My mother has schizophrenia and there’s a chance I could too. Am I right to want biological children? I’m not ambivalent about having kids because I’m afraid for their mental health. It’s because I’m afraid for my own One recent afternoon, I went with a friend to pick up her five-year-old from art class. Our progress walking home was slow. Her daughter…

My mother has schizophrenia and there’s a chance I could too. Am I right to want biological children? #Parentsandparenting #Mentalhealth #Schizophrenia

Winter is coming … but don’t panic! 54 expert tips on getting through the cold, dark months ahead How to survive the season – with mood-lifters, skin-savers, life-changing layers, and ways to have fun in the rain Question your ‘winter blues’ Continue reading...

Winter is coming … but don’t panic! 54 expert tips on getting through the cold, dark months ahead #Lifeandstyle #Beauty #Parentsandparenting

Estrangement from a child is like a never-ending bereavement | Letters Readers respond to an article by Gaby Hinsliff told from people on both sides of family rifts, and share their own experiences Gaby Hinsliff’s article (‘I never want you around your grandchild’: the families torn apart when adult children decide to go…

Estrangement from a child is like a never-ending bereavement | Letters #Family #Parentsandparenting #Bereavement

I have spent my life looking after my depressive, controlling mum – can I move on? | Ask Annalisa This is one of the most controlling mother/daughter relationships I’ve ever seen. You have done more than enough for her * Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a reader My mother has led a hard life. Diagnosed with clinical…

I have spent my life looking after my depressive, controlling mum – can I move on? | Ask Annalisa #Lifeandstyle #Parentsandparenting #Family

‘Baby brain’? ‘Fussy eater’? By dispelling such myths, science is taking the shame out of parenting | Lucy Jones Most childcare advice is simply opinion represented as fact. Research based on data and evidence is the liberation we need * Lucy Jones is the author of Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood There are few areas in…

‘Baby brain’? ‘Fussy eater’? By dispelling such myths, science is taking the shame out of parenting | Lucy Jones #Parentsandparenting #Neuroscience #Science

I held on to my baby tightly. Was this a fear that someone would take her away from me? | Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts I was a lawyer and qualified social worker, but the fear of having my child taken away loomed over me. Too many First Nations families had gone through it before me The fears my parents both had when I was born carried through when I was pregnant with my…

I held on to my baby tightly. Was this a fear that someone would take her away from me? | Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts #IndigenousAustralians #Childbirth #Parentsandparenting

Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it | Polly Toynbee On the Aylesbury estate in London this week, I met residents who recall the impact Blair had. This government will go even further I will eat my hat – or several – if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don’t soon find the money to bury the pernicious…

#Benefits #Society #Children #Parentsandparenting Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it | Polly Toynbee: On the Aylesbury estate in London this week, I met residents who recall the impact Blair had. This government will go even…

I’m hoping my son, aged five, has the makings of a political commentator | Séamas O'Reilly We’ve tried to instil values, but he has no awareness of the political system – does that matter? Sometimes I think it would be handy to have a child who says politically astute things that I could share around election time. That’d be a nice little…

#Family #Parentsandparenting #Lifeandstyle #Politics I’m hoping my son, aged five, has the makings of a political commentator | Séamas O'Reilly: We’ve tried to instil values, but he has no awareness of the political system – does that matter?

Sometimes I think it would be handy to have a child…