As little as three squares of chocolate can make dogs sick, warns Susan Hazel Most pet owners know chocolate and dogs don’t mix. Despite this, chocolate poisoning in dogs remains a problem, particularly at Easter and Christmas, as a study in the journal Vet Record showed. Chocolate...
Going to private school won’t make a difference to your kid’s academic scores, write researchers Sally Larsen. and Alexander Forbes In Australia, around 30% of primary and 40% of secondary school children attend a private, or independent, school. School fees vary widely, depending on the type...
We have a solution, report researchers Julie Sonnemann and Rebecca Joiner. Almost all teachers (92%) in our study out today said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching – the core of their job. The Grattan Institute surveyed 5,442 Australian teachers and school...
Don’t fret about buying the ‘right’ toy for your child, writes Nicola Yelland Besides the new COVID-era concerns about retail supply chains comes the age-old question: what’s the best educational toy to buy for the child (or grandchild) in your life? There’s a vast range of toys...
When asked to estimate their own intelligence, most people will say they are above average, even though this is a statistical improbability, writes researcher David Reilly This is a normal, healthy cognitive bias and extends to any socially desirable trait such as honesty, driving ability and...
Simon Ryan reports it's just the latest conservative book ban On March 1, 2022, Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in New Byrum, Mississippi, faced a problem. The reader booked for a Zoom session for 240 grade two students hadn’t shown up....
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation is delighted to be leading an exciting new community-focused initiative on behalf of the Victorian Government as part of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures strategy. Launched today, our new dedicated workforce of Healthy Kids Advisors expands and strengthens our vision...
Dr Jeanne Marie Iorio and Professor Nicola Yelland look at why living in the 21st century is so complex for children If you spend just five minutes thinking about young children, how do you see them? Where do you see them? Playing on the playground? Being...
Lisa Johnson wavers about giving straight answers to kids’ curly questions. “Mummy, what does ‘rape’ mean?” Five simple words, one short question, but when coming out of the mouth of a chirpy eight-year-old boy, quite disturbing. So disturbing, in fact, that my friend, the mother of...
By normalising brilliant women to our daughters and our sons, we make room for those women. If we don’t, it becomes a real problem for successful women when those boys become men, reports researcher, Dr Dana McKay On International Women’s Day, like many people, I will...
