Diane Levy

Diane Levy gives advice to a mum who worries her daughter is not properly supervised at friends house

As a full-time working mum, how do you ensure you have quality time with your children?

How can you compete when a friend wins Lotto?

Diane Levy offers advice about how to deal with a nose picker.

A teenager is squirrelling away snacks.

How young is too young to date?

How to deal with a child who continues to suck their t-shirts when they should have outgrown this behaviour.

Diane Levy provides expert answers to your parenting queries.

Dear Diane, Recently I’ve noticed lots of news stories in which coroners advise parents not to share a bed with their baby. I can understand this in terms of drinking, smoking or drugs, and the possibility of rolling on the child and smothering it. But I don’t indulge in any of those vices and my […]

Dear Diane, What age do you think children should get their first cellphone? My eight-yearold reckons everyone else in her class has them, but I feel she’s just too young. I worry about all that weird stuff like “sexting” and the whole thing just feels wrong – as well as being expensive. How do I […]