When emotions feel dangerous at home, teenagers often express them through behaviour — anger, shutdown, aggression, or defiance. In this blog, Pei-I Yang explores how unspoken emotions fuel out-of-control behaviour, and why parents recognising, modelling, and teaching emotional regulation is the key to change. When emotions are understood and held safely, behaviour no longer has to shout to be heard.

In today’s digital world, parents can’t protect what they don’t understand. Your teen shouldn’t be teaching you how TikTok or Snapchat works — but they can show you how they use it. When parents stay curious instead of fearful, connection replaces control. Understanding your teenager’s online world is one of the quietest yet most powerful ways to keep them safe, grounded, and open to you.

What’s Really Going On Beneath the Behaviour A vibrant array of colorful pills and capsules float gracefully against a soft blue background, evoking a sense of surreal suspension. When you hear the phrase “ teenagers and substance misuse ,”  what comes to mind? Be honest with yourself for a moment. Do you think of danger? Addiction? Bad influences? Maybe even failure — “ Where did I go wrong?” It’s understandable. Those associations are deeply cultural. We’ve been taught to s

When teenagers withdraw, sleep all day, or say “I don’t care anymore,” it may not be attitude—it may be teen depression. Teen mental health struggles often hide behind difficult behaviour. This isn’t bad parenting; it’s a sign of overwhelm. At Rainbow Parenting Practice, Pei-I Yang helps parents understand teenage depression, rebuild connection, and bring calm back to family life.

The Hidden Truth Behind Teen Violence-Inspired by Netflix’s Adolescence The Netflix series Adolescence  attempts to raise awareness of social influences on the teenage mind and maybe also with the hope to show us the chaos of their mind — but for me watching as a Family Therapist, I don't just see the influence of the social media, but more complex issues that have not been shown or voiced in the series. Let's start with the violence, when-masculinity-turns-violent-what-the-n

Teen aggression is rarely just anger — it’s communication. Behind every outburst is a teenager who feels unseen, unheard, or overwhelmed. In this blog, family therapist Pei-I Yang explores what teen aggression is really telling us and help families move from conflict to connection. Learn how to respond with calm curiosity instead of control, and rebuild trust at home.

How to keep your teenager safe.. There are a few things here that we need to deliberate on when your teen is self-harming. There are increasing concerns for young people’s mental health and there are just not enough resources out there. There is a long waiting list for Child and Adolescent mental health service if you live in UK I won't go into details as to why teen self harm as every teen's circumstances are different and it would be irresponsible of me to generalise this.

Self-Care: love and nurture yourself You must be thinking how self-care has anything to do with parenting your teens with challenging behaviour. It is a very valid question as most of us struggle to put ourselves first and some may even consider this a selfish behaviour because as parents, we need to put our children first. They need us. It is correct. Our children need us. They need a parent that is patient, caring, understanding, containing, consistent, loving and so on. W