{"podcast":{"title":"Conversations with Parents","slug":"conversations-with-parents-7035502","podcast_index_feed_id":7035502,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66dace753eb5a88941553994","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/irish-times-parenting","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66dace753eb5a88941553994/1756811646793-7e0b8bf6-d0a9-4df3-a984-a0d56f0be504.jpeg","author":"The Irish Times","episode_count":29,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502"},"episode":{"title":"Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’","slug":"colman-noctor-behaviour-is-always-the-signpost-to-a-problem-it-is-very-rarely-the-problem","published_at":"2026-04-21T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/colman-noctor-behaviour-is-always-the-signpost-to-a-problem-it-is-very-rarely-the-problem","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502","url":"https://shows.acast.com/irish-times-parenting/episodes/draft-dr-colman-noctor","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66dace753eb5a88941553994/e/69e0ca0e23929c3a2ab61018/media.mp3","summary":"Colman 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 father-of-three says on the latest episode, explaining his children “slam doors” and face the same “trials and tribulations” as the everyone else’s children. He shares the “sobering” moment he realised that you can read all the books and have all the theory, “but in Dundrum Shopping Centre when you’re kid kicks off, it’s a lottery. Parenting is an act of failure. It’s just not failing too much.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Colman 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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2973,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-parents-7035502/episodes/colman-noctor-behaviour-is-always-the-signpost-to-a-problem-it-is-very-rarely-the-problem/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/colman-noctor-behaviour-is-always-the-signpost-to-a-problem-it-is-very-rarely-the-problem.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}