Understanding the Autism Spectrum
There are about 230,000 children in Australia with an ASD, or about one in 100 children, yet it remains one of our least-understood conditions. ...
01 April, 2021
Indoor Activities for When Your Kids Are Stuck Inside
With recent reports revealing that up to 30% of an Australian child’s waking time is spent in front of a screen, mums all around the country are beginning to look for ways to entertain their little ones during the holiday months when the weather might...
31 March, 2021
Inspire Creative Storytelling With “Story Stones”
Christie Burnett shows how you can learn to make DIY story stones to enjoy imaginative storytelling with your child. “Mama, will you tell me a story to help me fall asleep?” asks my eight-year-old. The act of telling stories is a tradition as old as humankind. With...
31 March, 2021
Washing your hands with liquid soap? Be wary!
Since COVID-19, the simple act of hand-washing has been elevated beyond the mundane into a public health headline and potentially life-saving act. People wash their hands now. Soaps and sanitisers are in demand, and also ubiquitous – in handbags, backpacks, at pub and shop doors. This is...
31 March, 2021
Why is kids’ video game Roblox worth $38 billion?
When the children’s digital game Roblox launched on the New York Stock Exchange earlier in March, the company’s share price rapidly took off. By the end of the day, it was valued at US$38 billion. How can a game for kids be worth so much?...
31 March, 2021
The Children’s Book Council of Australia 2021 Shortlist announced
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
Why do children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers?
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
Is our sex education system broken?
In the fields of gender, sexuality, and sexual health research, it’s a no-brainer that sex education should start early, and that sex should be discussed often – both in schools and at home. But instead, we talk about storks, cabbage patches, and the birds and...
24 March, 2021
3 Fun Kids Easter Craft Activities
Favourite Easter craft activities to try by Zoe Gilpin (@thediydecorator) DIY Easter Hat What you need: Super Glue Gel Clear Glue Minis Straw hat (or similar) Decorative coloured rope Various Easter themed decorations Assorted faux floral foliage Optional: Spray paint to prime and change the hat...
24 March, 2021
What are breath-holding spells that causes children to faint?
Frustration or anger can trigger breath-holding spells, write Shivanthan Shanthikumar and David Tingay. As a parent should you be worried? It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then...
24 March, 2021