Parenting
Fussy kids refusing to eat two meals a week
Fussy kids will refuse to eat two meals a week, while two more are thrown away practically untouched. A survey of 2,000 parents of kids aged four to 16 found three in five consider their child a 'fussy eater'. The research by the UK’s leading meal kit company, HelloFresh UK, revealed that nearly one in two parents feel obliged to cook more than one different meal each night to make sure everyone around the table will eat their dinner. And...
Parents so obsessed with Game of Thrones they named their kids after show’s characters
Meet Daenerys Marshall, Khalessi Gonzalez and Arya Lippincott - the children whose Game of Thrones-obsessed parents named them after the cult show’s most powerful characters.
Millions of parents have never applied sun protection to their children – even in the summer months
Millions of parents have never applied sun protection to their children - even in the summer months, a shock study has found. Research which explored parents’ attitudes to sun protection found one in 10 can’t recall a time when they used sun lotion to keep harmful rays off their child's tender skin. Of those who have never applied sun protection to their kids, 28 per cent said they 'didn’t think their child’s skin needed it'. It also emerged one in...
Concerns have been raised as mums buy & sell breast milk online – calling it ‘liquid gold’
The black market baby milk is being advertised on Facebook buy and sell pages and websites for an average of £1 an ounce, prompting health bosses to brand the practice 'horrendous'.
The Pope has urged mothers to breastfeed their children in the Sistine Chapel if they are hungry
In a homily at Mass on the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord in Vatican City, during which he is thought to have baptised 27 newborn babies, Pope Francis urged mothers to breastfeed their newborns and make them comfortable.
Sextortion is the largest growing threat to teenagers online
The phenomenon is when teens are blackmailed after intimate webcam shots and is largest amongst boys.
Mum wins fight for five-year-old daughter to have vegan school meals – citing Human Rights Act
When Lois Chepner started school her mum was upset that she would not receive a school meal - especially as she hadn't even given her a packed lunch
How we coped as a couple through baby loss
Antonia Mitchell Glynn, 36, has spoken about her baby loss after the still birth of daughter Shoshana (Shosh) in 2015 while the couple were living in Australia. They moved back home to the UK that same year, and went on to have a son, Gabriel, in 2016. Her husband Simon Glynn, 37, tells his story… How did friends and family react to your baby loss? From a personal perspective, we were quite open from the start; we wanted to talk...
Want to be intelligent? You need to hope your parents are
The DNA we inherit from our parents accounts for over two-thirds of the difference in intelligence between individuals, suggests a study