Housework conflicts arise between parents and children in a struggle for control.
Move over attachment parenting; there’s a new trend—Hoover attachment parenting. Janetta R. Bagley remembers her Saturday mornings as a kid in suburban New Jersey, filled with chores like sweeping, vacuuming, and cleaning the garage. Now, she’s a single mother trying to get her 5-year-old son involved in household duties. The challenge? His father doesn’t help […]
Philippa Gregory: ‘I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut’ | Life and style
BPhilippa Gregory, 70, from Kenya, wrote her first novel while completing a PhD in 18th century literature at the University of Edinburgh. Wide Acres became the bestselling trilogy of hers, and she went on to write many popular histories that were also made into films, including The Other Boleyn Girl, The White Queen, and The […]