1 hour ago NHS GP shares vital message to parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids

NHS GP Dr Bhasha Mukherjee has shared an important message to parents about their kids' vaccinations by sharing the 'actual risks' of not vaccinating children as measles cases surge around the UK

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4 h. ago Parents take kids to Miller & Carter but are branded 'feral pigs' after diners spot table

EXCLUSIVE: Diners were appalled by the behaviour of one family in the upmarket restaurant after a huge mess was left behind on the floor

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27 h. ago School forced into lockdown as parents receive worst nightmare texts

Parents received texts from the school saying that their kids would not be leaving at the end of the school day.

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49 h. ago Parents in one part of Wales asked not to give their kids smartphones until they turn 14

The Welsh council is asking parents to sign a pledge to keep their kids off social media until they are 16 and not get under-14s smartphones as debate rages over online safety

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54 h. ago Mother of Flies review – horror in the woods as house guests are microdosed with psychedelics

The Adams-Poser clan, a family of four who make low-budget horror films, return with a menacing tale of Solveig, a woman attempting to cheat death by strange meansIf you had a vision board for parenting goals, it would no doubt be dominated by images of the ultra-cool Adams-Poser family, a clan comprising upstate New York hep cat parents (Toby Poser and John Adams) and their hep kitten kids (Zelda and Lulu Adams) who make low-budget thriller-horror features together. The family members multitask above and beyond, serving not just as co-directors, co-writers, producers and stars, but also operating the camera and making the costumes. The results are genuinely striking, professional and effective (especially in terms of scare-generation). And if the scripts are often a smidge pretentious, they are never less than interesting and always original.Their previous offerings include Hellbender, Halfway to Zen and Rumblestrips, tales that often revolve around families or familial units, alth...

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65 h. ago Jesy Nelson and fiancé Zion Foster 'split' amid twin's devastating diagnosis

Jesy Nelson and her fiancé Zion Foster are said to have split amid their twin daughter's recent diagnosis but they are adamant to co-parent their kids together

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4 d. ago My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson

I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same dangerWhen I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV specials, by teachers, that there were strangers out there who wanted to hurt us. “Stranger Danger” was everywhere. It was a well-meaning lesson, but the risk was overblown: most child abuse and exploitation is perpetrated by people the children know. It’s much rarer for children to be abused or exploited by strangers. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Can a smartwatch stop a tantrum in its tracks? Experts decided to find out

One in five children in the U.S. lives with a mental, behavioral or emotional health disorder

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8 d. ago 'I was told my kids would be entitled brats if I used gentle parenting, they were wrong'

A mum's TikTok video showing her 2-year-old daughter comforting her crying brother has been praised by parents

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1 week ago Doctors say changes to US vaccine recommendations are confusing parents and could harm kids

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children

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1 week ago Voices: A friend has dropped me because of an argument between our kids

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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1 week ago “I heard three kids were involved. It’s devastating. Shocking”

“Lots of parents then started turning up to pick up their kids who had rung them and told them what had happened."

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2 w. ago I will NEVER let my toddler eat processed foods... despite critics' claims that I'm depriving her

Alison Robinson, 29, from Louisiana, has insisted to the Daily Mail that her daughter Serena is not 'missing out.'

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2 w. ago NHS message to parents over 18 illnesses as some could keep kids off school

The National Health Service has issued a warning to parents

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2 w. ago The perfect day for parents: how to keep kids healthy and happy – without neglecting yourself

Having a routine but not overplanning, getting them involved with chores and making sure you have time just for you can all help you stop being overwhelmed• Sign up here to get the whole series straight to your inboxMy four-year-old is in the living room playing with a dinosaur, a pig and Jessie the cowgirl from Toy Story. I’m trying to cook dinner. “Mama, mama, pllleeease can you play with me?” I hear a pot lid rattle. The broccoli is starting to smell burned; I dash back to the kitchen. “Help! Quickly come! I’m falling!” I rush through. She’s dangling from the sofa pretending to fall off the side of a volcano. “HEEELP!” The broccoli is definitely burning. And there goes the door. “Muuuuuum, I need a poo!”This wild ride of five minutes is one most parents will recognise. Getting through the day is to feel like you’re being pulled in a solar system’s worth of directions, and by turns defeated, happier than you’ve ever felt before, like a husk, in control and like you’re careening of...

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3 w. ago Family of boy who battled rare brain tumour help hundreds of parents with terminally ill kids

Triplet Caleb Stirrat, from Clydebank, near Glasgow, was given months to live after an aggressive brain tumour returned in 2020.

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3 w. ago ChatGPT, cooking and Christopher Walken: how parents got their kids to love reading in 2025

Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engagedIt’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive decline”. There are big problems in the humanities: reading test scores are down for students nationwide, and undergraduates cannot read full books any more.Even storytime – a comfy couch, a cardboard book, a kid’s rapt attention as their parent reads them a story – is an endangered activity. According to an April report from HarperCollins UK, parents have lost the love of reading to their children, with fewer than half of gen Z parents calling the activity “fun for me”. According to the survey of 1,596 parents of children aged zero to 13, almost one in three found reading “more a subject to learn” than an experience to enjoy. Only a third ...

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3 w. ago ‘Just like so many families’: US parents of addicted kids relate to the Reiners – but fear stigma

The challenges of drug and alcohol addiction are familiar, but violence against others is highly unusual, parents sayWhen news broke that Rob and Michele Singer Reiner had been killed and a possible suspect was their son, Nick Reiner, who had struggled with addiction and mental health issues, it brought addiction back into the public spotlight. But parents who have been affected by their children’s addiction fear the conversation will focus on the exceedingly rare act of violence instead of the more widespread risks.Ron Grover and his wife, Darlene, have been glued to the news. They only knew the Reiners by their work, but they feel a connection: Grover’s son also became addicted at 15 to opioids and then heroin, much like Nick Reiner, and he was in and out of rehab and jail for years. But after seven excruciating years, Grover’s son got sober in July 2010. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Helen Flanagan brands spending Christmas without her kids 'so unnatural as a mum' amid co

The soap star, 35, and the Bristol Rovers footballer, 36, - who split in 2022 after 13 years together - co-parent their daughters Matilda, 10, and Delilah, seven, and four-year-old son Charlie.

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3 w. ago Mum's touching 'it's normal' message after showing kids' Christmas presents

It's easy to get caught up in the Christmas feeling, especially with social media showing off other parents showering their kids with dozens of presents each - but it's not normal, says one mum

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