You be the judge: should my boyfriend stop carrying his huge water bottle everywhere?
Jenny finds the constant presence of ‘the tank’ cringe-inducing, but for health-conscious Jared it’s practical and prudent. Whose argument needs drenching?
After my husband died, I struggled to listen to music – but now I find comfort in the songs he loved
Music was Margaret McNally and her husband’s shared love language. Two years after his death, she’s working through his playlist to keep his spirit alive
‘Upending the genre’: the children’s author rewriting the rules of sex ed
A new trio of books for kids focuses on consent, kindness and curiosity. Author Cory Silverberg explains why we need to rethink talking with young people about sex
10 questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation
We asked experts in teen mental health how to talk about everything from the environment to screen time with adolescents
Naps, nuts and gentle parenting: everything you need to know about new babies
A quick guide for parents to the latest research and studies on raising infants and looking after toddlers
‘It felt futile’: young Britons swap career-driven lives for family and fun
UK millennials are shunning overtime and excess work stress, and focusing more on loved ones and personal fulfilment
Why do we bathe children before bed, but wash ourselves in the morning?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Experience: I survived rabies
My parents mentioned the bat bite to a paediatrician and his face went white. They were told this was a near-guaranteed death sentence
Runs in the family: racing around the coast of Sweden
Three days running and hiking on the stunning Bohuslän coast with my pre-teen son is joyfully exhausting
Baby sleep has become a sign of parenting competence – and a source of shame
Expectations around infant sleep are often way off, says the Guardian’s assistant Opinion editor, Lucy Pasha-Robinson
Having bipolar made my pregnancy ‘high risk’. But all mothers deserve an elevated level of care
Pregnancy comes with mental health risk for all women. And so many of us downplay our own needs and wants once a baby is on the scene
Thursday briefing: What the UK’s first womb transplant means for the future of fertility
In today’s newsletter: does the UK’s first successful womb transplant mean that men could one day carry babies?
Manchester’s minority ethnic women to tell ‘untold stories’ of childbirth
Oral history project will preserve experiences, traditions and cultural practices of black and Asian mothers
Women with poor mental health ‘have 50% higher risk of preterm birth’
Study of more than 2m pregnancies in England found link between severity of mental health difficulties and adverse outcomes at birth
I have never wanted children – and don’t think I will change my mind
My partner, however, always assumed that one day he would be a dad