Sara Cox Productions and Audio Always
The Teen Commandments
Best friends Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton survived their own chaotic teenage years together and now they’re parenting teenagers themselves. With five teens between them, they’re back in the thick of it, trying to survive the wild world of modern teenage behaviour with humour, honesty and a lot of nostalgia. Each week Sara and Clare unpack the realities of raising teenagers, from mood swings and boundary pushing to why teens communicate mainly in grunts. Expect funny stories and real talk from two former rule breakers who know exactly what teens are capable of… because they did it all first. Th...
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Sara Cox Productions and Audio Always
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Oct 26, 2026
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Episodes
Your Turn: Keeping Calm & “Effort” 13.08.2025 19:03
Sara & Clare are back with more of your teen tales! Stand by for hair cut catastrophes and Disneyland meltdowns, plus one listener bumps into their school bully on a night out. What would YOU do? Keep your hilarious teen stories coming in! You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on In...
Road Trips & Street Safety 11.08.2025 30:46
Road trips, catcalling, long haul flights & the horrors hiding under your son’s bed! We love hearing from you! You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn m...
Your Turn: Solo Travelling & A Garden Surprise! 06.08.2025 26:28
The Teen Commandments inbox is brimming with hilarious gems from listeners! From house parties to transport trials and sneaking out at night-time. Plus, what impressive appendage does one listener’s teen cut into their grass?! Keep your stories coming in… You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Fol...
Family Arguments & Teen Drinking 04.08.2025 33:54
Sara and Clare chat sleepovers, alcohol, and confrontation with your teens. Tell us your teen stories! You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about you...
Your Turn: DIY Eyebrows and Makeshift Condoms 30.07.2025 27:15
Sex workers on the sidelines, those infamous DIY Eyebrows and makeshift condoms! Tell us your teen stories! You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more a...
Mum Dancing & Teenage Fashion 28.07.2025 30:14
Family gigs, teen body image and Crossed Wires, plus Sara & Clare are bringing Teen Commandments to Camp Bestival. Tell us your teen stories! You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is...
Your Turn: Family Dinners & Home Alone 23.07.2025 22:45
The inbox is bulging with everything from bullying tactics and teens ignoring the dinner bell, to post-party soggy sofas & bath time validations. You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Command...
Siblings & Teens Negotiating 21.07.2025 34:24
Best Friends Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton on sibling rivalry, secondary school taster days, teens calling a ‘House Meeting’ and helicopter parenting. You can get in touch using the Comments or Review sections on your podcast app. Or you can Email us at hello@teencommandments.co.uk Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandme...
Your Turn: Teens in Trouble & Dance Moms 16.07.2025 26:23
As ever there are some absolute cracking emails in this week’s episode. One listener reveals the most cringing story involving a dog and a used condom, plus this week Teen Commandments celebrates the world of teens and their parents' embracing differences in sexuality, with a gorgeous email from a listener. Brace yourself, a dance mom has been in touch - and yes, it’s an exhausting life. And Cat...
Summer Jobs & Water Parks 14.07.2025 37:35
Gather round everyone whilst Sara & Clare try and unpack the astonishing minds of teenagers. This week the best friends want to know why kids are taught the most annoying musical instruments? And yes recorders and violins, they are looking at you! Sara’s let her teenagers do their own holiday packing. What could possibly go wrong? And why do teens have to take litres of micellar water? Talking...
Your Turn: Half Penny Sweets & DofE 08.07.2025 29:48
Countless cracking emails from the listeners this week, with stories of teenagers pooing in strange places and pocketing half penny sweets. A listener’s teenager has returned from DofE and yes, it’s gone as well as you’d probably expect. Another tells us about the consequences of inviting the ‘fun boys’ to her teenage party. There’s talk of empty nests and the mixed feelings it brings plus s...
Perms & Curfews 07.07.2025 38:02
Fresh from the Gogglebox sofa, Sara and Clare are back in the Teen Commandments shed trying to work out the mind-bending behaviour of teenagers. This week Sara’s been spotted whilst heading off on a romantic jaunt in Italy, Clare’s been rustling up a curry and they’ve both discovered Mother Root. The male teens in their lives have had an eventful week. Sara’s son was heading off to a fancy dress...
Your Turn: Sneaking Out & The Chocolate Fairy 02.07.2025 22:16
We’ve dived back into the inbox and there’s some absolute corkers from you! In this ‘Your Turn’ a teen steals from mum’s snack stash so she’s getting sweet revenge by spilling the beans on how their family’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ policy led to red faces all round… Another mum introduces us to the ‘chocolate fairy’ - a wholesome tradition or something that belongs on Urban Dictionary? During reco...
Teen Travels & Celebrity GoggleBox 30.06.2025 34:36
After nearly 3 decades in showbiz has Clare managed to get Sara cancelled? Brace yourselves as the pair make their Celebrity GoggleBox debut (catch up with it on Channel 4). Before they go into hiding, Sara & Clare are comparing teachers then and now. From firm favourites and fisticuffs between school staff to uniform rules and ski pant punishments - it’s fair to say that times have thankful...
Your Turn: Secret Gardens and Tampons 25.06.2025 23:04
Sara and Clare are back to read all your excellent emails in this week’s Your Turn. A listener’s been in touch about a not-so-secret garden and another has mortified her son by inviting all the teachers round. With the help of a brilliant listener, Sara and Clare embark on the history of tampons and there’s a proper gasp moment at a listener's confessions of teenage rage. Plus, Sara and Clar...
First Loves and Bullying 23.06.2025 39:05
Sara and Clare are back, trying to work out the chaotic minds of teenagers. This week a new gaming gadget has appeared in Sara’s house and Clare’s horrified her teenage son by drunkenly dancing in his bedroom with her pals. Sara & Clare discuss the highs and lows of first love - the heartbreak, the jealousy, the lost art of slamming down of phones, and how do we help our teens be kind when...
Your Turn: Festivals & Coming Out 17.06.2025 27:22
It’s time to open the inbox again and get your stories. A non-parent has been in touch, which Sara & Clare are thrilled about. He’s just here for the laughs and to share his touching if toe-curling story of coming out to his parents. Another parent has waved her teenage son off to his first festival and one mum has been reduced to tears by her teenager. A trio of teens have been bickering...
Stealing & Raving 16.06.2025 33:42
It’s been a busy week at TCHQ: Sara’s taken out a swanky gym membership to bond with her son, and Clare’s been left totally speechless by her teenage son’s revelation. Sara and Clare confess their petty theft crimes and there’s chat about their raving days! How times have changed… this week Sara got refused entry to a swanky Soho bar because she was eating an apple! Thankfully, Clare was on han...
Your Turn: Teens Decorating & WHY? 11.06.2025 24:01
It’s time for the legends, aka the Teen Commandments listeners, to share their brilliant teen tales. One mum is all L plates & pure panic as she braces herself for the teen’s driving lessons. Another mum wonders if anyone else has a teenager who will either end up running the world or locked up on G Wing! A listener has absolutely won the award for the most unhinged bedroom decorations as a t...
‘Urgent’ Phone Calls & Money Madness 09.06.2025 31:04
This week’s episode comes live from the shed, where Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton try to understand the primitive behaviour of teenagers. Why do teens call you at work with the most random questions?… Clare’s daughter has called her at work shouting about her jeans, and Sara’s been disturbed, whilst live on air, by her youngest with an ‘urgent call’ about a top! Sara & Clare discuss the univer...
Your Turn: Fun Sponge & Ouija Boards 04.06.2025 26:26
It’s Your Turn, where Sara and Clare attempt to untangle the bird-brained behaviour of teenagers, courtesy of your brilliant emails. This week our listeners have excelled themselves! From Ouija boards to condoms and dogs - it’s all go! Please let’s all say a small prayer for the listener who has six boys. She’s pretty much got a loyalty card for A&E and is apparently a ‘fun sponge’. Another mu...
Social Gatherings & Teens Flopping 02.06.2025 30:24
This week, Sara and Clare’s best-friendship is firmly solidified by the sniffing of a beefy face. Summer holidays are looming which means a house full of flopping teenagers; their nocturnal habits, midnight cereal bowls and zero vitamin D. It’s also BBQ season, which means social gatherings with parents and teens. Clare’s daughter made a loud declaration at one family function and Sara reveals a...
Your Turn: Periods & Poos 28.05.2025 21:55
Come on in for period chat, as one listener has tampon trouble plus a mum’s been in touch to share the most memorable moment of her parenting life. Spoiler alert - the story contains a drawer and a poo. A teacher’s been in touch with a spectacular story about a group of year 8 boys and one gorgeous listener has recommended Teen Commandments to the police. Ooh and you know how Sara and Clare hav...
Sports Day & Snogging 26.05.2025 30:54
Best friends Sara and Clare welcome you back to the Teen Commandment shack where they try and make sense of the startling behaviour of teenagers. It’s been a big week at Casa Cox, as Sara and her daughter have moved into an exciting new stage of their mother / daughter relationship, meanwhile Clare’s had a special moment where her teens have actually been kind to each other…though how long will it...
Your Turn: School Reunions & Revision Hell 20.05.2025 21:00
Hey gang, welcome along, it’s Your Turn where Sara & Clare dive into your emails to see how you’re coping with this “parenting teens” lark as well as lolling at your tales of your own teen adventures from back in the day. In todays’ episode, a school pal of Sara’s makes an appearance… Will Sara remember her and what stories will be revealed? A despairing mum has been in touch with details of...
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