Attachment parenting is a parenting style that emphasizes a strong bond between parents and children, with parents being highly attuned and receptive to their child's needs.It's most often associated with things that keep parents and children close, like breastfeeding on-demand, baby-wearing, and responding right away to a baby who cries out during sleep or...
The government’s proposal that shop workers should help kickstart children’s early development is laughable
Parents, we’ve all been there: a high-street shoe shop in early September. Everyone with a school-aged child has simultaneously realised that if they don’t get around to buying shoes today, the kids are going to have...
You must delve into your own past, Mariella Frostrup tells a social worker who has no contact with her own family
The dilemma I’m 28 and was born and raised in a northern mining town. I went to university quite late in life, trained to be a social worker and...
A new relationship will long outlive – and swiftly obscure – the heartache you’ve been through, says Mariella Frostrup
The dilemma Eighteen months ago, my husband left me and our children, who were both under five. We had been through a rocky period, drifting apart a little. I put this...
‘I’ll tell you what’s just happened,’ he says. ‘Someone’s taken my wife’s skis’
It is Wednesday afternoon, and I am skiing through some trees in the French Alps. Because I am one of a group of nine friends staying in two adjacent flats, I am relishing this moment alone....
As a child of divorce, I grew up wanting a different life. I swore I would never have a family and put them through that mess. I would do whatever it took to stay with my spouse for my children.
One day, when I was running errands with my kids during a...
About a week ago, I plopped myself down on the couch next to my seemingly lounging husband. The kids were playing nicely for once and I began chitchatting about a TV show that was on. He politely, but emphatically, shushed me and said, “Hold on, I’m thinking,” and proceeded...
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My husband is the kindest, sweetest man I have ever met. He’s the one who catches and releases spiders. He jumps out of the...