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Family

  • Kelly Rose Bradford playing the recorder

    The one change that worked: I struggled with stress after work – until I made a discovery in my attic

    When my son was growing up, his school recorder was the bane of my life. Now it’s what I reach for at the end of a hard day, rather than a glass of wine
  • Alexandra Roach

    Actor Alexandra Roach looks back: ‘I’m from a small town – when I snuck into a nightclub underage, 11 people told my dad’

  • An illustration of the heads of a man and woman who are arguing

    Should I tell my husband I want to sell our brand-new dream home?

  • Illustration of a blue bowl with a swirling pile of whipped cream

    Why does whipped cream melt back into liquid? The kids’ quiz

  • guardian saturday band collage

    Tim Dowling: disaster strikes at a gig – they laugh at my jokes

Opinion

  • Dave Schilling

    Are your kids obsessed with ‘6-7’? Here’s my plan to break the spell

    Dave Schilling
    Rules seem unlikely to help – kids will just rebel. Instead, try saying it all the time yourself
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Lily Allen’s new album shows the pain behind the ‘cool girl’ myth – that’s why women are obsessed with it

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Small child crying sitting on a pumpkin in an animal onesie

    Scaring my kids is really fun – but it’s also how I teach them to navigate a dangerous world

    Christian White
  • Close-up of male and female feet on a bed

    Nothing used to be off-limits when talking about sex. Now I’m in a long-term relationship, why is it taboo?

    Natasha Sholl
  • Man holding a mobile phone playing a video game version of Uno, with Uno imagery in the background.

    Are digital board games as fun as the real thing? Turns out: absolutely not

    Dominik Diamond

Advice

  • An illustration of the heads of a man and woman who are arguing

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Should I tell my husband I want to sell our brand-new dream home?

  • Composite image showing two women unable to communicate about their problems

    Sexual healing
    My wife and I don’t have sex and she refuses to talk about it. Should I just give up?

  • Notices from HMRC demanding payment for arrears, with red pins

    Consumer champions
    HMRC gave a refund from my tax account to fraudster making repayment claim

  • Painting: The Suitor by Harold Copping (1932).

    Leading questions
    How do I break up with a kind and generous man who leaves me feeling cold and irritated?

Love & sex

  • Emma Beddington

    Is it really outrageously uncool to have a boyfriend?

    Emma Beddington
    Vogue magazine thinks so – but there are other relationships that are much more embarrassing. I should know, I’m in one myself
  • Illustration of women's hands holding two small people whose feet are showing as they make love

    This is how we do it: ‘My cancer is terminal, but sex is its own form of healing’

  • Michael and Adinia in front of Flinders Street station in Melbourne, 2019.

    The moment I knew: I was riffling through my sudoku book when I saw a message on puzzle 239

  • Two men on a blind date, man on left has dark hair and white T-shirt; man on right has brown/blonde hair and wears a grey hoodie over a T-shirt

    Blind date: ‘He said he didn’t feel great and left – I suspect it was because the conversation had run dry’

  • Lily Allen pictured during her marriage to David Harbour

    ‘It’s risky business emotionally’: the social shift towards open relationships

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