Telling them what they need to knowADOLESCENCE is the time when everyone's search for identity begins, the time when we begin to explore who we areTue Mar 19 1996 - 00:00
Quinnsworth to go upmarket with new £10m Dun Laoghaire storeQUINNSWORTH is to use a new brand name - Bloomfields - for its supermarket at a shopping centre under construction in Dun Laoghaire…Wed Mar 13 1996 - 00:00
How to cope with children behaving badlyMARIAN BECAME the mother of a teenage dropout last year, after a troubled history with schools that couldn't help her sonTue Mar 12 1996 - 00:00
A friend is for life - and strifeAGONIES OVER friendships, for girls at least, begin in the playgroundTue Mar 5 1996 - 00:00
Love them and leave themCLARE loves her four children dearly, and had looked forward to their university years as a time when she could move on from …Tue Feb 27 1996 - 00:00
Keeping them occupied after schoolBY THE time she was eight, Niamh had dropped out of ballet, piano lessons, tap dancing, Irish dancing, gymnastics (after just…Tue Feb 20 1996 - 00:00
French without fearsTHE ETIQUETTE, apparently, is strict: no one attempts to "get off" at a disco unless permission has been grantedTue Feb 13 1996 - 00:00
"Just hanging out"IN THE MOVIES, there are always jukeboxes and boys in tight jeans with bulging bicepsTue Feb 6 1996 - 00:00
War of the buttonsON THE worst days, it feels like a re-run of one of Eastenders' more violent episodes, as muffled shouts of "Shut it!" are followed…Tue Jan 30 1996 - 00:00
Teenager tipplers"NINETY THREE per cent of Leaving Cert students drink - and 75 per cent of Junior Cert studentsTue Jan 16 1996 - 00:00