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Are we mollycoddling our kids off cycling?

Yesterday on the show our guest, Niall Moyna, Professor of Health and Human Performance at DCU as...

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11.15 9 Aug 2019


Are we mollycoddling our kids off cycling?


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11.15 9 Aug 2019


Yesterday on the show our guest, Niall Moyna, Professor of Health and Human Performance at DCU asserted that helicopter parents are partly to blame for the 87% decrease in the number of children cycling to school.

We ask Psychotherapist and Author, Stella O’Malley if we're mollycoddling our kids off their bikes.


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