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  The nine questions every parent should ask
Dec 17, 2009
The experts at the Playwork division at SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning, has compiled the nine questions every parent should ask before choosing a registered out of school club or play setting.
  Sisters sharing a bedroom
Sep 29, 2009
Our two daughters, 12 and 16, share a room but they fight constantly and when they're not doing that they're moaning to us about each other. It would be best if we could separate them but at the moment that's simply not a possibility. I just don't know how to get them to be nice to each other, or even how to get them to leave each other alone. I feel the younger one goes out of her way to upset her older sister, but then I also know that the older one can be horrid to her sister. It's starting to feel like an impossible situation.
  Proving paternity
Sep 7, 2009
Do-it-yourself DNA kits to test paternity are now available to purchase on-line but, as Katharine Vigus, Senior Solicitor at Mills & Reeve, explains courts are giving proper consideration to "non-conventional" parents.
  Protective orders
Aug 22, 2009
When going abroad it's not just the air tickets and passports that need to be remembered; both parents must be in agreement with the proposed travel plans or a court application may be required, writes lawyer Georgina Vallance-Webb.
  Phone bills and internet friendships
Jul 4, 2009

I've just got a phone bill for £400! It turns out that my 16 year-old son has met a girl on the internet who lives a few hundred miles away. As well as talking to her endlessly on on MSN, it now turns out that he's also been phoning her on her mobile. A lot. He has agreed to pay back the money but he doesn't seem to have grasped why this might be a problem. I'm concerned about the very idea of meeting someone online but he tells me it's totally normal and everyone does it. What should I do?
 
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