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The truth about device use The media is rife with scary sounding articles about the impact of device use. Our teens will put unbelievable levels of pressure on us to...

What is anxiety? Anxiety is a generalised feeling of worry or fear and can be mild or severe. It is completely normal to feel anxiety from time to time. There...

Teenage communication challenges Hyper-rationality - Teen brains change to give them an increased reward drive. This helps encourage them to take risks, explore their adult capabilities and try new things. You...

What is a teen? Teen years are a period where we notice significant changes in behaviour. This is due to changes occuring in the brain to prepare them for adulthood....

Parents of teens are coming under increasing pressure from a mounting crisis. The media is blaming you without giving any helpful advice. Your schools seem lost and support services overwhelmed. Has this left you feeling like you are failing your teen or you are out of ideas? 

Parents often seem surprised when we boil down a tough teen challenge to a few key work-ons. It’s thanks to the 100s of times we’ve felt completely stumped, that we now know how to reliably draw out the solutions. What we’ve learned will help you move forward.

Teens engage in some heart stopping behaviours. When they do, we feel like we have failed them. There is a constant nagging that we could have done something more or different. Have we become bad role models?

Is teen device use a gut wrenching nightmare for you? Are you worried they are being exposed to harmful content, missing social development and becoming more anxious?  It’s easy to...

Anxiety is dominating teen news content and causing serious issues in homes and schools. To those of us raising Tteens it feels like there is a growing anxiety epidemic. What is it we can do as the adults to support our teens with managing anxiety?

At Same Boat Parents we often meet parents who have accidentally dropped the kindness from their interactions with their teen. This is unknowingly making their life harder. It is so easy to do with the relentless, exhausting nature of teen challenges.

Punishment: build trust don’t break it

Times of conflict are the easiest to damage trust. Here at Same Boat Parents we are astounded by how regularly parents think they are doing the right thing by punishing their child when it is actually making the situation - and many future ones - much harder.

Does your teen become confrontational when their immediate need isn’t met? They behave like this for good reason. Teen brains experience increased anxiety encouraging them to control their environment so they learn to be adults. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop us feeling trapped.