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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Oliver Marre

Gwyneth Paltrow on the art of raising children

Gwyneth Paltrow at Cannes 2008
Gwyneth Paltrow: parenting guru. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Stop press. Advance warning to clear your diaries for next Thursday afternoon, which is - as you'll all be aware - the time when Gwyneth Paltrow's weekly GOOP email lands in grateful inboxes across the globe.

This week is a bit dull: some decidedly un-macrobiotic recipes for meatballs and peas and the slightly sickening detail that her daughter (Apple, we must assume) refers to adults as "grownies".

But next week we get the full glory of parenting tips from Gwynnie and pals. "Mothers included", she tells us. And not just normal parenting, either: it's "the art of raising children" - which must be Hollywood-speak for raising children, in the same way as they give us the "art" of makeup, the "art" of exercise, the "art" of looking unnaturally skeletal ...

This advice is surely what we've all been waiting for. At last we'll know how to make up for that silly oversight in not naming our children after animals or fruit.

So, place your bets: of what will this advice consist?

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