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Jun 2022
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Should you monitor your child's smartpho...

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Should you monitor your child's smartphone habits, we will discuss this next Richard Hogan family psychotherapist, Clinical Director at The Therapy Institute and author of parenting the screenager Father to 3 daughters and also Jen Hogan Journalist, Columnist with the Irish Times & mother of 7 kids.  
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