Despite having a childminder sent from the childminding gods, my youngest has been kicking up such a fuss in the mornings you'd swear I was delivering him to a gulag

Whilst I was all tough talk on the first day of school, the second day was for me, the moment when I seriously considered scooping up my newly initiated junior infant and making a break for it

Despite never having anything less than an entirely pleasant experience with public health nurses over the years, I always fret that I will be outted as the fraud that I am when appointment time approaches

"Our new dentist’s reception area is so instantly soothing, I was almost envious of the patients waiting for a root canal. The sparkling floors scream, ‘We don’t reuse toothpicks here,’ while the funny ornaments, depicting old-school dentists, complete with monocles, tell us this dentist also knew how to have fun."

More rain, less pain I say, at least when it comes to entertaining children over these summer months

After attempting everything - colouring, cars, and conversation, I have accepted that the only thing that will get my kids to stay at the table long enough for Mammy to eat her dinner is an iPad

After a lovely week spent on the North West coast, I am not sure we will ever be in need of our passports again

Celebrities might love to tell us that they do it all on their own, but the reality is nobody can do parenting without help

As much as we love our kids, we all have days which have us pushed to the brink of sanity. Today was one of those days

Junior Cert controversies have reminded me this week how important it is to teach our children resilience, and to model it too