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Parents and parenting

20 July 2024

  • Charlie xcx in hot pants and a T-shirt reading I heart Me

    Weekend
    Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry – podcast

    Never doubt the instincts of Donald Trump, warns Marina Hyde, who just appointed a ‘never Trump guy’ as his running mate. Let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail – Norwegian style. Charli xcx’s new album, Brat, highlights how many young women now aspire to live – dirty, hedonistic, happy and bra-less. And ‘My brother’s mental illness hovers over my family life’ – Philippa Perry answers a reader.

19 July 2024

  • Children playing in Stavanger, Norway.

    It’s not just Norway where the kids are all right

    Letters: Readers comment on Norwegian parenting and similar attitudes taken by parents elsewhere
  • Invitro fertilisation.

    Price caps could help end IVF postcode lottery

    Letter: There are practicable solutions to restore fertility provision in this country, writes consultant in reproductive medicine Geeta Nargund
  • Polly Toynbee

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee
    On the Aylesbury estate in London this week, I met residents who recall the impact Blair had. This government will go even further, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

17 July 2024

  • Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

  • Adrian Chiles

    Graduation is such a significant moment – and yet we never realise it at the time

    Adrian Chiles
  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

    24:14

    The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

14 July 2024

  • A children’s birthday party. ‘Babies are so undiscerning, you could simply walk around until you found another baby’s birthday party in the park and join in.’

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    There’s nothing like a big cake and local park for a stress-free child’s birthday party

    Séamas O’Reilly
    My son wanted to keep the celebration small and so we took his friends out for an afternoon of beautiful, wonderful chaos

12 July 2024

  • Children playing in puddles in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1969.

    As children, we roamed free. What has changed?

    Letters: Robert Hardy, Mandy Lane and Rita Hawes respond to an article on hands-off Norwegian parenting, talking of the freedom they had during childhood in Britain decades ago
  • Man and younger boy folding laundry together

    What I wish you knew about your child’s mental health: how aiming for high self-esteem is a mistake

    Dr Bill Garvey
    High self-esteem is fragile, says developmental paediatrician Dr Bill Garvey. There are three pillars to helping children build a more stable sense of self

    • Baring the bump: how celebrities are leading a shift in maternity fashion

    • ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

    • ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

11 July 2024

  • Ruth Patrick

    Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

    Ruth Patrick
    Shoes too small, not enough food to go around: children I work with are suffering the effects of this catastrophic policy, says Ruth Patrick, professor of social policy at the University of York
  • Saima Mir

    The first summer I …
    I dared to leave my three young children and spend a month with strangers – and it was blissful

    Saima Mir
    Motherhood had stripped me of everything that came before. In a small Italian villa, I was reunited with my old self, says writer Saima Mir
  • A 10-year-old girl hangs from the bars in a playground while her eight-year-old brother sits on the equipment behind her.

    Euro visions
    How to be a Norwegian parent: let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail

    In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country – and no one bats an eyelid. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?

10 July 2024

  • Imogen Adams plays on a snow-covered playground in Nimmitabel, NSW, Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    Why don’t children seem to feel the cold like adults do?

    Charlotte Phelps and Christian Moro
    Children don’t associate the cold with any actual threat of illness, or feeling of being worn-out

9 July 2024

  • Parents help their little girl learn to ride a bike

    Sharing the Load
    I photographed every moment of our toddlers’ lives. Now I wish I’d paid more attention instead

    Sunil Badami
  • Zoe Williams

    My kids are holidaying without me – and I’m worried they’ll repeat my foreign faux pas

    Zoe Williams
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