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  • A painting of a woman comforting a child in a pram

    My parents and in-laws are making inappropriate comments about my baby. Should I let them go?

    You are allowed to have rules about how you and your child are treated, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but enforcing them will feel awful
  • Safe at last … Jewish children arriving in London in February 1939.

    How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

  • Emma Bradshaw with her daughter in the 00s

    A moment that changed me: I was pregnant at 16 – and a midwife said I was good for nothing. It was a red rag to a bull

  • Christmas hug

    How to help your loved one with dementia enjoy the festive season

    Nikki-Anne Wilson for the Conversation
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    My young boy’s daily profanities are truly shocking

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Painting: Sunny Day by Australian artist Clarice Beckett

    ‘I fret about the years that lie ahead’: the unique caring burden of single childless daughters

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  • Claire Armitstead

    Thanks to James Cleverly, I may never live in the same country as my kids again

    Claire Armitstead
  • Zoe Williams

    Worried about naming your baby? Don’t be

    Zoe Williams
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    My advice about the stress zone that is toddler mealtimes: do your best and get by – everything else is just noise

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Diana Nguyen during the process of freezing her eggs

    From hormone injections at a K-pop concert to a ‘spread of endo’, freezing my eggs has been a journey

    Diana Nguyen
  • Myke's children reach one of the many dead ends 
Myke Bartlett feature on getting lost and time they got lost for hours in the bush, waded through the river, ended up having to climb that steep cliff and got chased by wasps

    Getting lost in local bushland was a grand parenting disaster. Our children adored it

    Myke Bartlett
  • Cute little boy lying on bed reading next to stack of books

    My kids are grappling with language, but I’ve got some new words to learn, too

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Emma Beddington

    Need to get out of a Christmas party? Just take notes from Martha Stewart

    Emma Beddington
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Advice

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    How do I get rid of the ‘good girl’ label that has always plagued me?

  • Composite illustration of men looking at each other

    Sexual healing
    I love casual fun – but seize up sexually in a serious relationship

  • Frozen man with coffee cup<br>Close up of man hands holding a mug of hot coffee

    Ask Philippa
    Being ‘ugly’ is ruining our lives: two readers share their anguish

  • EDF promised drivers big cost savings with its overnight tariff.

    Consumer champions
    EDF can’t move me on to its super-cheap EV charging deal

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Love & sex

  • secondhand clothes

    You be the judge: should my wife stop giving secondhand presents to my family?

  • The Matildas celebrating their winning penalty goal which took them through their match with France during the Women's World Cup

    My partner and I are on very different sports pages – and that’s probably OK

    Rebecca Shaw
    I have been using the Matildas to begin slowly chipping away at her, like a lesbian chisel. But she may never know the highs and lows of being a sports fan
  • Shoba (left) and Hania.

    How we met: ‘When she walked past me it was like being covered in a soft blanket’

    Shoba, 70, and Hania, 68, met in 1989 at a silent meditation retreat in Massachusetts. Their first date lasted three days and, now retired, they live together in Portugal
  • Olivia De Zilva with her partner Aldin

    The moment I knew: I watched him nurse our pet rabbit to health – and I felt at peace

  • Jayda and Syd

    This is how we do it: ‘His disability might change the sex we have, but we’ll adapt’

  • Dr David Brown photographed in his lab at Chesterford Research Park near Cambridge

    ‘It wouldn’t exist’: Viagra inventor tells how Welsh miners began its rise

  • Robert and David

    Blind date: ‘As Bette Davis said: “I’d like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair”’

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