Health
Type 1 Diabetes in Teenagers: Managing Transition and Independence
Managing Type 1 diabetes through the teenage years is substantially harder than managing it through childhood, and most families know this before it h...
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Health
Teenage Substance Use: Alcohol, Cannabis and Vaping -- What Parents Should Know
Discovering that a teenager is using substances -- whether it's the smell of alcohol, finding a vape, or noticing that their eyes are red -- produces...
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Health
Social Anxiety in Teenagers: More Than Shyness
Most teenagers feel some degree of nervousness about social situations -- about fitting in, about being judged, about saying the wrong thing. Adolesce...
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Health
Self-Harm in Teenagers: Understanding It and How to Help
Discovering that a teenager is self-harming is one of the most frightening experiences a parent can face. The instinct is often to react with alarm, t...
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Period Pain in Teenagers: When Is It Normal and When Is It Not
Period pain is so common among teenage girls that it is often dismissed -- by parents, by friends, and sometimes by healthcare professionals -- as som...
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Emotions
Peer Pressure: How to Help Children Navigate It
Conversations about peer pressure tend to focus on resistance: teaching children to say no, to walk away, to choose better friends. This isn't wrong,...
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Health
OCD in Children and Teenagers: Recognising It and Finding Help
OCD tends to be misunderstood both as a condition and as a label. Children who are neat or who like routines are frequently described as "a bit OCD" -...
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Family Life
Gaming and Children: Health, Benefits, Risks and Boundaries
Gaming occupies an odd place in parenting conversations: it generates more heat than almost any other screen-related topic, but the evidence base is l...
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Health
Fainting in Children and Teenagers: Causes, Assessment and Management
Watching a child faint is frightening, especially the first time. They may have warning -- feeling light-headed, seeing spots, going pale -- or it may...
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Emotions
Eating Disorders in Young People: Early Signs and How to Help
Eating disorders develop quietly. The changes are often gradual enough that parents notice something feels wrong before they can name it -- a child wh...
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Health
Delayed Puberty: When Puberty Hasn't Started When Expected
There are few things more socially difficult for a teenager than being significantly behind their peers in physical development. At an age when peer c...
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Health
ADHD in Teenagers: Managing School, Relationships and Independence
The experience of ADHD in adolescence is quite different from ADHD in childhood. The hyperactivity that was visible in primary school often internalis...
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