18 Dec Some suggestions for the perfect pet presents this Christmas
Perfect pet presents this Christmas, and ones to avoid – from Jacqueline Boyd an expert in animal welfare Pets are increasingly viewed as integral family members. This often means owners want to offer their pets the same experiences as our human friends and family. But the...
11 Dec Timeless Christmas Treats: A Curated Collection from the Child Mags Archives
To help you navigate the season’s cooking, hosting, and snacking, we’ve curated a selection of our Christmas food articles packed with practical tips and joyful flavour. 🎄Recipes and Food Ideas Donna Hay’s Christmas Pudding Snowman A whimsical dessert from Donna Hay that turns a classic...
10 Dec How to manage kids’ ‘Christmas crankies’ over the holidays
Christmas is coming, and with it, many challenges for parents of young children. Catherine E. Wood advises keeping calm and carrying on with your routines. You likely have one festive event after another, late nights, party food, way too much stimulation, tired kids and tired...
27 Nov Why AI can’t do your Christmas shopping just yet
AI can’t do your Christmas shopping just yet – but next year might be different, reports Jon Whittle I’m a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out. Could I just...
26 Nov How to keep your costs down this Christmas
Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes advises to track your spending, use cash and DIY gifts. Australians are expected to spend more this Christmas than last, with spending projected to rise to A$69.7 billion. This is a 2.7% increase on what we spent last year on gifts,...
19 Dec Focusing on kindness, not consumption, this Christmas
Amid the Christmas crazy, how can parents teach kids what really matters this festive season? writes Catriona May As a mum of a 15-year-old and an 11-year-old, positive psychology expert Professor Lea Waters knows all about the challenges of staying focused on what’s important at...
18 Dec The weird world of Christmas traditions
From wrapping presents to decorating a tree, writes Dr Hannah Harewood Gould, some of the traditions many of us associate with Christmas get their own cultural spin in different countries around the world. As a near-global celebration, Christmas has an extraordinary capacity for reinterpretation. On...
17 Dec Why a musical instrument is the perfect gift this Christmas
Why a musical instrument is the perfect gift this Christmas, says Wendy Hargreaves, and some suggestions for which ones you could get. Christmas is the season to be jolly, but it’s wrapped in some cheerless trials. There’s car park mania, pre-dawn pilgrimages to purchase seafood,...