Three’s company
New research on the risks of sleeping with your baby is just another case of scaremongering, says Deborah Jackson.
It feels as if there is a hole in our family
Between the birth of her first and second child, Louise Doughty had three miscarriages, the anguish of which still haunts her.
Expert eye
Oliver James: Youngness of teen mums is not the problem.
Boys will be girls
What do you do when your child wants to be the opposite sex? Naomi Coleman examines the rise of gender identity disorder.
Expert eye
Oliver James's pick of expert opinion.
‘But no one warned us!’
Clare Longrigg on the most common complaint of first-time parents.
Inside track
An occasional column that sorts the grains of wisdom from the chaff of irrelevancy in the latest academic research on child development.
Guru, schmuru
Introducing his new column, Oliver James tackles the so-called childcare experts.
Hard labour
Just how traumatic is childbirth? We all know that having a baby hurts - but that's soon forgotten, surely? Kate Hilpern on why, for some women, it is an experience that leaves deep psychological scars.
Dr Firmlove
Oliver James finds out how confronting a troubled adolescence helped Steve Biddulph become the bestselling author of Raising Boys.