AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar21 hours agoFive ways to make your children more resilientThe Telegraph - Charlotte LyttonJonathan Haidt has a very clear message for parents: keep your children away from smartphones and social media, at all costs. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Haidt lays the blame for poor mental health at the door …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar1 day agoThe best family festivals to book for summer 2024The Telegraph - Natalie Paris,Festival season brings fun and magic, providing experiences that families will be hard pushed to find elsewhere. In today’s cost-of-living crisis, however, ticket prices are harder to justify, so most festivals are working harder than ever to show they offer value for money. Camp Bestival, for …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar2 days agoDear Richard Madeley: My artist husband is incredibly untidy – is it too late to change him?The Telegraph - Richard MadeleyDear Richard, My husband and I have been happily married for nearly 40 years. He’s an interesting, funny and good man, who works hard. So far, so good. The problem is he is incredibly untidy. I don’t just mean he leaves the lid up (funnily enough, he never does) but he leaves a trail of destruction …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar3 days ago‘Just one more’: The women addicted to having childrenThe Telegraph - Caroline CorcoranWhen she was only a few days old, Emily Watson’s daughter Clover went to sleep in a flower delivery crate that had just delivered the bouquets to a wedding. “The news that we were having her had been a shock,” laughs Emily, 34, a wedding florist from Cambridge. “I had wanted a fifth child but my …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar4 days agoThe secret of a post-split date? Kids the same age as yoursThe Telegraph - Anna WhitehouseThere are many ways to exit a marriage. Some have affairs that become permanent. Some are caught in the act. Some weave emotional abuse throughout every dishwasher stacking exchange until it blows up. For others, there’s no Big Bang or practical reason. No one else to go to. The weight of contempt …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar4 days agoDear Richard Madeley: My wife and I gave our youngest money – her sister is furiousThe Telegraph - Richard MadeleyDear Richard, My wife inherited a house in 2001, which she rented out (in the absence of a decent pension) until early 2021. She has given a chunk of money from the sale to our youngest daughter to get her back on her feet after a divorce; the rest she has invested and she is living on the interest, …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar4 days ago‘My rich younger sister wants to take me on holiday with her. I’m so embarrassed’The Telegraph - Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan,Dear A&A, My younger sister earns more than me and I’m finding it hard. I have always been the most capable one in the family, but her business has really taken off and she is suddenly quite rich. She wants to share her good fortune by taking me on a luxurious holiday but for some reason I can’t …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar6 days agoMy husband has made us rich, but his tantrums are unbearableThe Telegraph - Anonymous authorWhen we got married, 20 years ago now, my husband was a fairly mild-mannered individual. Of course, he could get crotchety, but on the whole he would back down rather than risk a confrontation and grumble rather than kick off if things had not gone his way. Back then he had a management role at a …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar6 days agoDear Richard Madeley: How do I protect my Barbie-loving daughter from snide remarks?The Telegraph - Richard MadeleyDear Richard, My eight-year-old daughter loves pink, glittery, girly toys, clothes and accessories – ironically it was the Barbie film that really turbocharged her passion for puce. I myself was unconvinced by the film’s feminist and anti-capitalist credentials, but if my beloved little girl wants …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarDear Richard Madeley: My fiancée’s mother keeps pinching my bottom – is it a test?The Telegraph - Richard MadeleyDear Richard, My fiancée and I plan to marry this summer. Her mother, my future mother-in-law, pinches my bottom whenever we visit. At first I thought it was simply in jest, and seeing as she was quite attractive for her age, I was flattered. But this behaviour has continued. Just this Christmas, as …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatarDear Richard Madeley: Should I let my alcoholic brother stay in our mother’s house rent-free?The Telegraph - Richard MadeleyDear Richard, My 42-year-old brother is a functioning alcoholic (although currently not so much of the functioning bit). Last autumn, after he split with his girlfriend, I suggested he move into our mum’s house (she lives in a care home). It seemed like a good arrangement. However, in the summer he …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar‘I lost my mother to cancer and I don’t think I can go through with my wedding without her’The Telegraph - Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan,Dear A&E, I lost my beloved mother to cancer last summer – one of her biggest sadnesses was that she wouldn’t see me get married, but she was so happy, because before she died I got engaged. Now my wedding is approaching in May and I am really freaking out. I love my fiancé but I don’t think I can …