parenting

There’s one thing about a crisis — it helps get things back into perspective and gets you thinking about what’s important in life, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Messages we give children need to be factual and have a positive focus around family management of the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Ian Munro.

Last week, police arrested a 19-year-old for, at the time of writing, failing to assist with a search warrant, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

More boys than ever before are going through body image "crises". The Children’s Society (UK) reports that more and more boys are unhappy with how they look, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Any suggestion of an eating disorder should be taken seriously. If your teenager unexpectedly starts to diet, for example, you need to monitor what is happening, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Any suggestion of an eating disorder in a teenager should be taken seriously, says parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Ian Munro offers some advice on dealing with the arrival of a second child.

Even in the best run, most loving of families there’ll always be occasions when the new arrival means that the older child will feel left out, writes Ian Munro.

There’s pretty conclusive evidence family dining helps develop healthy family relationships, writing parenting columnist Ian Munro.

The advertising of cigarettes was banned in 1963, but the promoters of the highly addictive nicotine are back in a new guise with vaping, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Technology has made life busier and more pressured, but our children still need fom us the same unconditional love, time and protection that they’ve always needed, Ian Munro writes.

For a teenager, Christmas can be a case of "let me have my presents and then let me outta here", writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Ian Munro offers some advice on how you and your child can cope with toddlerhood.

A few years ago, I wrote about a young friend who, for the purposes of this column, I renamed Sam. Sam is now in his last weeks of intermediate school and looking forward to high school next year,...

Even though it might be a phase, biting isn't something that a child can be left to grow out of, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.