Children whose parents are splitting up will be able to seek help and advice from teenagers who have experienced family breakdown thanks to a new internet helpline launching this weekend. Kidsinthemiddle.org.uk will also offer video explanations of the stages of divorce and what the jargon means, with youngsters interviewing lawyers and parents. Its founders say [&hellip
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Let children tackle bullies on their own, parents told
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Parents should leave children to protect themselves against low-level bullying, an academic has suggested. Overprotective parenting allows bullying to flourish because children do not become “inoculated” by dealing with conflict on their own, Dieter Wolke said. The professor of psychology at Warwick University said parents who do everything for their children often fail to equip [&hellip
Disillusioned parents pool resources for home teaching
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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
The Outnumbered parent’s survival guide
Parenting: such a horrible word, ugly on the ear and fundamentally misleading. It suggests that being a parent is a job, or a vocation, or even a craft, when in truth it is an exercise in survival. Nowadays, we are all under such pressure to be “successful” parents, but by my reckoning, if your children [&hellip
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