New Ground housing development in High Barnet, north London, is not an old people’s home — it is Britain’s first all-female cohousing community for older people. Ten years ago, 26 women ranging in age from their early fifties to their mid-eighties moved into this three-storey brick block, which they had co-designed on the site of an old convent school tucked behind the local high street. They come from vastly different walks of life but are united by one radical idea: what if we didn’t have to g

This is what happens to baby development without emotional safety. In the 1940s, psychoanalyst René Spitz studied babies raised in institutions, without one loving caregiver. where food and nappies were provided but connection wasn’t. He documented the effects of emotional neglect: 👉🏻 Loss of curiosity 👉🏻 Delays in baby development 👉🏻 Blank stares, still bodies 👉🏻 Emotional shutdown 🧠 This is why baby development depends on more than care - it needs connection. They were surviving. Why?