parenting

Kids who fuss over food can be a right pain and often turn into food-faddy teenagers who would have the family cook prepare several different meals of an evening. It’s a problem best not tackled head-on, writes Ian Munro.

Given the Delta outbreak, there’s only one thing we can responsibly do to protect our youngsters and others unable to be vaccinated - vaccinate ourselves, then our youngsters when eligible, writes Ian Munro.

It probably starts most obviously with increasingly persistent requests to have a phone, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Oh, the frustration of trying to get Teen to listen to something we want them to do!

It’s good to have a few close friends. It’s good for our mental health among other things. And so it is with our youngsters.

Digital is no longer just our future - it’s very much our present, says parenting columnist Ian Munro.

For parents these days, there’s another element to sex education that needs to be addressed - "porn literacy" - says Ian Munro.