4 h. ago How do I know if my child has ADHD? Eight signs and symptoms of ADHD in children parents should know about

Symptoms of ADHD usually start before the age of 12 🎒

Society

5 h. ago Child snatch murder plot suspects fail at 'human rights' bid to remain in Scotland

US citizens Valerie Hayes, Gary Reburn and Jennifer Amnott were found living in Glasgow in 2018 - as the FBI identified them as suspected of being behind a plot to kidnap five children and kill their parents.

Events

8 h. ago What is heat stroke? The signs and symptoms to look for during a heatwave

A public health expert has revealed some of the key warning signs and ways to keep cool when the heat and humidity get too high

Politics

8 h. ago Thousands of parents missing out on up to £749 a month from DWP

The DWP can provide financial support for parents whose children need more looking after

Economics

9 h. ago Woman rages as 'entitled' parents let kids 'climb all over her' on flight

A woman has slammed a set of parents who allowed their children to climb all over her on a flight to her dream holiday - and people say she should have stood up for herself more

Politics

21 h. ago Six ‘stubborn’ barriers stopping parents from vaccinating their children

The uptake of vaccines in the UK has stalled over the last decade and is, in many cases, declining

Society

30 h. ago Kelsey Parker pays tribute to 'precious' daughter Aurelia on her sixth birthday as she returns to social media for the first time since confirming the loss of her third child

The podcaster is a parent to children Aurelia and Bodhi, four, from her marriage to The Wanted singer Tom Parker , who died in 2022 following a long battle with brain cancer .

Economics

39 h. ago Solo trips to the shop at age three and no toys: is disaster

Forget gentle parenting, the way to raise strong, independent children is with mountain climber Zoe Hart’s bold ethos

Events

39 h. ago Will covering your child’s face with an emoji actually protect their privacy?

Plenty of parents see covering up their children’s faces online as a happy medium, allowing them to share family snaps without encroaching on their privacy. But is this actually effective, or just a way of making us feel better? Katie Rosseinsky asks the experts

Politics

45 h. ago Survey reveals true cost of children’s sports – and which is the most expensive

Parents are shelling out hundreds of pounds to support their children’s hobbies

Politics

45 h. ago Children’s sporting activities cost parents £443 on average a year, survey finds

Some 21% of parents admit they regret how much they have spent on activities their children have since given up.

Economics

51 h. ago 'People are moving here from places like Chorlton and Didsbury

Greater Manchester town is a magnet for parents keen to do their best for their children

Politics

57 h. ago ‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark. Will she win the fight to get Zammi back?‘Now your two hours begin.” The countdown started when Keira Alexandra Kronvold had just given birth in the early hours of 7 November 2024. Keira, 38, was originally granted just one hour with her daughter, Zammi, before her baby was to be removed from her and taken to foster parents – but the midwife begged authorities to give them more time. Before Zammi’s arrival, the midwife asked if Keira had any wishes. “I said, ‘I want hand and footprints. I want to grab her, I don’t want you to catch her when she is born. I want to catch her myself.’”During labour – which lasted just an hour and a half – Keira kept checking whether her 20-year-old daughter, Zoe, who had never seen a birth before, was OK; and she was determined no...

Society

66 h. ago Parents warned to limit their children's screen time, as research finds youngsters glued to smartphones and tablets have smaller brains and lower IQs

Scientists found children who watched television and used smartphones, tablets and computers had, on average, lower IQs and less intracranial volume (ICV) - a marker for brain size.

Events

3 d. ago What to know about the US Supreme Court's ruling on public school lessons using LGBTQ books

The Supreme Court has sided with religious parents who want to pull their children out of the classroom when a public school lesson uses LGBTQ storybooks

Events

4 d. ago Trump claims ‘GIANT WIN’ in ‘Birthright Citizenship Hoax’ after massive Supreme Court ruling

The court did not green light his policy to block children born in the US to immigrant parents from claiming citizenship

Politics

4 d. ago Supreme Court allows parents to opt children out of classes that use LGBT

A group of religious parents in Maryland successfully asked the court to allow them to remove their children from classrooms with LGBT+ inclusive books

Society

4 d. ago ‘I don’t think my brain should have gone through that’: five young people on their experience of smartphones as teens

What do people who got – and one who didn’t get – internet-connected phones in their adolescence actually think about the impact they had on them?Debate and anxiety about teen and preteen access to smartphones and social media is raging. One paper has likened smartphones to a “parasite” on our brains, while another study suggests moderate use of social media does not have a harmful effect on young people. In the US more than 100,000 parents have joined an online pledge to delay giving children smartphones until at least the eighth grade and in Australia a ban on under-16s using social media will come into effect in December. Despite all this, OECD figures released in May show 70% of 10-year-olds and 98% of 15-year-olds have internet-connected smartphones.So is giving teenagers smartphones that big a deal? Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Supreme Court meets Friday to decide 6 remaining cases, including birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court is meeting Friday to decide the final six cases of its term, including President Donald Trump’s bid to enforce his executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally

Events

4 d. ago ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanagesAs many as 35,000 Ukrainian children are still missing and thought to be held in Russia or Russian-occupied territories, according to an American team of experts, with families saying they are being forced to take desperate and risky measures to try to rescue them.As Russian forces began their invasion in February 2022, children were abducted from care homes, from the battlefield after the death of their parents, or under coercion directly from their families. Continue reading...

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