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How new parents can improve wellbeing and reduce tiredness
Couples may see bed-sharing as sacrosanct, but some nights apart could save their sanity
‘My 12-year-old son is very reluctant to try anything new’
Ask the Expert: Anxiety usually means a child wants to do something but is stressed about some aspect of this
Holidaying as a single parent: ‘I was conscious of the tables with fathers getting served faster’
Lone parents explain why family holidays need to reflect modern family life, from cost and childcare to confidence and inclusion
‘I love my four adult children deeply, but they won’t leave home, and I am desperate’
Tell Me About It: ‘I’ve told my partner I am not going to retire. Work might save my sanity’
Are school mum friends real friends?: ‘They all disappeared’
A pal of mine was lamenting how contact with mothers of her children’s schoolfriends had dried up. So I solicited other mothers’ experiences
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens: Shockingly retrograde
This is a portrait of a mother with a stunningly unfeminist approach to mothering and all of her personal relationships
My son’s frustrating World Cup sticker book is a perfect reflection of Fifa
My son’s World Cup sticker book offers an unmissable opportunity for me to deliver the first ever broadsheet book review of this most vaunted form of literature
‘Sharenting’ is riskier than ever but that probably won’t stop us
Embarrassment is just one risk when you share images of your children online in an AI-enabled world
Einstein’s childhood suggests a little naughtiness nurtures big ideas
A rebellious and often angry child, known for intense temper tantrums, grew up and blew our minds
‘My six-year-old girl freezes when people talk to her’
Ask the Expert: ‘She is completely different from her outgoing brother, and I’m worried about her’
Up to 80% of parents believe children negatively affected by cost-of-living crisis
Barnardos survey finds 30% of respondents did not have enough food to feed children at some point over last year
Singer Lucy Rose: ‘Almost every doctor I saw was like, Oh, I’ve never treated anyone with this’
The singer on being a present parent, refusing to work the room, and coming to accept being diagnosed with a rare life-changing illness
Leaving Cert holidays: ‘If you unwisely decide to get a tattoo, please check all spellings with me first’
Jen Hogan shares parenting tips and tricks she has learned along the Leaving Cert holiday way
‘You’re almost an afterthought’: Five men on how fatherhood has transformed their lives
From their sense of selves to their social lives and their relationships with their partners, six dads discuss the differences having children made to their lives
‘An identity earthquake’: The biological and psychological impact of fatherhood on men
Patrescence, the physical and mental transition to becoming a dad, is a recent concept recognising the isolation men can sometimes feel in fatherhood
Quarter of women on maternity leave got no top-up pay from employer
CSO figures highlight stark difference between the treatment of women working in the public and private sectors
Readers on the UK’s social media ban: banning algorithms would be ‘far more effective’ for children’s safety online
Retired principal says she would support the banning of smartphones for under-16s
Coming from Ireland I initially thought the French way of parenting was selfish
Ça va aller became my not-so-complimentary way of referring to what I felt was the self-absorbed, laissez-faire French style
Fostering 30 children: ‘You don’t just change their lives, they change yours as well’
Helen Ogbu would ‘absolutely’ encourage other people to consider fostering, but points to the State needing to support foster carers too
Divorce is not the reason many kids are growing up without a father figure
Unthinkable: The implication is that the only thing preventing many men from abandoning their children is a breach of contract worry
‘What can we do to help our anxious son through his last exams?’
Ask the Expert: ‘He knows the stuff, but he can panic on the day of exams’
Parents’ stress ‘through the roof’ as Meath creche closes rooms 200 times since October
Mother obliged to change jobs due to necessity to be at home so often to mind daughter
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘Would you rather have no stomach or no bum?’ my son asks
My seven-year-old son hammers me with all sorts of quandaries, queries and conundrums, from dawn to dusk
Paying to sit with your child on a flight? Have your say
Ryanair is facing an investigation over the mandatory fee it charges a parent to sit with their child
‘It’s relentless’: Mother caring for disabled twin children says respite ‘critical’ for carers
Seventy-one per cent of family carers face financial difficulty, Family Carers Ireland report shows
A quick summer survival guide for parents of Irish teenagers
Jen Hogan: Three months of nothingness lies ahead for some secondary school students
Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’
The award-winning author – whose new novel Make Strange is out now – on motherhood, publishing and making a living from fiction
‘The child’s version of Culture Night’: Over 1,000 events under way for Cruinniú na nÓg
Annual children’s creativity event launched in 2018
My teenage years: Some of it was fun. A lot of it was traumatic. A good bit of it was illegal
One minute we were drinking flagons of cider in a field, the next we’re wondering what our own children are up to
‘Daddy is better at Mario Kart than Mummy,’ says my sore-loser son, correctly
In the final of our family tournament, it is - inevitably - me versus him. He, cocky and self-delighted. Me, imperious and calm
Marcus O’Laoire: ‘We need to talk more about male fertility’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise
There’s a lot going on in this novel, so much so that the main plot is in danger of being sidelined
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