Tag: parents

She was Britain’s poster-girl for the London 2012 Olympics and the nation celebrated as she won gold in the heptathlon. Dame Jessica...

How we raise our children to become well-rounded, pleasant and useful members of society is one of our prime concerns as parents. We...

“You’re sunburned,” said my daughter, accusingly. “Your face is really red.” “I know,” I replied. “It’s from the boat trip I went on. Didn’t top...

When many of us were young, we thought of our parents as superheroes. They weren’t just people that had started life as kids like...

“You know,” said my therapist, leaning forward slightly, “you could see that as emotional abuse.” Emotional abuse. The term felt right, somehow. At 29, sitting...

My two daughters look very like their cousins. Nobody is surprised; my husband, Steven, and his brother, Alan, also look very much alike. But...

Life’s weird. The trials and tribulations of raising kids are even weirder. I subscribe to the “whatever works for you” philosophy;  after all, parenting...

As our kids get older, our relationship with them inevitably alters. They are now independent, our equals, with their own lives. Adapting to the...

Do you ever look back at those hazy days before the kids came along, when you could please yourselves? When life didn’t revolve around...

It was the speed with which John died that stunned me. He'd felt tired and under the weather, and I told him to go and...