Genevieve Roberts

1 day ago | inews.co.uk | Genevieve Roberts

Genevieve Roberts explores the hot topics and parenting issues she encounters while raising her three children – two daughters and one son – in her weekly column, Outnumbered. My children asked to watch telly and I showed them Test Card F, the 80s screen holding image that checked the signal before broadcasts started, a familiar sight during my childhood. Juno, two, burst into tears and Xavi, almost six, screamed.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Genevieve Roberts

Genevieve Roberts explores the hot topics and parenting issues she encounters while raising her children in her weekly column, OutnumberedFifteen years ago, when poet Hollie McNish was breastfeeding her six-month-old daughter, she was first asked the uninvited question that too many mothers are subjected to: “When will you have another?”“People were saying it who don’t even get on with their siblings. It’s not just impolite, it’s dangerous,” she believes.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Genevieve Roberts

Genevieve Roberts explores the hot topics and parenting issues she encounters while raising her three children – two daughters and one son – in her weekly column, Outnumbered“Some people in my class have phones with TikTok,” my seven-year-old daughter Astrid told me last week. I didn’t know she’d ever heard of TikTok. All the same, I’ve anticipated the smartphone conversation rearing its head. “They’ve probably got older brothers and sisters,” I explain.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Genevieve Roberts

Genevieve Roberts explores the hot topics and parenting issues she encounters while raising her three children – two daughters and one son – in her weekly column, OutnumberedWhen Richard Herring answered a phone call from his GP that would change the way he looked at life, he could hear his children, at home because it was lockdown, playing in the next room. The doctor broke the news that the comedian probably had testicular cancer.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Genevieve Roberts

Are holidays a privilege or a right? Does the good they do for our family outweigh lost school days? These are the questions that I – and families countrywide – increasingly consider when weighing up term-time breaks, with savings of more than £1,000 for our five-person family compared with school holiday getaways, despite potential fines.