Family editor Stephanie Lowe discusses why parenting is so much harder now than it was for her parents…

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A family of all ages standing in the kitchen, cooking and eating together

Children in nursery singing nursery rhymes

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Parent high fiving child

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Mother talking to teenage daughter about sex

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A selection of foods to eat on a low sodium diet

foods high in iron

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