All news on the topic: Parenting

A mum has honestly explained why she's planning to buy her teenage daughter a vibrator and the importance of being open with the young woman about sex and masturbation

A heartbroken mother said she wanted to make the most of her final months - and create a special memory for her two-month-old baby to show how much she means to her

Hard-pressed TikTok star and father-of-three jokes with his followers that he's 'an Amazon driver, but the package hates you' in viral parenting clip that calculates how many one-way trips he makes for his three children every week

A mother celebrated her six-year-old daughter's birthday by taking her and three friends to see a Cirque du Soleil show - but she only managed to score VIP backstage passes for herself and her kid

A mum admitted she 'raced' back to work after the birth of her fourth child and didn't potty train her before she started school - as an MP blasted parents who sent their children to school in nappies

A dad has recounted how his son's 'pretentious' girlfriend sent his anxiety sky-high after refusing to get in his car because it's 'embarrassing' - but he managed to get his own petty revenge

A 21-year-old woman criticized her father and other male members of the family for ripping into her partner, a nice guy who doesn't live up to their stone-age stereotypical view of what a 'real man' should be

A mum has been left scratching her head at her second-grader's homework and after an hour of trying to work it out for herself, she decided to take to social media to ask for help

Mirror agony aunt Coleen Nolan advises a reader who has heard some nasty stories about her daughter's new partner, and doesn't know if she should share them

A confused mum doesn't know what to do after her son caught chickenpox days before his fifth birthday party - her husband believes they should go ahead with the bash without him

The mum turned to Mumsnet to ask whether her plan to leave her 16-year-old boy behind while she jetted away on holiday with the rest of the family was a good idea or not

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seen in a "show-stopping moment", say experts, as they went trick or treating with their two kids in their Montecito neighbourhood

A woman has branded her friend as 'rude and inconsiderate' for giving her puppy the exact same name as her newborn daughter - but her husband believes she's overreacting about the situation

Mum-of-one Beth says her partner Peter is struggling to adapt to being a dad and misses the life they had before starting a family - but nobody said parenting was going to be easy

Nika Diwa, who is based in Dallas, went on TikTok to share her 'unpopular' opinion about fighting with her children

Sonny Ayres is the biggest baby his birth hospital had seen since way back in 2010. For parents Britteney and Chance, it is the third baby born over a whopping 13 pounds

A woman decided to set some clear boundaries after having her second child, and she openly admitted that she didn't care whether they offended other people as those close to her understood

One woman was left furious when her five-month-old daughter was woken up four nights in a row by the noise created by regular firework displays in her neighbourhood

A new mum has reached out for advice after coming to blows with her mother-in-law - and her own husband thinks she is just 'overreacting'. But not everyone agrees with him

A parent has been left horrified after reading a cruel post in a Facebook about a woman's stepchildren and how she 'hates' them - and people have urged her to take action

A man has sparked a debate after revealing how he excluded his wife from trick-or-treating with their four-year-old son, instead asking his best friend to join them

A food writer has had other parents in stitches after her hilarious email to her son's teacher after she accused her son of inappropriate language in the classroom

A mum has expressed her 'disbelief' with Shein's range of clothes for toddlers, which include silhouettes normally associated with adult women - rather than those under four

Picking the perfect baby name isn't easy - and for one grandfather, the 'out there' name that has been given to his grandson is so 'cringe' he is refusing to say it

Louisa Tipping, 42, sadly passed away following a flat fire in Hove, East Sussex last week - her daughter Elishia has now revealed the unique send-off that her mum wanted