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Kids, dogs, slides – and trying to dodge the virus

Séamas O’Reilly

There’s a good deal to worry about on a short trip out with the boy
I lost my temper with my daughter. I feel I’m failing as a parent

Escalating tensions need to be halted so getting help is essential, says Mariella

How we stay together: 'Looking after each other, everything else would fall into place'

Harry and Margaret Burkett have spent their lives caring for other people, as nurses, but they’ve learned to prioritise each other above all else
Fit in my 40s: how to keep bored kids fit at home

Tailor your approach to their age: there’s now something for everyone, from badminton to ballet
Tim Dowling: Am I being gaslit by my own garden?

Yesterday there were eight seedlings, today there are six. It makes no sense – they were healthy, and had everything to live for
Berger & Wyse on families working from home – cartoon

Quiet please...

A letter to… the teacher who inspired my young son

Don't despair if your child is glued to a screen, it may be keeping them sane

Amy Orben

Social interaction is vital for young minds, and social media might be the only way of achieving this during lockdown
Quarantine fatigue has set in. From me to Matt Hancock, we're all showing the strain

Zoe Williams

I thought I was handling things admirably, until my family started asking: ‘Why can’t you just be normal?’
Adjust your clocks: lockdown is bending time completely out of shape

Jonathan Freedland

Coronavirus has robbed us of life’s markers and left us crossing off the days, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Lockdown is giving my kids a crash course in screen and tween culture

Emma Brockes

My five-year-olds’ screen time is creeping up. Yet when we step out into the real world, everything seems more vivid, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
After the pandemic: drugs, bins and dumping your friends

Brigid Delaney

Here are the things you’ll remember fondly … and those that will change forever
We expected the early months of our baby’s life to be dull – and then the lockdown started

Ben Smee

We hadn’t envisaged raising a child so physically remote from our families and friends
Farewell workplace burnout: will coronavirus slow the manic pace of our modern lives?

Johanna Leggatt

Here’s hoping the pandemic forces a rethink of our obsession with work and the culture of busyness

Ask Annalisa Barbieri I slept with my best friend's ex. Now I'm terrified of confrontation

Your reluctance to have a conversation with her could mask a deeper desire to always be in control, says Annalisa Barbieri
Private lives I am disillusioned with the gay scene and worry no one will ever accept me

I am now at an age when I want a career and to settle down and start a family, but I am afraid of rejection
Sexual healing How do I teach my daughter sex education while under lockdown?

I want her to understand the ‘mechanics’, but also to understand that it’s about love and fun. And I don’t want to just give her a book
Dear Mariella I lost my temper with my daughter. I feel I’m failing as a parent

Escalating tensions need to be halted so getting help is essential, says Mariella

Blind date: 'I put on perfume for a video call'

Kayleigh, 28, marketing manager, and Josh, 28, senior account executive, meet online
'There’s enormous screenshotting going on': how Covid-19 changed the way we gossip

With most of Australia in some kind of lockdown, one might assume there’s little left to whisper about. But while the topics have changed, we’re still hungry for gossip
'I’m so starved for human touch': a hell of its own for single people living with couples

While singles living on their own may experience loneliness and couples could see their relationships tested, singles living with couples cop both extremes

Touch saved me from loneliness. What will we become without it?

Touch is essential to our wellbeing, from the time we are babies. It’s how we transmit meaning, care, love and community. Our sudden loss of it has been agonising

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