Tag: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...
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 my nipple’: why I kept trying...
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 that masks its harshness with sheer...
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 was walking down the street, pushing...
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 surrounded by young women who are...
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WSJ Wants Judiciary Shielded From Scrutiny
A New York Times investigation (9/15/24) has given us great insight into Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who—unlike the president...
Gambling study says £2.7bn bet annually on hidden-market websites
Gamblers in Great Britain are betting £2.7bn a year through hidden-market websites, according to a lobby group that claims...
Prada and Max Mara bring strangeness and science to Milan fashion week
A Prada show is never a straightforward beauty pageant, so when the co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons go...
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Jennifer Aniston’s Ex Justin Theroux Wishes Her Happy Birthday on Instagram
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