Parenting

Stories related to parenting

Being a working mother is a horror show at times. The stress can be crippling

I am just one of the more than 1.3 million women in employment in Ireland. For working mothers, the stress can be crippling

Parenting triplets: ‘We were in shock. We didn’t know what to do – smiling, crying, laughing’

What’s it like parenting four children, when the oldest is a toddler?

Understanding the needs of your neurodistinct child

Part one: Neurodiversity and the Family

Nobody else is going to turn your child’s phone off. But you can’t do it alone

A social media ban for under-13s or even under-16s is not pointless just because many will get around it

My inner Grumpy Old Woman is intent on making her presence felt lately. She’s mad as hell

Maybe I can just decide to stop nagging. But who would I even be?

My son’s new hobby is confounding me with ‘mystyrieyos’ riddles that he puts in writing

There is usually the nugget of something clever in them, albeit shielded behind layers of opacity

Formal recognition of single-parent families would help eliminate poverty traps

Empower mothers to avail of further education and employment opportunities

More children missing school today than before Covid pandemic, says ESRI report

Boys and girls are more likely to miss school if their parents have a harsher parenting style and if there is a lack of routine at home

First term resolutions to live by for a peaceful and happy new school year

Avoid overparenting, set aside some time for yourself and, like Elsa, learn when to let it go

Annalise Murphy: ‘Juliette’s the one I think about constantly. I can’t imagine life without her now’

The 2016 Olympic silver medallist was back in elite competition this week just nine months after the birth of her daughter

Do you track your family’s location with technology or have you been tracked?

Have your say: We’d like to talk to people about the experience of location sharing with loved ones

Does your daughter play camogie or football? Have your say on Mary McAleese’s resignation

Is the setback to Gaelic games integration a ‘slap in the face’ for women who have given so much to the GAA?

‘I’m a dad who can’t stop crying that family holidays with my daughters might be at an end’

Tell Me About It: ‘I am gutted about this, but my wife says it’s start of new beginning for us’

WorldSkills Ireland 2026 guide: Planning your visit and what to expect

The event at the RDS offers industry talks, hands-on experiences, demonstrations and chances to speak to employers and education providers

‘He isn’t lazy. He isn’t badly behaved. He is frightened’: The children struggling to attend school

Children are experiencing anxiety, vomiting and frightening behaviours

Loneliness in early motherhood: ‘I can’t keep calling my mum up here every day’

Irish Times readers on their experience of loneliness – and of finding community – in their first months as a mum

We want to lend our daughter €350,000 to buy a home – what do we need to know?

Both parties need to be very clear on the precise terms of the transaction which can have tax implications

Have your say: Has your child refused to go to school?

Majority of students refused to go to school at least once last year, new study finds

‘I’m happily married with three young children - but loneliness has become a feature of my life’

Tell Me About It: Responsibilities of parenting and work have entirely curtailed what I now see was a more social existence

Parents try to create memorable experiences, but these may not lodge in a child’s mind

Memory is a slippery thing, and it’s almost impossible to control what will lodge in the foreground or fade into the dark storage area at the back

Measures to keep young children from accessing online platforms failing, says report

Account creation on YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram still relies solely on self-declaration of age

‘I don’t have a wall around me, I have an electric fence’

Feelings of isolation can emerge for parents as children grow up, become more independent and begin to leave home

Quality public childcare and dependable dads key to boosting fertility rates

Changing position of women in society seen to be closely connected with falling birth rates globally

A parent’s guide to helping your children start college life

‘Almost 4,500 every year in Ireland do not progress from year one to year two … There’s a lot of unhappy students and parents’

I felt only confusion − even shame − about every choice I made as a parent

I could tell you my approach was attachment parenting, but I was more attached to sleep than to any doctrine

Families who end up in court are unhappy in strikingly similar ways

The publication of anonymised case reports from the Family Law Reporting Project is an important step towards transparency and accountability

I’ve had many arguments with my husband - but this was the first wearing a harness  

For once, I want to be the can-do parent who joins in instead of sitting on the sidelines eating crisps and taking photos

Daisy Johnson: ‘I like writing about the entanglements of family’

The youngest ever Booker Prize shortlisted author on her new novel, Long Wave

Despite having 11 kids and 20 grandkids, my dad’s favourite children are his dogs

My father tires of me asking whether dogs should eat so much human food, and rejects any accusation he’s gone soft

The clock is ticking down to when I’ll walk through the door and no one is asking ‘what’s for dinner’

Nobody ever received a phone call from me to suggest unscheduled sleepovers because our kids were ‘just having so much fun’

‘Sending just one secondary school child back to school could cost more than €1,000′

Conor Pope’s guide to surviving the September squeeze on your finances

Feeling depressed or anxious? Focus on what you love and what gives you purpose

As global crises intensify, it is important is to find what you are called to do in response

Back-to-school costs: the €285 allowance and other ways of savings hundreds of euro

To hard-pressed parents, it can feel as if extra busyness and unnecessary expense are intentionally built into the start of the school year

‘There is no such thing’: what if the ageing crisis narrative is wrong?

Ratio of retirees to workers is rapidly increasing but for some economists that won’t be as big a problem as has been feared

Back-to-school issues: the best starting age, PE problems, school refusal and teenage vapes

Conversations with Parents: A panel of experts convenes to discuss the big issues of modern schooling and parenting

Career U-turns: ‘I’m exactly where I am supposed to be’

Two mothers turn to ‘life-changing’ creative craft to find inner peace – and themselves

New Irish mother in the US: ‘After six weeks I couldn’t imagine going back to work’

Having a baby abroad: ‘Once my Mum arrived I knew I could fall apart’

‘I don’t like you, I like Mummy,’ my daughter says with such vehemence that my son holds my hand

My daughter prefers her mother to me so much that to suggest anything else really would be laughable

Ireland’s childcare black spots: ‘I have knocked at every creche door. I don’t want to quit my job’

Rachana Nagaraja was told she ‘might have a chance next September’ – ‘and I think that’s because I cried’

When faced by a crisis, there is nothing worse than feeling you have no control

Constant exposure to trauma and tragedy can distress and traumatise us, or make us feel guilty as ‘bystanders’

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