Phinnah Chichi

The Parenting Teens Solutions Podcast. (Parenting Teens With Purpose)

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Welcome to The Parenting Teens Solutions Podcast where we help strengthen family connections by supporting parents with tools and tips on how to effectively communicate with their tweens and teens. Are you a parent struggling to understand the changes in your teen? Worried about the communication gap between you and your teen? Upset about the lack of motivation in your teen? We all experience these at various points in our teen's adolescence journey. Stay tuned, let's talk, let's share, let's encourage, let's inspire and let's help each other as we take this ride with our amazing teens.

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Phinnah Chichi

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Kids

Latest episode

Apr 26, 2025

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Episodes

Instructions to our Teenagers Vs Dialogues with our Teenagers. 01.09.2020

Many parents struggle with defensive reactions from their teens over instructions they give them. In this Episode, I share with a practical example, how your teenagers will respond better to your dialogues over your instructions. As teenagers get older, our conversations should be more dialogue based than instruction loaded.

The Importance of being clear (explaining) to our Teenagers. 19.08.2020

Many of today's parents of teenagers didn't grow up with parents who saw the need to explain themselves to their children. Therefore this helpful habit of explaining ourselves is not very common and leads to many teens making the wrong assumptions about their parents and life in general. In this episode, I share some vital reasons why it is necessary to be clear to our teens. If you listening to t...

Your Words! Your Reactions and Your Teenagers 20.07.2020

As parents of teenagers, it is so important to know that our words and our reactions towards our teenagers play a massive role as they prepare for adulthood and makes an impact to the adult they become. Remember you can connect with us on Instagram and Facebook. We would love to hear from you. Parenting Teenagers is not an east ride but having a community of like minded positive parents who want t...

Understanding Your Tween and Teen Boys Better 06.07.2020

This a replay from a Facebook live video that I recorded. With the valuable nuggets shared and all the positive feedbacks I have received from parents who watched it, I knew that I had to share with our podcast community as well. Remember you can connect with us on Instagram or Facebook or email us at ask@parentingteenssolutions.com. we would love to hear from you. Also offering a free 15 minutes...

20 Wisdom Nuggets we want our Teenagers to never forget. 01.07.2020

In this season filled with so many changes, there are some things we want our teenagers to never forget. Parents please play this Episode and have your teens listen to it. Even if it is one nugget they take from the 20 nuggets shared, that is great. Use this as a conversation starter and ask them what nugget sticks out most with them.

Equipping You and Your Teen for the Teen Years. 23.06.2020

We all get ready when we go on a journey right? And even if we don't have everything at the start of the journey, we stop by at the shops to buy what's needed. Parenting Teens is a journey and it is so vital that we equip ourselves and our teens for this journey to make it a smoother ride. In this episode, we share the benefits of equipping ourselves and the details of an upcoming webinar we have...

How to prevent Teens from going over board in pushing boundaries. 15.06.2020

Teens crave for independence and most of the way they know to get is by pushing boundaries. In this episode, I share three tips we can use to avoid them going over the top in pushing boundaries. (As always with my podcasts, I share practical tips unedited..just having a regular chat with you. 😉)

How to make the controls you put in place for your teens make sense to them and work for you. 01.06.2020

We discuss briefly on how to make the controls we put in place, make sense to our teens and what we must do when we begin to let go of some of those controls as our teens grow older.

Lockdown Tools to equip parents to help with their teen's mental health. 11.05.2020

In this lockdown season, many parents are focused mostly on the education of their teens... another area that is as important or even more important is their teen's MENTAL HEALTH. Let's share some tips on how we can help as parents. You can contact us at ask@parentingteenssolutions.com

Why and how we should strip out the criticisms when we correct our children 27.04.2020

This Episode is a recording from a recent Instagram live video that we did. The content was packed with so many teaching moments that I had to share it to our podcast community as well. Email ask@parentingteenssolutions.com if you want a visual copy of the examples we spoke about.

Lockdown Tips for Parents of Teenagers 04.04.2020

We have never experienced this sort of pandemic in our lifetime. What can we do to make the best out this lockdown period with our teenagers?

The value of Dads talking to their teen sons. 16.03.2020

A rendition for every dad to change the script that says 'they don't talk'. Your teenagers need you to talk.. Here why..

REPETITION of Rules in our homes is NOT a weakness 09.03.2020

Parents can sometimes get very frustrated because they have to repeat sharing a rule to their children over and over again. In this episode, I share why REPETITION is not a weakness and what it really is.

How to Nurture your Children 's relationships to minimise out of control sibling rivalry 25.02.2020

Sibling Rivalry can get out of hand if not handled the right way. Let's talk about ways we can help nurture our children's relationships so that they don't end up with unsolved sibling rivalries.

Don't be a Digital Novice Parent 17.02.2020

In today's ever changing digital advances, it is necessary that parents become more internet savvy .... why?

My 'No Yelling' Experience today 10.02.2020

Sharing a story and some nuggets from my 'No Yelling ' morning experience with my 13 year old daughter.

Steps to stop Yelling at our Teenagers 03.02.2020

In this Episode, we focus and discuss on one of the very essential steps to stop yelling at our teens.

5 mistakes to avoid in parenting your teenagers in 2020 and beyond 06.01.2020

As we start the year and the decade, it is important to take note of parenting mistakes to avoid. Your change in parenting shows your growth and teenagers emulate our growth.

Our Vision at Parenting Teens Solutions 18.12.2019

As we come close to wrapping up the year and looking ahead to the great things ahead for this platform, we feel it is important to state our vision.

Parents call it 'Talking Back'.Teens call it 'Explaining 'How can we close this gap of understanding 02.12.2019

Here we share some practical solutions to closing this gap of understanding between parents and teenagers.

The Power of Your Consistency as a guide for your teenager. 18.11.2019

Your consistency is the greatest teaching tool on consistency for your teenager.

How to stay as the greatest influence in your teenager's life. 29.10.2019

As a parent of your teenager, you can only remain a great influence in their lives by growing with them. What does growing with them mean?

The best way for Dads to relate to their teen sons 14.10.2019

The role of a dad in the life of his teen son dare not be underplayed. Dads mean a lot to their sons. Your approval of them helps to steer them in better directions BUT we know that many dads and their teenage sons don't understand to each other. How their dads treat them plays a major role to how much they learn from their dads.

Parenting Teens Food for thought 30.09.2019

Use your words to build up your teens.

Parenting Tips for the week 23.09.2019

Comparing your child is NOT a motivating tool. Here is what you can do instead of motivating.

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