Stella O Malley
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Confinement and your kids: tips to turn negativity positive
- Parenting
- April 29, 2020, 06:01
Here are seven tips from experts on how to support children through the continuing crisis, in the hope that they will be able to look back on this as (...)

Could children benefit from the ‘great pause’?
- Parenting
- April 29, 2020, 06:01
Rising anxiety levels and decreasing resilience among children has been a hot topic among professionals in recent years, with over-scheduled lives and(...)

The Irish Times shortlisted for mental health media awards
- Health & Family
- November 5, 2019, 09:01
The Irish Times has been shortlisted in three categories for the 2019 Headline Mental Health Media Awards. The awards – which were established more t(...)

Help: I think my child is a bully
- Education
- April 18, 2019, 19:00
We hear a lot of concern about children in school being bullied but, for every victim, there is a bully. On occasion, an encounter with the parent of (...)

Is my child being bullied in secondary school?
- Education
- April 17, 2019, 19:00
If your child is being bullied, the temptation can be to rush in to the school, all guns blazing, and solve the problem. But sometimes a more delicate(...)

Is my child being bullied in primary school?
- Education
- April 16, 2019, 09:52
If your child is being bullied, the temptation can be to rush in to the school, all guns blazing, and try to solve the problem. But sometimes a more d(...)

Transgender for beginners: Trans, terf, cis and safe spaces
- Health & Family
- January 26, 2019, 06:00
For as long back as he can remember, Dylan would go to bed at night and pray that he would wake up a boy. “I had no idea. I would have classified him (...)

Prime Time transgender report is ‘delicate, if a little patronising’
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 23, 2019, 05:52
For a moment, as she welcomes the viewer to a Prime Time special, Generation Gender (RTÉ One, Tuesday, 9.35pm), Miriam O’Callaghan seems less like a c(...)

How to survive Christmas with a difficult family
- People
- December 8, 2018, 06:00
It is dubbed the most wonderful time of the year – but not for everybody. Christmas can be a time of joy and happiness for many, but what about those (...)

Pregnant pause: why more people – including politicians – are choosing not to have children
- Parenting
- October 12, 2018, 06:01
Theresa May (British prime minister), Emmanuel Macron (president of France) and Angela Merkel (chancellor of Germany). World leaders, and child-free. (...)