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Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly HugMotivation: How to motivate a young person, teen or tween: Vintage.Ask Rachel anythingWe'd all love our children to breeze through school, enjoying a satisfying academic life, having lots of friends, and coming out at the end feeling a success. But what if you have a child that doesn't thrive in an academic environment? What if they can't or won't do the work? How do you deal with it and what techniques can you use to motivate them?According to eminent psychologist, Dr David Yeager, when kids hit puberty they're primarily looking for experiences that give them social status and respect.He says...
2025-07-0945 min
Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 Your Weekly HugSuicide: How to talk about it with teens, and offer proper support.Ask Rachel anythingIn a recent column in The Times, Caitlin Moran wrote about how five young men in her social circle have taken their lives in the past 18 months. She's not alone. My daughter has experienced this, as has Benedicte's son, the listener who contacted me to suggest I cover it in an episode. In the UK, the leading cause of death for men under the age of 50 is suicide, and the statistics in the US are even worse. Boys are particularly vulnerable, and we know that there's the risk of social...
2024-12-1844 min
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesNew Energies: The European Green Deal and the EU-Turkey relationshipThe meeting between US president Biden and the Turkish president Erdogan, as well as the upcoming European Council Summit on Turkey come at a critical moment in the EU-US-Turkey relationship. After years of heightened tensions, there appears to have been a thawing in relations since the beginning of this year. The renewed focus on climate policy by the EU, however, makes many aspects of this relationship uncertain. Are carbon border taxes a threat to Turkish trade? How can Turkey and the EU cooperate on green energy? To find out, host Susi Dennison, director of ECFR´s European Power programme, talks t...
2021-06-1829 min
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesHow should Europe respond to President Trump?Mark Leonard speaks with Jeremy Shapiro, Asli Aydintasbas and Josef Janning about reactions to Trump’s electoral triumph from the UK, Germany and Turkey.Bookshelf:In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert MakThe global crisis and the failure of the West by Carlo MasalaSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariThe everyday and the existential: how Clinton and Trump challenge transatlantic relations by Jeremy ShapiroFear and loathing on the road to the US elections by Susi Dennison, Dina Pardijs and Jeremy ShapiroPicture: Flickr/gageskidmore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-11-0933 min