UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre

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Prof Pat Dolan, head of the Unesco Child and Family Research Centre in NUI Galway: ‘Most of us take our family support for granted. You notice it only when you don’t have it.’ Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
‘I was advising a woman with five kids about budgeting. What she needed was a f***ing washing machine for cloth nappies’

One of the questions that went through the mind of Prof Pat Dolan when he heard about baby Maria, who was found abandoned on the side of a road in (...)

Jolanta Burke, positive psychologist and PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin, says that the kind of feedback you give a child is crucial.Photograph: Eric Luke
‘We’ll fix it’ parents do their children no favours

We all want our children to be happy and the temptation, in this era of “over-parenting”, is to rush in to try to fix their problems. A child down (...)