Teaching children to postpone instant gratification benefits them says Helen O’Callaghan.

YOU want your children to be the best of pals, yet they seem to be constantly at war. What should you do? Don’t panic, says Fiona McAuslan, mediator and author of children’s book Resolving Sibling Rivalry (€4.99; visit www.fipi.ie).

Pilots’ union Balpa in the UK today described the captain and first officer who averted disaster in the Heathrow crash land drama as “ordinary people who did an extraordinary thing”.