A parent seeks concrete ways to respond to a severely rude 7-year-old, a common behavior-and-boundaries challenge.
Tackles how to explain an estranged grandparent to a curious 3-year-old without oversharing adult conflict.
Examines whether a family can hold firm on bedtime rather than shifting it around outside pressures.
Addresses the practical weekend dilemma of how present a parent should be while a child plays independently.
Focuses on the perennial logistics problem of fitting home maintenance around work and family time.
Offers a timely look at changing expectations around children’s birthday parties and what families are doing instead.
Explains five warning signs of coercive online exploitation and concrete steps parents can take to reduce risk.
Offenders use threats and manipulation to coerce victims to produce imagery or livestream sexually explicit acts, self-harm or animal cruelty. How can you protect your child? The sadistic online groomers targeting victims around the world – and a mother’s struggle to keep her daughter safe Inside the horrifying online network where children coerce others to commit violence and self-harm Authorities globally have warned about a sharp increase in the “sadistic online exploitation” of young people…
A firsthand account of Ireland’s shift from two-tier maternity care toward universal state provision.
An unfair two-tier system is, at last, giving way to universal state care. But private interests and highly paid doctors are resisting There were no chandeliers in the public ward where I spent my first days as a mother, at the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. The room echoed with cries, the well-worn floor bouncing under footsteps, the windows looking out on Dublin’s city centre. Now the Rotunda hospital, where I’m due to give birth again soon, is counting down to…
Adults aged 40 and older performed about 12% faster on a test of executive function after using a HEPA air purifier at home for one month. The findings suggest that cleaner indoor air could offer a simple way to help protect the brain from the effects of traffic-related pollution.