How do you stay calm when happiness turns into horror? — I felt Ellie’s fingers loosely holding my hand. Her excited chatter echoed in the woods when a hunch made me look behind me. There was nothing, only trees rustling in the summer breeze. I grabbed her hand tighter than was comfortable for a two-year-old. …

The country is shocked and angry, but one thing is missing from the public debate. — Her name is Ashling Murphy. At twenty-three, she was a gifted violinist, a primary school teacher, and a beloved family and community member. She went for a run on January 12th, on a popular trail beside the canal, in the small Midlands town of Tullamore. At 4 pm, a stranger…

Does the ‘Cult of the Child’ do our society more harm than good? — A few weeks ago, the first episode of Love Island UK (season eight) brought a pandora’s box of rampant individualism. Watching thirty oiled-up narcissist singletons strutting across our screens this summer, we’ll get a chance to reflect on our age of entitlement. And now it seems we, as parents, are…

The single mom’s story goes viral, with people praising her ‘old school’ parenting. — After receiving a call from her twelve-year-old’s teacher, to say that her son had repeatedly called a female classmate ‘fat and ugly’ in a string of abusive texts, Samm Jane — a single mom from Warwickshire, UK — was left fuming. But Jane, 32, didn’t leave school to deal with…

Or how your mind can heal when you immerse it. Filing away stubborn corners in my sculpture, I came to terms with a thunderbolt that had cracked my life wide open. Obsessing over extracting the right shape out of an unwieldy soapstone block taught me about creating a new life…

Modern parenting is never straightforward, but live by this simple advice and it’ll make looking after your kids much easier. — Before I got pregnant, my sister-in-law warned me bringing up kids was tiring. She has two; her parents brought up her son. Raising her second one, my niece — a college graduate now, took a lot more effort on her part. …

More girls than boys stop playing sports when they hit puberty, so what are the reasons? And how can we get teen girls active? — We’ve all been there — the dreaded PE lessons at secondary school. A jaded gym teacher is trying to coax twenty gangly teens into running laps while he knows they’d rather chat and gossip. …

And we wonder why it takes survivors so long to come forward — Watching Dutch tv news is a guessing game at the moment — who will be next? In the space of a month, big names in the world of tv, sports, and politics have battled sexual abuse allegations. But after the initial shock subsided, internet trolls focused abuse on the victims…