How to Encourage Discussions About Life’s Big Questions

I'm sure your kids come out with some heavy-loaded questions from time to time. So how can we can help children learn and grow by talking about the world around us....

22 April, 2021

Top 10 Toddler Myths

We take a look at some of the most common toddler myths like, why early walkers are child geniuses…and other toddler fairytales....

22 April, 2021

Getting Kids Back into Street Play

Remember when kids played in the street? It’s time to do that again. Aussie families are stepping out onto the playground right outside their front door - the road....

08 April, 2021

Keen to Be Green? Raising Sustainable Kids

Why is sustainability important to Australian parents and their families? This month we're asking an eco-friendly blogger to share why she thinks green living practices begin at home....

08 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

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

What are breath-holding spells that causes children to faint?

Frustration or anger can trigger breath-holding spells, write Shivanthan Shanthikumar and David Tingay. As a parent should you be worried? It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then...

24 March, 2021

5 things all parents of ten-ager daughters need to know.

Madonna King sought the counsel of 500 10-year-old girls, 1,600 mothers, and 100 Year Five school teachers for her new book, Ten-ager. Dozens of school principals, teen psychologists, doctors, researchers and female role models were also interviewed to provide a guide for parents helping tween...

17 March, 2021

Guiding Kids Through the Rough Times

This mum believes that sometimes our children will face difficult situations that we will not be able to remove them from; but our job, as parents, is to help them through those hard times. ...

17 March, 2021

Why one in ten young women struggle to afford pads and tampons

Imagine having your period and no money for pads or tampons. Would you still go to school? asks Sarah Duffy, Michelle O'Shea and Patrick van Esch The New South Wales Education Department said last week said it would trial a program to hand out free pads...

17 March, 2021