Parents and parenting
Childcare
Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone | Emma Beddington
It is the kind of statistic that makes you do a double-take, because it can’t be right. It is, though: 41% of US parents are so stressed that they...
Breastfeeding
Painful memories of the struggle to breastfeed | Letters
Reading Niamh Campbell’s article on breastfeeding brought back painful memories for me (‘Like a cheese grater raking across...
Family
Finally my childhood music lessons have paid off | Seamas O
My daughter grabs the microphone. It sparkles intensely. It’s one of those karaoke mics studded with LED lights...
Childbirth
‘It felt shameful’: the profound loneliness of modern motherhood
One of the weirdest experiences for me in early motherhood was a recurrent image or sense, when I...
Bruce Springsteen
I love Springsteen and my daughter is a huge Swiftie – and that’s created a bridge between us
It is a cloudy Saturday evening in Edinburgh in early June and I am in a rugby stadium...