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Parents and parenting

12 July 2024

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

    As children, we roamed free. What has changed?

    Letters: Robert Hardy, Mandy Lane and Rita Hawes respond to an article on hands-off Norwegian parenting, talking of the freedom they had during childhood in Britain decades ago
  • 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
    High self-esteem is fragile, says developmental paediatrician Dr Bill Garvey. There are three pillars to helping children build a more stable sense of self

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

    • ‘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

  • Imogen Adams plays on a snow-covered playground in Nimmitabel, NSW, Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    Why don’t children seem to feel the cold like adults do?

    Charlotte Phelps and Christian Moro
    Children don’t associate the cold with any actual threat of illness, or feeling of being worn-out

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
    Why didn’t I spend more time actually being in the moment rather than worrying about getting the right shot of it?
  • Zoe Williams

    My kids are holidaying without me – and I’m worried they’ll repeat my foreign faux pas

    Zoe Williams
    As my nonchalant offspring head to France, I have tried to instil in them a hard-learned lesson about hunger, buffet cars and theft, says Zoe Williams
  • Vanessa Aylwin in 2021.

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

    The long read: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her

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

  • 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
  • hands tied by a wire round a gaming console

    Totally wired: why are so many young people addicted to video games?

    Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to resist – and meets the experts tackling the issue

6 July 2024

  • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

    For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

    I was there through their infirmity, incontinence, our cohabitation - and suddenly I was fired

4 July 2024

  • Painting: Mother, Daughter and Granddaughter Knitting by Georg Nicolai Achen

    Leading questions
    My daughter visits daily since her partner left her. How can I reclaim my space without offending her?

  • Devi Sridhar

    We now know the shocking effects of screen time on teens - but smartphone bans aren’t the answer

    Devi Sridhar
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