Teenagers and food
A teenager is squirrelling away snacks.
Tween love
How young is too young to date?
Children and their habits: thumb-sucking
How to deal with a child who continues to suck their t-shirts when they should have outgrown this behaviour.
Children and divorce
Diane Levy provides expert answers to your parenting queries.
Children and their first cellphone...
Dear Diane, What age do you think children should get their first cellphone? My eight-yearold reckons everyone else in her class has them, but I feel she’s just too young. I worry about all that weir
When child is unhappy with their name
Dear Diane, My daughter, who is 11, has an unusual name and hates it. She always has to spell it out for people and no-one can pronounce it correctly. I feel this is all my fault be
Daughter's decision to breastfeed in public
I read in the paper about a café where staff asked a mother not to breastfeed in public and I noticed it whipped up quite a controversy...
Dealing with a tweenage daughter
Dear Diane, My daughter has made a new friend and while this girl is great on her own, as soon as she sees her two sisters they argue non-stop.
When children go through the ‘no’ stage
I still have to ask – how do you stop a toddler from saying “no” to everything?
Getting young child into modelling and acting
Dear Diane, We think our six-year-old girl is very pretty and other people have said so too. I’d like to sign her up for modelling or acting...
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