‘It used to be you sent in something small’: Christmas presents for teachers in Ireland
‘There’s never anything about teacher gifts. It just puts unnecessary pressure on families’
‘I am the Grinch,’ one friend told me as I teased him about disliking Christmas
Jen Hogan: Plenty of people feel the season-to-be-jolly is overrated
The WFH parents balancing work and childcare: ‘I struggle with it. The two things don’t mix at all’
Some parents say they have no choice, but is working from home with no formal childminding arrangements feasible, or even acceptable?
The most annoying thing about parent-teacher meetings? Parents who hog teachers
On behalf of frazzled parents everywhere, please make a separate appointment
Richie Sadlier: ‘My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
I’ve changed my old stance on teens and alcohol – it’s snus and vapes that are the problem
I suspect few enough of us reached 18 before having our first alcoholic drink
Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’
The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Chris Hadfield: ‘I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn’t be more delighted’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Women leaders at Ireland’s all-boys schools: ‘Boys love clarity, fairness and consistency’
School principals Caroline Garrett and Elaine Kelly, and head coach Tania Rosser, on changing the gender dynamic
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Boys-only Dublin private school appoints first woman principal in 190-year history
Elaine Kelly has been appointed principal of the all-boys, fee-paying Castleknock College
Ciara Kelly: ‘A consultant shamed me for being an unmarried, pregnant junior doctor’
The doctor-turned-broadcaster on raising four children, loving the teenage years and how her career has influenced her parenting
‘Silent sidelines’ at children’s matches: How utterly depressing that this is where we are
Jen Hogan: Adults’ behaviour is having a detrimental effect on children playing a game. Just let that sink in
Separated couples who can’t afford to live apart: ‘It is hugely difficult and horrible’
The housing and rent crisis adds another challenge to those in the middle of a relationship breakdown