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icon - teenagers largePuberty, relationships and exams can make your teenage son or daughter prickly, uncommunicative and downright difficult.

Although desperate times may seem to call for desperate measures, roll with it and try to keep a level head. We’ve got the advice to make it easier...

  • Drugs: recognising and dealing with problems

    With the media full of horror stories and sensationalist reporting, it's easy for any dad to fly into a panic when contemplating the idea of drug taking and their kids. However, the truth is that many teenagers may at least dabble with drugs, and that, of these, the vast majority will come out the other side unharmed. If you discover your teenager is one of these, the degree to which you manage to handle it calmly will help ensure a positive long-term outcome.

  • Eating disorders: how to cope

    Eating disorders can affect kids of any age, but are more prevalant amongst teenagers. Although they are more common amongst girls they can also affect boys. Dad Info shows you what to watch out for, and where to go for help....

  • Talking to teenagers

    On the one hand, there's no single right way to talk to teenagers. They're all individuals, after all. On the other, however, there tend to be set patterns in the relationships between the generations, and when that sweet, bright-eyed ball of cuteness you used to snuggle in your arms transforms into a hormonal person with their own opinions and hang-ups, it's useful to have a few pointers to hand...

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