Is it ever okay to spy on your children? The Guardian
I often joke that I don’t like the word “spying” – it has such negative associations for what can be just taking an active interest in…
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…
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…
My daughter refuses to speak to my boyfriend. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I am in my 40s and live with my two daughters, X, 15, and Y, 12. Their father and I separated five years ago.…
“My girlfriend’s son makes it clear he doesn’t like me and my son.” The Guardian
Dear Annalisa I have been in a relationship with my girlfriend for four years. I have a nine-year-old son; she has a 12-year-old son. I have…
The truth about baby food. Published in The Guardian
Having children is like opening the door to a whole other universe. Arguments you simply never knew existed, you suddenly become part of. News stories on…
Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray: grandparents with favourites.
On Woman’s Hour with the fabulous Virginia Ironside. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dtdgc
“My partner is sometimes too harsh with my little boy.” Published in The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My partner and I separated more than three years ago. We took every care to ensure that we put our son, now six, first…
“I’m 40 and I want to find out about my biological father.” Published in The Guardian
Dear Annalisa am a 40-year-old woman. I had an OK childhood with my mother and loving father, always in the knowledge that I had a different…
How can we protect our daughters from abusive relationships? The Guardian
When I became the mother of one, then two, girls I would occasionally think about the prevalence of eating disorders and what I could do to…
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