Jen Hogan’s end-of-year school report: B in cake sales, C+ in WhatsApp, E in lunches
Another school year is almost over. How would you score in your parenting end-of-term report card?
Snapchat: ‘I’ve seen so much stuff. I would block them after but the damage was done’
Snapchat remains a firm favourite among Irish youngsters but has been the subject of numerous controversies, mostly linked to user privacy, child safety and moderation
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
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’
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
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
Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘can’t be helped I suppose’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Jen Hogan: You may be questioning the sort of company I keep
I had just about got rid of Cilla Black singing Lionel Richie classics on Instagram, when I’d algorithmically relocated to foot odour feed hell
Debt shame: ‘I was going to lose my home ... It was one of the darkest times’
Thousands of households are trapped in long-term mortgage arrears, and now fuel debt and buy-now-pay-later schemes are affecting many more
Cystic fibrosis: ‘My goals then were to stay alive for the next weekend to go out’
Managing expectations about the future and enjoying the responsibility and fulfilment of being a parent is now to the forefront
Parenting advice: Enjoy your walking pad, just don’t be a dose about it
Being able to watch your favourite show while working up a sweat is enough of a reward
The Irish working for US firms: ‘Friday 4.30pm and somebody is trying to kick off a project’
US firms employ more than 245,000 people here but working for one entails straddling time zones and negotiating different attitudes to work-life balance
Postponing parenthood: How Ireland’s housing crisis is forcing people to delay having children
To 30-somethings hoping to start a family, the connection between the lack of available homes and the State’s falling fertility rate is obvious
Jen Hogan: Mams are the best thing since toilet roll in a pandemic when it’s Mother’s Day
I am mother, hear me roar. And not just at my kids when they’re melting my head
‘A load of nothingness’: What does International Women’s Day mean to your average Joan Soap?
‘I don’t want to shatter glass ceilings. I am already shattered,’ says one woman