My six-year-old still wears nappies

Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader worried that her son has to wear nappies at night because she hasn't trained him not to

How music helps children to deal with bereavement

A charity is helping children cope with the death of a parent and express grief through writing and playing songs. Stephanie Theobald listens in

Ros Wynne-Jones: Breastmilk could save 830,000 babies' lives a year. Westerners squeamish about warnings on packets should see the big picture

Pupils want to know about puberty and their changing bodies, rather than the mechanics of sex, says Clare Horton

The author talks to Carole Cadwalladr about his 11-year mission to write an epic about family strife and his own challenges as a gay father

My kids are at the centre of family life - I was peripheral to my parents' universe. By Tim Lott

Tim Adams is moved by a study of how disability, crime or illness test the limits of parental love

A year-long campaign is calling for good quality lessons on more than just the biology of puberty and reproduction. Lucy Emmerson explains

Zoe Williams: Fear of sexualisation is used by conservatives to traduce liberal values and invade the privacy of teenagers

Emma Brockes on a moving and thorough examination of parental love and acceptance