6 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online

If you prefer that companies not know absolutely everything about you, here are some ways you can protect your information and limit the amount of tracking by advertisers. ...

07 April, 2022

Science can help dogs enjoy their best life

A new TV series explores the journey of dogs, but science is giving us new insights into how we can help our canine friends thrive by Dr Mia Cobb Over the last twenty years, there has been a global explosion of science focused on our best four-legged...

30 March, 2022

5 tips to make swimming lessons fun for babies

As swimming lessons return across the country post COVID, the Australian Swim Schools Association would like to share the following tips for parents preparing for their children's first swimming lessons. While swimming lessons can start for babies from as young as eight weeks old, the most...

26 March, 2022

No, children don’t magically ‘grow out’ of flat feet

 Treatment is key to avoid long-term pain, writes Steven Edwards Every day, parents around the world are told their child’s flat feet are normal and they will grow out of it. This isn’t true – they just grow up and out of their paediatricians’ practice. There’s no evidence...

21 March, 2022

4 out of 5 parents support teaching gender and sexuality diversity

Tania Ferfolja  and Jacqueline Ullman report on the outcome of their study of over 2,000 Australian parents Debates about how schools acknowledge gender and sexuality diversity have been ongoing in Australia. It’s often claimed parents oppose the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity content in the...

20 March, 2022

My child has croup: what can I do?

 What do I need to know? asks Thea van de Mortel With the surge in Omicron cases, doctors are finding presentations of croup in children seeking hospital care for COVID in Australia and internationally. In some cases, children presenting to hospital with croup are infected only with...

19 March, 2022

How you can talk to your toddler to safeguard their wellbeing as teenagers

Researcher Elaine Reese looks at how you can talk to your toddler to safeguard their well-being when they grow into a teenager. As parents, we all hope our teens will be healthy and happy. Our new research shows one way to help is to have positive...

17 March, 2022

10 Tips to help kids develop a healthy relationship with eating

Research shows that the first years of a child’s life may be the optimal window for establishing healthy eating behaviours. Like all child development, learning to eat is a skill that takes time and practice. As parents, there are a number of things you can do...

17 March, 2022

Why is there no formal system to support Australian kids with a parent in jail ?

In Australia, on any given day, about 43,000 children have a parent in prison and  there is no formal system to support them, wrotes Catherine Flynn. We have to use the word “about”, as there is no official process to identify this group of children. There...

14 March, 2022

Too Much Information?

Lisa Johnson wavers about giving straight answers to kids’ curly questions. “Mummy, what does ‘rape’ mean?” Five simple words, one short question, but when coming out of the mouth of a chirpy eight-year-old boy, quite disturbing. So disturbing, in fact, that my friend, the mother of...

10 March, 2022