Playground politics for adults
Bullying, telling tales and tight-knit cliques are all part of school life — and that’s just the mothers. Clinical psychologist Dr Stephen Briers offers advice on how to navigate the schoolyard

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Bullying, telling tales and tight-knit cliques are all part of school life — and that’s just the mothers. Clinical psychologist Dr Stephen Briers offers advice on how to navigate the schoolyard
We all know that our parents shape our personalities, but, says psychologist Dorothy Rowe, we often overlook how much our identity is influenced by our siblings
As the ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ philosophy grows ever more popular with the parenting experts, are we in danger of dampening our children’s curiosity and need to challenge authority?