Dear Diane oy daughter Ruby is 11 months old and my husband and I have been trying to work out whether we should be disciplining her in any way. I keep thinking that she probably doesn’t really understand us if we scold her when she throws her toys on the floor or puts her hands […]

Dear Diane oy nine-year-old daughter is utterly obsessed with the osama Bin Laden news as it’s been playing out over the last few weeks. She’s glued to CNN when the coverage is on and reads every newspaper story about him avidly. We’ve had to explain the whole 9/11 situation to her in detail – she […]

Dear Diane oy son and his wife had a very sticky break-up and divorce last year, and since then the children have lived with their mother and my son only has them every second weekend. He always tries to bring them around to see me and my husband, but there are often school events during […]