Suzie Hayman

Parenting teens is hard!

This event is for all parents, step-parents, grandparents and carers of young people aged 11 to 21, as well as professionals. It will leave you feeling more knowledgeable, skilled and competent in dealing with a whole range of topics, including:

Moving from raising children to guiding teenagers
Neuroscience - why they do what they do
Selfies, sexting and trolling – social media, the internet and digital devices
Porn, violence and misogyny
Anorexia and cutting
Step-families
Resilience – building and encouraging it

Suzie Hayman is a parenting educator, broadcaster and author of 31 books on families, including Raise a Happy Teenager and How to Have a Happy Family Life. She’s agony aunt for Woman magazine, and has written for The Times and The Saturday Guardian, Woman’s Own and BBC Health Online. Suzie was the counsellor seen working with five families in the major 2005 BBC series, Stepfamilies.