Our older son is an easy-going, polite and intelligent child who excels at school and who, generally, seems pretty content with his lot in life. He spends hours in front of a computer screen gaming and watching YouTube videos (like most of his peers) and, while I have no issue with gaming and YouTube per se, over the last year or so he has become slightly overweight. My wife and I find it extremely challenging and utterly exhausting to parent our younger son, as we don’t have much in the way of support nearby. There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to attend to both of our son’s needs. (I work full time and my wife has had to give up work to be a full-time carer for our younger child).

Source: The Irish Times January 28, 2026 22:33 UTC