• All
  • Australiana
  • baby
  • Back To School
  • Book Reviews
  • Book Week
  • Bugaboo
  • Celebrate
  • child
  • children's health
  • Christmas
  • Climate Change
  • creatives
  • creativity
  • Dinner
  • diy
  • Easter
  • Editors Picks
  • Education
  • Family
  • fos
  • Friendship
  • gifts
  • Halloween
  • Holiday Fun
  • home
  • homes
  • Inform
  • Inspire
  • living
  • Love
  • Love To Learn
  • made
  • Mental Health
  • mother
  • Motherhood
  • motherhood creativity series
  • mothers
  • Movie Reviews
  • Nature
  • nostalgia series
  • Parenting
  • people
  • Personal Story
  • play
  • Resources
  • School Holidays
  • simplicity series
  • Sponsored Feature
  • Spring
  • Uncategorized
  • Validate
  • Win
  • Women
  • Women's Health

We can reduce the COVID risk and keep them open, write Sharon Goldfeld and Jill Sewell It’s been a tough 18 months for Australian families and their children. We can’t underestimate the cumulative impact of parent and carer job losses, mental strain, working from home and...

Looking for some great activities for kids during lockdown? National Science Week  gave everyone a chance to get involved whether you are at home or at school. Here are some ideas for activities at home. With thanks to Jenny Lynch from Creative Science and Emma Donnelly...

While all schools are part of their local community, some are developing partnerships and sharing spaces to become hubs for school-community connections. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in 2020, the staff at Doveton College in Melbourne picked up the phone. “Our staff made over...

The Story of Australia For the young (and the curious) by Don Watson (published by Black Inc. h/b RRP $32.99)  For ages 10+ A modern classic: Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century. History told so well it gives us a better idea of...

The Secret is Out! Kindicare reveals Australia's best childcare centres Childcare app KindiCare today reveals the winners of the first ever KindiCare Excellence Awards for 2021, crowning the nation’s top early childhood education and care centres. Best in Australia is Goodstart Early Learning Tuggerah, with a KindiCare...

Their brain must also adapt to the context, writes John Munro Research during the first phase of remote teaching in Victoria reported some students found the workload “too high”, missed interactions with peers, felt their thinking ability was impaired, and reported a difficulty coping with study...

USQ clinical psychologist Emma-Leigh Senyard talks about the contagious Delta variant, children and anxiety. With the highly contagious Delta variant posing a higher risk to young people than previous COVID-19 variants, many children are understandably anxious and might seek reassurance from those around them. Emma-Leigh Senyard, a...

 But we can learn from the real thing, writes Nicole (Nikki) Brunker. Adding to the clamour of argument over whether schools should be open to all during lockdown is confusion in terminology. Using the term “home schooling” to describe schooling during lockdown is disrespectful to both...