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There’s nothing more annoying to a teenager than their embarrassing parent, right? So should we be trying to limit the nagging and the embarrassment or should we just go all out annoying parent? 

In today's episode, we talk about the five ways to stop annoying your kids, according to author Katie Bingham Smith. Katie thinks we should let them eat what they want, stop nagging them to clean their rooms and let them go to bed whenever they choose, but do Holly and Andrew agree...

LINKS

You can read Ten Ways This Mom Has Stopped Annoying Her Teens on grownandflown.com

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Hosts: Holly Wainwright & Andrew Daddo

Producer: Mikayla Floriano

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