2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (733+ words) The Times Killer's parents are not alone in failing kids Disciplining teenagers can be hard but the way Axel Rudakubana was brought up shows the dangers of soft parenting His parents knew about the bows and arrows, the sledgehammer and…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (305+ words) We eat too many jacket potatoes and baked beans for dinner. I know this because when I go to the fridge to get my son something for lunch, there's a glaring lack of nutritionally balanced leftovers from the night before....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (657+ words) They were only18 when they had me. Dad was an apprentice TV engineer and Mum worked in the record department in the same store. We always had music playing at home " the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Bob Dylan. Mum was a stunning…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (554+ words) The soul is healed by being with children," wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist. It is a comforting thought. It is also, research suggests, usually not true. The study, published in Evolutionary Psychology, looked for signs that having children made…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (15+ words) Being a parent means you're no longer the star of your own movie'thetimes. com...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (965+ words) Leni has Sanfilippo syndrome, a genetic neurodegenerative condition caused by a single gene defect which stops her body from breaking down the sugar molecule heparan sulfate and causes toxins to build up in her brain. Right now she's much like…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (919+ words) Shielding her unborn baby from the furious punches, kicks and bites of a five-year-old pupil, Anna, a reception teacher who was seven months pregnant, vowed to leave the profession. The teacher, at a mainstream primary school, had been separating a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (482+ words) The battle to limit screen time is old but important news. The new war is skincare and make-up and, as the mother of a ten-year-old-girl, I am on the front line. My daughter isn't allowed on any platforms like Tik…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (522+ words) It happened on the climbing frame first. Then on the slide. Once or twice while we were busy enjoying the swings. Then again as we were sitting on a bench eating blueberries and minding our own business. "Can he walk…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1083+ words) Shocked gasps went around the public gallery of the House of Lords on Wednesday night as a group of middle-aged parents stared at the news lighting up their phones. A steward kept reminding them to "get off your phones: it…...