Given the growing rates of depression, anxiety and associated challenges in teenagers, it is more important than ever that parents feel equipped to recognise concerns,
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We’ve all been there, a child makes a joke with words they don’t seem to understand and then the room is blanketed a few degrees
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Professor Robert Plomin, a behavioural genetics professor at King’s College London, explains, “Parents have little effect on their children’s outcomes, beyond the blueprint that their
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A study last year in Hong Kong found that 14% of teenagers aged 13-18 suffer from severe or extremely severe depression. This month in the