We’ve locked ourselves and our children down. We’ve retreated to our homes, isolating our households from those of our friends’ and families’. In doing so we have successfully slowed the spread of Covid-19. The lockdown has been an effective public health measure for...
My daughter is doing her Leaving Cert and is totally stressed about the fact that she is missing so much school. What can I do to help her calm down? There is a lot of uncertainty about how things will pan out in the next weeks and months regarding the response needed...
My son has just started junior infants last September. I am very unhappy with several things related to the location and the large and impersonal nature of the school since he started. I want to move school but my husband doesn’t agree. My husband works...
I am struggling to get my eight-year-old son to school. He has had a few issues with a child in his class (who has diagnosed behaviour problems) hitting him, stealing his lunch etc. The school have separated them away from each other and are keeping an eye on the...
I have an 11-year-old son who is very immature and over-sensitive for his age. If something doesn’t go his way, he breaks down in tears. He’ll do this anywhere, even in school, in front of his friends. I’m amazed they don’t tease him about it....
My 12-year-old son is in first year in secondary school. He has become highly anxious over the last few months and is now refusing to go into school most days and when he does go, I always get a text by lunchtime demanding that I come and pick him up. He is a bright...
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