Parenting Teens Through Love & Heartbreak: What we do wrong and what helps

Parenting Teens Through Love & Heartbreak: What we do wrong and what helps

March 31, 2026 · 47 min · Season 5 · Episode 187

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This episode discusses the challenges parents face when guiding their teens through the emotional turmoil of first love and heartbreak.

Ask Rachel anything When parenting teens through their first experience of love and attraction it can bring up a lot of feelings we thought we'd neatly packed away; the intensity of that first crush, the humiliation of not being chosen, the heartbreak that felt like it would swallow us whole. As a parent trying to support our kids through it can be tricky because our teens’ first love stories can collide with our own unfinished ones. In this episode of Teenagers Untangled, I’m joined by...

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