Short messages on Relationships issues from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
If you have time off work in the summer holidays, make sure it’s really time off. Try not to check emails or work ‘phones and really focus on enjoying time with your family.
Arguments are often a part of family life. Take care to diffuse tensions before things get too heated. If children are arguing, ask them to go into separate rooms and take five minutes to calm themselves. You can do this too if you’re getting wound up.
Treat everyone with kindness and politeness – not because they are nice, but because you are.
Make the most of what’s special about summer. Go for family walks during those long warm evenings, or arrange a family picnic. Also, look out for free or cheap music events and summer schools arranged by local authorities.
Whether you’re going on holiday or not, it’s important to plan the summer together as a family. Make everyone feel involved in plans and keep a chart with everyone’s wishes on it.
Summer is a great time to reconnect with all the important relationships in your life – from your kids, parents and your partner to your friends and wider family.
For people with an autistic spectrum disorder, ‘body language’ can appear just as foreign as if people were speaking ancient Greek.
If you send a sexually explicit image by text or through the internet, where the image goes next and who sees it will not be under your control – and this includes via SnapChat!
You should never pressurise anyone into making an explicit image. It is against the law to take or hold an explicit image of someone under the age of 18.
Take time today to appreciate someone who does something you take for granted.