Kate Gorringe-Smith considers the fine line between social tact and lies. We have just hosted our middle son’s seventh birthday party. We had eight screaming little terrors at our house, not including our own, racing up and down the garden, throwing popcorn in each others’ drinks,...
Donna Reis reflects on the lives of the women who have inhabited her homes before her. There’s an indefinable bond between women who are mothers; a sense of recognition, even appreciation for someone else who knows what it is to be someone’s mother – it doesn’t...
With the Paralympics following hot on the heels of our best-ever Summer Olympic Games, there is a large group of Australians representing us in Paris at the 2024 Paralympic Games to keep the Aussie Spirit going! Ever wondered how athletes for the Paralympics are classified and...
by Alberto Filgueiras, Children all over Australia have been watching the Olympics. At school and at home, they have seen athletes win medals, waving flags and doing victory dances. For many, this will be the first time they remember seeing the games. For some kids, this may...
Indigenous-led songwriting is helping to celebrate cultural knowledge, revitalise language and improve wellbeing in a remote community in the central Kimberley The benefits of music are something many of us understand intuitively. The fact that music can improve health, well-being and community has become increasingly well-documented...
Inspired by Australia’s oldest portrait prize, the Archibald Prize, the Young Archie competition invites young artists aged 5 to 18 years to submit a portrait of someone who is special to them and plays an important role in their life. Congratulations to the young artists Winner 5-8...
There are many ways to encourage children to write thank-you notes, writes Kathy Sena. The birthday party is over, the kids are happily exhausted and full of cake—and you can pat yourself on the back for pulling off a successful celebration. It's time to put your...
We all enjoy a good party, and Ruth Wajnryb reminds us of their primary purposes. Nostalgia is a funny thing—funny-peculiar, not funny, ha-ha. Once you’re on a jaunt down memory lane, it’s easy to get carried away. Take children’s birthday parties, for instance. When I was raising...
When her daughter turns 12, Stephanie Legg-England decides that some pampering is in order. It’s not easy to run a birthday party for children if you are shy, or if your mother and sisters live too far away to help, or if you want a personal...
In the lead-up to her daughter’s fifth birthday party, Kylie Ladd discovers that politics isn’t just for grown-ups. My daughter Cameron is a party animal—a political party animal—that is, always with her eye on the numbers, ever sensitive to the ebb and flow of support among...
