Everyday Parenting

Three out of ten parents (28%) could not attend work or have missed out on new job opportunities because they could not access childcare. This is according to a survey of 1,000 respondents which was undertaken on behalf of Seas

Your Money: The ABC guide to the childcare digouts The new childcare subsidies could slash your childcare bill by over €10,000 a year, writes Louise McBride in the Irish Independent Katherine Zappone’s new childcare plan was arguably the centrepiece of

New childcare subsidy will do little to really help women return to work Katherine Zappone has introduced a childcare grant, but Sarah Carey argues her goals to help the poor risk being undone and will do little to help women

Opinion: The government is beginning to recognise that the first five years of a child’s life are the most crucial Adults need to step away and put children back at the centre of childcare, writes Tanya Ward of TheJournal.ie ANY

Stay-at-home parents and families left out of childcare plan New childcare measures have come in for sharp criticism for excluding stay-at-home parents and families who depend on their relatives for childcare. The universal childcare payment and subsidised childcare had been

Budget 2017: Who will benefit from childcare package? Less than a third of families whose children need minding may gain from scheme The childcare package in Budget 2017 was never going to please everybody because there are so many permutations

Forget €5 pension hike, give granny a break from childminding instead In 2015, a ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ report found that the most common form of non-parental childcare was provided by relatives, with grandparents looking after one-third of infants in

State considers radical plan to help pay for childcare Means-tested scheme is expected to be rolled out over a number of years from September A radical new system of subsidised childcare that would mean the State pays a portion of

It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during

Great article posted on SchoolDays.ie here. Contents as follows: If you are a parent/guardian who is on low income, is in school, job training or in receipt of social welfare payment then you may be eligible for assistance with your

Families face childcare crisis after au pair wins €10k in ‘employee’ test case Thousands of families are facing a childcare crisis after being warned they must formally register with Revenue as employers and pay full wages if they take an

International study finds Irish men contribute least to childcare Advocacy groups say action needed to address gender inequalities in childcare Just seven per cent of unpaid childcare in Ireland is done by men according to a new report which describes

“Parent Guilt is a much documented issue and is often described as “A Silent Epidemic”. It’s hard to avoid these days in the online world we live in.” Regina Graham is a Dublin mum of three and owner of Childcarefinder.ie

For the next few weeks, we will be plagued with knocks on the door as candidates try to persuade us to give them our votes. They will dazzle us with their mandates and promises for the future. One of the

By VICTORIA WHITE: €2 an hour for childcare puts parents on a wage of €2 an hour TWO euro an hour. That’s what a child is worth as the Coalition’s general election campaign kicks off in this centenary year of

Photo: Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan Childcare costs would be cut to €2 an hour under a new scheme being promised by Labour if the party is returned to Government. Parents would be able to access a State-subsidised service for

Study finds no difference in cognitive abilities between those with parents and in childcare It makes no difference to a young child’s cognitive abilities whether they are looked after by their parents or sent to childcare, such as creches, according

Early Childhood Ireland survey on screen time usage amongst young children shows some worrying trends and lack of guidelines for parents A new survey (published today Monday 30th November on www.earlychildhoodireland.ie) of 332 parents from around the country regarding screen

Free preschool measures not expected to be introduced until September 2016 Parents of children paying for pre-school care will not benefit from the childcare measures announced in Budget 2016. Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said the €1.1

Measures aimed at hard-pressed working families will offer little relief to many parents of pre-school children Childcare was the dominant issue for readers in the wake of the 2016 Budget presentation, specifically the new pre-school care measures. Hard-pressed parents were

The Government has used its final Budget to woo young parents who were among the worst hit by the country’s punishing economic crash. Ahead of an imminent general election, the coalition unveiled a health, education and welfare spending package aimed

Government to announce a ‘family friendly’ giveaway in Dail this week The major announcement will be made in the Coalition’s “family friendly” Budget and is the central plank of the Coalition’s much-anticipated package of childcare reforms aimed at reducing costs