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Mental Health Awareness week was celebrated across the UK – hurray. We witnessed some pretty spectacular things, not least the axing of The Jeremy Kyle show. Our management team all worked in TV prior to setting up Make (Good) Trouble and we wonder if this is the start of a media revolution, to create content with GOOD intention instead of this bear-baiting, revolting chase for ratings. Axe Love Island? We live in hope.

We are working flat out on our radio show Raising Teens. This week we heard teens, parents and experts talk about Relationships: friendship groups, access to porn, whether parents had the all-important ‘sex talk’ with their kids – they were all subjects under discussion. Our teen roving reporter, Lola, delivers candid, surprising and delightful interviews with her peers every week on various topics including resilience, sleep, school stress, body image and social media.. It really has been an amazing series and journey for us. As one listener said: “I loved yesterday’s show… it really struck a chord… What you are doing is desperately needed… I think your lifebelt thrown to a sea full of struggling parents and children will have many takers.”

If you have any feedback, please drop us a line here. It means a lot.

Raising Teens radio show: on stress, resilience and relationships

We have some amazing new work coming up, including a series of podcasts in partnership with Public Health and the Clinical Commissioning Group; a film about PTSD in women in the First World War and what that means to teenagers today; a project with Sussex Police (watch this space!); a set of parent talks through schools, given by our teens (we’re kicking off with a talk about device addiction and social media); and of course our Brighton5 films (I’ll write a post about the progress on that next week, promise).

Finally, I’ll be on our very last radio show of the series on Thursday 30 May, which is all about teen language. And on that note, as the young folk might say, tune in, stay woke, *cringe*.

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We’re super excited to partner with BBC Sussex to launch our brand new radio show which will air on BBC Sussex in April and May. We are looking for parents, carers and teens to contribute their stories – which can be given anonymously. 

The show is called Raising Teensand is a warm-hearted and honest round-table discussion about parenting teenagers and teen mental health. It aims to bring those involved in raising teens together to dispel myths and offer practical help and tips. 

Each episode will cover a specific topic – from device addiction and exam stress, to self-harm and body image. Experts from schools, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), the NHS and Sussex Police, for example, will be invited to discuss the issues alongside parents and carers. Contributors will share their problems and find ways for families to understand each other better. The show will be punctuated with pre-recorded stories from teenagers telling their stories.

Our first show will be recorded on Tuesday 2 April and is about social media and devices. If you have a story about how your teen uses social media or their devices, we want to hear from you. 

The show is a joint endeavour from BBC Sussex and Make (Good) Trouble. It will be presented by Guy Lloyd, who is a father of a teenager. It is a pre-recorded show and goes out every Thursday from 4 April at 8pm.

Other topics we will be covering include school stress, sleep, resilience, body image, relationships, the teenage brain, and language.

If you would like to be a part of Raising Teens, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via our contact form.

👉 Listen to our pilot episode on family communication.

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Parents Harry and Daisy discuss what it’s like to parent teens on BBC Sussex radio

Listen to Make (Good) Trouble’s feature on BBC Sussex with Kathy Caton:

Make (Good) Trouble was invited to be part of The Big Takeover with Kathy Caton last Monday for a special feature on BBC Sussex radio. We brought along parents Daisy, Harry and Jane, as well as Rosie Scott from Hove Park school. They discussed flare-ups, how to get a teen to talk, where to get support for yourself as a parent and broaching difficult subjects.

Harry, Daisy and Rosie Scott

We’d love to hear your feedback! Please leave us a comment below and tell us what you think. Thanks!

Kathy Caton, BBC Sussex host

Photos by Mose Hirst, 19.