Why not introduce your kids to the amazing handwritten world? Jenna Templeton shares some snail mail favourites to inspire you to put pen to paper. ...

08 April, 2021

Kids absolutely love playdough, so why not learn how to make your own and add another dimension to the whole experience....

01 April, 2021

The Shortlist for the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards was announced Tuesday 30 March, celebrating a wild year of storytelling about everything from lost souls to a party-crashing cockroach. CBCA Chair Wendy Rapee said authors and illustrators worked in physical...

30 March, 2021

Raise healthy, adventurous eaters and help prevent food allergies One of the most anxiety-provoking parts of becoming a new parent can be starting a child on solids. While allergies affect only a small percentage of children—about 4-8 per cent under the age of 5—numbers continue to...

25 March, 2021

Children with same-sex parents get higher scores on standardised tests than children with different-sex parents. Report Jan Kabatek, and Francisco Perales.  This is the key finding from our study just published in the journal Demography. We also found children with same-sex parents to be slightly more...

24 March, 2021

Crafting and art work can be very rewarding for children on many levels, says clinical psychologist Renee Mills. It can help you connect with your kids by just spending time with them. Whether it’s fathoming up a new Easter hat design for the annual school Easter hat...

24 March, 2021

Childhood is an important time for healthy development, learning, and establishing the foundations for future wellbeing. Most Australian children are healthy, safe and doing well. However, childhood is also a time of vulnerability and a child’s outcomes can vary depending on where they live and...

17 March, 2021

Let’s start by putting aside the bugbear that it is even possible to “cancel” children’s author Dr Seuss, writes Kate Cantrell and Sharon Bickle As Philip Bump wrote recently in The Washington Post, No one is ‘cancelling’ Dr Seuss. The author, himself, is dead for one thing,...

10 March, 2021

 Families come in all shapes and sizes, writes Jacqui Tomlin. Something is happening in our house on weekday mornings. We call it Sock Torture. Our youngest started Kindy recently, and she’s loving it, but at either end of the school day she’s tired, and how shall...

10 March, 2021

From Norway to Vanuatu to Chile –  how does pregnancy differ around the world?   Sigrid Nordvik 32, NORWAY In Norway, you attend medical appointments every month with your doctor or the midwife. I could choose which one I wanted to see. We had two screenings, one around...

08 March, 2021
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