Marianne Kavanagh

Columnist and features writer

Marianne Kavanagh is the mum of three teenagers, 19, 18 and 16. A former deputy editor of Marie Claire, she writes regularly for a host of titles, including the Telegraph, Easy Living and www.mydaily.co.uk.

Surviving Teenagers: Trying to impress a French one

By Marianne Kavanagh, Apr 23, 2012

We have a teenage French girl staying with us. My daughter went off to France last term, and this is the exchange visit.

Surviving Teenagers: When can you ask them to turn the music down?

By Marianne Kavanagh, Apr 16, 2012

It's Tuesday night, 10pm. Next door, the other side of our semi, I hear music and laughter. "They're having a party," I say to my husband. He yawns. "I'm going to bed."

Surviving Teenagers: Hopeless shopping lists

By Marianne Kavanagh, Apr 10, 2012

Why teenagers don’t contribute ideas to the family shopping list but then moan when there is not their favourite food in the cupboards

Surviving Teenagers: What happens at family reunions

By Marianne Kavanagh, Apr 2, 2012

We have gone to stay with my parents for the weekend. It’s Sunday morning. My dad is outside in the April sunshine sorting out the recycling. My mum is on the phone. It’s 10 O’clock. "Do you think,’" I say to my husband, "we should wake them up?"

Surviving Teenagers: Asking for help

By Marianne Kavanagh, Mar 26, 2012

It’s Saturday. I skid into the kitchen, arms full of dirty washing. I’ve got to rush to the shops – there’s nothing in the fridge but Philadelphia covered in green mould and half a packet of rotting rocket.

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