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Family

  • Family around a dining table

    Charging your children rent doesn’t add up

    Letters: Peter Brown says it’s wrong for parents to make commercial demands of their own children, while Giovanni Fazzolari says charging them rent defies the point. Plus a letter from Kathryn H Amey
  • title illustration colored

    Where’s the best place to raise a small child: New York City, or literally anywhere else?

  • Melissa Noble with brother Shawn, pictured 2023 at brother Michael's wedding

    ‘Same large forehead. Similar nose. Dad’s bulging calves’: the day I met my long-lost brother

  • Young Boy Eating Barbecued Corn On The Cob<br>Posed by model A young boy with curly hair sitting at a table in his back garden and eating a barbecued corn on the cob.

    But where do you put your knife and fork? Etiquette lessons…

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Roman Kemp sitting on Martin Kemp's shoulders outside with a dramatic sky in 1997 and 2024.

    Martin and Roman Kemp look back: ‘I didn’t want a parent v kid relationship. I wanted us to be equal’

  • Illustration of a ballerina in a blue tutu and tiara, and white ballet shoes

    Who was the first ballerina and how do parachutes work? Try our kids’ quiz

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Opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    My stepfather-in-law is still happy at work aged 90 – what’s his secret?

    Zoe Williams
  • Paul Daley

    So-called ‘school refusal’ must be tackled with compassion, not hard-hearted discipline

    Paul Daley
  • Ranjana Srivastava

    A letter to my kids: sometimes, my love for you must feel conditional but on Mother’s Day, let me say that I love you

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Mumsnet has its flaws, but the depth of experience shared on it is extraordinary

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I hoped Peppa might be a role model for my daughter. But that little piggy is just a brat

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Back to school. View from the back of a happy dad escorts his sons schoolchildren to school. Parental care for children.

    How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

    Myke Bartlett
  • Schoolboy leaving house with book bag on way to school

    Living opposite my son’s school has its advantages

    Séamas O’Reilly
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Advice

  • Worried-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m ignored when I try to chat to people. How can I improve my conversation skills?

  • ‘I long to get back the dominant top that I married.’

    Sexual healing
    I married a top – but now he wants to be a bottom

  • Woman on the Morning Walk in the Nature Playing with Young Kooikerhondje Dog Throwing him a Ball

    Ask Philippa
    I’m worried my new partner won’t love who I really am

  • easyJet offers customers travel insurance in partnership with Collinson, underwritten by Zurich Insurance.

    Consumer champions
    EasyJet’s travel insurance said ‘no’ to my valid claim

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Love & sex

  • ‘I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.’

    Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

  • black and white photo of a man and woman cuddling

    ‘I often say the journey time is longer’: how to make sex after 50 work for you

    Many people’s sex lives can dip in middle age – and tiredness is a real passion killer. But there are simple things that can make a difference
  • BUTTERMERE, 21 June 2021 - Five frriends making their longest swim on the longest day, the 1.24 mile length of Buttermere in the Lake District. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    What if HRT isn’t right for me? And is cold-water swimming really the answer to everything? Your menopause questions answered

    We asked the experts for advice on how to ease your path through menopause and what alternative treatments work best
  • Jennie Duggan Reid says Mike

    The moment I knew: I was late for our date – but he waited for me in the cold winter night, under a halo of lights

  • Rachel Cooke

    Shirley Conran’s legacy is not only the filthy bits, but sisterhood too

    Rachel Cooke
  • Penny and Peter

    This is how we do it: ‘I can only orgasm fantasising about other men. My husband loves it’

  • Maz and Gianluca Blind Date composite photo

    Blind date: ‘She yawned when I was talking – but she told me she was just tired’

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