If you’re looking for parenting help and advice from someone who really understands the challenges raising kids can bring, then you’re in the right place. With over 25 years experience working with children and having raised two kids of her own, Sue really knows how to make positive changes in any family.

Regularly featured on ITV’s This Morning and many other TV and radio shows, her advice is much sought after due to her positive, guilt-free attitude and effective solutions. The Sue Atkins Parenting Blog is where Sue shares some of her best advice to help you raise confident, resilient, independent kids. With new posts featured every few days you’ll always find something new, interesting and relevant to read.

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How to Get Your Adult Kids to Pay Their Share Of Household Bills

            I’m on BBC Radio Tees discussing the 3.3 million adults who have returned home to live with their parents. Have your kids returned home and you are fed up with their lack of contributions to the household budget? […]

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The Peter Pan Generation in danger of reaching 40 and still relying on “pocket money” from their parents.

Kids approaching their 30s are still dependent on their parents for financial support – and even the ironing, a report warns out today! The apparent ease with which young people once seemed to land well-paid jobs and get on the housing ladder meant that those who are […]

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Do you think you should charge your adult kids rent?

Here’s a question I’m asked a lot. “Is it fair to charge our son rent?” I’m on Eamonn Holmes talkRADIO Show at 6.30 discussing charging adult kids rent as more and more adult children are coming back home to live as they try and save up for […]

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Living at home with Mum and Dad – Sue Atkins on Channel Five News

I was interviewed on Channel Five News as Priscilla Eyles says she still feels like a teenager at times as she still lives at home. It’s a real problem to save up in order to get on the property ladder and I know first hand, as my […]

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‘I had to move back in with my Mum!’ says Tory MP William Wragg. Here are my 10 tips to survive your adult child returning home

Are your ‘Boomerang Kids’ driving you mad? I read in The Evening Standard about a Conservative MP who has admitted that he has had to move back in with his mother and father because he cannot afford the deposit to buy a house. William Wragg, aged 28, is […]

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Are your ‘Boomerang Kids’ driving you mad? – 10 tips to survive your adult child returning home

I speaking on BBC Radio Berkshire to Anne Diamond about ‘Boomerang Kids’ Here are my thoughts …. Student debt, the high cost of housing, and a general lengthening of adolescence (itself, a result of growing life expectancy) are all contributing to the new phenomenon of boomerang kids […]

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The Clipped Wing Generation.

Join me live on Channel 5 News after 6pm discussing The Clipped Wing Generation – young adults who can’t afford to fly the nest despite working full time. The Charity Shelter have just released a report: WHAT THEY SAY ON THE STORY “The ‘clipped wing generation’ are finding […]

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My advice in The Independent – The Boomerang Generation

Spiralling property prices and the collapse of the labour market are forcing many young people (and some not so young) to move back in with their parents. Here’s my advice in The Independent about what to do, how to cope and how to ease the transition into a […]

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Will they EVER fly the nest? Boomerang Kids ….. made easy !

There’s a new word out on the street called the “boomerang kids” – children who return to their parents’ home in adulthood and remain there into their 20s or even 30s!!! According to a leading charity Parentline Plus they are putting enormous strain on family relations. Student […]

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