The Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) has provided a list you might find it handy to have a guide to age appropriate movies for children. Many thousands of titles are now at your fingertips, but which will be enjoyable, and not harmful? ACCM...
If we are to prevent family violence, we must change the attitudes and social conditions that give rise to it. Wendy O'Brien, and Kate Fitz-Gibbon report on the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Family Violence Among the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence’s most important...
More than one billion young people around the world are now shut out of classrooms due to the COVID-19 pandemic, report Amy Graham and Pasi Sahlberg. Even in Australia where many schools remain open, many parents have chosen to keep their kids home. Some Australian non-government...
This is the game from which the best-selling commercial dice game Yahtzee was born, invented by a Canadian couple on their yacht in 1954. It involves rolling the dice three times on each turn to try to achieve a number of set combinations. A delicious...
It is said that this game was developed by British prisoners of war during the First World War. This game also has its commercial spin-offs, as with many a game that originated from humble beginnings. It has continued to appeal to the imaginations of generations...
Delicious, actually! Is this a board book review or should it be one for recipes? Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street—a collection of recipes to share Written and illustrated by Felicita Sala, (Scribble Australia, HB RRP $27.99) This delightful book will provide fun for young and old and the...
Are you curious about COVID-19? Watch Dr Karl Kruszelnicki answers the questions we've all been wondering about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAVnzjfVlI&feature=youtu.be...
So you’ve been asked to work from home. Robin Price and Linda Colley look at what are your employer’s responsibilities, and what are yours? Doing so usually requires changing aspects of your relationship with your employer. What it doesn’t change is that your relationship is based...
It's about flexibility and boundaries reports Ruchi Sinha It’s hard enough juggling a job with parenthood when you’ve got young kids. But what do you do when social-distancing policies mean you’ve all been sent home? This is the reality many families now face. Schools have been...
Your guide to the ultimate family movie night (or day) when in lockdown mode. Now we dont want to encourage more screen time - definitely not- but there might be a time you need to change down the adrenaline and try for some quiet time! Here are...
