‘Sending just one secondary schoolchild back to school could cost more than €1,000′
Conor Pope’s guide to surviving the September squeeze on your finances
Parenting
Stories related to parenting
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’
New books for August – Alan Opts Out, Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir and Four Terrible Parents
Three great reads from Courtney Maum, Jayne Anne Phillips and Calla Henkel
Norma Foley’s tradwives awareness campaign is absurd
On the list of all the things ‘pressurising women’ into caring roles, Hannah Neeleman and her bone broth hot cocoa are not in the top 50
A stranger knocked on my door because she heard I had a baby... she thought we could be friends
In a world where isolation and loneliness are on the rise, I’m lucky to have ‘mom friends’
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
The Anchoress: ‘The moment I shared that I was a mother, people treated me differently’
Unresolved trauma is to the fore on As We Once Were, the new album by Welsh songwriter Catherine Anne Davies
Talk to any mother trying to manage the summer juggle and you’ll hear ‘exhausted’ and ‘frazzled’
I’m also experiencing a familiar unease at the thought of the return to school
Life as a twin: ‘My mother had myself and my twin sister when she was 37. I had my twins at 37’
To mark International Twins Day we spoke to twins and parents of twins, including a woman who has given birth to three sets
France accepts that parents have a right to leisure. We should do the same
I felt guilty for using the kids’ club, but I shouldn’t have
We live in Dublin city and every night we read about tractors
Nadine O’Regan: I’ve always known I was a city person. The fact that I was born in the countryside seemed for years a mistake of birth
The importance of understanding and accepting our feelings
Part 1: Managing our mental health in the face of personal and global crisis
‘Embrace boredom’ may not be the winning parenting strategy you think
Anyone who uses boredom as a parenting tool is committing child cruelty of sorts. Or, at least, they’re a hypocrite
Should young people with a part-time job contribute to the household budget?
Are we doing young people a disservice if we don’t expect them to contribute once they’re earning?
I brought my three boys from England to Sligo to replicate my childhood summer holidays
They loved it: the turf sheds, the Tayto, adults pressing five and 10-euro notes into their hands and the dozens of cousins
How can new parents be better prepared for the impact of sleep deprivation?
Sleepless nights are a harsh lesson in how parents’ lives have to adapt to their baby’s needs
My dear Samuel, you would be turning 18 today...
Over the last few years, I slowly realised I wanted to live again, honour you and find meaning in your death
How new parents can improve wellbeing and reduce tiredness
Couples may see bed-sharing as sacrosanct, but some nights apart could save their sanity
‘My 12-year-old son is very reluctant to try anything new’
Ask the Expert: Anxiety usually means a child wants to do something but is stressed about some aspect of this
Holidaying as a single parent: ‘I was conscious of the tables with fathers getting served faster’
Lone parents explain why family holidays need to reflect modern family life, from cost and childcare to confidence and inclusion
‘I love my four adult children deeply, but they won’t leave home, and I am desperate’
Tell Me About It: ‘I’ve told my partner I am not going to retire. Work might save my sanity’
Are school mum friends real friends?: ‘They all disappeared’
A pal of mine was lamenting how contact with mothers of her children’s schoolfriends had dried up. So I solicited other mothers’ experiences
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens: Shockingly retrograde
This is a portrait of a mother with a stunningly unfeminist approach to mothering and all of her personal relationships
My son’s frustrating World Cup sticker book is a perfect reflection of Fifa
My son’s World Cup sticker book offers an unmissable opportunity for me to deliver the first ever broadsheet book review of this most vaunted form of literature
‘Sharenting’ is riskier than ever but that probably won’t stop us
Embarrassment is just one risk when you share images of your children online in an AI-enabled world
Einstein’s childhood suggests a little naughtiness nurtures big ideas
A rebellious and often angry child, known for intense temper tantrums, grew up and blew our minds
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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