Parenting

What prompts a sense of optimism in a child?

Got toddlers in the house? Are you feeling a bit overwhlemed that you’re not on top of it all, all the time? Here are four tips to help you feel you’re doing the best you can

Fathers who share household chores have a positive impact on their daughters’ views on gender equality

Psychologist and childcare expert Penelope Leach discusses how to minimise the impact of family breakdown for children

Penny Mansfield, director of One Plus One, explains how to reinforce your connection as a couple

How do you respond when other people’s children are rude and inconsiderate? When you go out for a meal and there are kids yelling and running around the restaurant, or your own children bring friends home who backchat – or worse – what should your response be, and what does that response say about you? Clem Felix investigates

‘Summertime and the living is easy.’ Really? How do you create a restful holiday if your kids are knocking lumps out of each other and you’ve lost a suitcase? You need a plan, says our family expert Ilona Boniwell

Are the toys little girls are playing with shaping their view with regard to future careers?

A book that tells the stories of parents dealing with exceptional children, Andrew Solomon’s Far From The Tree (Vintage, £11.99) was one of Psychologies’ favourite non-fiction books of last year, and it’s just won the Wellcome Book Prize, given to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction centred on medicine and health