• She's selling it ... but she's four

    Fashion Kids is the latest Instagram craze dedicated to showcasing the fashion looks of children that’s clocked up 1.3 million followers already. But should parents be posting?

    Fashion Kids
  • Trekking through parenthood

    Once a reluctant trekkie, Brooke Lumsden was lured into the world of Klingons and spaceships by her husband but she discovered something surprising about the show she had vowed to avoid.

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  • When a child dies

    'When my best friend's son died, it left a hole so enormous I couldn’t believe it wasn’t leading the 6 o’clock news.'

  • When your child is a bully

    What would you do if you found out your child was a bully? This father claims that publicly humiliating his son was the only thing that worked.

    How do you teach a bully empathy?
  • Stalking charges don't solve bullying problem

    Criminal charges against kids who bully? Why are we blaming two teens instead of holding the adults around them - their parents - responsible?

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Preschoolers

She's selling it ... but she's four

Julia Teen Fashion Kids is the latest Instagram craze dedicated to showcasing the fashion looks of children that’s clocked up 1.3 million followers already. But should parents be posting?

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Can Love Be Taught?

Teaching children that love is more than infatuation ...

Nicole Thomson-Pride Throughout childhood, fairy tales and songs about love set children up to think it is easy, but what can parents do to help their children grow up with a balanced and realistic view of love?

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The four-year-old boy who berated a terrorist in Kenya's Westgate Mall

When body image concerns start early

What my daughter taught me about body image

How likely are children to follow a stranger?

Younger Kids

Halloween bingo game

Download and print this free bingo game to play while out and about trick or treating around the neighbourhood.

Halloween paper chain cut-outs

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Download and print this free halloween decoration paper chain cut-out activitiy. With spooky pumpkins, witches hats and bats, simply fold and cut.

Halloween in Hollywood

Parents to blame for childhood obesity?

'Bento style' lunch key to healthy kids?

Vampire mask activity

Older Kids

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Mothering lessons for the girl who cried bear

Anna Funder It's only now, as a parent, that I understand the story my mum used to tell about me.

Stalking charges don't solve bullying problem

Rebecca Ann Sedwick

Emily Bazelon Criminal charges against kids who bully? Why are we blaming two teens instead of holding the adults around them - their parents - responsible?

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When your child is a bully

Bat bon bon craft

Spider piñata craft

Do you yell at your children?

Entertaining Kids

No split custody for celebrity mum Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet doesn't believe in 50/50 custody with her ex-husbands. " None of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads - my children live with me; that is it. That is it!"

Trekking through parenthood

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BROOKE LUMSDEN Once a reluctant trekkie, Brooke Lumsden was lured into the world of Klingons and spaceships by her husband but she discovered something surprising about the show she had vowed to avoid.

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McDonald's publishes children's books as part of Happy Meal giveaways

Lock down Facebook privacy

Top 10 failed young fiction franchises

Babysitting your children with apps

Family Life

The social minefield that is a child's birthday party

As a head teacher advises parents to include the whole class in birthday celebrations, Anna Maxted delves into the social minefield that is a modern child’s party.

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He is a child sex offender. And he is my friend

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Ruby Hamad Often there aren't any clues to the double lives people are leading.

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Tips: How to take better travel photos

Party games for girls

Race games

When a child dies

Recipes

Mummy pops

Hungry Halloween The perfect treat for Halloween.

Reader reviews