73: Unreliable parents: The absent or inconsistent parent who’s alcoholic. Also, supporting your teen back to school.
Parenting teenagers untangled. 🏆 The audio hug for parents of teens and tweens. - A podcast by Rachel Richards and Susie Asli - Wednesdays
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Send us a textWhen the other parent is inconsistent, or never turns up for your kid, it can be incredibly challenging for both of you. It's hard enough as it is, but can be even more challenging when they are abusing a substance, such as alcohol or drugs. When a listener told us about the difficulty she has parenting a teen son whose absent dad is an alcoholic we thought it was an important subject, and one worthy of discussion. So how do we support a tween or teen in this position? What do w...