As we approach the gift-giving season Professor Luke Nottage warns that it's time to put safety first, as recalls of children’s products have increased 88% from 2011 to 2017. The death of Brittney Conway, the three-year-old Gold Coast girl killed by swallowing a button battery, has...
As mother to four-year-old twins Annika and Isabelle, and a 12-month-old boy, Frances Waterford was the President of the Eastern Suburbs Multiple Birth Association in Sydney. We asked her for pointers on how those of us with one-at-a-time kids can best include families with multiples. Every...
NSW wants to change rules on suspending and expelling students. How does it compare to other states? Anna Sullivan, Bruce Johnson, Jamie Manolev and Neil Tippett look at the problems. The disability royal commission heard from experts on the disproportionate number of students with a disability...
If you want to fast-track your child’s development, forget CDs, books that beep, and toys that whirr, writes Liam Viney. Play music with them, with the emphasis being on “play”. Forget the Mozart Effect and Baby Einstein, take it easy on acquisitions for your two-year-old’s private...
When we communicate, there is often just as much meaning in what we don’t say as in what we say overtly, write Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli For example, if I say “Sally coloured the circle or the triangle”, you will probably take this to mean...
A project to record Australian children talking aims to close the gap in speech recognition systems that have until now performed badly in understanding young users of technology. Engineers from UNSW Sydney are leading a drive to sample the voices of Australian kids so that they...
This is the second part of a list of Sustainability Reading provided by Fremantle Library, that every child should read by the time they get to high school! This is a compilation of resources for children (primarily for ages 3-10) on various environmental concepts such...
It’s time to END the outdated platitudes around what it takes to be the perfect mother. Or at least tune out their noise. When I think of some of my worst moments as a mother, there’s one day that stands out. I was in the middle...
It is now almost six months since the world became aware of COVID-19, writes Sanjaya Senanayake, and almost four months since the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic. As the number of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus grows, so does our knowledge of how it...
Recntly, the World Health Organisation made an announcement you might have missed, reports Zoë Hyde. It recommended children aged 12 years and older should wear masks, and that masks should be considered for those aged 6-11 years. The German Society for Virology went further, recommending...
