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The challenges facing LGBTQIA+ families
Challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ families include difficulties in the journey to parenthood, intrusive questioning, and discrimination in mainstream services. Allies are important in combating discrimination, and raising inclusive children through conversations and exposure to diverse resources is recommended.
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Lifestyle
How to cope with postnatal rage
The term postnatal rage is, thankfully, gaining visibility. Conversations about postnatal rage have become more common over the past few years with the rise in parents openly discussing their early experiences and challenges on social media platforms.
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Health & emotions
The effects of childhood trauma
Helping children through trauma
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Lifestyle
Estate planning for young families
What parents need to consider when it comes to writing a will - including financial distribution, who cares for the children, who manages the children's wealth until they come of age, what happens if it's just one parent and not the other
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Health & emotions
Tackling perfectionism in young children
In this article Dr Kaylene Henderson provides her top tips for handling a child’s perfectionism.
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Health & emotions
5 ways to teach your child confidence
Confidence in the preschool years, not only translates into success at school, but to increased job satisfaction as an adult.
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Child Development
Your First Steps – baby product safety
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched Your First Steps, a new website parents and carers can use to get the latest, most reliable information on baby product safety in the first six months of a child’s life.
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Child Development
Loving relationships and a safe brain
A paper on the Science of Neglect explains that when adult responses are unreliable, inappropriate or absent, a child’s developing brain can be disrupted and subsequent learning and behaviour can be impaired. So how do we ensure a child feels safe?
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