10 Ways To Improve Your Relationship With Your Child

If Rory and Lorelai's relationship is your parent/child goal, these tips can help get you on the right track....

29 June, 2023

Here’s why being a ‘conscious parent’ matters.

Most parents don’t pick a parenting style, writes Cher McGillivray The program Parental Guidance has been showing on Channel 9 this month. This is the second season of the show that pits 12 sets of parents with very different parenting styles against each other to work...

29 June, 2023

A different destination revelling in routine

Karen Casey used to wander the world… now she revels in routine. For aspects of family life that we are repeatedly told require routine, kids sure are well rehearsed at taking orders and launching them out the window. When you want them to sleep, they don’t....

27 June, 2023

How to help kids let go of old toys and stuff they no longer need

How often do you hear ‘No, I still want that!’, write Shane Rogersand Natalie Gately In any household with children there is an inevitable accumulation of possessions. Birthdays, Christmas, the celebration events like sporting victories and random impulse buys bring in a stream of toys, clothes...

26 June, 2023

Pregnant and working parents needed for national study on discrimination at work

Unveiling the Struggles: A Study on Work Conditions for Pregnant Women, Parents on Leave and Parents Returning to Work A 2014 Australian national review showed that almost half (49%) of mothers, and over a quarter (27%) of fathers, have experienced discrimination during their pregnancy, parental leave...

25 June, 2023

Unleashing the Potential of Gifted Students

Addressing the Neglect in Australia's Education System Do you suspect that your child may be gifted? Are you concerned about their educational needs and the support they receive at school? You're not alone. In Australia, there is a pressing issue of neglecting the needs of gifted...

23 June, 2023

Birth, Baby and Beyond, the highly regarded podcast for new parents, is back…for dads!

It's on LiSTNR, with a fresh season that puts the spotlight on dads. Renowned midwife Cath Curtain teams up with Chris Taylor, known for his work on The Chaser and the acclaimed series Upright, to deliver an engaging and relatable podcast experience. Chris Taylor opens up...

22 June, 2023

How parents can forge unlikely friendships

Kylie Ladd considers the impact of parenthood on friendships. It was the seagulls that clinched it. I was holidaying with a relatively new friend, someone I’d met through our children’s creche. We’d been chatting together at the creche Christmas party, discussing our plans for the summer,...

22 June, 2023

Here’s how to break the cycle of nits

‘Help, my kids keep getting head lice!’ Cameron Webb has some ideas that might help! Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or carer has to face. Primary school-aged children, who seem to always be...

22 June, 2023

4 signs of parental burnout and what you can do about it?

Exhausted, disconnected and fed up – what is ‘parental burnout'? asks researcher Alan Ralph. For many parents, the reality of juggling the demands of caring responsibilities on their time, energy and resources leave them with little time to take care of their own well-being. This can...

15 June, 2023