Big Kids: Five Ways To Stop Annoying Your Kids

Welcome to This Glorious Mess Big Kids. A twice-weekly look at parenting as it really is. Confusing, exhausting, inspiring, funny, and full of surprises. So many surprises. There’s nothing more annoying to a teenager than their embarrassing parent, right? So should we be trying to limit the nagging and the embarrassment or should we just go all out annoying parent?  In today's episode, we talk about the five ways to stop annoying your kids, according to author Katie Bingham Smith. Katie thinks we should let them eat what they want, stop nagging them to clean their rooms and let them go to bed whenever they choose, but do Holly and Andrew agree... LINKS You can read Ten Ways This Mom Has Stopped Annoying Her Teens on grownandflown.com CREDITS Hosts: Holly Wainwright & Andrew Daddo Producer: Mikayla Floriano CONTACT US Send your parenting dilemmas to [email protected] Looking for a community of like-minded parents? Join our Mamamia Parents Facebook Page... https://www.facebook.com/groups/1047713658714395/   Want a weekly parenting newsletter from Holly Wainwright?  Sign up here... https://www.mamamia.com.au/newsletter/ Looking for other podcasts to listen to?  You'll find all our Mamamia shows at https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/ Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.