Hey, kids – leave my bad food stash alone
Jay Rayner: What do you do when the children find your sherbet lemons and pork scratchings – and all the other things you told them were bad?
‘Normal is boring’: parents on caring for children with genetic disorders
Eleanor Tucker: One child in 25 in the UK is born with a genetic disorder, and many of them are extremely rare. Here, families share their stories about living with unusual conditions
Rare genetic disorders: five positive steps for parents
Eleanor Tucker: Charity Genetic Disorders UK outlines five of the most important measures to take when your child has been recently diagnosed.
This column will change your life: if it’s good for you, it can’t be nice
Oliver Burkeman: 'When told food would make them stronger, or better at counting or reading, children came to think of it as less tasty, and ate a smaller amount'
Baby Gammy’s sad story is not the only side to surrogacy – I know it can work
Bonita Dordel: International surrogacy could do with some regulation, but it’s all too easy to pass moral judgment
If you cheer breastfeeding women and jeer bottle-feeders, you’re the problem
Jessica Valenti: By judging mothers’ choices, we reinforce the idea that women can’t be trusted to decide what’s right for their bodies
World Breastfeeding Day: been to Breastival this year?
Homa Khaleeli: Mothers across the UK celebrated the day with a simultaneous feeding session. But campaigners and health workers say women still don't get enough support
What are growing pains and should I worry about them?
Reports have suggested that growing pains could lead to osteoarthritis. So should children who experience them have blood tests and MRI scans? Luisa Dillner reports
My thalidomide family: Every time I went home I was a stranger
Louise Medus was one of the last babies born with the effects of the drug thalidomide. Brought up in a residential home from infancy, She’s had to fight to overcome her tough start in life and build a family life of her own
Criminalising pregnant women who drink is a ploy to restrict their freedom
Rebecca Schiller: If the UK apes the US and punishes pregnant women, we will be heading towards a dystopia akin to that in The Handmaid’s Tale