As Australians grapple with the sudden and challenging changes that COVID-19 has brought to their daily lives, the impact of the virus is being felt in extreme ways by vulnerable children and families, reports Melissa Kaltner. New research led by Melissa and EY partner Mark...
Struggling to keep up the interest in home schooling your kids? You are not alone! Even Schools struggle to cover all content in the Australian Curriculum under normal circumstances. Instead of engaging a cleaner your might feel less stressed with a home tutor during these COVID-19...
Access tips and resources from teacher educator and former classroom teacher and homeschooling mum, Dr Nikki Brunker. These tips will keep your kids engaged and learning while they are at home during the Coronavirus outbreak. ~See Dr Nikki Brunker talk about her Top tips for parents and...
One early childhood educator is pushing against remote teaching for our youngest children and this is why. With the current rapid evolution from classroom teaching to online and remote delivery, the early childhood sector is in a strange place. We’re an evolving industry that’s been pushing...
Separated parents feel both the joys and stressors of parenting. Extra pressures and stresses such as those associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic can be hard to manage and cause anxiety in both parents and children. These TOP TEN suggestions can help separated parents work through this difficult time. ...
You can be really creative with these great downloadable art prints. Once completed you will have your own individual artworks to hang on that blank wall! Hello Prints (Margate U.K) have released a fun assembly kit and colouring pages (free downloadable) in response to the Covid-19...
J.K. Rowling and her Wizarding World partners have launched Harry Potter At Home, a digital hub packed with information and activities to help children, parents, carers and teachers confined at home during the Covid-19 outbreak. Bloomsbury and Scholastic, have helped add nifty magical craft videos (teach...
Extended time together in the house can lead to bored children. Getting on each other’s nerves, escalating conflict, and serious challenges to our sanity! Professor Mark Dadds, director of the Sydney Child Behaviour Research Clinic, has some tips for staying sane and getting along during the...
Are you one of the 1.4 million Australians who has found yourself suddenly unemployed thanks to COVID-19? You are not alone. The unemployment rate is predicted to reach 10 per cent as a result of the COVID pandemic. That’s one out of every ten Australians facing unemployment....
Perhaps they're reading the wrong books suggest Ayesha Tulloch and Kirsten Parris Identifying the difference between a native burrowing frog and an introduced cane toad is fundamental ecological knowledge. After bushfires ravaged Australia’s animal and plant communities and razed millions of hectares of land, such knowledge...
