Family

It is easy enough to love babies. Even when they're puking down the back of your shirt, they are inherently lovable. But they grow… it can be a lot harder to love adolescents.

Relax. You are a parent, not the entertainment officer on a cruise liner.

There's been a viral video making the rounds which shows a man conducting what he calls a social experiment in playgrounds and parks. He asks mothers who are watching their young children whether they think their children would go off with a stranger. Inv

Men are their own creatures and teaching a boy to become a man is a lifetime's work. There are so many things men are supposed to 'be,' but they all need to be taught.

When I was growing up, there wasn't a lot of talk about sex in our house, other than off-colour jokes during dinner parties after the kids had gone to bed.

Having a new baby can be hard work (to say the least), and many new parents are overwhelmed with hordes of information from the get-go!

About one out of every eight young New Zealanders are in a dangerous, frustrating place.

I had a wee lightbulb moment the other day as a mummy.

I have been sitting by the phone but William still hasn't rung me asking for advice yet. If he did ring, what advice would I give him on how to raise a princess?

I apologise. As a parenting organisation we may have given some parents the impression that to raise kids, you have to sacrifice all your time to your children. And that's simply not true.