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# Parenting

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Column: 10 ways to get on with teenagers
Column: 7 things to know about teenage drinking (and how to deal with it)
16 bizarre names people gave their babies in 2012
Column: 8 things I’ve learned since I had my daughter
Column: Sweets and treats? We’re teaching children all the wrong lessons
Poll: Do you believe 'phone fights' are a major concern?
Column: I want my son to feel at home in Ireland, too
Sweden mulls law to stop kids' phones from 'ruining' parents
21 tips for parents on their child's first day of school
VIDEO: Best/worst dad in world puts toddler on home-made rollercoaster
Column: Why Ireland must ban all smacking of children
Nearly half believe it acceptable to slap a child - survey
Column: Here’s why your mother sets your love life – and how to change it
Open thread: Feeding a family on less than €10 a day
Working costs parents up to €400 a week - provisional study
Column: Children are conditioned from birth to develop 'brand loyalty'
VIDEO: Kid Stuck in a Box Of the Day
Here's what the world thought of that Time breastfeeding cover...
Column: 'Free preschool has to be backed by strong political will'
Teachers sought increase in breastfeeding time allowance
VIDEO: Overly-dramatic Tantrum By a 3-Year-Old of the Day
Woman arrested for texting while driving... with a baby in her lap
Open thread: What’s the best (and worst) advice your mother ever gave you?
8 terrible Mother's Day gifts
Column: How to make parental leave work for dads in Ireland too
Babies can understand meaning of words from 6 months - study
WATCH: Angry dad shoots daughter's laptop - nine times - over Facebook post
'Babies with three parents' may only be three years away
VIDEO: How to... calm down a newborn
Poll: Is it irresponsible to let under-18s drink at home?
Column: ‘I didn’t really know my own Mam’ – why one woman became a foster mother
Column: We must introduce paternity leave – for the sake of women, too
Sarkozy: Breast-feeding is like slavery
Warnings over 'chickenpox lollipops'
Poll: Should cough and cold remedies be banned for the under-6s?
Column: Nine months' pregnant and heading to Electric Picnic? Don't.
Lessons from Mammy: What our mothers taught us
Food and drink ads aimed at children to be probed
Parents face prosecution for silence on child abuse