Ten Best Present Ideas

Flowers are probably our most common default present - in the UK we spend £2.2 billion on cut flowers every year. A nice bunch for your mother-in-law to say happy birthday. A get-well gift for an ailing auntie. A token of love for your partner. Even a treat for yourself to brighten up the house after a long week at work. Flowers lift our spirits and speak words of condolence, comfort, celebration and love. And yet, our addiction to cut flowers is a bit of an ethical nightmare.

Jeanne Meijs shares how to maintain your relationship with your teenager and understand the journey. Many parents have a great, underlying fear: that they will lose their relationship with their child in the teen years. There are a few straightforward ways to lose your child during the teen years. They occur over and over, and parents only realise what has happened when it is too late. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these tragic and unnecessary errors here.