Book Week is a great opportunity for parents and carers to inspire a love of reading in babies and toddlers. Book Week is not just for big kids, writes Jane Torr. Here's how to engage babies and toddlers at storytime. ...
When her eight-year-old daughter developed her first breast bud, Donna Reis wasn't quite ready for the answer. She set out to find out more about early puberty – and discovered that children don't always develop according to the timetable parents expect....
It’s the time of year when schools and parents typically meet for parent-teacher interviews, write Ben Zunica and Bronwyn Reid O'Connor. Here’s how to use the time well...
Parents, schools and clubs regularly post images of children to social media platforms and websites, writes Lauri Parr. While this may support connection with family and friends, promote school or sports activities or celebrate children’s achievements, there can be unintended consequences....
Ben Gray, reports from New Zealand why Cultural safety in healthcare is not ‘ideological’ –but it is saving lives. The concept of cultural safety is recognised worldwide as an innovation by New Zealand nursing academic Irihapeti Ramsden. The New Zealand Nursing Council was a leader...
For some fathers, losing the ordinary routines of parenting can bring intense grief, loneliness and a painful loss of identity. Finding support early can help dads manage those feelings while protecting their relationship with their children....
Once you have a sense of what’s going on, let your child know the feeling makes sense before moving to suggesting what to do. Children find it easier to think about solutions once they feel heard....
New research suggests parents’ attitudes and everyday gambling habits can influence whether teenagers gamble and experience gambling-related harm....
A small black triangle on some medicine information leaflets is meant to help keep patients safer. But new Australian research suggests most people do not know what it means — and that could mean important side effects are going unreported....
Asthma is conventionally viewed as “treatable but incurable”. In other words, we can manage its symptoms but not reverse the underlying condition....
