Why you shouldn’t spank a child
A disturbing investigation by Brazil’s Agência Pública and online platform openDemocracy has uncovered that Brazil’s religious homeschooling groups, supported by
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Category: Parenting
What happened when a friend saw me yell at my child
Last year, someone who was close to me and my family joined us for a week while we were in
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The cost of the motherhood penalty
🚨 On 18 July, I am moderating a panel on why we should take children and carers into account when
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Do you share your childhood games with your children?
We journalists should never act as psychologists, especially when it comes to the topic of how to approach children. Yet
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Why a child’s imagination is a superpower
Baidui is a child, but he’s also an uncle. He is a boy, but he’s also a mother. He is
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Who gets to make decisions for a child?
Photo credit: Picturehouse Entertainment A child walks into a courtroom to sue his parents. When the judge asks him why,
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Off on a date on a working day
Dear reader, This week I had several plans for this newsletter. I wanted to reflect on climate anxiety, following the
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When children feel like a burden
When do children become a burden rather than a joy? I’m not ready for the question that Nacho, my husband,
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Do we really want our children to be independent?
The week my son Lorenzo turned three he put his shoes on by himself, opened the front with a “Ciao”,
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The importance of learning how to be lazy
When we returned recently from our time with friends in Thailand, I was excited to take advantage of the time
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