Baby & Child Care Tips for Parents
From tantrums to navigating nap times, four parents get real about bringing up baby
Our parenting panel talk, hosted by Holly Rains
Welcome to Growing Pains, our special round table chat where we put family life under the microscope to look at what goes on behind closed doors. It’s a wide-reaching topic – raising babies and coping with kids, while navigating family dynamics and friendships along the way – so what does modern family life look like today?
We’re not just here to talk about the glossy bits, we’re delving into the real moments, the tricky, potentially not so nice bits away from Instagram.
To answer these questions, we have four guests who are currently navigating all things family and are ready to share their stories, warts and all.
Meet our guests
Dilly CarterAuthor, presenter and the founder of Declutter Dollies, an organising and home-styling service that promises to turn her clients’ chaos into calm. Dilly also provides decluttering advice on BBC1’s Sort Your Life Out.
Lotte JeffsLotte is an award-winning magazine writer, editor, author and podcaster. Her debut novel This Love will be published by Dialogue in 2024, and her nonfiction title, The Queer Parent: Everything You Need To Know From Gay to Ze, is out on 11 May.
Andrea ThompsonAndrea is editor-in-chief of Marie Claire UK. She sits on the committee of the British Society of Magazine Editors where she acts as vice-chair and looks after diversity and inclusion.
Stuart HeritageStuart is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Times and Vanity Fair. His newest children's book, Don't Say Elephant!, will be published by Puffin on 29 June.
