Should schools ban students from doing cartwheels?

Apart from being fun, it’s important for children to challenge themselves to develop physically, mentally and emotionally....

10 November, 2026

Why are more Australian families choosing to homeschool their children?

According to CQUniversity's Head of Educational Neuroscience, Professor Ken Purnell, parents are often turning to homeschooling because their child's experience at school has become difficult....

09 November, 2026

What is Australia’s proposed Digital Duty of Care — and what could it mean for families?

You may have heard the term “Digital Duty of Care” in the news, but what does it actually mean? In simple terms, the Australian Government wants online companies to take more responsibility for preventing foreseeable harm — rather than leaving children, parents and teachers to...

29 October, 2026

Starting high school: Helping your child make the big move.

Perhaps most importantly, remind children that they don't have to know everything on their first day. Learning how high school works takes time, and asking for help is part of settling in....

28 October, 2026

Why feeling like they belong at school matters for children

For parents, school success can easily become associated with marks, homework, behaviour and attendance. But another factor may be just as important: whether a child genuinely feels that they belong. A major international review led by Monash University has examined research into school belonging — the...

22 October, 2026

Is your child anxious about reading? New research explains why.

For some children, reading isn't just difficult – it can become a source of worry and embarrassment. New research suggests that struggles with reading in primary school may trigger anxiety that follows children into their later school years....

22 October, 2026

Year 12 students can feel lonely after graduating. Here’s how to stay connected

Loneliness happens whenever a person feels a discrepancy between their desired and actual connections. It’s different to social isolation, which involves a person having objectively fewer social contacts, social roles, and relationships. And it’s different from being alone, which is an objective experience of being...

17 October, 2026

“I saw myself in my child”: how fatherhood helped one Autistic dad understand himself

For some Autistic fathers, becoming a parent brings a new understanding of themselves. Australian research also suggests many feel overlooked by the services supporting families....

15 October, 2026

9 ways students can deal with school setbacks and change

In other words, students who get better at handling adversity in academic life may also become better at handling disruption. And students who get better at handling disruption at school may become better at handling adversity....

08 October, 2026

Why popular culture still belongs in the classroom

The challenge for education is not to erect an artificial barrier between culture deemed worthy and culture deemed popular. It is to give students the skills to recognise the difference between simply consuming something and understanding it....

08 October, 2026