2 h. ago Antonio Brown raising money for dad arrested for leaving his three young kids in McDonald’s to go to job interview

The former NFL player donated more than $1,000 to help 24-year-old Chris Louis

Events

6 h. ago Cooking with kids teaches healthy eating, life skills and more

To raise adventurous, self-sufficient and health-conscious eaters, get kids in the kitchen

Society

62 h. ago Half of all female teachers face violence and abuse in schools amid concerns over misogynistic influencers

Fears over impact of online figures such as Andrew Tate

Events

3 d. ago ‘She treats everyone with a deep growl’: can you train an angry cat to be more sociable?

My kitten, Split, is terrified of people and not much fonder of other cats. Is there anything I could do to soothe her? I consulted the expertsMy cat Lucy, a blue Burmese, is the fluffiest, most adorable little feline in the world. She’s also the cattiest of all cats, an ill-tempered spawn of the underworld who takes arbitrary swipes at my other cats for having the temerity to exist.Lucy recently had a litter of three kittens. I don’t have kids of my own, but while helping with raising Lucy’s offspring, I have since realised the high stakes of shaping young minds – and how different siblings can be. Lucy’s kittens may have come from the same womb and suckled from the same teats in the same basket, but they have markedly different personalities: one of them is chilled and curious, another chases anything that moves and the third is skittish in the extreme. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago NSPCC boss reveals terrifying true events behind Netflix hit Adolescence

Netflix has led conversation for almost a fortnight following the success of Adolescence, and an NSPCC Policy Officer told the Mirror about similar real concerns kids have raised to Childline

Events

1 week ago The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue review – countdown to disaster

A train on a fateful trajectory is the location for a zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle FranceWhen an express train smashes through the barriers at Montparnasse, screeches across the concourse and emerges through an exterior wall, panicked onlookers assume it’s a terrorist attack. Plus ça change; this happened in October 1895 and is the inspiration for Emma Donoghue’s new novel, which takes place on that train as it hurtles from Granville to Paris.Donoghue specialises in contained settings. She is best known for the 2010 novel Room, narrated by a child who has been raised in a single room by his kidnapped mother. The Wonder is set mostly in a cramped 19th-century rural Irish cottage, then in 2020 came The Pull of the Stars, located, with eerie prescience, in the pandemic isolation ward of a Dublin maternity hospital in 1918. Most recently, there was 2022’s Haven, where Donoghue isolates three seventh-century monks on a speck of rock in the I...

Events

1 week ago Southport parents highlight 'impact of Andrew Tate' as kids 'must be raised better'

Child A survived the attack at the Taylor Swift themed dance class despite being stabbed more than 30 times in July last year - her parents say we need to 'go back to the start and raise our children better'

Politics

3 w. ago The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

SXSW film festival: The Oscar winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genresIn the past six years, the Academy award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, the reigning prince of Austin, Texas, has kept busy. He raised his three kids in the city, written and released a bestselling memoir on “easy-livin’” (“because life is a verb”), taught in the film department at the University of Texas at Austin, pleaded for gun control at the White House after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde and “seriously considered” running for governor of Texas. But he has not acted on screen – relegating his last two film roles, underwhelming romps in Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, to the distant memory of a pre-pandemic 2019. With the end of the 2010s, the energy of the McConnaissance went elsewhere.That is, until Monday, when McConaughey returned to red carpet promotional duties fo...

Politics

3 w. ago George Clooney's fears over his wife Amal and their kids HATING his new hair revealed

George Clooney shared his fears over his wife Amal and their kids hating his new hair last month - as he raised eyebrows with the new look while in NYC this weekend.

Politics