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Tricky conversations

Bringing up teenagers can be tricky, confusing and frustrating. Sometimes during the transition from primary school to secondary school we can feel like we are losing our fun, bubbly, energetic children as they morph into monosyllabic, moody teenagers.

Through social media and the internet children are much more exposed to harmful content than ever before. At school we support students by making them aware of a range of issues from internet safety to how to look after their mental health, through our themes of the week, assemblies, CDC activities and enrichment days.
Feedback we get from parents is that sometimes they don’t know how to start some of the tricky conversations – particularly the ones surrounding mental health and wellbeing or they don’t feel they have the knowledge/expertise in navigating the various social media apps.
There are a range of resources to support parents to have conversations with their children such as BBC bitesize parents tool kit.
This gives guidance and advice to parents on a range of topics including how we can support children with home learning to look after their health and wellbeing.
There are also a wealth of podcasts out there such as teenagers untangled –https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/ that offer advice and strategies on coping with different situations. A recent episode focused on Friendships entitled ‘How to support your ‘generation isolation’ teens to build their social skills.

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