3. How brain science can help with parenting teens

Vicki and Geraldine ask Dr John Coleman, author of The Teacher And The Teenage Brain, whether recent advances in neuroscience can help parents understand and manage their teenagers’ online lives Talking points: Why carrot may be better than stickThe teenage brain - a perfect storm for online addiction?OK, so we know a bit more about the teenage brain - can that be turned into strategies for making family life happier? Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social me...

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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt  explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.