In a tragic rope jumping accident, a young woman lost her life during a jump from the famous Ponte do Esqueleto, or “Skeleton Bridge,” in São Paulo state, Brazil. The video of the incident has gone viral on social media and has put the spotlight on safety standards at adventure tourism sites. The fatal accident…

A little boy looks up at his mother one evening and asks, “Mom, people tell me boys don’t cry. So if I cry, does that make me weak?” She doesn’t have an answer ready. Most of us wouldn’t. Chances are, you’ve said “boys don’t cry” at some point: to your son, your nephew, maybe even…

Parenting advice often travels across borders, but some approaches attract attention because they are woven so deeply into everyday life that they barely resemble a set of rules. Japan is one example. The country’s child-rearing culture is shaped by ideas about shared responsibility, consideration for others, and the small rituals that quietly organise daily routines….

I spoke to three modern mothers about a feeling no one warned them about: The working-mother guilt This comes from one of the vivid memories from my earlier workplace. On what seemed like a normal office day, news broke that several schools across Delhi had received bomb blast threats. As a precautionary measure, classes were…