Does gentle parenting work?

Gentle parenting: a gag-worthy term right up there with ‘sustainable luxury’, and often ridiculed by those of our parents’ generation. And yet here I am. I have never once let my son, Jasper, now 20 m

Anniki Somerville seeks expert help to cope with the savviest, sassiest and seemingly most sophisticated generation yet

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I’D just let Joey, my young Labrador, off the lead when I saw Spike for the first time. It was early; the grass was drenched in dew and there were few people about. He was a powerful-looking man stand

As we all experience digital overload, some parents are looking to the past when choosing how to raise their children, encouraging more outdoor play and less screen time. So we ask…

Music is in Cat Bateman’s DNA. With a dad who was a guitarist and singer, and a childhood that’s reminiscent of The Partridge Family, she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t belting out a tune. “On