Holidays & Hair

Heroes & A Big Barney on the Bus   This week Sara and Clare strike a pose as they become beauty influencers - kinda.    Another man makes an impression on Clare on the train, but not in a good way.   There’s booze free shocks, teens hiking in slippers (& no socks), underbum management and public transport meltdowns as Sara and Clare navigate entertaining the teens during the Easter hols.   Email us at [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your Turn goes international as Sara and Clare open up the email inbox via Cyprus and Manchester. Sara’s on sunscreen duty, treading the fine line between trying to protect the teens without being a nag, whilst Clare’s method involves her flashing a crinkly body part and shouting “see!” There’s pornaggeddon for one shocked dad and toilet etiquette is back with a vengeance - one story quite literally makes Sara gasp! ‘Special cuddles’ are discussed and what the heck do you say when a teenager asks you how many partners you’ve had? Email us at [email protected]   📲 Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ 👩‍💻 Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk 🎙 Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production PS - if you’re heading off on holiday and want a brilliant beach read, then Sara’s book ‘Way Back’ needs to be in your suitcase! www.bio.to/wayback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s Teen Commandments  comes with an all-inclusive buffet and sea views. Sara is on holiday with two teenagers, feeling thoroughly left out of the gang, whilst Clare is back in the Manchester salon, where she refuses to do any teenagers hair. Asides from hair and holidays, Sara and Clare want to know where all the hair bobbles go? How do teens create a tangled mess with every electrical wire they own? And who was more sensible as teenagers: themselves or their kids? Warning: it doesn’t matter what time of day you listen to this; you’re going to want a chippy tea immediately afterwards.  Email us at [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production And finally… if you haven’t listened to Sara & Clare’s dead good episode of Where There’s A Will There’s A Wake yet, then you can click here…  https://listen.sonymusic-podcasts.link/COCO57300 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Single parents have assembled! They’ve flooded the Teen Commandments inbox with messages of support and coping tips for those who go from being full-time parents to childless at weekends.    On a less touching note, there are more tales of drunken vomiting! We hear from a mum who has accidentally plied her daughter with shots, while another parent wins the award for ‘the world’s most resourceful sick bowl’…    Plus, have you ever wondered what Sara’s dream funeral would be like? Well, wonder no more! Sara & Clare are the hosts of this week’s ‘Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake - Purgatory Series’. Listen here: https://listen.sonymusic-podcasts.link/COCO57300   P.S. Sara’s new book is now out in paperback! 'Way Back’ is available here: www.bio.to/wayback    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER “Here is the feel-good read you have been looking for... “ “The big-hearted novel brimming with warmth, humour and heart”. “Please go and buy it, so Sara can keep taking me to fancy Italian restaurants” – Lady Jackie of Boltonia   Email us at [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sara & Clare’s strict health regime has come to end so they’ve excitedly tumbled off the wagon to discover they’re now complete lightweights.  This week Clare’s caught the eye of yet another man on the train and Sara’s worked out the easiest way to keep teenagers happy. Spoiler alert, it involves hard cash.  Sara & Clare open up about their experiences of being step-parents, navigating wicked stepmothers of their own and raising their own kids in blended households.  The matter of virginity comes up and what’s changed over the years in terms of judgment and shame.  Peer pressure, contraception and borrowing mum’s lingerie - it’s all there. Meanwhile Sara’s eldest has demanded a correction of something Sara said in last week's episode…  PS, Sara’s new book is out in paperback now. Way Back is available here: http://www.bio.to/wayback  THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  “Here is the feel-good read you have been looking for... “ “The big-hearted novel brimming with warmth, humour and heart”. “Please go and buy it, so Sara can keep taking me to fancy Italian restaurants” – Lady Jackie of Boltonia Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The email inbox is back open and it’s full of corkers! One listener discovers her daughter’s bold new piercing - self inflicted & not even in her ears, another’s room was so messy the police presumed it had been burgled and one confused lad has a question about teachers and sexual positions. Oh and it’s official … (well according to one TC listener) having teens is as demanding as having a newborn & a disgruntled mum relives the cutting moment her teen popped in her AirPods & said “bye” So pop yours in right now & enjoy! Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Sara & Clare discuss the ins and outs, quite literally, of talking to teenagers about sex education. Brace for condoms on bananas, vibrators, orgasms, and the serious matters of sexting and body shaming. Away from the PHSE chatter, there’s revelations of teen parties, houses being trashed & emergency services being called. Outside of the podcast, it’s been a busy week for Sara and Clare - find out which of them dramatically blocked a toilet with an alleged ladypoo and who has had minor plastic surgery…plus Sara reveals which pop star she’s already lined up as a new bezzie in case Clare ever dumps her! Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s all about you babes, as Sara & Clare read more of your brilliant teen emails.  Toilet tales continue and a mum highlights the noises you get whenever you ask your teen to do anything. Sara and Clare ponder why teens ask the most ridiculous questions about the simplest of things? Plus, there’s talk of rumpy pumpy pleasure, a son’s SOS from uni and party confessions. Oh and remember the cringetastic time Clare sent her teenage son those Sinead O’Connor lyrics?… Well, it turns out she’s not the only mum to harness the power of music for her parenting… Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton__ Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sara and Clare discuss the shopping items their darling offspring demand and Clare reveals her brilliant way of controlling her teens’ alcohol consumption. Who is the bad cop in Sara’s house? And how does Clare navigate being the only sheriff in town? Meanwhile, Sara & Clare have been doing more media this week, and it’s not as glamorous as you may think.  Plus, Sara reveals the huge Hollywood star she once shared a waterslide with. Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton_  Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Teen Commandments inbox is bursting open again for your chance to dish the dirt on your precious teenagers.  This week a dad has solved the issue of teens slamming doors, a teenager has demanded to know the full details of his conception, whilst another proudly announces they’ve “found a pube”. Sara and Clare’s quest to try to solve the ‘Bruh’ confusion continues and Teen Commandment’s favourite swearword is back (& may now be Clare’s catchphrase). Email us at  [email protected]   Follow us on Instagram: @djsaracox, @clarehamilton_  Visit www.theteencommandments.co.uk Teen Commandments is a Sara Cox Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices