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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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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
Mindfulness: Preventing mental illness
The importance of mental health is not a new concept. The way we look at mental health however, particularly for our children, is changing from reactive help in a crisis, to focus on proactive and preventative strategies to build mental health skills.
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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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Child Development
Allergies in children: How to help
Parents fear their young children developing an allergy and in particular their children having a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction. With allergies on the rise, what can parents do to reduce the likelihood of their child developing an allergy?
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