group of three mums whose tweens are in their first term of Year 6 – their final year of primary school. Many of their kid’s friends had received their own phones over the Christmas break, which had presented a whole new range of challenges that weren’t previously on the […]
Earlier this year Shannon noticed that the mental health of her 14-year-old son was deteriorating. He was no longer interested in catching up with his mates, hated schoolwork and seemed unusually disinterested in life. One afternoon he “snapped”, and through a flood of tears told his mother he wasn’t sure if life was worth living. […]
If your tween is experiencing powerful tears or shattering disappointments after tricky friendship days, know that you are not alone.