Parents

They loved it: the turf sheds, the Tayto, adults pressing five and 10-euro notes into their hands and the dozens of cousins

Sleepless nights are a harsh lesson in how parents’ lives have to adapt to their baby’s needs

Couples may see bed-sharing as sacrosanct, but some nights apart could save their sanity

Ask the Expert: Anxiety usually means a child wants to do something but is stressed about some aspect of this

Lone parents explain why family holidays need to reflect modern family life, from cost and childcare to confidence and inclusion

Tell Me About It: ‘I’ve told my partner I am not going to retire. Work might save my sanity’

A pal of mine was lamenting how contact with mothers of her children’s schoolfriends had dried up. So I solicited other mothers’ experiences

Ask the Expert: ‘She is completely different from her outgoing brother, and I’m worried about her’

Jen Hogan shares parenting tips and tricks she has learned along the Leaving Cert holiday way

Patrescence, the physical and mental transition to becoming a dad, is a recent concept recognising the isolation men can sometimes feel in fatherhood

From their sense of selves to their social lives and their relationships with their partners, six dads discuss the differences having children made to their lives

Half of schoolchildren have seen pornography by age of 13, including ‘very, very disturbing images’. Is there a case for a UK-style social media ban for under-16s?

Ça va aller became my not-so-complimentary way of referring to what I felt was the self-absorbed, laissez-faire French style

Ask the Expert: ‘He knows the stuff, but he can panic on the day of exams’

Mother obliged to change jobs due to necessity to be at home so often to mind daughter

Seventy-one per cent of family carers face financial difficulty, Family Carers Ireland report shows

Jen Hogan: Three months of nothingness lies ahead for some secondary school students

One minute we were drinking flagons of cider in a field, the next we’re wondering what our own children are up to

Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan

Ask the Expert: ‘How can we support her to change this habit while waiting for support from an occupational therapist?’

One expert says when children are playing pretend or acting, they are learning to trust themselves – ‘and that builds confidence and self-esteem’

There are currently 86 boarders in Newtown School in Waterford City, with more than half from abroad

Another school year is almost over. How would you score in your parenting end-of-term report card?

A video search history is no idle plaything, but a deep and probing X-ray of one’s soul

A guide for parents to the best Irish summer camps, from badminton and basketball to rock climbing and surfing

From singing or learning a language, to archaeology and cookery, here are some of the camps on offer this summer

Ask the Expert: She’s quite artistic, funny and highly emotionally intelligent, but struggles academically at school

Survey results suggest about half of children in Ireland live with a parent with poor mental health for at least part of childhood

John Hickey knew what his managers would say when he asked for additional leave

None of the responsible, loving, joyous acts you carry out as a dad soothe you very much on those occasions you mess up

Globally, about 380,000 babies arrived on the same day as Granddaughter Number Two. A fifth were born into poverty

Ask the Expert: When the meltdown is over, she doesn’t understand why she was so angry

It appears there’s quite strong proof that having children does not, in any measurable way, make you more happy

The two-time All Star winner says his gambling addiction was so bad ‘loan sharks wouldn’t even touch me in the end’

Noctor is a well-known child and adolescent psychotherapist

Ask the Expert: Things can escalate so quickly that it is frightening

AI may transform work, but employers can already retain talent through genuine flexible roles

Any parent, in their more honest don’t-say-it-out-loud moments, will admit that looking after kids can be boring

Ask the Expert: My son says his child is getting an ADHD assessment, but I think they’re making too big a deal of his problems

We can’t have a play centre birthday party without surnames needed to distinguish one child from another