{"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":"Leaving Cert stress? A psychologist, a guidance councillor and a parent share their advice","slug":"leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and-a-parent-share-their-advice","published_at":"2026-05-19T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502/leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and-a-parent-share-their-advice","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-parents-7035502","url":"https://shows.acast.com/irish-times-parenting/episodes/leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66dace753eb5a88941553994/e/6a0b78030bb7fec0e38ae8a8/media.mp3","summary":"It’s said when someone in the house is sitting the Leaving Cert, the whole house is sitting the Leaving Cert. And with the State exams almost upon that’s a lot of people feeling the stress. But fear not because Conversations with Parents is bringing you a special episode with an expert panel to help parents and students navigate the whole experience in the least frazzled way possible. Yes, we’ve made our panel publicly relive their own Leaving Cert trauma for the heck of it. Jen talks about LC survival with guidance counsellor and founder of Find My College Course, Donnchadh O’Mahony, psychologist Malie Coyne and former Leaving Cert student Conor Pope, who is now experiencing the fabled exams as a parent for the first time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"It’s said when someone in the house is sitting the Leaving Cert, the whole house is sitting the Leaving Cert. And with the State exams almost upon that’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3092,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-parents-7035502/episodes/leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and-a-parent-share-their-advice/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/leaving-cert-stress-a-psychologist-a-guidance-councillor-and-a-parent-share-their-advice.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}