Australia’s largest survey of children’s happiness finds that sleep is a key indicator of wellbeing – but traditional things like reading and pets still make kids smile Andrew Trounson talks to Professor Lisa Gibbs, Chair of the University of Melbourne’s Children’s Lives Initiative What are kids telling...
We have a solution, report researchers Julie Sonnemann and Rebecca Joiner. Almost all teachers (92%) in our study out today said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching – the core of their job. The Grattan Institute surveyed 5,442 Australian teachers and school...
Don’t fret about buying the ‘right’ toy for your child, writes Nicola Yelland Besides the new COVID-era concerns about retail supply chains comes the age-old question: what’s the best educational toy to buy for the child (or grandchild) in your life? There’s a vast range of toys...
When asked to estimate their own intelligence, most people will say they are above average, even though this is a statistical improbability, writes researcher David Reilly This is a normal, healthy cognitive bias and extends to any socially desirable trait such as honesty, driving ability and...
My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I was ready to do so myself, writes Shakira Hussein For several years after my diagnosis with remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis, the most I was prepared to concede was that I had “a potentially disabling disease”, and...
Simon Ryan reports it's just the latest conservative book ban On March 1, 2022, Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in New Byrum, Mississippi, faced a problem. The reader booked for a Zoom session for 240 grade two students hadn’t shown up....
Research from Camp Australia, the nation’s largest provider of Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), has found children in Australia’s most locked down states – ACT, NSW and Vic – have been most impacted by the pandemic. These findings have highlighted the need to support young...
Children undergoing surgery for severe hip deformities can now benefit from much shorter surgeries, which means getting back to normal walking and sitting sooner, thanks to an innovation that creates a computerised ‘twin’ of their bodies and movement. One child every two days in Queensland...
"Have you stopped wearing reusable fabric masks?" Aleasha McCallion, Forbes McGain and Kim Borg look at the waste produced from COVID disposables At the beginning of the pandemic, many of us opted to buy reusable fabric masks to help fight the spread of COVID – they’re...
Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, writes Adrian Esterman This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most populous city in central China. Early reports...
