Below you will find links to a selection of videos and podcasts that John Sharry, CEO and Founder of Parents Plus, created with other organisations offering advice and tips for parents.
Webwise – Internet Safety and Dealing with Technology
For Internet Safety Day 2017, John Sharry and Webwise created a series of videos discussing technology use in the home.
- Dealing with conflict around technology use in the home
- Introducing technology to your child
- Tips to gradually introducing technology to your children
- Taking back control – technology use in the home
Safefood Ireland – Health Eating & Family Life
Below are a series of videos that John Sharry and Safefood Ireland created to highlight the importance of healthy eating in the family.
- Lets take on Childhood Obesity – Changing your Routine
- Let’s take on Childhood Obesity – Bribes or rewards?
- Breaking Bad habits and Healthy Eating
- Reducing treat foods – How to deal with children’s demands
- Reducing treat foods – Breaking bad habits
- Top 3 tips on saying no to treats
- Changing your eating routine as a family
John Sharry with Safefood Ireland also offer some tips and advice around common issues that can occur with children around sleep and bedtime in the home.
- Benefits of sleep for families
- How to establish a good bedtime routine
- Should children have a lie in?
- Are screens in the bedroom a problem?
- Having different aged children sharing a bedroom
Reach Out – Teenagers and Youth Mental Health
John Sharry with Reach Out offers advice on how to have a difficult conversation with a teen or young adult.
RTÉ Young People’s Channel
John Sharry talks to RTÉ Junior about different issues affecting families.
- The Different Roles that Dads play
- Shared Parenting: How to protect children when parents are going through a separation
Radio Podcasts
- For a selection of radio interviews around parenting and mental health that John Sharry has done on various radio stations, visit www.solutiontalk.ie
- Listen back to John Sharry on the Seán Moncrieff Show on Newstalk talking all things parenting and offering some useful tips for parents.
- Listen back to John Sharry on the Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk discussing anxieties in children and how to overcome them.
- Listen back to John Sharry on the Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk talking about parenting children with food issues.
