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On the first day of school my daughter came home with an athletic contract. How is it even legal to make an eight-year-old sign on the dotted line? The contract was a bit of a surprise since my daughter isn’t on any sports team. I assume it was for ...

The lovely husband is away on a business trip to Costa Rica. I know it’s all meetings and hard work, but I cannot help feeling a little jealous. And he gets to sleep star-shaped in a hotel bed. True, I can sleep star-shaped in ours, but last night’s...

Molly, flower, Jane, down there ... When I was a child my mother had all sorts of euphemisms for your private parts. Yes, I’m sticking with private parts here. When I had my own daughter, I wanted to be more open and modern. I wanted to use the V wo...

By Slacker Mom The teacher on the other end of the phone said: “Don’t be alarmed Mrs Slacker, but I just found your daughter smooching in the bathroom with Tommy. At least I think that’s what they were doing. They were standing very close. We have a ...

Whenever my in-laws tried to take my daughter fishing this summer it bucketed with rain. She eventually solved the problem herself by fishing one of the guppies out of my parents’ fish pond with her bare hands. I discovered its little guppy head squ...

“Dogs are just like children, you have to give them a firm hand and lots of discipline,” the store lady said. She looked pointedly at the two children giggling loudly behind me. This was day four of a weeklong vacation with my eight-year-old daughte...

Kaiya Richards ran out of money a year into her studies abroad. It was a huge setback but she returned to the Island determined she’d find a way to fulfil her goal of becoming an animal behaviour specialist. Two years later she’s still short of cash ...

Community Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin this afternoon clarified that a newly announced co-parenting council will carry out oversight functions, not directly mediate disputes. In a statement, Ms Gordon Pamplin said the Co-Parenting Mediation Counc...

One of the hardest moments in Nikia Augustus’s life was watching her young sons grapple with the death of their father. Kian and Kaya were 10 and 16 years old respectively, when Randall Ian Thompson died because of complications from diabetes in 201...

A council overseeing mediators for a new co-parenting regime, aimed at helping separating parents come to an amicable compromise over their children, comes into effect today. The move was applauded by the Coalition for the Protection of Children, whi...

As Bermuda continues the struggle to regain its economic footing in a world where competition has become ferocious in the quest to gain a piece of the global financial pie, focus could easily shift from issues such as raising children to become posit...

Feeding children healthy food need not be difficult, even if they are picky eaters. Health coach April Godfrey tells clients that being prepared is key. The 40-year-old teaches healthy habits to families based on her studies at New York’s Institute...