Bring a plate! Lauren Ball, Amy Kirkegaard, Breanna Lepre and Emily Burch look at what to take to Christmas lunch that looks impressive (but won’t break the bank) Christmas lunch is at your friend’s house this year, and they’ve asked you to bring a plate. Money...
Choice overload is a real problem, but these tips will make your life easier, writes Janneke Blijlevens It’s been a long day. Your partner messages you: “let’s just order in, I don’t feel like cooking”. With a sense of relief, you open your usual takeaway app and...
Jayne Kearney finds a way to steer her daughter through the mysteries of multiplication. When I was training to become a teacher, our class was presented with two ways to motivate our future students: extrinsically and intrinsically. Extrinsic motivation is when a child will do something in...
Annie's ice cream pudding Prep time: 15 minutes plus four hours freezing Cook time: nil Serves: 6-8 Ingredients 4 cups (1 litre] good quality vanilla ice cream 1 cup (125g) frozen raspberries 1 Cup (140g) Vienna (toffee) almonds roughly chopped 1 cup (80g) roughly chopped chocolate coated honeycomb Mixed berries and apricot coulis to...
‘I feel guilty about not being good enough’ by Nick Parkinson (from the Grattan Institute) School education in Australia needs a circuit-breaker. Student performance continues to stagnate and teachers report excessive workloads and alarming rates of stress. Our new report from the Grattan Institute, Ending the Lesson...
‘What am I supposed to do about all this really bad stuff?’ Phoebe Quinn and Katitza Marinkovic Chavez report that many young people feel anxious, powerless, sad and angry about climate change. Although there are some great resources on children’s eco-anxiety and climate distress, the vast majority...
– and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parents, writes Sanné Mestrom Imagine this: a heap of colourful plastic buckets stacked on top of each other to form a climbable bridge, monolithic bluestone boulders holding up a contorted slide, a pile of concrete demolition...
Get them to join a choir, orchestra or band! Write researchers Dr William James Baker, Anne-Marie Forbes and Dr Kim McLeod One of the most important qualities for a young person to develop is resilience. This involves their ability to overcome adversity. Resilience is perhaps more important now...
Feeling pressured to buy Christmas presents? Read this (and think twice before buying candles) write Gary Mortimer and Jana Bowden. Christmas marks a peak in consumerism across the West. Despite the COVID downturn, this Christmas the spending frenzy is unlikely to be dampened. One consumer sentiment survey...
These tips might help, write researchers Lauren Ball and Emily Burch Salads are great for our health. They are nutritious, packed full of gut-loving fibre, micronutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. However, some people can experience certain downsides to eating salad after salad, including feeling bored, bloated or even...
