‘I was advising a woman with five kids about budgeting. What she needed was a f***ing washing machine for cloth nappies’Less advice and more action are needed to support familes in their homes and keep children out of social servicesTue Jun 09 2015 - 08:00
How creeping and crawling influence children’s first step in education‘Grey-area’ children, who are not physically developed, may underperform in the classroomTue Jun 02 2015 - 10:00
Au pairs: ‘The value people are willing to pay for an hour of childcare is €3 and not €8.65’Au pairs are increasingly used as domestic workers – the only difference is the cost, says campaigner for migrant rightsTue May 26 2015 - 08:00
Au pairs: cheap childcare or a helping hand?Is it a ‘win-win’, or are families exploiting au pairs for cheap childcare?Tue May 26 2015 - 01:00
Parenting: ‘Miss, I forgot my PE gear. Again’How to find the right physical activity for a reluctant participantTue May 19 2015 - 11:00
Parenting through addiction: ‘It strips you as a mother but builds you back up’Parenting programme for high-risk families helps to turn lives aroundTue May 12 2015 - 08:00
Parenting through addiction: Breaking the generational cyclePregnancy can make or break the generational cycle of drug addictionTue May 12 2015 - 08:00
Parenting: The baby gear you didn’t know you didn’t needSome parents spend more than €15,000 on a baby, but much of this outlay is avoidableMon May 04 2015 - 01:00
Fostering in Ireland: who are the carers?The assessment and training of prospective foster carers is a necessarily intrusive process, which can take about six months from initial application to approvalTue Apr 28 2015 - 08:00
Fostering: ‘Hard work, heartache and the highest of highs’New carers are always needed for the challenging job of giving somebody else’s child a homeTue Apr 28 2015 - 06:00
Autism and exercise on a level playing pitchParent-led movement breaking down barriers to social and sports activitiesTue Apr 21 2015 - 06:00
Births of the nation: women's experiences of childbirth in IrelandSurvey shows care rated highly but ‘worryingly’ high levels of patients feel they are not listened toTue Apr 14 2015 - 15:00
Eat your greens, kids. But first, grow themGardening with children generates empathy and healthier eatingTue Apr 07 2015 - 06:00
Key ingredients of a good house party: Delegate, make lists and keep it simpleKeep it simple, recognise your limits and make lists for everythingTue Mar 31 2015 - 06:00
Putting the ‘happy’ into family partiesKeep it simple and don’t let stress snuff out the enjoymentTue Mar 31 2015 - 06:00
Children playing to their own strengthsMarte Meo founder Maria Aarts talks about her simple method of supporting emotional and social developmentTue Mar 24 2015 - 08:00
Polish mothers happy to be rearing their children into Irish family lifeWe talk to three women who are part of the 150,000 Polish-born living in IrelandTue Mar 17 2015 - 06:00
Our health experience: Neurosurgery at Beaumont saved us from a life of painEvent rider Caroline Bjoerk and student Aoife O’Brien had their lives transformed by treatment at the hospitalTue Mar 17 2015 - 05:50
An integrated approach to youth mental healthNational youth health programme promotes joined-up approach to mental healthTue Mar 10 2015 - 05:00
Journey for young minds has many bumps in the roadServices are weakest when young people need them most: psychiatrists’ journal puts a spotlight on the challengesTue Mar 10 2015 - 05:00
Parenting: ‘I always felt overweight and out of place’With social media and cameraphones, girls are under more pressure than ever about how they look. But a ‘Free Being Me’ programme for Guides challenges mythsTue Mar 03 2015 - 08:00
Pressure in social media always to be camera-readyThere has been a huge increase in the number of referrals of children with eating disordersTue Mar 03 2015 - 08:00
Chronic illness in children: ‘It is the hidden costs that you are never asked about’Tue Feb 24 2015 - 12:00
Shelter from the storm of childhood illnessThe Ronald McDonald House at Crumlin hospital sustains families who are coping with seriously ill childrenTue Feb 24 2015 - 08:00
‘We’ll fix it’ parents do their children no favoursRaising a resilient child: future happiness lies in learning to cope with adversity, says Sheila WaymanTue Feb 17 2015 - 06:00
Common mistakes when raising teenagersHitting the right note – not too strict, not too lenient – is importantTue Feb 10 2015 - 08:00
Learn to parent teenagers from the experts – teenagersFrom discipline to drink, young people from Wicklow and Wexford say what works bestTue Feb 10 2015 - 08:00
What children say about school lunch timeThe majority don’t have enough time to eat and, for some, it’s an unhappy part of the dayTue Feb 03 2015 - 08:00
When babies with congenital heart defects grow up to live normal livesOne million children a year are born with CHD – 800,000 of those have no access to careTue Jan 27 2015 - 12:00
Doula: ‘Somebody on the journey who is there for you no matter what’Hospitals are becoming more open to women bringing in an assistant as well as a partner as evidence of benefits mountsWed Jan 21 2015 - 10:45
Doulas for hire: an extra carer for childbirthHospitals are becoming more open to women bringing in an assistant as well as their partner as evidence of benefits mounts and demand growsTue Jan 20 2015 - 01:00
Triple P: a toolkit for happier familiesParenting programme shown to decrease behaviour problems and parental stress across Midlands communityWed Jan 14 2015 - 12:00
Parenting: When healthy eating became a class actA project by two schoolgirls resulted in a reduction of obesity levels among primary school pupilsTue Jan 06 2015 - 01:00
Child protection chief on ‘walking the talk’Tusla chief executive Gordon Jeyes outlines the challenges as ‘year zero’ draws to a closeTue Dec 30 2014 - 12:15
A first Christmas for quadruplets Amelia, Lily-Grace, Mollie and LucasMother Grace Slattery was shocked when she was told there were four heartbeatsThu Dec 25 2014 - 14:00
Family outings for the post-Christmas lullStep away from the table and enjoy shared activities with friends and relativesTue Dec 23 2014 - 06:00
A smartphone from Santa: what are the safety features?Internet-enabled devices come complete with responsibilites for everyone, so before you hand over that phone to your child, make sure to set the ground rulesTue Dec 16 2014 - 01:00
The politics of parents' associationsThe National Parents’ Council is assessing if the sometimes contentious PA model is still fit for purposeTue Dec 09 2014 - 06:00
Parents’ associations: ‘ It shouldn’t be a sounding board for parents to gripe about teachers’The National Parents’ Council – Post-Primary believes PAs should be about children’s educationTue Dec 09 2014 - 06:00
Pregnancy is a full-time job for working womenUp to one-third of women feel they have been treated unfairly at this challenging timeTue Dec 02 2014 - 08:00
Gap in employment rights for fathers-to-beIreland is one of the few countries in the European Union not to have any statutory paternity leaveTue Dec 02 2014 - 08:00
Who’s looking out for the survivors of childhood cancer?The 80 per cent who are cured need long-term follow-up care, says new advocacy groupTue Nov 25 2014 - 01:00
