Filtered Articles
Child Development
Singing activity for children: songs in a second language
Singing is a fun way to help your child learn and remember words and sentence structure in a second language. When your child sings songs with repeated words or choruses, they get a lot of practice with new words and sentence structures. This helps your child remember these new words. Songs with a cultural or personal significance – for example, songs passed down in your family – can have extra meaning for your child.
Read more
Child Development
Why is play important?
Play is central to your child’s learning and development. When your child plays, it gives them many ways and times to learn.
Read more
Play
Childhood games and toys
Why are games and toys important in childhood? Toys and games can be an important part of children’s play, and play is central to children’s learning and development.
Read more
Early Learning
The serious business of imagination
Maggie Dent is one of Australia’s most popular parenting authors and educators. In this article she looks at why imagination matters not just in childhood, but in our adult lives.
Read more
Early Learning
Why children need to play with friends
Play can be easily dismissed. After all, how important can playing tea party be? Experts would argue that it’s extremely important. Children who successfully engage in peer play at preschool are more likely to experience better mental health, later on.
Read more
Early Learning
Exploring play through the gender lens
Play helps shape our child's sense of identity. Maggie Dent, one of Australia’s most popular parenting authors and educators, shines a light on our unconscious biases and how they may reinforce gender stereotypes for boys and girls during play.
Read more
Child Development
Bullying: What parents should know
How do you know if your child is being bullied? Speaker, author and academic Dr Michael Nagel looks at the impact of bullying and how parents can recognise the signs and help children build the skills to combat unwanted attention and bullying.
Read more
Child Development
How screens impact our children's brains
Dr Michael Nagel and Dr Rachael Sharman have co-authored Becoming Autistic. The book examines the neurological consequences of screen time on the developing brain and how they are increasingly being expressed as changes that resemble autism symptoms.
Read more
Find more articles by tag
- Activities with kids
- Benefits of early learning
- Budget planner
- Communication
- Cooking with kids
- Developmental delay
- Developmental milestones
- Dietary requirements
- Disability
- Early learning activities
- Eating
- Extended family
- Family
- Family finances
- Formal care
- Fussy eating
- Gifted children
- Grandparents
- Holidays & travel
- Home learning
- Hygiene
- Imagination
- Informal care
- Internet & Media
- Kindergarten / Preschool
- Language development
- Literacy
- Managing behaviour
- Mental health
- Numeracy / Numbers
- Parent health
- Parenting styles
- Pets
- Physical health
- Play
- Praise
- Reading
- Real life stories
- Relationships
- Safety
- Screen time
- Siblings
- Sleep
- Snapshots
- Social skills
- Sports & Exercise
- Technology
- Toys
- Twins & multiples
- Work/life balance