BeTeenUs | For the parents of teenagers

Does Your Teen Have An Internet Addiction?

12293 7 years ago 0

Addiction is a scary word for parents. We have four children, Ben (18), Gabriel (15), Jessica (13) and Noah (7) and I’m not sure if anything would scare me more than finding out one of them had a drug addiction. I was a teen in the Grange Hill generation of

Don’t you want your babies back!?!?

39428 7 years ago 0

What’s best, having babies or teenagers? When are the best years to be a parent? If you have little kids, it seems like forever that you’ll again enjoy a lie-in, a quiet meal with nothing spilled or thrown, or a week day evening without driving someone to Scouts, Brownies or

What is cutting? Should parents be worried?

17922 7 years ago 0

Self harm through cutting is a common and growing phenomenon. Having spoken to parents, a post-‘cutter’ teenage girl and others, I want to share what I’m hearing. Please share this and your experiences. How you’ll feel: Cutting is horrifying for parents, and we don’t have much experience of it from our

Five Go Gluten Free: A review

7031 7 years ago 0

Did you receive it or buy it? Anyone who’s unlucky enough to have had IBS, celiac (coeliac) disease or a persistent bloaty belly and has decided to no longer eat wheat, will have received this book ‘Enid Blyton Five Go Gluten Free’. They’ll get it for Christmas or Hanukkah, and

Five rules for every Box set lover

3154 7 years ago 0

OK, admit it. When your kids were young, you worried that they watched too much TV. But is it possible that us parents are now watching just a tad too much of our favourite Box sets? I confess that my other half and I are half way through The Good Wife.

Are you a Replacement Child? How did it affect your life?

16433 7 years ago 0

On a foggy January afternoon in 1952, American Airlines flight 6780 crashed into the Mandel family’s apartment building in Elizabeth, New Jersey. It killed more than 30 people, including 22 on board the plane. Linda Mandel who was just 2 would survive but be badly burned. Her 7-year old sister Donna

Oh gawd Apple! Not airpods, we remember the days of pricey headphones

1965 8 years ago 0

Remember when the prices of fancy phones came down, and we could actually do stuff on them – watch films, play games, buy boys’ pants whilst travelling on a train – without the constant circle of hell buffering us at every turn? The trouble was, that a few years ago

What parents should know about Pokemon Go

2427 8 years ago 0

Pokemon Go is the latest craze, allowing the player to find Pokemon creatures and capture them in his or her area using a mobile phone. A brilliant tangle of App wizardry and GPS, Pokemon Go is being taken up by millions of kids and big kids (i.e. adults). The game works like

Are you always driving your teenage around? TV pilot is casting

1902 8 years ago 0

TV pilot is looking for families who drive their big kids to lots of places.

Let’s Take the Parent Out of Parenting

3863 8 years ago 0

There’s a video stumbling around the Facebooks recently encouraging the teaching of Life Skills in school. It lays down statistics that 30% of college kids can’t boil an egg. My college kid CAN boil an egg. The paleo friendly cacao and almond butter cups in the freezer tell me cooking