Dr Sam Tormey provides a simple Checklist to look at the signs of sickness in infants. There is a very simple checklist of the basic life functions of a baby to run through when illness strikes: is the baby breathing, sleeping, playing, feeding, weeing and pooing...
Speech and language problems needn’t be a life sentence. But early intervention is important, writes Catherine Best. Every parent cherishes their child’s first words. Those meaningful, gabbled sounds that chart their development from passive infant to interacting person. Speech and language define how we engage with...
Back in July 2019 we invited every interested Australian to complete the First National Working Parents survey and the full Report will be released in November. The national survey has found 62 per cent of parents and carers report difficulties looking after their own physical...
Education is for every child, with or without a disability....
For very young children, their first understanding of how the world works and how people interact come from the stories they hear. Nan Williamson looks at how resilience can be developed through reading to children. A songline is a map of Country and helps one feel...
Melbourne father Dr Matthew Roberts found a magazine article about climate change helped him think through his own climate panic. On climate change it seems the world of the adults is split in two, between those of us in various degrees of denial and those of...
Since Linda Wyrill’s son doesn’t conform to standard developmental milestones, she seeks out others willing to help him bravely go where no child seems to have gone before. Yes, my son is wonderfully creative. But to think outside the square, he would first have to be...
Meaningful moments, early and often, build young brains. The message may sound simple but it’s a strong and important one, central to a new early childhood awareness campaign from the world leading researchers at Telethon Kids Institute and the philanthropic Minderoo Foundation. Bright Tomorrows Start Today shows how...
“The number of three, four, and five-year-old children in the United States has been estimated at around 12 million. In the past few years, this population, once the most neglected, educationally speaking, has marched to the center of the stage. The reasons for this new...
Joelie Hancock reports that while most schools and education departments provide information for parents on how to support the learning of schoolchildren, similar details are not readily available to the carers of preschoolers, even though it is widely understood that these early years are when...
