When a First Nations child dies unexpectedly, Australia often reaches for the same responses: to blame, seek more inquiries, implement tougher laws and stronger powers to intervene....
Identifying children with developmental delay has many possible benefits. But the system needs to be able to follow through and offer support to families when delays are identified....
Recently, write Vaughan Cruickshank and Nicholas Hookway, a group of Australian primary school principals called for more male primary school teachers, saying boys needed more “male role models”....
As young people progress through high school, they start making plans for what they will do when they leave. What factors influence their plans? And importantly, what helps them stay until the end of school?...
Babies aren’t born with enough vitamin K, which is essential to clot blood, report Zohra Lassi and Engida Yisma. This is why it’s recommended in Australia that all newborns receive a vitamin K injection at birth. Without it, they’re at risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding,...
Looking for family movies these Spring school holidays? See what’s in Australian cinemas, including PAW Patrol, Shaun the Sheep, Stitch Head and more....
Once, a children’s birthday party meant cake, a few games and a handful of friends. Now parents can find themselves navigating guest-list politics, RSVP etiquette, food allergies, sibling requests, gift rules and even school policies about how invitations are handed out....
A birth doula is a support person a woman can privately hire during pregnancy. They usually attend the birth and provide non-clinical comfort measures such as massage, assistance getting into different birth positions, and emotional reassurance....
For some Australians hoping to have a baby, deciding to begin fertility treatment is only the first hurdle. Finding donor sperm can involve waiting lists, rising costs and very different rules depending on where you live....
Becoming a mother also brings about an extraordinary shift in priorities. As the late British psychotherapist and author Naomi Stadlen wrote, “motherhood can be relentless. The dependency, the need, the constant pull of being someone’s entire world…”...
