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Supporting Your Child With Peer Pressure

Learn how to help your child handle peer pressure with confidence. From open communication and decision-making skills to building self-esteem and setting boundaries, here’s how parents can guide children through social challenges.

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Helping Your Teen Through Their First Term of A Levels

The transition from GCSEs to A Levels can be one of the most challenging academic steps a student takes. With greater independence, increased workload, and a new style of learning, it’s natural for teens to feel both excited and overwhelmed. As a parent, your support during this first term can make a real difference — not only in how well your teen settles in, but in how confident they feel...

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YouTube Launches Mental Health and Wellbeing Shelves for Teens

A Dedicated Mental Health Resource for Teens

[October 14th, London] Today, YouTube UK announced its latest offering for younger viewers, with new mental health and wellbeing content launching in a dedicated surface built just for teens.

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Shelves will provide teenagers searching for common mental health and wellbeing topics with a shelf of videos curated...

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Supporting Your Child With Sixth Form

Starting Sixth Form is an exciting milestone for young people — it marks a step closer to independence, university, and future careers. However, it can also feel like a big leap, both academically and personally. As a parent, your support can make all the difference in helping your child settle in, stay motivated, and thrive during this important stage.

Understanding the Transition

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Supporting your child through exam results anxiety: a parent's guide

By Albert Clemente, CEO at FindTutors , a leading private tuition service by GoStudent

The wait for exam results can be as challenging for parents as it is for students. With GCSE results day approaching, families across the country are navigating this particularly tense period together.

For many young people, these results feel like defining moments in their lives, creating...

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Parents urged to extend their teen’s Child Benefit claim online as deadline approaches

With GCSE results due this week HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging parents who know their teenager’s plans in September to extend their claim now to continue to receive Child Benefit.

More than 509,000 parents of teenagers, who are staying in full-time education or approved training, have already extended their Child Benefit claim. A record-breaking 67% have done it online to...

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From Stressed to Sorted: How Chat GPT Made Revision Easier

How ChatGPT Helped Me Through My Year 10 Exams

As a Year 10 student, getting ready for mock exams can feel really overwhelming. There’s so much to revise, and sometimes it’s hard to even know where to start. But this year, I found something that actually helped me stay on top of it all — ChatGPT.

Getting Practice Questions and Feedback

I started using it when I was revising An...

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Bubble Braid Hair Tutorial for Tweens – Easy, Fun & Totally Princess-Worthy

Lately, my Pinterest and Instagram feeds have been full of cute kids’ hairstyles — from heart-shaped braids to rainbow bubble ponies — and I have to admit, I love trying them out on my daughter (when she lets me!).

But let’s be real — we don’t always have time to create a full masterpiece on busy school mornings. So when I came across the bubble braid hairstyle, I thought this might be the...

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Parents of teens reminded to extend Child Benefit claim online

Parents of 16-19 year olds will receive reminders from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to extend their Child Benefit claim by 31 August if their child is staying in education or training or payments will automatically stop.

Child Benefit will automatically stop on 31 August on or after a child’s 16th birthday if it’s not extended.

Between May and July, letters will be sent to...

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How to Deal with Unwanted Image Results (A Guide for Parents)

Keeping kids safe online is harder than ever. Even with filters and parental controls, one bad search can show images you don’t want them to see. Whether it’s violent, adult, or just inappropriate, unwanted image results can pop up fast—and stick around.

If you’re a parent trying to create a safer online space, this guide will help you control and remove what shows up in search....

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AI is already doing your teen’s homework: Here’s how parents can guide them

More teenagers are turning to AI to help with their homework, but are they using it effectively?

A recent survey of over 1,000 students by Save My Exams found that 75% of students are using AI to do their homework.

This is a significant increase compared to a study by the Pew Research Centre in the US in 2024, which found that 26% of students use ChatGPT for their school...