My child has a cough, so what’s wrong with using cough syrup? Caution is needed, writes Rose Cairns As winter approaches, many parents will be bracing for the cold and flu season. Young children typically get at least six colds a year. In previous generations, parents might...
Christine Grové and Alexandra Marinucci have looked at some steps that might help parents. School attendance levels in Australia are a massive issue according to Education Minister Jason Clare. As he told reporters last week, he hopes to talk to state colleagues about the issue at a...
We won’t solve the teacher shortage, reports Hugh Gundlach, until we answer these 4 questions. Schools and students around Australia continue to face a teacher shortage. This means some schools have gone back for term two unable to offer certain subjects. Some might have composite classes, larger...
It's a condition Scottish singer-songwriter and musician Lewis Capaldi lives with, writes Daryl Efron You might have seen the news when fans of singer Lewis Capaldi helped him finish a song at a concert recently, after symptoms of his Tourette syndrome suddenly flared up and temporarily...
Early intervention is most important, writes Catherine Best. Every parent cherishes their child’s first words, those meaningful, gabbled sounds that chart their development from passive infant to interacting person. Speech and language define how we engage with the world and are the building blocks of learning,...
The Lidcombe Program is a behavioural treatment for children who stutter* and are younger than 6 years. Developed by the University of Sydney in the 1980s and since adopted by speech pathologists around the world, the program takes its name from the suburb of Sydney, where...
In Australia, the corporal punishment of children is legal, writes Sophie Havighurst. Parents can still wash their child's mouth out with soap. In all states and territories, parents or carers are permitted to punish children using physical force with the intent to cause some degree of...
Sarah Mokrzycki asks 'Why?', as bathing is not a sexual act Australian author Mem Fox’s 1988 picture book Guess What?, illustrated by Vivienne Goodman, has been banned in Duval County, Florida over allegations of “pornography”. Why? Because one illustration depicts the main character, “old witch” Daisy...
Researchers at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research led by Associate Professor Misty Jenkins, Laboratory Head at WEHI and The Brain Cancer Centre, have discovered a new treatment that shows promise in fighting a rare and aggressive type of brain tumour that affects...
Marc Cheong, looks at 4 ways to take control of social media algorithms and get the content you actually want Whether it’s Facebook’s News Feed or TikTok’s For You page, social media algorithms are constantly making behind-the-scenes decisions to boost certain content – giving rise to...
