Growing numbers of middle-class families are joining forces to educate their children together at home, having become disillusioned over a shortage of places at local schools. Professional parents have drawn up rotas with other families to share teaching in home education networks as an alternative to setting up a free school, and some have hired [&hellip
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Exhausted by parenting? It’s all your own fault
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Family life need not be such a grind, according to Jennifer Senior, the author of a book for burnt-out parents We’re meant to sacrifice ourselves for our children, aren’t we? It’s what good parents do, deriving their happiness from securing theirs. Yet a new book creating a buzz among burnt-out American parents asks not just [&hellip
Teenagers online: a crash course for the clueless parent
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A study this week found many parents have no idea how to guide or keep their children safe on the internet. Here’s how I confess, I don’t know my Tumblr from my Flickr, declare video games a bore and have resisted an online presence. I’m a typically ignorant parent; a cyber-snob. I have three sons [&hellip
High Investment Parenting — the HIP way to bring up your kids
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Middle-class parents intent on giving their kids the childhood they never had may be putting their families at risk My husband and I were out for dinner; spruced up, child-free, and sipping from goldfish bowl-sized wine glasses. Optimal conditions for romance. But there was only one line of chat. Our seven-year-old had ripped his trousers, [&hellip
Anger grows over the games that charge children for ‘sneaky’ extras
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PRESSURE is growing on video game and console makers to overhaul the charging systems that allow children to buy expensive “extras”, leaving parents with unexpected bills running to hundreds of pounds. A poll of 1,300 parents, by Netmums for The Sunday Times, revealed that 21% had faced large bills after a child bought game extras, [&hellip
Loss of parent in childhood increases risk of early death
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People who lose a parent during childhood are 50 per cent more likely to die young themselves, a vast Scandinavian study has concluded. Those bereaved as children were more likely to die by their forties from almost all causes, according to researchers who urge better care for children who lose a parent. Early deaths are [&hellip