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Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman makes giant sculptures of discarded animal toys. We talk to him about fame, finding your style and rediscovering your childlike wonder

People are always talking about political and religious differences, but there's really no divide like the one between parents and non-parents. I know, because I worked in an office for a while where I was the only person with kids.

Having 'the talk' has never been easy, but it's an essential part of raising kids who can appreciate not just the biological steps of sex, but also the pleasure and fulfilment that can come with healthy, respectful, intimate relationships.

In the backyard of my house, a small concrete statue of a monk stands praying beneath a bush of coral-colour tea roses. "Who's that?" guests of barbecues sometimes ask.

A chat with Anna jones, a London-based chef, food stylist, writer, Guardian columnist and mum.

So, what happens at a kindergarten that proudly proclaims to have "no toys, no tools, no art supplies"?  How do children respond to being outside with no equipment whatsoever, apart from a portable loo?

If you're stuck on what books to buy or borrow next, here's our list of awesome books given the thumbs up by a range of kids aged 3-10.

The thought of having to flee a war zone with your family would have to rate as one of the most terrifying hypotheticals the anxious mind plays out while watching the news or during a bout of insomnia. Yet twelve years ago, Jeremy and Jessica Courtney did the exact opposite...

Brumm is the first piece I've created as both a designer and a producer. I wanted to start this new phase of my life with a toy, and specifically with a car, because it reminded me of the forms and passions of 1980s motorsports

Having children really made us want to change the way we worked and develop something that was our very own. More specifically, we wanted to create something for our own homes that didn't exist already.

There are natural dyes all around the home. Beets! Coffee! Cabbage! The coolest part of this crafty experiment is to see what colours come from what ingredients after they're thrown in a pot.

My Dad has a great sense of humour and rarely acts his age (he’s 63). He loves football, which is something neither my brother nor I have taken to our hearts. Possibly due to being dragged along to watch him play...

A few months before my partner's mum Joan turned seventy, she'd been asking questions about the internet. "So, you can really talk to your relatives overseas instantly for nothing?" Or, "You can really see pictures of how fat your school friends got?"

I went to school for painting and drawing, and focused exclusively on fine art pursuits until my first son was born almost ten years ago. While I continued drawing and painting and showing my work, I became interested in the idea of integrating my lifelong love of sewing and toys.

I’m a child of the ’70s. Brought up on a diet of Kiss, Ramones, The Muppets and Saturday morning cartoons. Rock’n’roll has been pulsing through my veins since a very young age, and the pulse only seems to get stronger as the years go by.

I started it ten years ago in 2006. I had been working in the world of independent magazine publishing, but took a break in 2002 to have my son, Oscar.

A chat with Jill Robertson, writer and co-founder of Wee Society

Rock That Museum Kid is all about kids and art. Enjoy this mini chat with founder Mille Maria.

There are labours of love in this world, and then there's the Ai Pioppi Playground. The brainchild of 79-year-old grandfather and madcap inventor Bruno Ferrin, the Ai Pioppi Playground has been almost 50 years in the making – a miracle of hand-welding, scrap metal and basic physics that has produced...

It's no secret that Mexico is dealing with more than its fair share of issues these days. Home to an ongoing war with its numerous drug cartels that has claimed somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 lives, it's a country that is living the Narcos nightmare in real time.

A chat with Jacqui Ma, founder and designer of Goodordering (our new favourite maker of backpacks) When did you start Goodordering? It was 2012 at the same time I had my son, while we were living on top of a family bike shop in East London.

These summer holidays we took a road trip up the East coast of Australia. With the whole Brady Bunch-esque family in tow, each of the 'grown-ups' had to drive their own version of adventure mobile.

When we were 13, my friend Anna and I started skateboarding. We cruised downtown after school, went looking for empty car-parks in the holidays, built slalom courses down the middle of Anna’s street, and tried our best not to mow down old ladies and policemen.

I remember the exact moment I wrote in a text document on my laptop "Make Lunch Lady a magazine". It was 3:30am, in a tent, on a hill, in Wales. I had severe jetlag and was dealing with crippling anxiety. The tent and night time was my sanctuary. I was...