Parenting

By DR MICHAEL LOWRY features@algarveresident.com Dr Michael Lowry is an experienced parent and educator, who regularly visits his Algarve home in Tavira. His work over many years in universities has

By: CHARLOTTE KAMMAN features@algarveresident.com Charlotte Kamman is a life coach, working with divorced parents in new relationships. She coaches clients from over the whole world by phone, chat and e-mail.

WOMEN IN Britain can discover the gender of their unborn baby just six weeks into their pregnancy with DNA testing kits, a firm has claimed. The kits are going on

By: SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Working mothers A study has revealed that working mothers have fatter children than those who don’t work. Researchers of the study, published in the International Journal

According to a Japanese study, children whose mothers smoked in the early stages of pregnancy are more likely to suffer with obesity later in life. “Researchers can ‘speculate’ that children

By ANDREA CLIFFORD-POSTON features@algarveresident.com Andrea Clifford-Poston is an educational psychotherapist and author of Tweens: What to Expect From and How to Survive Your Child’s Pre-Teenage Years (published by Oneworld) and

By Dr Michael Lowry  features@algarveresident.com

By ANDREA CLIFFORD-POSTON features@algarveresident.com Andrea Clifford-Poston is an educational psychotherapist and author of Tweens: What to Expect From and How to Survive Your Child’s Pre-Teenage Years (published by Oneworld) and

Think how bored you may find yourself at certain social events and functions; now multiply this infinitely many times and think how your child will feel. Boredom tends to make

By: SUZY TURNER suzy@the-resident.com Suzy Turner has lived in Portugal for 22 years and works as a freelance writer. As well as putting pen to paper for The Resident’s fashion