After a hugely successful first season in 2019 RTÉ One’s Raised by the Village returns for a new four part series on Sunday March 24th at 6:30pm.
Each episode of this brand new Irish-developed parenting format features two urban families who need major help with a teenager veering-off-the-rails and are taking drastic steps to get it.
In the past, there was no internet, no parenting manuals and no behavioral psychologists. You relied on the village and their collective wisdom to figure out your parenting problems.
As the saying goes:
“It takes a village to raise a child”
These families are moving their teen to the heart of the countryside allowing them to be raised by a village. But will the teens learn to behave better when they’re part of a tight-knit community where the local adults keep a very close eye on what they get up to?
This new series sees eight urban teenagers from Dublin, Limerick and Mullingar embraced by remotely located rural families in counties Kerry, Roscommon, Cavan and Cork.
The teenagers live with local families and take part in local activities, experiencing an early-to-rise, wi-fi free outdoor lifestyle that’s a million miles away from their worlds of Playstation, TikTok, fast food, late nights and all-day lie-ins.
An immersive new take on the tv parenting programme, Raised by the Village is for every Irish parent who’s ever wondered if raising their kids in a slower-paced, more community-centred environment might make a real difference?
EPISODE 1
DION & KARL
In Episode 1; 13-year-old Dion from Clondalkin says goodbye to her life of bed rot duvet days and all night Tik Tok benders for a phone-free week of hard-graft on The O’Neill family’s organic farm outside the village of Knightstown on Valentia Island.
Meanwhile 15 year old obsessive gamer Karl is at loggerheads with his parents on the Lakeside Estate in Mullingar. Karl has totally retreated from his family into his all-consuming gamerworld, but can the Cork village of Aherla help him to reconnect through digitally disconnecting? And can the experience of real-life FarmVille on The Hynes Family Dairy farm help Karl to rebalance his life?
Karl with the Hynes family in Aherla, Co. Cork.
