Tips for Parenting a Difficult Teen

Parenting a difficult teen can be an extremely challenging job.

If your teen is driving you mad here are some  tips that I recently write for TV Appearance – you are getting a sneak preview.

Don’t play them at their own game

More often than not, what your teenager wants is attention. They enjoy the battle and the power struggle that goes on. If you take away all the resistance and stay calm they have nothing to react to and eventually will get bored. Don’t lower yourself to their level – remember you’re the adult.

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Motivating the unmotivated – what to do with unmotivated teenagers

How do you get through to a disillusioned teenager who appears to have given up on life?

This was the question I asked Brother Marcus on one of my Radio Shows. While this show was a little escape from the norm, being quite evangelistic in his approach, Brother Marcus shared some very useful insights.

1. Find some common ground – it is no good approaching this child from your own point of view, you need to approach them from a place that they can communicate from, something that they understand, be it music, popular culture, TV, whatever it is, find some common ground.

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Could your Teenagers bad mood be down to food?

Food and Behaviour

I have recently been working with a teenager who has been having very bad mood swings which we have linked down to food. This got me thinking how many other parents could be trying to change their teenager behaviour when all they made need to change is their diet?

So here are some thoughts for you from my foodie expert Karen Schachter.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was on to something: food – and our relationship to it – is our sustenance, our lifeblood. It has the potential to be a source of nourishment and wellbeing or, as is the case for many people, a source of angst and unhappiness.

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