3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (841+ words) Is that my grandma?" my daughter asked, as a random elderly woman walked past our house. "No." I replied. "What about her?" she continued, pointing at another non-descript nonagenarian. Realising that this game could go on for a while owing…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1652+ words) Gen Z are lagging. An analysis by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies has added more numerical ballast to what has long been known: young people today are taking longer than previous cohorts to hit the big milestones of adulthood....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (62+ words) How to get along with the in-laws " by the psychotherapist'The Times How to get along with the in-laws " by the psychotherapist It can be a difficult relationship to navigate, says Julia Samuel. But there are ways to make it work…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (574+ words) Excessive screen time is causing children's vocabulary to shrink, a leading lexicographer has said. Susie Dent, who has been Countdown's resident word expert for more than two decades, said "so many children are now falling behind" due to distractions from…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (523+ words) The former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has not endeared herself to parents who bring their young and not perfectly behaved children to restaurants with them. She caused a furore last week after posting on X that lunch with a friend…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (468+ words) How come you haven't discussed divorce yet," a friend asked me the other day. My husband of 20 years and I have now been separated for 16 months, so I guess on paper it's a conversation we might have had. Yet the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (663+ words) I used to arrive to pick up my two boys from primary school and stand among the other parents nodding, smiling, half-listening. Conversations drifted past me " weekend plans, holiday childcare, birthday parties that appeared to require a spreadsheet and a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1110+ words) Roxy Wilson moved viewers of The Traitors last month when she said that she was told as a child she would never "amount to anything" before she was adopted by an "amazing woman". At the time of her emotional disclosure…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (232+ words) As the entire room laughed, a woman next to me turned to her female friend " clearly the mother of a son " and said "sorry. She absolutely meant it. It's everywhere, this narrative which says that, having had a boy, I've…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1140+ words) But it was Margot's father, Ben, who was there at pick-up, a father Margot hadn't spent a night in the care of for two years and who a court found had hit Zahra. He had come straight from the courtroom…...