Conversations with Parents
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Dr Siggie Cohen: don’t be a ‘permissive parent'
October 7, 2026 · 41 minDr. 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 does not mean permissiveness,” she says. She argues in her…
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Falling birth rates, fertility, and becoming a mum later in life
September 30, 2026 · 59 minModern 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 episode, Jen speaks to three mothers with very different…
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Back-to-school special: starting age, PE problems, school refusal and teenage vapes
August 18, 2026 · 55 minHave 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 well and truly mothered. Even if they’re teenagers. In this…
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Marcus O'Laoire: 'We need to talk more about male fertility'
June 2, 2026 · 39 minMarcus 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 underwent en route to becoming a dad. He believes male fertility…
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'My children showed me what to do' — Dr. Suzanne Crowe on raising kids after loss
May 26, 2026 · 45 minDr 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 busy mother. And she admits that sometimes taking care of…
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Leaving Cert stress? A psychologist, a guidance councillor and a parent share their advice
May 19, 2026 · 52 minIt’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 the stress. But fear not because Conversations with Parents…
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Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’
May 12, 2026 · 45 minColeen 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 member of The Nolan Sisters. When her son told her he had…
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Dec Pierce: 'I know how toxic social media can be'
May 5, 2026 · 46 minDec 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 year was diagnosed with breast cancer. On the latest…
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Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’
April 27, 2026 · 49 minOisin 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 part in my life, because bombing, shootings, killings…
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Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’
April 21, 2026 · 50 minColman 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 parenting his own three children. Not so, the…
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Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘Can’t be helped I suppose’
April 14, 2026 · 40 minSarah 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 podcast she tells host Jen Hogan, about the anxiety that…
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Coming soon: Season three of Conversations with Parents
April 1, 2026 · 0 minConversations 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 with new parenting stories to tell. Find us wherever you…