Parents with babies who cry inconsolably for prolonged periods have specific and important needs during this phase of the First Three Months. Finding support Parents who have been through this experience say that the most important help they received includes: Having people who believed how difficult...
Tresillian uses responsive settling strategies. The techniques provided here will encourage you to respond promptly and sensitively to your baby’s needs. Tresillian’s settling strategy We use the following cues to signal when to implement our responsive settling strategies: Distress Non-verbal cues States of consciousness Active and quiet...
David Roy and Jill Duncan report that with more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus emerging, teachers and students have been required to wear masks in high school classrooms. It was mandatory in Greater Sydney and all of Victoria before the recent switch to remote learning...
We’ve been living in a COVID world for more than 18 months now, writes Lara Herrero. At the outset of the pandemic, government agencies and health authorities scrambled to inform people on how to identify symptoms of the virus. But as the virus has evolved, it...
Hint: use lollies! Write Nial Wheate and Elise Schubert When was the last time you swallowed a pill, be it a tablet or capsule? This morning or sometime in the past week? Now, can you remember the very first time you had to take a pill?...
Pregnant women in Australia are increasingly having their labours induced rather than giving birth spontaneously – and some without good reason. Report Hannah Dahlen, Ank de Jonge, Lilian Peters and Soo Downe A large proportion of first time mothers (41.6%) were induced in 2018, when the...
Primary schools nationwide will now be able to access Butterfly Body Bright, an evidence-informed whole school program designed to help children establish a strong foundation for the development of positive body image, with the aim to protect them from significant issues later in life. Butterfly...
For those parents with kids at home and home schooling, here is a compilation of our articles to show how much we have progressed (or not!) over the past 18 months with COVID-19. How can you minimise all that extra screen time ? Are fathers...
Stephanie Brown reports on the dilemmas families can face when making decisions in relation to organised sport. Seeing motley groups of kids playing an ad hoc game of touch football in the local park seems almost a thing of the past. For many children today, exercise...
Taya Coghlan looks at the importance and rise of disability sports available for kids and how this should be encouraged. In the last few decades, there has been significant progress in how wider society views and values the disabled community. Not too long ago, disabilities were...
