September 9th, 2009 by Kate Yaffe

Going on 13 now to air on TV GOING ON 13 chronicles four girls’ coming of age: their blossoming desires and growing sense of responsibility, their hopes for the future, their difficulties learning how to love themselves, and the escalating tug-of-war between who they want to become and who their parents think they should be. We [...]

September 7th, 2009 by Kate Yaffe

Bad behaviour among teenagers is not the fault of parenting getting worse, say researchers. Finally some sense coming from the UK. A recent study has found – shock horror! Bad teens may not be down to bad parenting. The study found: 70% of young people were regularly spending time with their mothers in 2009 compared to 62% in [...]

September 2nd, 2009 by Sarah Newton

Parenting brings up your stuff It was so funny the other day as I experienced the stark reality of most people’s view of young people. One of my pals, known her for ages, put out an innocent request on Facebook asking for parents of teens to get in touch because she wanted to discuss something. What [...]

August 24th, 2009 by Sarah Newton

” Whare do you think sex education is failing our children?” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fink Question of the Week.", url: "http://finkblog.com/fink-question-of-the-week/" }); Share this and get people talking...

August 18th, 2009 by Sarah Newton

The Archbishop of Westminster has recently started another social networking conversation saying that these sites encourage young people to have transient relationships. He also stated that the transient relationships can drive some teens to suicide when they break down. Here is a sum up from The Barking Robot site which I think sums the findings up [...]