GP Phoebe Holdenson Kimura reports on what to expect when coming off the pill and 5 things to do before you do “The pill” (the combined oral contraceptive pill) has been giving Australian women control over their reproductive health since the 1960s and remains the most...
Cassandra Charlton’s daughter enjoys a close relationship with her distant cousins. My three-year-old daughter is separated from her cousins by thousands of kilometres – and sees them only once every two years when their family comes to Australia to visit us and their maternal grandparents. On...
Louise Grimmer and Martin Grimmer look at why kids should not have lots of toys (and what to do if yours have too many) The festive season reinforces something parents and carers already know – many children today have a lot of toys. In the United States,...
Melissa Cowan looks at ways to manage your emotions when you are stressed. When Katie* was driving her four-year-old daughter to daycare, her daughter got teary out of the blue. She said it was unfair her friend got to do swimming classes while she did not....
We are working from home and Libby (Elizabeth) Sander has some tips to help Telstra and Westpac are the latest companies to encourage staff to work from home, just a few months after some of them returned to the office. Working from home for extended periods can...
Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia, writes Professor John Halsey Students in regional, rural and remote Australia have been behind their urban counterparts on almost every recognised measure of...
Kids need nature, and nature sure needs kids, to understand how nature relates to our planet and where humans are placed in our very important nature conservation role. These books for school aged kids, are new or recently published and, although they are aimed at...
Say hello to our CHILD nature mini-mag. Did you know we create monthly mini- mags? You can totally read them on your phone. Neat, right?...
Guillemette Perrin and her girls find that store-bought vegies aren’t a patch on the ones they grow themselves How can we reconcile the desire to eat healthier food and be more self-sufficient with a busy lifestyle? Day after day, we hear scientific and media reports on...
Most of you will have noticed hosting a dinner party is harder than it used to be. Evangeline Mantzioris One friend is gluten-free, another is dairy-free, one can’t eat onion and two more are vegetarian. Are food intolerances increasing? Or do we just hear more about them...
