A focused toddler-hygiene question on teaching front-to-back wiping.
A parent seeks help supporting a daughter who has no friends and is noticing it.
Shares a proposed daytime approach to reducing night wakings.
A concrete dilemma: handling a child’s distress after their favorite toy disappears.
Addresses whether nightly bedwetting at age seven warrants concern.
A parenting household raises the practical issue of spending problems.
A first-person account of cryptic pregnancy, with no typical symptoms until an unexpected birth.
There’d been no morning sickness, cravings or tiredness. My mum didn’t believe I’d had a baby – even after seeing her on FaceTime When I was 19, I went to college in Texas, where I met my boyfriend Preston. It was 2023 and I had big plans. After finishing my degree in criminal justice, I wanted to go to law school. I wasn’t in a rush to get married or have kids. My mum had drilled into me a fear of getting pregnant at a young age. I was on the pill and careful with contraception. In May 2025, I…
An ethics-focused inheritance dilemma explores whether to share an intestate estate with an estranged half-sibling.
It’s kind of you to wonder if you should change the way things were left, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith . But it’s possible his preference is already clear Read more Leading questions My dad died suddenly earlier this year, with no will, and I am unsure as to how I should distribute the estate. We are talking about very modest sums of money – about £5,000 (US$6,750, A$9,500) in total. My dad was a very ethical person. While his death was unexpected, he had a sense it was coming. …