Parenting

How do you respond when other people’s children are rude and inconsiderate? When you go out for a meal and there are kids yelling and running around the restaurant, or your own children bring friends home who backchat – or worse – what should your response be, and what does that response say about you? Clem Felix investigates

‘Summertime and the living is easy.’ Really? How do you create a restful holiday if your kids are knocking lumps out of each other and you’ve lost a suitcase? You need a plan, says our family expert Ilona Boniwell

Are the toys little girls are playing with shaping their view with regard to future careers?

A book that tells the stories of parents dealing with exceptional children, Andrew Solomon’s Far From The Tree (Vintage, £11.99) was one of Psychologies’ favourite non-fiction books of last year, and it’s just won the Wellcome Book Prize, given to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction centred on medicine and health

Alarmed by continuous casually sexist attitudes, The Great Initiative is hoping to teach boys how to grow into young men who respect women, and it has enlisted the help of former rapper and father of two daughters, Doc Brown, to help it achieve this aim. Lena Corner explains

Ilona Boniwell asks when is the right time to have a child and will having one make you happy? It might depend on how you define happiness and create meaning in your life

Exams can be a stressful time, not just for your child, but for the whole family. Help your children with their exam revision using our simple tips

‘Warning over UK child wellbeing’ – The Daily Express Are our kids part of a deprived generation missing out on ‘better times’ or have they never had it so good? Certainly, headlines circulating around the recent UNICEF child wellbeing report were not positive. But while it’s true there have been concerns raised by children’s experts […]

Many parents worry constantly about how they parent their children – it’s part of the package. But taking a step back and acknowledging our guilt for what it is could help us to be even better parents, says Isabelle Grey