A parent’s account of suspected autism and how early intervention changed daily life.
A focused discussion of having no spoken words at 28 months—useful for parents weighing next steps.
Tackles the specific question of why a live MMR vaccine does not cause full-blown disease.
A concrete family-boundary story about changing who provides care for a new baby.
Invites parents to compare age-appropriate comfort levels across specific child milestones or freedoms.
A practical timing question about introducing gaming to a daughter, likely to surface household rules and tradeoffs.
Letters make the practical case for teaching laundry and basic cooking before children leave home for university.
We owe it to our young people to teach them how to do laundry and prepare food, writes Melissa Scallan , while Pippa Keech recalls her son’s university halls baptism of fire Zoe Williams’ university-bound son won’t be the only one among his peers not to know how, or indeed why, bed sheets are laundered ( I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures, 8 September ). Modern day, middle-class parenting tends to direct kids away from domestic pursuits, focusing instead …
Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to better language skills and appeared to weaken the impact of gray matter loss.
Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to better language skills and appeared to weaken the impact of gray matter loss.