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Parenting Teens online parenting course
This course is for parents navigating the teenage years
Stepfamily house rules and boundaries
House rules and boundaries advice for new stepfamilies
Stepfamily living arrangements
Advice if you are looking to live together
Who is my real parent?
Talking to your child about their biological parent
Building your child’s self-esteem
Helping your child build their self-esteem
How to keep a work-life balance
Helping you manage your work-life balance
Looking after yourself
Read our tips on making time for yourself
Being both parents
Advice on being both parents when parenting alone
Contacting social services for support with your child
What to expect if you contact social services for support
When your child is taken into care
Advice when your child is taken into care
Maintaining contact with your child in care
Maintaining contact with your child in care
When social services are involved with your family
Advice if social services are involved with your family
Adopting stepchildren
A guide on the process of adopting stepchildren
Getting to know your stepchild
How to build relationships with stepchildren
Resolving arguments in a stepfamily
Managing conflict in your blended family
Stepfamilies – moving in together
Advice if you are thinking of moving in together
Special guardianship orders
Understanding a special guardianship order
What is fostering
Advice if you are thinking of fostering
Parenting children with disabilities
Read our advice on parenting a child with disabilities
Puberty and disabled teens
Advice for parents on navigating puberty
Sleep tips for parents with disabled children
Read our parent to parent tips
What are special educational needs
Understanding special educational needs
Parenting in same sex relationships
Advice for LGBTQ parents
Living with teens
Advice on living happily with teens
Keeping the kids occupied on a budget
How to have fun with kids on a budget
Making chores fun
Advice for getting children to help out with chores
Adoption support
Adoption support for parents and carers
Contacting birth parents
Helping your child to trace their birth parents
If your child is being adopted
Advice if your child is being adopted
School truancy
Advice on truancy, the law and support
Teenage relationship abuse
Advice if your worried about your teen
Supporting your LGBTQ+ teen
Read our advice on supporting your child if they are LGBTQ
Teens and healthy relationships
Helping your teen understand what is a healthy relationship
Talking to your teenager about pornography
Advice on how to talk to your teenager
Teens and sexting
Advice on the impact of sexting on teens
Talking to teens about consent
How to talk to your teen about sexual consent
Talking about sex and relationships with your teen
Talking to your teen about sex to make sure they stay safe
When your teen has a crush
How to support your teen when they are going through this phase
Teenage pregnancy
Advice on supporting your teen if they are pregnant
Your influence on your teen’s attitude to sex and relationships
Adivce on how your attitude can influence your teenager
Going to court with your child
Advice for parents going to court with their child
Teens and gangs
Learn how to recognise if your child is part of a gang
What is a parenting order?
Understanding what is a Parenting Order
What to do if your teen gets arrested
Find out what to do if your teenager gets arrested
Protecting teens from radicalisation
Advice if your teen is at risk of extremism or radicalisation
Teen in trouble with the law
Find out more about young people and the law
Body image
Advice for parents on understanding the impact of body image and how to help promote a healthy body image
Eating disorders
Understanding eating disorders and finding support
Peer pressure
Advice on how peer pressure impacts on teenagers
Self harm
Advice if you are worried your teen is self-harming
Teenage depression
Advice if your teen has depression
Teenagers and sleep
Understanding your teen’s body clock and sleep
Teens and piercings
Advice if your teen is asking for a piercing
Runaway teens
Advice on what you can do if you’re worried your teen might run away
Digital footprints
How digital footprints can affect an online reputation
Gaming
Advice for parents if you are worried your child’s gaming
Helping your teen stay safe online
Online safety is essential as access to the internet means that information is just a click away
Parents’ guide to social media and apps
Social media apps guide for parents
Understanding chat rooms
Advice on how to help teens stay safe in online chat rooms
Teenagers and technology
How technology can help teens to learn and socialise but also how parents need to help them do this
Impact of social media on teens’ mental health
Understanding the impact of social media on teens’ mental health
Choosing school subjects
Support your teen’s career aspirations
Career choices for teens
Helping your teen make career choices
Appeal a school offer – Part three
Read part three of our appeals advice
Appeal a school offer – Part four
Read our the final part of our appeals advice
Sex education
Find out about sex and relationship education
Starting secondary school
Supporting your child as they start secondary school
Dealing with anger in teenagers
Dealing with anger in teenagers advice for parents
Setting boundaries for teens
Advice to help you set boundaries for teenagers
Teen violence at home
When teenage anger turns to violence and aggression
Teens and risk-taking
Tips on talking with your teen to help keep them safe
What to do if your teen is lying to you or stealing
Find out why your teenager might be lying to you or stealing
A-Z guide to drugs
Illegal drugs guide for parents
Drugs – what are the signs?
Spotting the signs if you suspect your teen is taking drugs
Teens and drugs: Real life stories
Read real life stories about teens taking drugs
Talking to teens about drugs
Find out how to talk to your teens about drugs
Underage drinking
When and how do you get talking about alcohol?
Dealing with challenging behaviour
How to deal with challenging behaviour from your child
Dealing with pester power
Learn how to manage your child’s demands
Positive behaviour
Learn strategies that help with positive boundaries
Sibling rivalry
Are your children are arguing constantly?
Stealing and lying
Advice if your child has been lying or stealing
Violence in schools
Understanding the impact of school violence
How to help your child if they are overweight
Worried about your child’s weight gain?
Keeping your child safe
Tips to help keep your child safe
Children and sleepovers
Advice if your child is having a sleepover
Understanding puberty
Supporting your child during puberty
Home schooling your child
Read our advice if you are thinking of home schooling your child
Issues at school
Supporting your child if there are issues at school
Parental responsibility
Understanding parental responsibility
Renewing contact with children
How to renew contact with children after a separation
Keeping to your contact arrangements
Advice on contact with your child
What is co-parenting?
Understanding what is shared parenting
Contact with the other parent
Advice on contact with your ex-partner
Paternity tests
Advice on why you might want to get one and the steps to take
Changing a child’s name
Guidance on changing a child’s surname
Advice if your disabled child is bullied
Read our advice if your disabled child is being bullied
Bullying and mental health
Read more about bullying affects mental health
Bullying myths and facts
Understanding the myths around bullying
Overcoming bullying
Overcoming bullying and leaving the scars behind
Social bullying
Understanding the impact of social bullying
Verbal bullying
What steps you can take if you are being bullied
What is bullying
Understanding what is bullying and the signs
Homophobic bullying
Read our advice about homophobic bullying
Sexualised bullying and harassment
Find out how to deal with sexualised bullying and harassment
Racist bullying
Understanding how to deal with racist bullying
Different routines
How to work with your ex partner to parent together
Child maintenance
Guidance on child maintenance for separated parents
Making child arrangements
Arranging contact to see your children
Bullying at academies
What parents need to know about bullying at academies
Private and independent schools
Read our advice if the bullying is in a private or independent school
What to do if the school doesn’t resolve the bullying
Find out what your next steps are if the bullying hasn’t stopped
Effects of cyberbullying
Learn more about the impact of online bullying
Dealing with cyberbullying
How to deal with cyberbullying and get support
What is cyber bullying
Advice on how to protect yourself from online bullying
Bullying on social networks
Advice if you are worried about social network bullying
Bullying in sports clubs
Spotting the signs of bullying in sports clubs
Bullying and suicidal feelings
Read our supportive advice if you are worried about your child
How bullying affects children
How bullying can impact every aspect of a child’s life
Spotting the signs your child is being bullied
Spotting the signs of bullying in children
How to talk to your child about bullying
Talking to your child can help them open up
Bullying out of school hours
How to support a child who is being bullied outside of school
What to do if your child is a bully
It can be difficult to find out if your child has been bullying others
If your child is being bullied
How to help your child if they are being bullied
Why children bully
Understanding how and why a child is bullying can be key in helping to stop the bullying
Anti bullying week resources
Download our free anti bullying week assembly presentations, posters, flashcards and more
Anti bullying week videos
Watch our anti-bullying week videos
Anti bullying week posters
Download our free posters and help stand up to bullying
Contacting your child’s school about bullying
Read our advice on contacting the school about bullying
Making a complaint to school
Read our guidance on making a complaint to the school about the bullying
Anti Bullying Policy
Understanding what is an anti bullying policy
Asking to see your child’s school record
How to approach the school to request a copy of school records
Bullied by a teacher
How to tackle bullying from teaching staff
Moving school
Supporting your child if they want to change schools
Taking time off school because of bullying
Supporting your child if they have taken time away from school