***New episodes starting on September 29th***Conversations with Parents is a podcast from The Irish Times. Host Jen Hogan talks to interesting people about being parents. What are the hardest parts? What have they learned about raising kids? What are their parenting strategies - or are they making it up as they go along? Produced in association with Avonmore Super Milk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest episodes
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41 min
Dr Siggie Cohen: don’t be a ‘permissive parent'
Dr. Siggie Cohen has worked with children for over three decades. In today's podcast, she speaks to Jen about childhood anxiety, boundaries, and permissive parenting. “Gentleness d…
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59 min
Falling birth rates, fertility, and becoming a mum later in life
Modern motherhood is changing. Women are having children later, birth rates are falling, and the challenge of balancing family life with work remains as complex as ever.In today's…
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55 min
Back-to-school special: starting age, PE problems, school refusal and teenage vapes
Have you ever wondered how teachers treat your children when you’re not there to witness it?Well, if comedian-múinteoir Julie Jay is anything to go by, you can expect them to be we…
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39 min
Marcus O'Laoire: 'We need to talk more about male fertility'
Marcus O'Laoire is best known for his photogenic cooking on social media. On this episode he opens up about the journey to fatherhood, and discusses the fertility tests he underwen…
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45 min
'My children showed me what to do' — Dr. Suzanne Crowe on raising kids after loss
Dr Suzanne Crowe doesn’t even try to separate being a doctor from being a parent anymore. The president of the Irish medical council is a paediatric intensive care doctor and a bus…
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52 min
Leaving Cert stress? A psychologist, a guidance councillor and a parent share their advice
It’s said when someone in the house is sitting the Leaving Cert, the whole house is sitting the Leaving Cert. And with the State exams almost upon that’s a lot of people feeling th…
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45 min
Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’
Coleen Nolan has always had a very open relationship with her children.When it comes to having conversations with them, nothing is off the table, explains the TV personality and me…
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46 min
Dec Pierce: 'I know how toxic social media can be'
Dec Pierce has had a tough couple of years. The Today FM presenter and creator of Block Rockin Beats – his dance music and live gigs show - had a brain haemorrhage in 2023 and last…
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49 min
Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’
Oisin McConville was destined to get involved with Gaelic football from a young age growing up in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh in the 1980s.“The Troubles is something that played a large…
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50 min
Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’
Colman Noctor is a well-known child and adolescent psychotherapist, so you’d be forgiven for presuming with all this expertise at hand that he always gets it right when it comes to…
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40 min
Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘Can’t be helped I suppose’
Sarah McInerney is known for her self-assured, cool and calm approach to interviewing politicians, but on the first episode of the brand new season of Conversations with Parents po…
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Coming soon: Season three of Conversations with Parents
Conversations with Parents from The Irish Times and parenting journalist Jen Hogan is coming back with a new season. Season three will feature another group of interesting people w…
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46 min
Richie Sadlier: 'My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex, when they're teens'
Former footballer Richie Sadlier is now better known for his career as a psychotherapist and working with young people in the area of sex education and wellbeing. Knowing what he k…
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47 min
Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘I’m lucky to have eight children after suffering secondary infertility’
Miriam O’Callaghan says she understands that having eight children is a source of fascination for people. And where once she might have been bothered by the double standards (i.e.…
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35 min
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’
Sophie Ellis-Bextor wasn’t expecting to have a baby so soon into her relationship with her now husband, but she says there was a part of her that felt really good about it. This wa…
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33 min
Chris Hadfield: 'I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn't be more delighted'
Chris Hadfield has a granddaughter in China and, as of earlier this year, another granddaughter here in Ireland. But despite the distance, the retired astronaut says they are very…
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46 min
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: 'My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant'
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin says she and her husband would have had a fourth child, but for her debilitating pregnancies. The scientist and broadcaster says her births went without a…
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43 min
Ciara Kelly: ‘A consultant shamed me for being an unmarried, pregnant junior doctor’
Ciara Kelly was on in a bar on a sun holiday when she found out she was pregnant. 1999 was a time when Ireland was becoming more liberal, but being an unmarried mum "wasn't without…
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47 min
Prof. Donal O’Shea: “I’ll be advising my girls to go on HRT”
Being a hormone doctor wasn’t actually much help when it came to parenting three girls, according to Donal O’Shea. He’s an expert in how hormones affect the body but he admits his…
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44 min
Fintan O’Toole: ‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’
Do fathers get a raw deal? Are men complicit in the detrimental effect that having children can have on women’s careers? And what exactly is an afterbirth fridge? In this episode J…