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Time to celebrate dads - yes really!

Shouldn’t we be celebrating and encouraging what dads do, instead of mocking them as useless twits, asks Jan Moir.

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How do you tell children about death?

The loss of a parent forced Lorraine Candy and her husband us to face a parental dilemma.

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‘TV’s stereotype dads are discriminatory’

Modern dads? They're just beer-drinking, walking DIY disasters - if you believe what you see on TV.

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Two-thirds of parents |(66 percent) would love to spend more quality time with their kids.

Not now honey, mom’s too tired
January 14 2013 at 13:10

Three in five parents complain they are too tired to show their children how to brush their teeth, read and safely cross the road.

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If parents help their daughter find her 'spark' - something that she loves to do that gives her purpose - it will help free her from the need for approval that haunts many girls and diminishes their confidence.

How to support your teen daughter
January 9 2013 at 15:05

Parents should spend more time with their teenage girls, advises psychologist Steve Biddulph.

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Bubble Boy is a comedy about a young man who was born without an immune system and lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom.

Hey, folks – get a life of your own
January 8 2013 at 15:05

A US psychologist is urging parents to chill out and just let their children get on with things.

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Rights activists lashed out at journalist over column in which he says same-sex parents should tell their children the set-up was not normal or desirable.

Article prompts gay rights fury
January 8 2013 at 12:00

A column which says same-sex parents should tell their children the set-up was not normal or desirable has sparked outrage.

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We've also watched all the DVDs. Twice. Picture: Dumisani Sibeko

Pondering the confusing emotions of parenthood
January 3 2013 at 14:04

After two weeks of cabin fever, Lorraine Candy’s crew has gone stir crazy...

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By visiting her you also eliminate the need for her to get up (which is more disruptive to her sleeping) to come and find you.

‘Bedtime is a nightmare - help!’
December 27 2012 at 12:08

Child psychologist David Coleman has some advice to help a five-year-old who is resisting bedtime.

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The 'Google Generation' could be left brain-dead, says Trevor Baylis.

Inventor: Net leaves kids brain-dead
December 26 2012 at 16:41

A leading inventor says that a generation who rely on the internet are in danger of becoming ‘brain-dead’.

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Well-known atheist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.

‘Being raised Catholic worse than abuse’
December 24 2012 at 11:02

Raising your children as Roman Catholics is worse than child abuse, according to atheist Richard Dawkins.

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The crowsd on Durban's North Beach on December 17, 2012. Picture: Sibusiso Ndlovu

Keep your child safe on the beach - or else!
December 21 2012 at 13:06

Parents who don't keep track of their children on crowded beaches could be prosecuted, the eThekwini municipality warns.

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The speed with which they go from being rosy cheeked to deathly pale and back to rosy cheeked again is a medical mystery.

The name is Mom... Tough Mom
December 20 2012 at 15:07

Lorraine Candy reckons the perils of parenthood are ideal preparation for being a spy.

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