I remember the very first Parenting Teens article I ever read.

Three years ago I signed up with Voxy to write travel stories. Ha, two and a half years and two kids later - there ain' t much travel been going on. So breaking with convention I have decided to write about whats going on in my life - that is being an 'un-yummy mummy'. 

A few weeks ago, I found a fantastic blog online:

1. Play it as simple as you can
No fancy parenting shenanigans from books needed. “I love you” is all it takes to confuse and make a screaming, yelling, tantrum teen think about the impact of their actions/tone of voice on you.

To make sure you never get into the miscommunication pickle with the teens in your life, there's a few tips below that can save time and stress (and miscommunication) between the two of you.

Set your phone to predictive TXT

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