Father’s Day 2026 falls on Sunday, 21 June, and across the globe many families will pause to say thank you. But behind every card and every hug is a story; we rarely tell the story of what fatherhood costs and how quietly most fathers pay it. The battles they fight in silence Many fathers carry […]
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Refugee Week 2026 runs from 15 to 21 June, and this year it asks something of us all. The theme is Courage and it lands in a year when courage is in desperately short supply. As we mark the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the agreement that promised the displaced protection and dignity,
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Your teenager checks their phone the moment they wake up. They get irritable when you ask them to put it down. They’ve drifted away from the hobbies they once loved. And every time, there’s a reasonable explanation: they’re tired, they’re growing up, their interests are changing. I know that script intimately. I’m a nurse, a
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So much digital parenting advice points at the teenager. This week, I want to turn the lens somewhere less comfortable: onto us, the parents. Because the most powerful influence on your teen’s relationship with technology isn’t a rule you set or a conversation you have. It’s the example you live, every single day, with your
If you’re parenting a teenager who’s already deep in their digital life, there’s a thought that may have crept in: I think I’ve already missed it. The first phone went out without the conversation. The first account appeared without a plan. And now your teen is fifteen, and the early steps feel like a chance
