How can you help your child make friends? Gretchen Geng and Phillip Slee have some ideas that may help. One of the things children (and parents) may worry about at the start of the new school year is, will I have friends? This could be true for...
There is a growing number of ‘super-sized’ schools. Does the number of students matter? asks Emma Rowe Recently, The Sydney Morning Herald reported one of Sydney’s top public high schools had more than 2,000 students for the first time, thanks to the booming population in the...
‘Perfect bodies and perfect lives’. Researcher, Julia Coffey, looks at how selfie-editing tools are distorting how young people see themselves Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the...
Why Kids Today Learn So Differently From Us “The young people of today love luxury; they have bad manners; they scoff at authority… lack respect for their elders…” Whether or not these words came from Socrates, they’ve long been used to reassure parents: every generation complains about...
Car thieves are getting smarter — and they don’t even need your keys anymore. RACV is warning non-tech-savvy drivers and families to be extra careful, with more thieves using new tricks to steal cars without breaking windows or hot-wiring anything. It’s happening more often in push-start...
From “Why do people die?” to “Do bees have knees?”, children’s questions can catch us off guard — especially when we're tired or unsure ourselves, writes Dr Susan White But research shows that how we respond is more important than having all the answers. The truth about...
A trial is testing ways to enforce Australia’s social media ban for under-16s. But the tech is flawed, report researchers Alexia Maddox, Luke Heemsbergen and My Le Australia’s move to ban under-16s from social media is receiving widespread praise. Other countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland,...
Instead of banning kids from online spaces, here’s what we should offer them instead, writes Amanda Third Banning children under 16 from social media sounds like a seductive idea. For overwhelmed parents navigating their kids’ lives in a digital age, this move from the Australian government...
This new approach can help make it easier and quicker to work out what support is needed, write David Trembath and Rachelle Wicks If your child is struggling with certain everyday activities – such as playing with other kids, getting dressed or paying attention – you...
Some Australian schools are still not running a swimming program, with up to 40 per cent of children missing out on key skills, writes Abbey Boyer For a country with 34,000 kilometres of coastline, it may not come as a surprise that swimming is the...
