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Dear Diane, Recently I’ve noticed lots of news stories in which coroners advise parents not to share a bed with their baby. I can understand this in terms of drinking, smoking or drugs, and the possib
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Dear Diane, What age do you think children should get their first cellphone? My eight-yearold reckons everyone else in her class has them, but I feel she’s just too young. I worry about all that weir
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Dear Diane, My 15-year-old son has no interest in his physical appearance and has to be nagged every day to do things like take a shower and clean his teeth. Luckily he wears a school uniform, but on
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When child is unhappy with their name
Dear Diane, My daughter, who is 11, has an unusual name and hates it. She always has to spell it out for people and no-one can pronounce it correctly. I feel this is all my fault be
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I read in the paper about a café where staff asked a mother not to breastfeed in public and I noticed it whipped up quite a controversy...
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