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Stephanie Brown reflects on whether raising her daughter to be obedient might be limiting her life. One main reason society functions is because most of us choose to follow rules, although of course the inclination to obey them varies. When my daughter started school, a gorgeous girl...

Educators and government have long talked about 21st Century learning, but COVID-19 presents an opportunity to reevaluate our attitudes to modern education - right here, right now reports Brendan Hitchens, Asia Education Foundation, University of Melbourne. “We will lose many things in the course of fighting...

This article was developed by Raising Children Network in collaboration with Meredith Rayner, psychologist. For health and wellbeing during physical distancing, children need a sense of security, healthy eating, physical activity, good sleep, play and quiet time. You need these things too. A good way to make...

Access tips and resources from teacher educator and former classroom teacher and homeschooling mum, Dr Nikki Brunker. These tips will keep your kids engaged and learning while they are at home during the Coronavirus outbreak. ~See Dr Nikki Brunker talk about her Top tips for parents and...

You can be really creative with these great downloadable art prints. Once completed you will have your own individual artworks to hang on that blank wall! Hello Prints (Margate U.K) have released a fun assembly kit and colouring pages (free downloadable) in response to the Covid-19...

J.K. Rowling and her Wizarding World partners have launched Harry Potter At Home, a digital hub packed with information and activities to help children, parents, carers and teachers confined at home during the Covid-19 outbreak. Bloomsbury and Scholastic, have helped add nifty magical craft videos (teach...

Perhaps they're reading the wrong books suggest Ayesha Tulloch and Kirsten Parris Identifying the difference between a native burrowing frog and an introduced cane toad is fundamental ecological knowledge. After bushfires ravaged Australia’s animal and plant communities and razed millions of hectares of land, such knowledge...

Working memory in early childhood is a key to learning, reports Chelsea Harry, especially if you are at homeschooling. Do you have a child who forgets what you just told them? Perhaps you asked them to get a book from their room and they started playing...

Consequences is a very old game, already well established in the 16th century. It continues to be handed down, generation after generation. Some things just never change: when boy meets girl, the world is bound to talk.  A good one for teenagers, in our opinion. NUMBER...

Search out those old family games and enjoy the 'lockdown' at home. Remember that old adage about 'the family that plays together, stays together! There are some great books around about games that you can play with little or no equipment - stuff that you can...