How To…Handle Adolescents’ Mood Swings And Sibling Fighting
Adolescent years can be a turbulent time for children and parents, as teenagers lack the skills and maturity to handle emotional stressors....
18 May, 2021
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The arrival of two guinea pigs marks the end of Jodie McEwen’s pet procrastination. I’m just not an animal person; love of creatures is not in my nature. My dad tried to pass on his love of animals, so we had rabbits, guinea pigs, fish, birds,...
12 May, 2021
The Government’s child-care subsidy plan: how it works and what it means for families
The federal government is pitching its 2021 budget as “women-friendly” writes Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Owain Emslie. This week it announced a key feature of that – more money to make child care cheaper and boost women’s workforce participation. The Coalition’s policy will increase spending...
06 May, 2021
single parents went dramatically backwards during COVID
Already badly off, single parents went dramatically backwards during COVID, report Tom Crowley, Danielle Wood and Esther Suckling. These parents are raising our future adults. Single parents with dependent children — eight out of ten of them women — were far more likely than others to...
01 May, 2021
How growing up in a rough neighbourhood can shape kids’ brains
Growing up in a rough neighbourhood can shape kids' brains, report Divyangana Rakesh and Sarah Whittle. So good parenting and schooling is crucial Growing up in a poor or disadvantaged neighbourhood can affect the way adolescents’ brains function, according to our new research. It can alter...
28 April, 2021
Celebrate 30 years of The Wiggles!
Sing-along stamp pack celebrates 30 years of The Wiggles Australia Post is celebrating one of the country’s most successful children’s entertainment groups, with a musical stamp pack released today to mark 30 years of The Wiggles. Founding member and Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, said he was thrilled...
20 April, 2021
Understanding the Autism Spectrum
There are about 230,000 children in Australia with an ASD, or about one in 100 children, yet it remains one of our least-understood conditions. ...
01 April, 2021
Indoor Activities for When Your Kids Are Stuck Inside
With recent reports revealing that up to 30% of an Australian child’s waking time is spent in front of a screen, mums all around the country are beginning to look for ways to entertain their little ones during the holiday months when the weather might...
31 March, 2021
FREE KIT ????: Scientists Call on Kids to Get Messy to Help Discover Backyard Bacteria
Soils for Science seeks to enlist Queenslanders to collect 100,000 soil samples from across the state, and from today (23 March 2021), Queenslanders can order free soil sampling kits with pre-paid return postage from the Soils for Science website. To support children to get involved in the Australia...
25 March, 2021
Why do children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers?
Children with same-sex parents get higher scores on standardised tests than children with different-sex parents. Report Jan Kabatek, and Francisco Perales. This is the key finding from our study just published in the journal Demography. We also found children with same-sex parents to be slightly more...
24 March, 2021