Articles Tagged: friends

Terrible Twos: Our invisible snail

By Pip Jones, May 16, 2012

We have another invisible creature in our house. Some time ago (and still now, once in a while,) Ruby's big sister Ava introduced us to her invisible kitten.

Best man donates kidney to best friend so he will see his unborn baby grow up

By parentdish.co.uk, Mar 14, 2012

Dan Flack saved his best friend Robert Baldwin’s life by donating a kidney to his sick friend. Robert is now preparing to be a dad and get married, with Dan as best man

Toddler Tales: Toddler pals

By Jennifer Barton, Mar 13, 2012

Diana is becoming quite the social butterfly of the toddler set lately, and between playgroups and play dates, she's accumulated a lot of friends. With the exception of Diana's constant companion and BFF, Bolshy the bulldog, D's friends can be divided into three different categories.

True friendship: The mother who made a home for her best friend's FIVE orphaned children

By parentdish.co.uk, Mar 4, 2012

Julie Jones was already single handedly bringing up three teenage boys, but when her best friend Caroline Atkin was dying of cancer, Julie promised she would take in her five children and bring them up as her own.

Do you choose your children's friends?

By Glynis Kozma, Feb 16, 2012

I remember when I was 11 and I had a friend, let's call her Anne. She was my newest and best friend at secondary school. My parents, for no good reason I could fathom, thought she was a bad influence.

The Glass Half Full: A breast cancer blog

By Tamsin Kelly, Feb 3, 2012

Five years ago Elizabeth Glasson was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her shock diagnosis came slap bang in her eagerly-awaited summer holidays - and treatment began immediately for what turned out to be an aggressive grade 3, stage 3 breast cancer.

Advice column: Problem play dates

By Liat Hughes Joshi, Jan 31, 2012

Got a parenting problem? Parentdish's agony aunt Liat Hughes Joshi and author of Raising Children: The Primary Years, plus her panel of experts from child psychologists to nutritionists, can help. This week play dates

How to help your children grow up to be friends, not just family

By Jackie Cosh, Jan 10, 2012

When a friend told me that her husband had six brothers but that they only really saw one I must admit to being a bit taken aback. As a mum of four I like to think that I have created my own little family network.