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öogo Interactive Summer Sessions

Live Expert Sessions on Six Things Keeping Parents up at Night. Everything from sleep training and fussy eating to worrisome behaviour and how to declutter your home.

Session 1

Childcare Hacks

Claire Carroll (ex‑Google) & Kate Clark (Founder/CEO @ öogo)

Over 50% of parents are struggling to find childcare to support their work. Rather than have to work around whatever childcare you can find, learn some basic hacks to help with the search and manage expectations.

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Session 2

DeClutter Your Home

Jennie O'Rourke, Mum of 5 & Founder of Uncluttered.ie

Expert advice on how to tackle and avoid clutter. It can creep up on anyone and it can really become bothersome while rarely making it to the top of the to-do list.

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Session 3

Fussy Eating

Niamh Landy, Paediatric Dietician at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital

Learn how to tackle fussiness with a basic tool kit of tips. Understand when the push back is a sign of something more serious and where to seek help.

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Session 4

Motherhood Mental Health

Dr Cat Hynds, Perinatal Psychiatrist at Holles Street NMH

There's finding the early stages hard and then there's finding it hard to find the joy in the early stages. Expert advice on how to know the difference and how to seek the right kind of help.

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Session 5

Worrying Behaviour

Claire Conlon, Child Psychologist at Central Remedial Clinic

Lots of behaviours that can feel worrying are perfectly normal and understanding how to react from a place of knowledge can make all the difference.

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Session 6

Sleep Training

Ursula & Erica, Professional Sleep Consultants and Mothers

Sleep is everything and, these days, far too many families are operating on too little of it. Get expert advice on how to build healthy sleep habits that last.

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We are öogo

8 Layers of Support

For All Stages of Parenting

Regular Minders™

Back Up Minders™

Occasional Minders™

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Pregnancy & Birth

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Activities & Camps

Online & In-person Tutors

Happy öogo Users

Barrister & Arbitrator

“As a doctor and a barrister, our childcare gaps were pretty crippling. We can’t bring children to work or ‘muddle through’ at home. We had most of the childcare sorted, but there were a few hours each afternoon, every afternoon involving a school pick-up that we just couldn’t make work. öogo found us someone for whom the 15 hours a week was the perfect fit. Those 15 hours are the difference between the work going well or the week falling apart. Thanks, öogo!”

Nancy Odera - Program Manager

“When I moved back to Ireland from abroad, I went from having a lot of family support to having none. It was a challenging transition, especially while trying to enjoy the last few weeks of my maternity leave. The thought of searching for reliable childcare was overwhelming and made me feel incredibly isolated. But then I discovered öogo. They quickly found five suitable minders, making the childcare search far less daunting and lonely. Thanks to öogo, I was able to feel like myself again, not just a mum, and I could return to work with peace of mind knowing my child was in good hands.”

Sorcha Mulligan

“Without the amazing ... team from öogo, I would not have been there - One more empty seat where a Mum should have been.”

Lia Boyland - CEO and Co-Founder

“Thanks to the öogo team, I was able to attend an event that I usually wouldn't have been able to as a founder and mom with a 4-year-old and a 7-month-old baby. It's not that childcare isn't available; it's because I don't want to leave my baby for a full day yet.”

Shane Cusack - Account Manager

“As parents of three young children, myself and my wife constantly found ourselves with the usual childcare gaps and challenges. Little pockets of time when the childcare had fallen through or we didn’t have any. We didn’t really think that finding ad-hoc childcare for “little pockets of time” was something that could be achieved but through öogo, we have been connected to three really great Minders™ who live close by and for whom occasional work is ideal.”

Humans of öogo

Raivo Ruikis

“I used to teach coding to a young guy whose Mum wanted him to learn something new because he was falling in with the wrong crowd. He really took to coding and his Mum used to mention that he was doing so much better with something positive and productive to focus on. I guess that's when I realised that opening up kids' minds to learning cool new skills was a real gift.”

Susan

“When I was nursing in the children's ward, parents weren't allowed to stay with their children overnight. I used to sit down beside a little one who was upset and whisper into their ear "it's good to let the adults go home because the fairies only come out at nighttime if there are no adults here". That was a super distraction and questions about fairies were plentiful enough to get to heavy eyes pretty quickly.”

Charlotte

“One of the nicest memories I have was when a single Mum who had her baby during COVID reached out to me for help. I came over and she handed me the newborn and went to bed. I didn't know the baby from before but immediately felt so connected to her. She stayed awake for ages in my arms, totally content and everything was so pure and serene in the room with her for ages.”

The öogo Minder™ community continually amazes us with its incredible stories of kindness, humility and downright heroism. We believe the magic Minders™ sprinkle on the world each and every day deserves to be celebrated, so we started the Humans of öogo Movement. Now, everyone can meet the incredible people we have the honour of supporting in the most incredible of jobs.

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