1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (875+ words) Do you struggle with self-doubt, anxiety and people-pleasing " the kind of issues any Instagram therapist would say are down to childhood trauma and toxic parents " but you had a broadly stable upbringing? A leading psychotherapist and author has a theory....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (306+ words) There's another major milestone looming for my son. Not walking, talking or learning that the phone charger isn't for eating, nothing as easy as that. I speak of potty training " a subject almost guaranteed to divide Nappy Valley and one…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (55+ words) I'm estranged from my mother, but I want my children to know her'The Times I'm estranged from my mother, but I want my children to know her She's stuck in a cycle of victimhood and rage and we cannot have…...

5+ day, 12+ 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....

2+ week, 2+ 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…...

2+ week, 2+ 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…...

3+ week, 14+ hour 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…...

3+ week, 1+ 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…...

3+ week, 2+ 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, 4+ 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…...