Conversations with Parents

Coming soon: Jen Hogan's Conversations with Parents

Conversations with Parents

Show Notes

Conversations with Parents is a new podcast from The Irish Times. Host Jen Hogan talks to interesting people about the biggest challenge of their lives: parenthood. What have they learned about how to raise kids and how have they grown themselves from doing it? What are their parenting strategies - or are they making it up as they go along? Episode one is coming on October 8th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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