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Navigating Frenemies, Cliques and Bants with Your Teen

Teenage friendships change by the week, so the most useful thing you can be is someone your teen can always come back to.

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Today's enemy is next week's best friend. So when your teen is fuming about someone, the golden rule is never to join in, however much they seem to invite it. If they make up, you're the one left on the wrong side.

Listen to understand rather than to reply, and don't worry if the same story comes round three times. Ask "what do you hope will happen next?", or if they can't say, "what do you hope doesn't?", and help turn the answer into a next step. Help them work out whether the problem is the situation or how they feel about it, and see it from the other person's side.

Keep in touch over the small stuff, even by text from the next room, so they know where to find you when it matters.

Modules

7 modules
  1. 1Introduction1 min
  2. 2Let them talk4 min
  3. 3Never put their friends down4 min
  4. 4Find out what they hope will happen next4 min
  5. 5Look inwards as well as outwards6 min
  6. 6Check in often without judgement or expectation4 min
  7. 7Wrap up1 min

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