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Colman Noctor: ‘Behaviour is always the signpost to a problem. It is very rarely the problem’

50 min•21 april 2026

Colman Noctor is a well-known child and adolescent psychotherapist, so you’d be forgiven for presuming with all this expertise at hand that he always gets it right when it comes to parenting his own three children.


Not so, the father-of-three says on the latest episode, explaining his children “slam doors” and face the same “trials and tribulations” as the everyone else’s children.


He shares the “sobering” moment he realised that you can read all the books and have all the theory, “but in Dundrum Shopping Centre when you’re kid kicks off, it’s a lottery.


Parenting is an act of failure. It’s just not failing too much.”

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