Parenting
I didn’t really believe it was possible that my 90-year old dad wasn’t my father, but I asked him if he’d take a DNA test “just for fun.”
I didn’t plan on raising my daughter with the “bad words are OK at home” rule. It just kind of happened.
"Kids are sponges. Except when it comes to cleaning up their own messes."
"One fun thing about kids is that when you tell them to wash their hands, you have to specify 'with soap.'"
The truth about "baby name theft," from pop culture, etiquette experts and parents themselves.
Many people I work with, just like my dad, are simply self-medicating trauma – but the support networks that should catch them as they fall are no longer there, Labour MP Liam Byrne writes.
"The Government’s two-child limit goes against this fundamental principle and is pushing many families and children into poverty."
When Keith's mom died, he asked if he could live with me, asked if I could be his dad. And at that moment, I changed. I just felt right.
Some dads think that being first in and last to leave the office is something to be proud of – but if I need to work into the night after helping my daughter brush her teeth, so be it.
"Women are doing lots more, and it’s assumed that’s what they’re supposed to do."