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To accompany the BBC TV series Child of Our Time 2013, you can download a 'Becoming a Teenager' booklet containing information about:
- Twenty-first century families Mum, dad and 2.4 children isn't the typical family composition in the UK any more. How are families changing?
- Friendship As young people grow up, parents can feel that their child is more interested in talking and socialising with friends than with them. What are the tensions, and how do they form part of the growing up process?
- Resilience What are factors that help young people resist or bounce back from adversity?
- Bereavement Death is a natural and inevitable part of life—how are children and young people been exposed to the reality of death, and how has it changed?
- Changing childhoods Social networking, online gaming, staying safe online... young people today have different opportunities and risks than in the past. What can parents do to understand more?
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OU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013
Child of Our Time follows 25 children born in 2000. Robert Winston discovers how families change and how children prepare to become teenagers.
Read nowOU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013Level: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013: Growing Up
The first episode of 2013 follows several of the children preparing to become teenagers and sees how parents and grandparents cope.
Read nowOU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013: Growing UpLevel: 1 Introductory
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OU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013: Changing Families
In the second programme we look at how some of our children—and their parents and grandparents—have coped with the changes in their family.
Read nowOU on the BBC: Child of Our Time 2013: Changing FamiliesLevel: 1 Introductory
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Child of Our Time: Try our surveys
How does your sense of self compare with other people? How good are you at performing complex tasks? How do you and your children cope with stress? Try our surveys to find out
Take part nowChild of Our Time: Try our surveysLevel: 1 Introductory
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