Sing-along stamp pack celebrates 30 years of The Wiggles Australia Post is celebrating one of the country’s most successful children’s entertainment groups, with a musical stamp pack released today to mark 30 years of The Wiggles. Founding member and Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, said he was thrilled...
Remember when kids played in the street? It’s time to do that again. Aussie families are stepping out onto the playground right outside their front door - the road....
There are about 230,000 children in Australia with an ASD, or about one in 100 children, yet it remains one of our least-understood conditions. ...
Raise healthy, adventurous eaters and help prevent food allergies One of the most anxiety-provoking parts of becoming a new parent can be starting a child on solids. While allergies affect only a small percentage of children—about 4-8 per cent under the age of 5—numbers continue to...
Soils for Science seeks to enlist Queenslanders to collect 100,000 soil samples from across the state, and from today (23 March 2021), Queenslanders can order free soil sampling kits with pre-paid return postage from the Soils for Science website. To support children to get involved in the Australia...
Frustration or anger can trigger breath-holding spells, write Shivanthan Shanthikumar and David Tingay. As a parent should you be worried? It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then...
Childhood is an important time for healthy development, learning, and establishing the foundations for future wellbeing. Most Australian children are healthy, safe and doing well. However, childhood is also a time of vulnerability and a child’s outcomes can vary depending on where they live and...
This mum believes that sometimes our children will face difficult situations that we will not be able to remove them from; but our job, as parents, is to help them through those hard times. ...
US coalition lodges complaint to FTC over maths game Prodigy. At first glance, Prodigy seems like a fun way to interest children in math. In reality, it jeopardises children’s relationships with learning at a time when so much is already working against their success. (Campaign for...
Why the curriculum should be based on students' readiness not their age, argues Geoff Masters, Australian Council for Educational Research I handed down the final report of a two-year review of the New South Wales school curriculum in June 2020. One of the review’s key recommendations...
