Family

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.

The school holidays can be a serious juggle for busy parents, which often flows onto grandparents.

Some kids just knock the stuffing out of their parents.

Anxiety is not just a fluttery feeling in your stomach. Real anxiety can lead to panic attacks, which are very real, even if the reason for them is unexplained or seemingly innocuous.

Both parents' incomes, estimates of the cost of raising children and more of the care parents and caregivers provide will be used for calculating child support from 1 April 2015.