Separated parents feel both the joys and stressors of parenting. Extra pressures and stresses such as those associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic can be hard to manage and cause anxiety in both parents and children. These TOP TEN suggestions can help separated parents work through this difficult time. ...
J.K. Rowling and her Wizarding World partners have launched Harry Potter At Home, a digital hub packed with information and activities to help children, parents, carers and teachers confined at home during the Covid-19 outbreak. Bloomsbury and Scholastic, have helped add nifty magical craft videos (teach...
Extended time together in the house can lead to bored children. Getting on each other’s nerves, escalating conflict, and serious challenges to our sanity! Professor Mark Dadds, director of the Sydney Child Behaviour Research Clinic, has some tips for staying sane and getting along during the...
Are you one of the 1.4 million Australians who has found yourself suddenly unemployed thanks to COVID-19? You are not alone. The unemployment rate is predicted to reach 10 per cent as a result of the COVID pandemic. That’s one out of every ten Australians facing unemployment....
Working memory in early childhood is a key to learning, reports Chelsea Harry, especially if you are at homeschooling. Do you have a child who forgets what you just told them? Perhaps you asked them to get a book from their room and they started playing...
A positive framework can make us happier, stronger mothers especially in this most unusual of times, reports Natalie Ritchie Even though we may have planned and wanted to be mothers, motherhood is a sudden shock for many of us. It is one of the biggest changes...
It’s been reported family violence notifications to police nearly tripled in some areas of China’s Hubei province (where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 originated) during the lockdown in February. Melissa O'Donnell, Aron Shlonsky, Ben Mathews, Fiona Arney, Fiona Stanley, Leah Bromfield, Rhiannon Pilkington and Rhonda...
Consequences is a very old game, already well established in the 16th century. It continues to be handed down, generation after generation. Some things just never change: when boy meets girl, the world is bound to talk. A good one for teenagers, in our opinion. NUMBER...
Search out those old family games and enjoy the 'lockdown' at home. Remember that old adage about 'the family that plays together, stays together! There are some great books around about games that you can play with little or no equipment - stuff that you can...
Adele Wessell suggests that this is an ideal time to try turning an old 'Keep Fit' regime into a serious workout. The washing, drying, ironing, airing, pushing baby in his pram – these can all take on a different aspect if done with figure consciousness …...
