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'You're triggering me': How to understand your therapy-speak teen

BBC News

'You're triggering me': How to understand your therapy-speak teen With claims of gaslighting, triggering and disrespecting boundaries, some parents are struggling to understand their teenagers' so-called therapy speak. When Carla Hoskins asks her 15 and 18-year-old sons to revise or do chores at their Hertfordshire home, she says she is sometimes met with: You're triggering me! Over in the US, Shannon Salvatoriello says her 14 and 17-year-old sons use similar words, which she says leaves her feeling very confused. Mental health experts in the UK and US tell the BBC why young people are using terms often heard during therapy sessions in everyday conversation - and give parents tips on how to better understand their teenagers. Mum-of-six Carla says she is sometimes accused of gaslighting by her eldest teen sons - particularly when she asks about friends or school work.


Some under-25s should get less benefits, Milburn review to say

BBC News

Some young people could see reductions to the benefits they are entitled to, under a radical overhaul of the system to be recommended by a government-commissioned review. Alan Milburn's year-long report, which will be published on Tuesday, will recommend moving under-25s off the main sickness and disability benefits, the Times reported, external . Milburn, a former Labour health secretary, has been tasked by the government with helping reduce the one in eight 18-to 24-year-olds in the UK who are not in education, employment or training - or Neet. He said on Wednesday night that his plans would not be pain-free and would affect both existing and new claimants. His report is expected to recommend that under-25s are no longer able to claim the health element of universal credit or personal independence payment (Pip).


Climate Leaders Toast to a Hopeful Future at TIME100 Impact Dinner at COP31

TIME - Tech

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What Democrats' Midterm Gains Reveal About Trump's Voter Coalition

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UK social media ban plans revealed: Ofcom outlines the four ways teens will be able to prove they're over-16 when new rules come into force next year

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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What the Budget offers for under 25s - and what it leaves out

BBC News

Chancellor John Healey has announced his Budget, which includes changes to minimum wage and help for people trying to get onto the housing ladder. Here is how the Budget could affect you if you are under-25. If you are an 18-to-20 year-old earning the minimum wage, your pay will go up by 3.9% from next April. However, the increase may be lower than you had expected. That is because Healey reversed course on how his Labour predecessor, Rachel Reeves, had been increasing the minimum wage for young people.


A Dating App Is Offering 'Chivalry Mode' and 'Marriage Timeline' to Get Gen Z Married

WIRED

A Dating App Is Offering'Chivalry Mode' and'Marriage Timeline' to Get Gen Z Married Upward, a newly relaunched Christian app, is pitching trad values to a generation that barely even dates. When Adreanna Pulliam signed up for the Christian dating app Upward over the summer, she was prepared to come across men who identified as hyperconservative. So when she swiped on a guy's profile that listed "a progressive donkey or a ' Trump is King' elephant" as his relationship deal-breaker, she was shocked. "I hadn't expected to see a moderate libertarian" on the app, she says. It only got more bizarre from there.


Why is Gen Z revolting?

Al Jazeera

From France to India, young people are in the streets over inequality, failing public services and bleak prospects.


Armed police swoop as man, 61, arrested for murder and woman in car crash dies

BBC News

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman who crashed her car died. South Wales Police said the woman, 47, from North Cornelly, Bridgend, crashed into a wall on Coity Road at about 12:43 BST on Monday. But the force said she had suffered injuries unrelated to the crash. It followed armed police swooping on a nearby sheltered housing retirement complex, Ger-y-Nant, where the man was arrested. There remains a heavy police presence in the area, including six officers, police cars and vans.


How West Midlands shed its gun crime capital label

BBC News

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 10 years ago, the West Midlands was dubbed the gun crime capital of England and Wales. It was an area suffering from high-profile shootings. Gun fights between rival gangs were happening regularly. Figures at the time reflected that notoriety - there were more firearms offences per head in the West Midlands Police force area than anywhere else.