Ask the Expert: Stating clearly your love and acceptance gives your daughter some freedom to discover her sexuality and identity without judgment

Green Party councillor says ‘a proper cycle lane’ must be ‘good enough for a 12-year-old’ to use

The ParentChild+ programme aims to model good adult-child interactions for parents who often grew up in disruptive family environments

If your child is on the younger side, September 2026 shouldn’t be the only consideration – September 2036 matters too. Here’s why

As concerns grow around safety, identity theft, consent and AI, attitudes to sharing images on social media are changing

Jen Hogan: It’s not only the people they speak to online, it’s the content they consume - and the messages

More than one in five women accurately estimated that the cost would exceed €50,000, compared to 14% of men

Television: It’s refreshing that Seoige doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. She’s muddling through like the rest of us

Parents share mixed views on weekday lunches offered to children in schools

Basic skills such as playing, pretending and conversing have been affected by tech use and pandemic isolation

I am worried that my older son will suffer because we do not have the bandwidth to make sure he is getting what he needs

The multi-award-winning podcast commissioner with the BBC on never dwelling in anger, the death of his father in 2006, and his ‘condensed’ Covid wedding

Pregnancy over 40 would once have raised an eyebrow, but not any more. For an increasing number of parents, having a child when they are older is no accident

Motherhood in Ireland is changing, with more babies born to women over the age of 40 – and indeed, 45 – than ever before

This new trend sounds remarkably like the parenting of the 1980s and 1990s, the kind we’ve mostly been trying to avoid

Tell Me About It: I’m afraid that if I do the wrong thing, she might cut me off

Companies in multibillion-euro industry lack clear policies, notes report

Ask the Expert: ‘I think my son might be bored and on video games most of the time while there’

Each week of feeding reduced risk by 2% after accounting for other factors, long-term research shows

From daily tasks to planning for the future, here are 52 ways to make your life easier this year