Is your teen dating?

What age would you allow your child to start dating?

I sacrificed my child

Would you choose your new husband over your child?

• “You can’t play with us!”
• Raising the mistress's child
• The life of a mixed race child

“You can’t play with us!”

What do you do when other kids don’t want to play with your child?

• The life of a mixed race child
• Don’t spank my child!
• Raising the mistress's child

How much technology is good?

How do you balance your kids exposure to technology?

• Balancing your family tech-time
• 18 rules for iParenting
• Overloaded with technology

'A shrine to my child'

Would you keep your child's room exactly as they left it when they moved out?

Runaway dads

Kids will be more understanding if they have a reason for their absent parent.

• Absent parenting
• The 'sperm donor's' funeral
• Absent Father

Bringing children to work

Is it unprofessional to bring your kids to work?

• Dressed to break the bank
• The life of a mixed race child
• Toddlers in nail polish!

Sharing clothes with kids

Nothing is your own when you’re a mom, sighs Karin Schimke.

• Family in a bed
• Parents who drone on
• ‘I don’t eat this’

The kid’s got style

A preschooler with a flair for fashion gets our single dad thinking about where style comes from – and does it matter?

• Kiddies in heels
• ‘Go change your clothes, Mom!’
• Dressed to break the bank

Diary of a full-time single dad

Sometimes a break in parenting is essential for your sanity as well as that of your kids.

• Single dads finding strength through hardship
• Staying over at dad
• Single dads aren’t “real men”

An apology from a single mom

"I am sorry for giving you such a difficult version of life"

Adults only!

Airline designates a "no kids" zone on their airplanes.

• Babes on a plane
• Toddler on a plane
• Beware! Child on board

Learning to say it out loud

Do you talk to your daughter about her weight?

• Obesity is a huge challenge for SA’s big kids
• Being skinny is risky
• You made your child fat!

Say goodbye to the shy

Cath Jenkin watches as her daughter comes out of her shy cocoon to become a social butterfly.

• Shy Child
• The introvert
• SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

When I was seven

How much do your kids resemble your personality?

• Let’s Dance
• Without my mom
• Validating our scars

This too shall pass

What's the best advice for new parents-to-be?

Mommy has tattoos (and that’s okay)

Sometimes the worst person to judge you is yourself.

• Of tattoos and piercings
• Tattoo your teen

Don’t spank my child!

Should step parents or domestic workers spank your kids in your absence?

• Disciplining other people’s children
• "No spanking" says Kourtney Kardashian
• No more smacking!

When teens go crazy

How do you cope with teens when their behaviour defies logic?

Validating our scars

We all have scars, but we can learn from them, suggests Cath Jenkin.

• Star charts and surprises
• Life lessons from the stars

Top 20 parenting regrets

Do you feel guilty about working too much or for being too over-protective? You're not alone.

• Naming remorse hits daft parents
• 'I'm an older mom'
• No dates for Mommy

Conversations with a rural school teacher

Overworked and underpaid - South Africa's teachers are struggling.

• Religion vs evolution in schools
• Do you trust your toddler's teacher?
• "My teachers failed me!" - Kristen Stewart

Without my mom

What do you do when your mom isn’t around to give you advice?

• Remembering Granny
• Granny, the nanny
• Children need grandparents

"I won't let my kids kill my dreams"

Are you one of those parents who set their dreams aside just because you had kids?

• Disciplining other people’s children
• Teens and parents CAN get on!
• Where is the black dad?