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Find out all you could ever need to know about how to make this parenting game just that little bit less confusing. From the best discipline techniques to how to get kids to sleep and from clever potty training tips to cyber safety ideas; from toddler to teenager, we’ll help you with every beautiful, anxious, exhausting and happy age and stage.

Are you at risk of growing a bonsai child?

It’s not often we read a parenting book that makes such good, old fashioned common sense.

10 things I don’t like about having children

Because sometimes it’s nice to hear someone else whinge, just so you can nod sagely and say, “aye”.

I blamed my wife for our messy house, I was wrong for so many reasons

Kids are remarkable mess makers and sometimes no amount of ‘good parenting’ in the world can make them keep the house more tidy. There’s more important things to worry about anyway, writes dad Clint Edwards.

8 things that would make parenthood a lot easier

Chupa chups wrappers: why so hard? As if this parenting thing wasn’t hard enough, without having to deal with those infuriatingly impenetrable sweets?!

If she were your daughter, would you want her using the men's bathrooms?

Corey is a healthy and happy 14-year-old girl – who happens to have been born a boy. Now she’s become the face of a new fight against transgender discrimination.

20 things mothers say and what they actually mean

Never promise what you can’t deliver. That’s why mothers rely on opaque answers like “maybe” and “we’ll see” to get them through the day. Here’s some standard motherisms and their translations.