This SchoolTV spotlight focuses on advice and tools for parents raising teenagers.

According to Dr Michael Carr-Gregg “Parenting adolescents can be demanding, terrifying, exhausting and a sanity threatening endeavour"

Our valuable SchoolTV online resource is here to help parents navigate some of the challenges of raising teenagers, with topics covering important and interesting questions such as:

• What age should children have access to social media?
• How is the adolescent brain different?
• Do parenting practices need to be changed from childhood to adolescence?
• What is the most effective form of treatment for an early adolescent with extreme anxiety? 
• Should adolescents have a part time job?
• Is it possible to drug-proof teenagers?

It includes advice from great experts such as one of Australia's highest profile psychologists Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, as well as the founder of the popular website, Hey Sigmund, Karen Young and media commentator Sharon Witt, who discusses issues impacting young people. 

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