Whether it’s a new teacher or class – parent and researcher Sarah Jefferson gives insights into what to do when your child is not loving it The first signs were the half-eaten lunches coming home from high school. This was in stark contrast to the primary...

Anyone can save a life, including kids, report Janet Bray and Kathryn Eastwood With over 26,000 cardiac arrests occurring every year in Australia and over 76% of them occurring in the home, some of our youngest Australians are learning how to help. But why kids? It’s simple....

Covering your baby’s pram with a dry cloth can increase the temperature by almost 4 degrees. Here’s what to do instead, reports James Smallcombe, Mohammad Fauzan Bin Maideen, and Ollie Jay We like to think of babies as tiny versions of ourselves. But babies aren’t simply...

 I’m at my wit’s end, what can I do? Clinical child psychologist, John McAloon has some thoughts for families aiming to achieve a desirable outcome Everyone with young children experiences parenting challenges. And these are often exacerbated by parental exhaustion, financial or relationship difficulties, and work stress. I’m...

From TV to TikTok, young people are exposed to gambling promotions everywhere, report researchers  Simone McCarthy, Hannah Pitt and Samantha Thomas I’ve walked past two TABs pretty much weekly, because one’s near our ice cream shop and one’s next to the shopping centre. So, we go there...

 Even if you took them months before surgery, report researchers Nial Wheate and Tina Hinton Cough medicines containing the active ingredient pholcodine are being withdrawn from sale due to safety concerns highlighted for years both in Australia and internationally. Yesterday, Australia’s medicines regulator announced the immediate registration...

Breaking bones in childhood more than doubles the odds of it happening again as an adult, researcher Kim Meredith-Jones finds. Breaking a bone in childhood is not just a rite of passage. It could be a warning sign of future fracture risk and osteoporosis. A history of...

Nicole Mockler reports about the world-first study which looks at 65,000 news articles about Australian teachers. Remember when former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert lashed out at “dud” teachers? In March, the then acting education minister said the “bottom 10%” of teachers “can’t read and write”...

Toy libraries across Australia are booming as more families turn to borrowing toys to save money, reduce waste and reconnect with their communities after COVID-19. Memberships at Australia’s 380-plus toy libraries have surged over the past two years, with new figures showing that over 130,000 families...