Unmanaged triggers can lead to reactive parenting, where emotions take over, and we inadvertently project our pain onto our children. This can create a cycle of tension and disconnection, making it harder to foster trust and respect.

As a parent, ensuring your teen's mental well-being can be both incredibly important and challenging. Teens between 13 and 15 years old undergo significant emotional, psychological, and physical changes.

As we honour fathers today, let’s delve into the vital role they play in guiding their teenage children through this transformative period.

The journey of transition that both parents and teens experience is a complex one, filled with growth, challenges, and the evolution of relationships.

Adolescence is a period of transition, self-discovery, and testing limits, which can result in conflicts between parents and teens.

Setting healthy boundaries is essential for teens to develop a strong sense of self, learn responsibility, and make safe choices.

Parents therapy, also known as parenting therapy or parent counselling, is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on enhancing parenting skills, fostering better parent-child relationships, and managing family-related stressors.

As a Parent therapist, I have witnessed the pain and desperation that lead parents to take extreme measures of kicking a young teen out for intolerable behaviour. It is a time when emotions run high, conflicts arise, and boundaries are tested.

Mother's Day is a special occasion dedicated to celebrating the profound impact that mothers have on our lives.

Picture yourself in this scenario, your 14-year-old daughter comes to you and puts her hand on your shoulder. She looks at you sheepishly, eye to eye, and says, Mum! Do not panic, I have a boyfriend.

When it comes to nurturing healthy relationships between parents and teens, the role of mother and father are crucial.

Parents, you need a tool kit of coping skills to ensure self-care, when your snuggly child has transformed into an independent, assertive adolescent. Teens

It is natural for parents to want to shower their teens with gifts at Christmas, but what matters is connection and shared moments.

Effective communication with your teen builds trust and a close relationship with their parents.

Co-dependency is an unhealthy relationship dynamic in which one person relies on another for their emotional needs.

Parenting is a challenging journey filled with difficulties, when parent and teen grapples with anxiety it can make the experience more complex.