Healthy Town event guide 2016

Talks, walks and cycles aplenty in Navan, this year’s ‘Irish Times’ Pfizer healthy town

Cavan deaths: Explaining tragedy to children without scaring them

Parents talking about death in such circumstances should be simple and truthful

Should your children keep secrets from you?

Keeping confidences is key to relationships and is a skill that has to be learned

Parents need to be open to teenagers’ need for secrecy

Teens like to operate on a ‘need-to-know’ basis with parents. But how to define ‘need’?

Healthy Town blog: The smart way to kick bad habits

Take stock, set goals, re-form habits and refocus: ditching harmful routines sounds easy

Parenting: ‘Miss, I forgot my PE gear. Again’

How to find the right physical activity for a reluctant participant

Behavioural parenting strategies ‘overused’

Majority of parenting programmes focus disproportionately on problems according to a leading child psychologist

Tweens: on a wobbly bridge between childhood and adolescence

A marketing creation or an age group to be handled with particular care?

Kids online: how can we keep them safe?

On this, Safer Internet Day, some leading experts offer advice on key questions of online concern to parents

Coming out in support of your child

Our young people are coming out in much more significant numbers and at a much earlier age, which is a real sign of progress

‘With parenthood comes great responsibility’

Monina Mooney is nervously awaiting the challenge of parenting four teens at the same time

Parents should stay informed about teen technology

Cinical psychologist Sarah O’Doherty to discuss parenting teenagers at Wicklow talk

Ask the Expert: How to calm obsessive fear of abduction

Ask the Expert: Niece is clingy after sibling’s accident