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Children Education

Education will not save your memory

Being better educated might improve your memory but it does not protect against brain power declining as you age.

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Parenting Tips

Step-parents and the adult children who resent them

Years after the death of my father, my mother met someone through a bereavement group. In the finest tradition of a sulky child, I put almighty effort into being hateful to him.

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Parenting Tips

Parenting: The grand slam

Feeling unhinged by your teenager’s strops? Lorraine Candy has an extreme solution

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Parenting Tips

Parents face prosecution for emotional neglect of children

Parents who harm their children by consistently belittling them or depriving them of love and attention will face prosecution under new plans to criminalise emotional neglect.

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Toddlers

Pack and Play Playards: A ‘Must Have’ for Every Family

There are quite a few items on the ‘baby essentials’ list that new parents compile while waiting for the addition to their family. A pack and play playard is one of those ‘must have’ items and you must never underestimate its value.