Family

Whitcoulls range of educational toys give kids the opportunity to have fun and create while expanding their mind.

We hope your Christmas season is warm and wonderful and that you are able to be surrounded by people that you love.

Eva-Maria helps you navigate through the preteen years of choosing the right friends.

When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. My hammer is parenting - whenever I get a chance I bang on about families and parenting because I'm passionate about it.

Is your girl a little princess? Of course she is... in one sense anyway. In your eyes and (hopefully) in her own, she is a young woman of huge worth.

Is there a low flow… of communication and affection? Is there a bad taste: tension, passive-aggressive anger and a sense of distance between you?

I've often blown it with my kids. Usually it was getting too angry, too loud. Sometimes I've known I've blown it...

My thick framed brown glasses were a sort of chastity belt I wore on my face. Not only did they cause social rejection but I could also see very clearly and crisply who it was who was rejecting me.

It's great to see schools and authorities talking bullying more and more seriously. It's very rare now for a school not to have a policy in place and so if you voice your concerns it will get some action - hopefully positive and thoughtful action.

It’s my opinion that most people find the first year of their first baby the toughest ...