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PARENTS on the run

THOUSANDS of Irish parents are on the run - the school run, the sports run, the ballet run, the drama run, the swimming run, …

Tue Jan 14 1997 - 00:00

The Afterthought

THE MAIN DIFFERENCE Sean sees between Finn, his youngest child, and his four older brothers, is Finn's attitude

Tue Nov 26 1996 - 00:00

Toys R Mess

NOT every parent is as indulgent as I am, and not every family has the hoarding gene which dictates that nothing will be thrown…

Tue Nov 19 1996 - 00:00

Leaving home is an awful place

EVERYONE KNOWS it will be tough. But somehow, you hadn't expected everything to heat up quite so fast

Tue Nov 12 1996 - 00:00

Fed up with the lot

SCENE 1: It's half past five, and Deborah is winding up another busy working day

Tue Nov 05 1996 - 00:00

SHOCK HORROR

IF this Hallowe'en is like most others, there'll be a rush on the video shops for horror movies

Tue Oct 29 1996 - 00:00

It's his party - and I'll cry if I want to

THERE was the year somebody kicked the football into the birthday cake, the time one little guest burbled "Are you her granny…

Tue Oct 22 1996 - 01:00

Bringing them to book

PARENTS, as children know, are never happy. Take reading. First, we worry if they don't read

Tue Oct 15 1996 - 01:00

Heartbreak TV

THERE was a time when parents and teachers were edgy about school dramas on television

Tue Oct 08 1996 - 01:00

Some mother's son

"I'M preparing them to be boys, to be responsible in the ways they'll deal with women, even to the point of understanding about…

Tue Oct 01 1996 - 01:00

Nothing to fear but fear itself?

IT USED TO BE psychopaths

Tue Sept 24 1996 - 01:00

Reassuring kids is a job in itself

AFTER the trauma of her father's sudden job loss, nine year old Caitriona's parents asked her if she remembered what had happened…

Tue Sept 17 1996 - 01:00

How're you gonna keep `em down on the farm?

IT'S A NIGHTMARE. She I was in the States for four months now she stays out until 4 or 5 a.m

Tue Sept 10 1996 - 01:00

Playground pleasure

THE guidebook says "vast parkland expanse and adventure playground" and it does not lie

Fri Aug 23 1996 - 01:00

War of the wardrobes

FOR Maureen and her 13 year old daughter Ciara, the issue came to a head earlier this summer when Ciara wanted to go to a parish…

Mon Aug 05 1996 - 01:00

Where to drop the kids

SUMMERTIME - and the livin' ain't so easy, with work to do, children to amuse, weeks of school holidays stretching ahead.

Fri Jul 19 1996 - 01:00

It's the Leaving that grieves me

YOU SIGNED HIM UP at the "institute" for revision at Easter, you've drawn up a schedule and you phone home from work to see how…

Tue May 28 1996 - 01:00

They can cry if they want to

YOU'VE DONE the parties at McDonald's and the Fun Factory, the fancy dress parties, the ones where you hire an entertainer, the…

Tue May 21 1996 - 01:00

Just how dangerous is a rock concert?

UNA Harrington is angry with the management of the Point

Sat May 18 1996 - 01:00

There were 10 in the bed ....

SOME couples start taking their children into bed when they're small babies because it's easier to get them back to sleep that…

Tue May 07 1996 - 01:00

Kids and Sex - every parent's nightmare

EARLY on in Kids - well probably around the time teen stud Telly is waxing lyrical on the subject of how much he likes to make…

Sat May 04 1996 - 01:00

Communion with the masses

THE YELLOWING newspapers are somewhere in the family files

Tue Apr 30 1996 - 01:00

Depression moving in

"IT ALL STARTED I guess half way through third year. There was non stop talk about studying... I began to slow down

Tue Apr 23 1996 - 01:00

Let's talk about sex

TELLING SMALL children how babies are made is the easiest bit

Tue Apr 16 1996 - 01:00

Pyjama party

IN THE movies, they loll about in baby dolls, hair in curlers, paint their toenails and giggle a lot - cos girls just wanna have…

Tue Apr 09 1996 - 01:00

When your child's sick - and you must work

IT'S 7.30 A.M. and your seven year old is writhing on the bed in simulated agony

Tue Mar 26 1996 - 00:00

Telling them what they need to know

ADOLESCENCE is the time when everyone's search for identity begins, the time when we begin to explore who we are

Tue Mar 19 1996 - 00:00

Oh, mother!

PART of the problem is we know too much

Sat Mar 16 1996 - 00:00

Quinnsworth to go upmarket with new £10m Dun Laoghaire store

QUINNSWORTH is to use a new brand name - Bloomfields - for its supermarket at a shopping centre under construction in Dun Laoghaire…

Wed Mar 13 1996 - 00:00

How to cope with children behaving badly

MARIAN BECAME the mother of a teenage dropout last year, after a troubled history with schools that couldn't help her son

Tue Mar 12 1996 - 00:00

A friend is for life - and strife

AGONIES OVER friendships, for girls at least, begin in the playground

Tue Mar 05 1996 - 00:00

Love them and leave them

CLARE loves her four children dearly, and had looked forward to their university years as a time when she could move on from …

Tue Feb 27 1996 - 00:00

Keeping them occupied after school

BY THE time she was eight, Niamh had dropped out of ballet, piano lessons, tap dancing, Irish dancing, gymnastics (after just…

Tue Feb 20 1996 - 00:00

French without fears

THE ETIQUETTE, apparently, is strict: no one attempts to "get off" at a disco unless permission has been granted

Tue Feb 13 1996 - 00:00

"Just hanging out"

IN THE MOVIES, there are always jukeboxes and boys in tight jeans with bulging biceps

Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00

War of the buttons

ON THE worst days, it feels like a re-run of one of Eastenders' more violent episodes, as muffled shouts of "Shut it!" are followed…

Tue Jan 30 1996 - 00:00

When size counts

SEAN IS SEVEN, and not particularly clothes conscious

Tue Jan 23 1996 - 00:00

Teenager tipplers

"NINETY THREE per cent of Leaving Cert students drink - and 75 per cent of Junior Cert students

Tue Jan 16 1996 - 00:00
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