Author: Irene Caselli

Summer is great for everyone except parents

Posted on 08/17/202209/08/2022 by Irene Caselli

There is a poem by Gianni Rodari, the Italian children’s book writer I can’t stop raving about, that has always stayed

Why you shouldn’t spank a child

Posted on 08/11/202208/11/2022 by Irene Caselli

A disturbing investigation by Brazil’s Agência Pública and online platform openDemocracy has uncovered that Brazil’s religious homeschooling groups, supported by

What happened when a friend saw me yell at my child

Posted on 08/04/202208/05/2022 by Irene Caselli

Last year, someone who was close to me and my family joined us for a week while we were in

The life-changing power of reading aloud

Posted on 07/28/202207/29/2022 by Irene Caselli

When I was pregnant with my son Lorenzo, I would often sit down and read aloud to my belly. I

What it’s like to flee a forest fire

Posted on 07/22/202207/22/2022 by Irene Caselli

One afternoon last year, I fled my home with my family as the hill above my home burned. I’d had

The cost of the motherhood penalty

Posted on 07/15/202207/18/2022 by Irene Caselli

🚨 On 18 July, I am moderating a panel on why we should take children and carers into account when

What does trauma really mean?

Posted on 07/06/202207/11/2022 by Irene Caselli

An image has been haunting me recently. It’s of children lined up in an airport in the United States about

Criminalised for a miscarriage

Posted on 06/30/202206/30/2022 by Irene Caselli

**Warning: this piece handles miscarriage, pregnancy loss and abortion, and goes into some graphic details. If you’d still like to

Why cooking matters

Posted on 06/23/202206/23/2022 by Irene Caselli

Meet Manal. She is one of the women I met in Lesbos, the Greek island that became a main transit

Do you share your childhood games with your children?

Posted on 06/17/202206/23/2022 by Irene Caselli

We journalists should never act as psychologists, especially when it comes to the topic of how to approach children. Yet