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Family

  • A baby’s feet in a mother's hands

    Naps, nuts and gentle parenting: everything you need to know about new babies

    A quick guide for parents to the latest research and studies on raising infants and looking after toddlers
  • Headshot of choreographer Arlene Phillips

    Arlene Phillips looks back: ‘I always told people to get used to rejection. I had to take my own advice after Strictly’

  • Illustration of a blue universe with stars and planets

    What existed before the big bang and can animals cry? Try our kids’ quiz

  • guardian saturday kids collage

    Tim Dowling: I’m on holiday and someone is stealing my whole life

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    Both my parents died and then my step-parents got together. Why can’t I be happy for them?

  • John Everett Millais; The North-West Passage; 1874; Oil on canvas; Tate Britain, London, England.<br>2KG3MJN John Everett Millais; The North-West Passage; 1874; Oil on canvas; Tate Britain, London, England.

    My husband wants to separate but I don’t. Can I save this marriage?

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Opinion

  • Peter Fonagy

    Think before shouting at your child: to them, words can be as harmful as physical blows

    Peter Fonagy
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    My son’s face lit up at Winnie the Pooh – and my misgivings about Disney melted away

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Heat or Eat illustration by Eleanor Bannister

    As a parent, I put on a brave face when times are tough. But there was no joy this summer

    Charlie
    It’s been a long six weeks, as I struggled to feed my sons, says single mother Charlie
  • André Spicer

    Not even bankers wear ties and blazers any more. So why should schoolchildren?

    André Spicer
  • Children online harm<br>File photo dated 26/05/22 of a child using a laptop computer. Disadvantaged children are more likely to experience harm online, new research has suggested. PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 30, 2023. Survey results suggested disadvantaged children were more likely to say being online makes them sad, jealous and worried about their appearance. See PA story CHILDREN Internet. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Computers have moved on, but sons can still put dads in their place…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Eva Wiseman

    It isn’t just nursery kids who need a ‘settling in’ period

    Eva Wiseman
  • Helen Russell

    Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia

    Helen Russell
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Advice

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Both my parents died and then my step-parents got together. Why can’t I be happy for them?

  • ‘It feels like an enormous release of stress’ (posed by models).

    Sexual healing
    Why do I always cry after orgasming with my partner?

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    Ask Philippa
    My husband can’t relate to people and has lost his job

  • After being stuck in a long queue for the car wash £100 parking fine landed.

    Consumer champions
    I was fined £100 for queuing up at a carwash queue

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Love & sex

  • Susan and Thomas

    This is how we do it: ‘A lot of our relationship is conducted via email - it’s surprisingly intimate’

  • Linda Nylind/Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

    Blind date: ‘We got on the same train home – but he was going the wrong way’

    Jake, 31, a teacher, meets Alessia, 31, who works in sustainability product management
  • Judge 7th Oct WEB

    You be the judge: should my girlfriend unpack as soon as we get back from holiday?

    Kiran likes to live out of her suitcase at home and on holiday; Monty is a stickler for tidiness and putting things away. Either way, there’s a lot to unpack here
  • Do you have an interesting story about how you met your other half aged 60+?

    Tell us: did you meet your romantic partner over the age of 60?

  • Buried, hazy memories of youthful adventures … Amy Fleming in her teens.

    ‘My babyface was so obviously underage’: what I learned about men and power before I could consent

  • People who are unlucky in love from 1969

    What became of the broken-hearted? Meet the unlucky in love, 1969

  • A senior-aged couple looking happy and walking hand-in-hand through a Tasmanian rural property.

    The moment I knew: ‘She called my mother back to say she’d changed her mind’

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