Parent Voices

They say kids don’t come with a manual, but fortunately parents have other resources at their disposal.
"If you're not using the gym solely for childcare, we probably can't be friends."
How do I tell my children that if they’d been born just six decades earlier they probably would have been murdered?
“We don’t dry dishes, mum, that’s air’s job" — and other "annoying kid logic that you’re secretly proud of."
With two weeks’ notice, we lost access to the only treatment which has given Alfie any quality of life. We need urgent assistance.
Needing to do schoolwork with my children, needing to be on almost constant work calls, having to cook, clean and shop all on my own – I’m struggling to balance it all.
I want to remember as much of my kids’ childhood as possible. To do that, I think I need to put the camera down.
Add in distance learning and coronavirus restrictions and you have a whole new set of norms to navigate.
Parents were told primary schools were safe, so they sent their children back – for just one day.
Christmas is no less magical without the big guy in red.