1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (299+ words) Changes to the income thresholds for the National Childcare Scheme will see the families of some 47,000 children receive more in subsidies. Under the scheme all eligible families may apply for a universal subsidy, regardless of income, worth up to €96.30 per…...

14+ hour, 56+ min ago   (604+ words) A woman who claimed her husband “doesn’t believe” in their child’s eating disorder, and did not allow her to vaccinate their children during the Covid-19 pandemic, has been granted a protection order. The woman sought the emergency order at the…...

19+ hour, 56+ min ago   (226+ words) Both styles promise that if you do the right thing now, you can shape the grown-up later. That promise is seductive because parenting involves decisions whose consequences we can’t know for years, if ever. When my son was six weeks…...

19+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1137+ words) The transition from school to college is a huge milestone in a student’s life. And it’s a significant marker in a parent’s life too, as they adapt to a new role in supporting their now adult child’s education. Families need…...

19+ hour, 56+ min ago   (744+ words) Starting school is a big milestone – for everyone involved – children, parents and their teachers. And while the idea of gaining independence, making friends and learning new skills might be daunting for youngsters, helping them to achieve these goals can also…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (586+ words) Around half a million books have been provided to Irish children since 2019 through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Books are currently being delivered to more than 6,500 children across Dublin, Kildare and Cork, according to the library’s executive director for Ireland…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (360+ words) That is because memory is not a recording that sits untouched until we press ‘play’. Remembering is an active process. Each time we revisit an event, we reconstruct it. Details can disappear, new information can be incorporated and the meaning…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (391+ words) Tributes have poured in recognising country singer Dolly Parton’s decades-long charitable work in literacy and education, including distributing thousands of books in Ireland. The superstar, who died on Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 80, was world-famous for her genre-defining hits including…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (365+ words) If I travel anywhere, and if circumstances and family members allow me, I’ll visit some of the local record shops. When I was in London I did get the chance, so I trekked out to this place in east Putney…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (508+ words) There is a particular kind of exhaustion that belongs to the parents of children who cannot go to school. It is the exhaustion of watching a person you love being unable to do something as ordinary as walk through a…...