Aug 21 6 min Eight new rules for parenting post lockdown Published in The Times 21 August 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to-parent-after-lockdown-eight-new-rules-m99jl7kpn Family ...
Jul 19 5 min The bonds that hold society together are breaking Published in the Daily Mail 19 July 2020: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537643/Boundaries-separating-adults-children-men-w...
Jun 21 5 min Parents, overcome your fears 14 May 2020 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/14/parents-overcome-your-fears/#.Xrz1-KcugFM.twitter Schools can't stay locked down for...
Nov 30, 2019 4 min Play ‘self-identity’, make yourself up as you go Until recently only children were expected to play and pretend they were someone else — a scary lion, Alexander the Great or Superman. Now...
Oct 1, 2019 6 min The gender-neutral attack on motherhood I was genuinely shocked by the news that Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who retained his female reproductive organs and gave birth t...
Sep 12, 2018 3 min The toxic legacy of parent shaming – and the damage it does to children Intensive parenting has become the latest target of parent shaming. Having been instructed to constantly supervise their children, parent...
Jun 22, 2018 6 min A war that begins in the nursery Unlike the 19th century Kulturkampf associated with the name of Bismarck, those of today appear over apparently very small- outwardly non...
Apr 2, 2016 4 min Paranoid parenting means university students are treated as kids In the 21st century answers can range from 18 to 21 through to 26 and all the way up to the early 30s. Sociologists have invented an inte...
May 26, 2015 4 min Mother loses child because of her beliefs At first I thought that I had misread the report that a 7-year old boy had been taken away from his mother because a judge ruled that the...
