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The brilliant Kit Messenger from Changing Chances joined us this morning for a live chat about raising teens and dealing with conflict. She gave us some great parenting advice about how to have those difficult conversations, when to have them, and how to ask the right questions of your teen to get a positive outcome.

If you’ve had battles over homework, staying out, not helping with the housework… and all the rest! then it’ll be well worth a watch. It’s just 32 minutes long.

Live Q&A: Top tips for raising teens & dealing with conflict

Join our live discussion about parenting top tips and dealing with conflict between parents/carers and their teens with Make (Good) Trouble’s Daisy Cresswell and Changing Chances’ Kit Messenger

Posted by Make Good Trouble on Thursday, 8 October 2020

We’ll be chatting with Kit again in the coming weeks, so if you have any questions, leave a message in the comments below.

Find out more about Changing Chances on their website.

If you need someone to talk to, join the Raising Teens in Lockdown Facebook group for support from professionals, parents and teens.

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We spoke to the REBOOT Sussex team this morning about their work with at-risk teens – those at risk of being involved in crime as well as being a victim of crime. REBOOT uses a pioneering one-to-one, tailored approach to supporting young people, partnering them with a mentor youth coach, in order to keep them away from crime and building skills and resilience. It fills a gap to help those on the periphery of criminal activity and leads them on to more positive behaviours.

In the Q&A they discussed what parents could do if they have concerns about their child – and also how to spot signs of them being drawn into criminality.

Daisy Cresswell from Make (Good) Trouble was joined by REBOOT Operational lead, Roisin Vafaee , John Wilkes, Head of Partnerships for the Office of the Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner, and Laura Hussey, REBOOT Youth Worker.

Watch the video here:

Keeping our teens safe

Today we’re talking to the REBOOT Sussex team about their important work to help at risk young people and how they support them.Reboot Sussex Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner

Posted by Make Good Trouble on Thursday, 24 September 2020

You can find out more about the amazing work REBOOT Sussex do here:
REBOOT website
Facebook/REBOOTSussex
Twitter/REBOOTSussex
Instagram/REBOOTSussex

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This morning Daisy caught up with educational consultant Kit Messenger to discuss anxiety in teens and coping strategies for teens and parents. They covered how to talk to your young person, about how to have a more positive relationship as well as helping children with ADHD find ways to manage at school.

They discuss the fact that parents don’t get training for the job, and offered practical tips to help us communicate more positively and enable us to be a better supporter to our children.

Catch up with their conversation below:

Live Q&A: Anxiety in teens: coping strategies

Live Q&A with Daisy Cresswell and Kit Messenger from Changing Chances – a virtual hug of support where we will be discussing anxiety in teens, coping strategies and more

Posted by Make Good Trouble on Thursday, 10 September 2020

You can find out more about Kit and her work at Changing Chances.

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Today we spoke with PC Joe Davis from Sussex Police about how to keep our teens safe, whether there’s been a rise in incidents involving young people since lockdown and back to school concerns.

Joe spoke about trust, and said that “young people will appreciate being trusted a little bit. We need to trust them to socially distance and follow the guidelines… it’s up to them to consider their role in keeping everybody safe”.

Sussex Police’s strategies around connecting with young people are to stay relevant – they have a strong social media presence (links below) – as well as a focus on talking to young people, in order to reach out and break down barriers. Engage, explain, encourage… and enforce as a last resort.

If you missed it, you can catch the 20 minute Q&A here:

Live Q&A with PC Joe Davis

Make (Good) Trouble founder Daisy Cresswell speaks to Sussex Police PC Joe Davis, Prevention Youth Officer about teenage safety, return to school concerns and supporting young people

Posted by Make Good Trouble on Thursday, 3 September 2020

Useful links
Sussex Police on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
Yourpolice.uk on Instagram (content and advice aimed at young people)
Fearless, a charity that provides a crimestoppers service for young people
Sussex Police online – report a crime – which you can do anonymously if you wish

Next week, we’ll be talking to Kit Messenger, co-founder of Changing Chances, a former primary school Headteacher, a tutor at the University of Sussex and a qualified coach. Kit works to bring about big changes in how challenging behaviour is tackled in the education system and beyond. If you have any questions for Kit around helping your young people ease back into school life, worries about their mental health and wellbeing, pop them in the comments below or on our Facebook Page.

⭐️ LIVE Q&A with Kit Messenger at 11am on Thursday 10th September on our Facebook Page.