We humans in the “First World” love to overcomplicate life with layer upon layer of choice – in how we live, what we buy, what we eat and what we wear – and then fret about whether we are making the ...

“You’re always nagging me, and getting on my case.” “I am not nagging you. I am trying to help you.” This one of the most common parent-teenager exchanges I hear of and see in my clinic. Most parents ...

Some kids seem to be an absolute breeze as far as their behaviour’s concerned, whereas other parents feel like their work’s truly cut out for them. But why is this? It can’t all be down to how you’ve ...

At 3 a.m., one mother scrolls through sleep-training forums while her baby wails in the next room. Another toggles between TikTok advice and contradictory Google results. It’s a familiar ritual of ...

Like most parents, I often turn to social media when I just need a minute. Sometimes, the mental exhaustion of motherhood is such that all I need is a few minutes to mindlessly scroll … yet often when ...

‘Hello sickness my old friend, I’ve come to speak with you again.’ Those are the words I hummed to myself as I cleaned up vomit from a child’s bedroom floor at 3am. It really had me feeling nostalgic ...