Brands want us to trust them, reports Paul Harrison. But as the SPF debacle shows, they need to earn it It’s quite unsettling to discover something so central to our cultural rituals – the “slop” in the Aussie mantra of “Slip! Slop! Slap!” – can no longer...
How can we support them better? ask researchers Lucy Lu and Jennifer Hammond About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect. This means their first language or dialect is something other than English and they need extra support to develop...
Lisa Johnson comes to the realisation that she is reliving her own past disappointments through her son. The Dance, the Awards, and the Quiet Fury Every second year at my son’s school, there is a dance. Each child attends a series of lessons to learn dances such...
How can school playgrounds be set up to stop it? Brendon Hyndman has some ideas. Children spend thousands of hours in playgrounds at school. A lot of this time does not have the same levels of teacher preparation and supervision as classrooms do. Research shows school playgrounds...
When Elizabeth Quinn’s daughter announced that she wanted to give up eating meat, mother and daughter explored how this could be part of a healthy lifestyle. When Kids Lead with Values It can be interesting for parents when their children begin to form their own independent views....
John Hughes’s temporary experience of being a stay-at-home dad enables him finally to understand why parents ask teachers so many questions. Juggling Roles at School and at Home I am in the unusual, but not unique, situation of having my daughter attend Kindergarten at the school where...
As parents, write Manjeevan Seera and Ridoan Kerim, our foremost concern has always been the safety of our children, especially in an age dominated by digital technologies, social media, and artificial intelligence. For years, we have grappled with pressing online dangers such as cyberbullying, pornography addiction,...
Paediatrician. and researcher Archana Koirala looks how you can catch it. What the symptoms are? And who can get vaccinated? Two Tasmanian women recently, have been hospitalised with invasive meningococcal disease, bringing the number of cases nationally so far this year to 48. Health authorities are...
Will it work? asks Jessica Kaufman and Julie Leask Last week, the Australian government announced a new National Immunisation Strategy for 2025–30. This strategy sets out the government’s priorities for improving vaccine uptake for children, adolescents and adults over the next five years. It comes at an...
Who is at risk of whooping cough? It doesn’t just affect babies, report Niall Johnston, Helen Quinn and Phoebe Williams. Tomsickova Tatyana/Shutterstock Whooping cough (pertussis) is always circulating in Australia, and epidemics are expected every three to four years. However, the numbers we’re seeing with the current surge...
