James Dunn looks at foot and mouth disease, which is on a march through local schools and daycare centres. As a new parent, I’ve become acutely aware of every person in the vicinity of my daughter who has the slightest sniffle or looks vaguely unwell. After multiple...
Kids on the autism spectrum experience more bullying. Schools can do something about it, write researchers P. Daniel Lin and Valsamma Eapen Children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, experience various types of challenges at school. This might be due to communication, and also relationships...
Adrian R. Camilleri, looks at what to expect in 2022 and beyond COVID-19 has dramatically changed how businesses and consumers behave. We’ve seen panic buying, the rise of the “homebody economy” and a strong shift towards contactless shopping. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic,...
Ruth Purcell reports that Science has made impressive gains in the art of producing animal products minus the animal. Now this emerging field of cellular agriculture is taking on its biggest challenge yet: breastmilk. Breastmilk is a complex substance, and breastfeeding is even more complicated. We...
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards can push the envelope a little too far, as Kylie Ladd discovered. At the preschool my children attend, there is a rather touching Mother’s Day and Father’s Day tradition: personalised cards. No, not the standard gloopy-handprints-and-generic-poem version, but one based...
While all schools are part of their local community, some are developing partnerships and sharing spaces to become hubs for school-community connections. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in 2020, the staff at Doveton College in Melbourne picked up the phone. “Our staff made over...
The Wiggles band family has officially grown to eight. In the biggest cast shake-up to date, the beloved children's band has grown by four, in a move to represent diversity and gender equality. “The Wiggles were created during a time when early childhood educational concepts were the...
Choosing a child’s name can be an elephantine task, writes Genevieve Quigley. When my husband and I found out we were having a baby, we wanted to give him or her a pet name. We hated saying “It” but we couldn’t say Baby or Bump because...
Vale Eric Carle, by Kate Cantrell and Rhiannan Johnson Eric Carle, author and illustrator of beloved children’s book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, died on 23rd May 2021 — the same day his famous caterpillar is born. One Sunday morning, the warm sun came up — and pop!...
Some wonderful books have been released recently for parents, step-parents and carers on how to support and help their kids develop into happy and healthy adults. These books cover many of the topics you might need to be confident supporting today's 'Generation Alpha' to flourish. The...
