{"id":13479,"date":"2025-08-21T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13479\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:42:09","slug":"dr-david-coleman-the-one-question-you-shouldnt-ask-kids-right-after-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13479\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Coleman: The one question you shouldn\u2019t ask kids right after school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Though you want hear all the news and seem supportive, not all children are ready for a full run-down at the end of a long day. Dr David Coleman shares tips on how to help your child open up when they\u2019re ready\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"While some children come home bursting with news, others may be drained and reluctant to \u00adrevisit the day. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3659247c-2531-4d49-9e4f-0ceae3eb4e6a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">While some children come home bursting with news, others may be drained and reluctant to \u00adrevisit the day. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The first day back at school can be full of tension for children and parents alike. Whether it\u2019s the first day of junior infants, the leap into secondary school or just returning to a familiar building with a new teacher and fresh expectations, the change can be challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You may be brimming with questions, eager to download the full story the minute they walk through the door. How did they get on? What\u2019s their new teacher like? Did they make a friend? Did they find their classroom(s)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though you want hear all the news and seem supportive, not all children are ready for a full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[12003,9,10,12618,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-13479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-back-to-school","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-david-coleman","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}