With recent reports revealing that up to 30% of an Australian child’s waking time is spent in front of a screen, mums all around the country are beginning to look for ways to entertain their little ones during the holiday months when the weather might...
Christie Burnett shows how you can learn to make DIY story stones to enjoy imaginative storytelling with your child. “Mama, will you tell me a story to help me fall asleep?” asks my eight-year-old. The act of telling stories is a tradition as old as humankind. With...
Since COVID-19, the simple act of hand-washing has been elevated beyond the mundane into a public health headline and potentially life-saving act. People wash their hands now. Soaps and sanitisers are in demand, and also ubiquitous – in handbags, backpacks, at pub and shop doors. This is...
When the children’s digital game Roblox launched on the New York Stock Exchange earlier in March, the company’s share price rapidly took off. By the end of the day, it was valued at US$38 billion. How can a game for kids be worth so much?...
The Shortlist for the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards was announced Tuesday 30 March, celebrating a wild year of storytelling about everything from lost souls to a party-crashing cockroach. CBCA Chair Wendy Rapee said authors and illustrators worked in physical...
New research finds Australia is doing well in the desexing arena. But the age of desexing needs to be brought forward from six months to four months to close a "pregnancy gap" and prevent unwanted litters of kittens. Reports Elissa Blake Australians are being urged to...
Raise healthy, adventurous eaters and help prevent food allergies One of the most anxiety-provoking parts of becoming a new parent can be starting a child on solids. While allergies affect only a small percentage of children—about 4-8 per cent under the age of 5—numbers continue to...
Soils for Science seeks to enlist Queenslanders to collect 100,000 soil samples from across the state, and from today (23 March 2021), Queenslanders can order free soil sampling kits with pre-paid return postage from the Soils for Science website. To support children to get involved in the Australia...
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...
In the fields of gender, sexuality, and sexual health research, it’s a no-brainer that sex education should start early, and that sex should be discussed often – both in schools and at home. But instead, we talk about storks, cabbage patches, and the birds and...
