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13 July 2024

  • Naomi Westerman, writer and playwrite photographed near her home in Woolwich, SE London

    When my mother died, I thought her violent boyfriend had won. But she had secretly taken back control

    Ever since I was 14, this man had blighted both our lives. But my mum turned out to be stronger and more resourceful than I had ever imagined
  • A family photo of a young girl and a man wearing a sombrero in a garden, on a red background

    The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

    He was keen to impress in his new job just as a heatwave was gripping the country. What can David Azevedo’s story tell us about the threat increasingly extreme weather poses to human health?
  • Illustration of two hands laid out flat with palms down, against a white background

    The kids' quiz
    Why are more people right-handed than left-handed? Try our kids’ quiz

    Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

12 July 2024

  • Children playing in puddles in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1969.

    As children, we roamed free. What has changed?

  • Man and younger boy folding laundry together

    What I wish you knew about your child’s mental health: how aiming for high self-esteem is a mistake

    Dr Bill Garvey
  • Rihanna wearing a lace outfit during pregnancy

    Baring the bump: how celebrities are leading a shift in maternity fashion

  • cartoon of slippers with plants and butterfly

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my husband stop wearing his slippers outside the house?

  • ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

  • ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

11 July 2024

  • Ruth Patrick

    Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

    Ruth Patrick
    Shoes too small, not enough food to go around: children I work with are suffering the effects of this catastrophic policy, says Ruth Patrick, professor of social policy at the University of York
  • Saima Mir

    The first summer I …
    I dared to leave my three young children and spend a month with strangers – and it was blissful

    Saima Mir
    Motherhood had stripped me of everything that came before. In a small Italian villa, I was reunited with my old self, says writer Saima Mir
  • A 10-year-old girl hangs from the bars in a playground while her eight-year-old brother sits on the equipment behind her.

    Euro visions
    How to be a Norwegian parent: let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail

    In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country – and no one bats an eyelid. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?

10 July 2024

  • ‘The sun. It rises and rises, and I’m looking up too, into its light.’

    After my husband’s death, looking down was all I could do. Then I saw a dragonfly

    Ailsa Piper
    How can we find hope when grieving? By surrendering to the sun, the sky and bounties of nature

9 July 2024

  • Parents help their little girl learn to ride a bike

    Sharing the Load
    I photographed every moment of our toddlers’ lives. Now I wish I’d paid more attention instead

    Sunil Badami
  • Vanessa Aylwin in 2021.

    The long read
    ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

8 July 2024

  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    The rural network
    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson
  • Tiffany Norris holding a baby in a bedroom

    Babyproof a yacht? How the super-rich are turning to the ‘mummy concierge’

7 July 2024

  • Lisa Wright leaning against a tree looking pensive

    Self and wellbeing
    I was alone in my grief when my parents died – but missing them gave me the answer

    As an only child, when my mum and dad both died within three months of each other, the walls of my reality crumbled – suddenly, I was an adult orphan
  • Child filling in a voting form

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    I’m hoping my son, aged five, has the makings of a political commentator

    Séamas O’Reilly
    We’ve tried to instil values, but he has no awareness of the political system – does that matter?
  • David Badiel in his office in London

    ‘I have an obsession with authenticity’: David Baddiel on growing up, golf and family affairs

    David Baddiel grew up with an emotionally absent father and a mother having an affair with a golf memorabilia salesman. No wonder he’s written a very funny memoir about it all
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