# Conversations with Parents Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66dace753eb5a88941553994 Official site: https://shows.acast.com/irish-times-parenting Author: The Irish Times Episodes: 29 ## Resource SEASON TWO COMING SOON! 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-parents-7035502 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502.md ## Episodes - ['My children showed me what to do' — Dr. Suzanne Crowe on raising kids after loss](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/my-children-showed-me-what-to-do-dr-suzanne-crowe-on-raising-kids-after-loss) — 2026-05-26T03:00:00+00:00 - [Leaving Cert stress? A psychologist, a guidance councillor and a parent share their advice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and-a-parent-share-their-advice) — 2026-05-19T03:00:00+00:00 - [Coleen Nolan: ‘Everyone thought we were nuns ... and that we’d never even kissed a boy’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/coleen-nolan-everyone-thought-we-were-nuns-and-that-we-d-never-even-kissed-a-boy) — 2026-05-12T03:00:00+00:00 - [Dec Pierce: 'I know how toxic social media can be'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/dec-pierce-i-know-how-toxic-social-media-can-be) — 2026-05-05T03:00:00+00:00 - [Oisín McConville: ‘At one stage, football was the only thing that kept me alive’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/ois-n-mcconville-at-one-stage-football-was-the-only-thing-that-kept-me-alive) — 2026-04-27T18:27:45+00:00 - [Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/colman-noctor-behaviour-is-always-the-signpost-to-a-problem-it-is-very-rarely-the-problem) — 2026-04-21T03:00:00+00:00 - [Sarah McInerney: When I told my manager I was pregnant he said, ‘Can’t be helped I suppose’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/sarah-mcinerney-when-i-told-my-manager-i-was-pregnant-he-said-can-t-be-helped-i-suppose) — 2026-04-14T03:00:00+00:00 - [Coming soon: Season three of Conversations with Parents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/coming-soon-season-three-of-conversations-with-parents) — 2026-04-01T07:45:45+00:00 - [Richie Sadlier: 'My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex, when they're teens'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/richie-sadlier-my-kids-will-be-sick-of-me-mentioning-the-word-sex-when-they-re-teens) — 2025-11-18T04:00:00+00:00 - [Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘I’m lucky to have eight children after suffering secondary infertility’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/miriam-o-callaghan-i-m-lucky-to-have-eight-children-after-suffering-secondary-infertility) — 2025-11-11T04:00:00+00:00 - [Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/sophie-ellis-bextor-we-were-going-out-six-weeks-when-we-found-out-i-was-pregnant) — 2025-11-04T04:00:00+00:00 - [Chris Hadfield: 'I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn't be more delighted'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/chris-hadfield-i-have-an-irish-granddaughter-and-i-couldn-t-be-more-delighted) — 2025-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 - [Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: 'My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/aoibhinn-n-sh-illeabh-in-my-mum-was-mortified-i-was-breastfeeding-in-a-restaurant) — 2025-10-21T03:00:00+00:00 - [Ciara Kelly: ‘A consultant shamed me for being an unmarried, pregnant junior doctor’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/ciara-kelly-a-consultant-shamed-me-for-being-an-unmarried-pregnant-junior-doctor) — 2025-10-14T03:00:00+00:00 - [Prof. Donal O’Shea: “I’ll be advising my girls to go on HRT”](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/prof-donal-o-shea-i-ll-be-advising-my-girls-to-go-on-hrt) — 2025-10-07T03:00:00+00:00 - [Fintan O’Toole: ‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/fintan-o-toole-i-would-have-loved-to-have-been-a-stay-at-home-dad) — 2025-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 - [The toughest challenge of their lives: Conversations with Parents season two](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/the-toughest-challenge-of-their-lives-conversations-with-parents-season-two) — 2025-09-17T21:14:19+00:00 - [Coming soon: Season two of Conversations with Parents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/coming-soon-season-two-of-conversations-with-parents) — 2025-09-02T11:13:56+00:00 - [Conversations with Parents - the debrief](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/conversations-with-parents-the-debrief) — 2024-12-03T05:00:17+00:00 - [Séamas O'Reilly: 'My son is the same age I was when my mum died'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/s-amas-o-reilly-my-son-is-the-same-age-i-was-when-my-mum-died) — 2024-11-26T05:00:04+00:00 - [Black Paddy: 'I want to teach my children to love the colour of their skin'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/black-paddy-i-want-to-teach-my-children-to-love-the-colour-of-their-skin) — 2024-11-19T05:00:13+00:00 - [Terry Prone on allowing son Anton Savage to be in her publicity as a child: ‘I think it was the wrong thing to do’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/terry-prone-on-allowing-son-anton-savage-to-be-in-her-publicity-as-a-child-i-think-it-was-the-wrong-thing-to-do) — 2024-11-12T05:00:58+00:00 - [Ivan Yates: 'My children struggle with what I do'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/ivan-yates-my-children-struggle-with-what-i-do) — 2024-11-05T05:00:20+00:00 - [Victoria Smurfit: 'Micromanaging your kids makes them useless. Same for men.'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/victoria-smurfit-micromanaging-your-kids-makes-them-useless-same-for-men) — 2024-10-29T05:00:43+00:00 - [Maïa Dunphy: 'I was terrified of becoming a single parent'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/ma-a-dunphy-i-was-terrified-of-becoming-a-single-parent) — 2024-10-22T04:00:26+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.