Conversations with Parents
Conversations with Parents is a new 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?
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Latest Episode
Richie Sadlier: 'My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex, when they're teens' (18.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘I’m lucky to have eight children after suffering secondary infertility’
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’
- Chris Hadfield: 'I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn't be more delighted'
- Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: 'My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant'
- Ciara Kelly: ‘A consultant shamed me for being an unmarried, pregnant junior doctor’
- Prof. Donal O’Shea: “I’ll be advising my girls to go on HRT”
- Fintan O’Toole: ‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’
- The toughest challenge of their lives: Conversations with Parents season two
- Coming soon: Season two of Conversations with Parents
- Conversations with Parents - the debrief
- Séamas O'Reilly: 'My son is the same age I was when my mum died'
- Black Paddy: 'I want to teach my children to love the colour of their skin'
- Terry Prone on allowing son Anton Savage to be in her publicity as a child: ‘I think it was the wrong thing to do’
- Ivan Yates: 'My children struggle with what I do'
- Victoria Smurfit: 'Micromanaging your kids makes them useless. Same for men.'
- Maïa Dunphy: 'I was terrified of becoming a single parent'
- Tony Cantwell: 'Since my ADHD diagnosis I’m a more patient dad’
- Brendan O'Connor: 'I keep annoying my kids with teachable moments'
- Conversations with Parents: Guest preview
- Coming soon: Jen Hogan's Conversations with Parents
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