Should I give my daughter a smart phone? She’s only 11. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa My daughter will be 11 in a couple of months. For her birthday she has asked for a smartphone to make staying in touch…
Living with my partner’s grown up sons is ruining our relationship. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I have been with my partner for almost five years. He is a kind, handsome, intelligent, caring, considerate man and we have a two-year-old…
Jobless down, turkeys up. PM relishes his Christmas bounce. The Week.
IT WAS a festive Prime Minister’s Questions today; the last one before the right honourables break up for Christmas and the atmosphere in the Commons was…
Update on “My mother’s baby died forty years ago.”
In the autumn of 2012, I received a very sad letter, from a woman telling me about her mother, who had had a still birth 40…
Does my daughter have an increased risk of breast cancer? The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I am the mother of a healthy four-year-old daughter. My husband’s mother (my daughter’s grandmother) and one of her sisters (my daughter’s great-aunt) have had…
Obama finds his voice with a magnificent tribute to Mandela. The Week.
AS THE RAIN blurred the camera lenses in Soweto’s FNB football stadium, Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy president of the African National Congress, took to the podium to…
Update on ‘My partner treats me like a little girl. And he doesn’t want children with me.’
Last month we published this problem. I’m really careful, when replying to readers, to give practical advice. Not the sort of advice that is easy to…
My toddler bites people. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I’m struggling with the behaviour of my daughter. She’s two and for four or five months, has been lashing out on occasion, scratching or…
Update on “We’re supporting our student son, but he just lazes about”, published in September 2010.
If I hear back at all from readers, it is usually either very soon after their letter was published, or, as in this case, some years…
Sex education fails when it’s all about sex and not emotions. Published in The Week.
IT WAS the last term of primary school and I snuck into the library to look up how babies were made. I had a niggling doubt…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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