New research suggests parents should manage their own fears, not their children’s. While social media isn’t perfect, teenagers need autonomy to make their own decisions I have four children, two of which are teenage boys. Recently, I have become increasingly aware of how glued they are to their…
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Lucy Cavendish
Lucy is a contributing writer at happiful magazine
Meet the Agony Aunts: Emma Barnett
Emma Barnett has been dishing out advice over the airwaves for years, and now has taken up the gauntlet to be an official agony aunt Hello Emma! Who do you work for, and for how long have you been an agony aunt? The Sunday Times, and eight months! How old…
Meet the Agony Aunts: Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney has been the nation's shoulder to cry on for more than a decade. We chatted to the wisdom-giving wonder woman... Hello Bel! Tell us about your column. My advice column appears every Saturday in the Daily Mail, over two pages, with a potential readership of around six million.…
Meet the Agony Aunts: Dear Deidre
For nearly 40 years, perfect strangers have been sending ‘Dear Deidre’ Sanders hundreds of letters a week, every week. We meet the nation’s agony aunt extraordinaire Photography | Ken McKay/TV/REX/Shutterstock Hello Deidre, you hardly need an introduction, but could you explain to our readers who you work…
Happiness is the Spice of Life
We interview the open-hearted cousins behind Dishoom, the Indian eatery that's been named the best restaurant in the UK (twice) Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, the duo behind the incredibly successful chain of Indian restaurants Dishoom, are sitting in a booth in their huge Kings Cross outlet. They are, as they…