The Family Podcast
Join Miranda Sawyer and studio guest Jay Rayner, Observer food critic, gourmand and father of two, for the first edition of The Family Podcast from the Guardian. Follow Miranda as she noses around the house …
Private lives
Post your advice below. The best responses will be published in G2 next FridayMy son is on the Aspergers spectrum and was saving to buy a house when his girlfriend of four months announced she was pregnant. He proposed, but after a row they split. There is evidence to suggest she is unstable and wanted a [...]
Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.
Is your mum a style icon?
Piper Weiss’s blog celebrates the beauty and fashion choices of readers’ mothers in their heydayTucked into a corner of my mirror is a black-and-white photo of my mother looking so glamorous I can’t believe we are related. Taken in Brazil in 1970, it shows her leaning against a wall in Rio de Janeiro, all glossy [...]
‘Healing’ autism
Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?It’s a windswept, freezing January afternoon on a remote beach in Scotland, and I’m watching four horses, each with a child on its back, plodding across the pebbles. Eight-year-old Rowan [...]
Why children need more sleep
Children sleep an hour less today than 30 years ago – and it’s having a dramatic effect on their intelligence, behaviour and obesity levelsMorgan Fichter is a 10-year-old from New Jersey in the US. Her father, Bill, is a police officer on duty until 3am. Her mother, Heather, works part-time, devoting herself to taking Morgan [...]
Michael Douglas admits he wasn’t best dad to jailed son
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Actor Michael Douglas has admitted that he could have been a better father to his eldest son, Cameron, who is in jail after being arrested and charged with selling drugs.
A survival guide for new fathers
New fathers should talk a lot, run errands – and embrace the washing machineThe government’s recent green paper on families proposes furnishing all prospective fathers with “instruction manuals”. While we wait for this innovation G2 is pleased to present its very own Good Dad Guide:▶ A baby can learn to recognise its father’s [...]