All news on the topic: Parenting

Andrew Perez, from Liverpool, had spent his entire life thinking the dad he never knew was Greek - but a DNA test revealed completely different results and the identity of his father

A woman who advised her son's partner to consider her options in the relationship due to the boy's behaviour is worried she may have gone too far and hurt everyone involved

A mum has been candid online about why she will not be throwing her daughter a birthday party every year - apart from her first and 16th birthdays - as she 'doesn't find it necessary'

Parents in an Oklahoma school district are less than amused at the outcome of a particular fundraiser where children licked peanut butter off each other's feet and toes

Sam Delaney, author of Sort Your Head Out, asks experts for ways parents can help their children navigate tricky times

The mum defended her son not being fully toilet trained by the time he started school - as she saw a rise in parents being slammed for laziness around toilet training

Louisiana dad Gary Plauché killed Jeff Doucet — the Karate instructor who groomed, raped and kidnapped his son — on live TV, but his son Jody tells The Mirror US the act wasn't seen as one of evil, it was, and still is, seen as 'an act of love, not an act of hate'

The householder quite rightly makes the rules especially for their children, but that backfired spectacularly on one couple when their daughter decided to apply the same standards in her own house

A mum is second-guessing the name she chose for her five-month-old son as people keep pronouncing it incorrectly - and now she's worried he'll grow up to 'hate' her

The so-called "immersive experience" left parents so enraged that Glasgow Police were forced to rush to the event to break up angry crowds of visitors

A mum says she showers with her children to teach them about body hair, stretch marks, weight fluctuation, and hopes they will understand what a 'normal' body is - but people say her method is 'a bit too far'

Police were called to the House of Illuminati event "Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience" in Glasgow in a barely furnished warehouse, where children were left in tears

From September a fine will be considered for all parents if a child misses five days of school for an "unauthorised absence" with fines starting from £80 and rising to £160

The heated debated has led to the pair no longer speaking to each other as she was accused of 'disrespecting women' for telling her friend she shouldn't expect as much from her husband

The woman, 33, has revealed she was pulled aside at the baby shower and accused of 'monopolising everyone's attention' - but people are most definitely on her side

The little girl collapsed and became critically ill after she had the iced drink at Gravity Trampoline Park at Xscape in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on Friday

Having an absent biological father is bad enough, but when he then gets in touch and tells a person that he doesn't consider them their child, it is heartbreaking, as one woman has recounted

A mum was left seething when she realised her 11-year-old daughter had been pierced by older girls at a sleepover - she was concerned her child had bowed to peer pressure

A mum was left shocked to find a vile note stuck under her windscreen wiper while shopping in Asda - she was 'nearly crying' over the ordeal but wants to share to warn others

A lack of time has been the main reason women aren't able to throw themselves into their fitness desires, study finds

A woman who is looking to give her daughter a name that symbolises power has been urged to reconsider, as she might end up feeling 'feel self-conscious and weird'

A dad has recounted a hilarious anecdote of how his four-year-old daughter completed trashed him in from of his entire family, leaving him feeling 'kicked in the heart' and everyone else in tears

A stay-at-home mum and ex-nursery nurse has shared the things she would never let her children take into nursery with them - and many parents agree it makes life tonnes easier

Parents are set to bring back old-style, classic baby names for their children this year as experts predict monikers with 'timeless charm' will soar in popularity

Peppa Pig is extremely well known, but American parents are less than impressed at the way they believe the piggy is making their own little ones behave in real life