Entries by Comms

10 Ways to Parent Siblings

Siblings can play wonderful roles throughout each other’s lives though there can be challenges along the way. Here are some of our tips to help nurture those important relationships. 10 Ways to Parent Siblings Prepare early: talk to older children and prepare them early on about the importance and role of an older sibling as […]

Housing a Major Concern for One-Parent Families

Kitty Holland writes in the Irish Times today about the distressing case of Sabrina McMahon, a lone parent who has been spending nights with her three young children in their car. Housing concerns and worries are the cause of continuous stress for many of the parents One Family works with, with many telling us they […]

10 Ways to Sensitive Integration of a Stepparent

Introducing a new partner who may be potential stepparent to your children requires great care and patience with the focus on helping children to adapt. As part of our weekly ’10 Ways to …’ series, here are our tips on managing this situation so that, in time, all members of the family can enjoy positive and supportive […]

Modern Family on Today FM featuring One Family

Modern Family is a new Today FM four-part documentary series on family diversity in Ireland, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and narrated by Ray D’Arcy and produced by Mary Carroll. The series aims to explore the changing face of modern families. Part 4 is a focus on one-parent families and separated parents sharing […]

Family Day Festival Takes Place on 18 May

Press Release Family Day Festival celebrates family diversity of today’s Ireland on 18 May Sunday, 18 May 2014 | www.familyday.ie (Dublin, 18 April 2014) One Family – Ireland’s leading organisation for one-parent families in Ireland – celebrates the diversity of families in today’s Irish society with the free one-day Family Day Festival in Dublin’s Iveagh […]