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Summer Camps: A guide to the best and most popular sports camps in Ireland
A guide for parents to the best Irish summer camps, from badminton and basketball to rock climbing and surfing
A call for help catches the eye at an Amsterdam metro station
Amsterdam letter: Lack of EU-wide regulation of sperm donation has allowed national loopholes to be exploited
Have your say: What are the hidden costs of raising teenagers?
We want to hear from readers about the unexpected financial challenges that come with raising teens
‘If you batch cook, he will batch-eat the whole lot in one sitting’: The real cost of raising teenagers
School bills, sports and the subsequent medical costs, food and pocket money all mount up to put pressure on household finances
Leaving Cert stress? A parent, a psychologist and a guidance counsellor share advice
Conversations with Parents brings you a special Leaving Cert episode with an expert panel to help parents and students navigate the whole experience
Summer camps for children: The best and most popular non-sports camps in Ireland
From singing or learning a language, to archaeology and cookery, here are some of the camps on offer this summer
‘My husband wants our child in mainstream schooling, but I want to look at alternatives’
Ask the Expert: She’s quite artistic, funny and highly emotionally intelligent, but struggles academically at school
‘There’s an issue around mindset’: Parents on hybrid working and childcare pressures
With some employers, ‘there’s an issue around mindset’ regarding in-office demands, one couple says
Séamas O’Reilly: One of those days that makes you realise parenting is properly hard
A skin infection, rejection from nursery, a bit of light shoplifting, and to top the day off, a not-entirely-glowing review of my new book
I tried to tell the GP I was seeing things but he ‘gave me eczema cream’
Survey results suggest about half of children in Ireland live with a parent with poor mental health for at least part of childhood
Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’
Jen Hogan: On Conversations with Parents, Nolan discusses how her own experience growing up influenced her as a parent
Tigers Childcare sells 34-creche business to UK group in deal that could be worth €75m-plus
Founder Karen Clince retains a reduced stake in fast-growing business and will remain in charge of the Irish operation
One phrase has always annoyed me: ‘Remember there’s always someone worse off than you’
Am I supposed to take comfort or pleasure in the greater hardship of others? Or is it that there’s a suffering competition?
My daughters may never be ready to talk about my cancer over a midweek pasta bake
The cheery news is we are all deteriorating as we move towards the ultimate state of necrosis. Accepting this is not depressing, it’s liberating
Séamas O’Reilly: I met my son crying at the school gates and felt like a war criminal
None of the responsible, loving, joyous acts you carry out as a dad soothe you very much on those occasions you mess up
Seán Moncrieff: My new granddaughter has advantages most other kids don’t
Globally, about 380,000 babies arrived on the same day as Granddaughter Number Two. A fifth were born into poverty
Valerie French’s brother welcomes plan to strip parenting rights from spouse killers
Bill known as ‘Valerie’s Law’ to be presented to Cabinet on Wednesday
Dec Pierce on cancer diagnosis: ‘No one’s going to believe this could happen to a bloke’
Today FM host tells host Jen Hogan about the shock of learning he had breast cancer
‘My daughter gets anxious and overwhelmed, and it can escalate into angry outbursts’
Ask the Expert: When the meltdown is over, she doesn’t understand why she was so angry
When you’re in crisis the world is kinder and you’re kinder to yourself
A year on from my son’s treatment for leukaemia, I find myself back in a world of expectations I can’t quite meet. The bar feels impossibly high again
Séamas O’Reilly: My children are my greatest source of joy - and stress, sadness, guilt and fear
It appears there’s quite strong proof that having children does not, in any measurable way, make you more happy
I’m the only male at home and it’s not weird. It’s a fascinating honour
Family environment makes me think of the opening line of John McGahern’s Amongst Women
Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’
The two-time All Star winner says his gambling addiction was so bad ‘loan sharks wouldn’t even touch me in the end’
‘Although I understand why my sibling received more attention . . . issues remain strong in my life’
Having to take on adult responsibilities at an early age can have negative effects that last into adulthood
I’ve recently come into a lump sum and want to invest it. What should I do?
How to invest: Options for investing a lump sum; long-term saving for children; and whether you should pay down your mortgage before you invest
I am a Gen Z trapped in the body of a Gen X
Jen Hogan: Nothing is certain, not your desk, not your emojis, not even your generation
Róisín Ingle: Getting a tattoo was my friend’s idea. I’m calling it my ‘mild-life’ crisis
Róisín Ingle: It’s no big deal, only a bit of ink on skin, but also it’s permanent, so it’s sort of a big deal
Children must learn their letters, their numbers – and then 6,000 facts about animals
The average four-year-old would almost certainly beat the average 40-year-old in a quiz on animal facts
Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’
Noctor is a well-known child and adolescent psychotherapist
Preparing to move from primary school to secondary starts now, not in September
A new school can feel like an alien experience. Everything is different
‘My son has intense meltdowns, including hitting, when asked to do reasonable things’
Ask the Expert: Things can escalate so quickly that it is frightening
Séamas O’Reilly: When I turned 40 my daughter’s eyes went wide as saucers. She has been known to cook the numbers
Her passion to be bigger and older stops just short of wanting to be an adult. Any suggestion that she is as old as, say, her parents, evokes disgust
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