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Learning Points: Explaining boundaries to grandparents

Richard Hogan suggests how to approach grandparents about boundaries I’ve always tried to encourage my wife’s parents to be an important part of my children’s lives. But increasingly I’m finding the way they allow my children to eat and do whatever they want when they are at their house harmful to their development. They are constantly allowing them…

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Richard Hogan offers advice to parents on what to say to children who have missed out on their desired college courses.

Monday brought with it the end to one of the most pressing and agonizing questions that students from all over Ireland have been grappling with since the leaving cert results arrived; have I received enough points to secure a place in University? For many students last week was excruciatingly long and unfortunately ultimately punctuated with bitter…

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Learning Points: Children need boundaries and parents need space

Boundaries help children to understand the world, when they are communicated clearly and are not oppressive, writes Richard Hogan. Then, they make children feel safe and secure. However, there is another boundary to consider, one that promotes a healthy relationship between the parents as they endeavour to meet the demands on the modern family. The boundary I’m…

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