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Early Teens Health & Wellbeing
Mental health and wellbeing: an overview
Mental health is an essential part of wellbeing. Promote your child’s mental health by working on positive family relationships, talking about feelings, dealing openly with problems, and encouraging healthy eating, exercise and sleep habits.
read the full articleSleep for children: 12-15 years
Sleep and sleep patterns start to change during adolescence. Adolescence also brings lots of reasons to miss out on sleep, but your child needs good-quality sleep more than ever. In fact, teenagers need about 9 ¼ hours of sleep each night.
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Health concerns
- Alcohol and other drugs in adolescence: how to help
- Allergies
- Body image
- Childhood obesity
- Circumcision
- Healthy habits for a healthy life: 12 tips
- Non-food allergies
- Overweight and obesity management in adolescence
- Preventing or minimising alcohol use in adolescence
- Second-hand smoke and your child
- Starting to see the GP alone
- The ups and downs of adolescence
