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Lifestyle
Children with family pets reap benefits
Owning a family pet can help improve and promote your child's social, emotional and physical development, according to researchers who have found owning a four-legged friend isn't just fun, but also a valuable addition to your child's life.
Parenting techniques
Tired signs in babies and toddlers
Tired signs: why they’re important Babies and toddlers show they’re tired through changes in behaviour. For example, when your child gets tired, they might be irritable, overactive or demanding. It’s important to look for your child’s ‘tired signs’. These signs let you know when it’s time to reduce stimulation and start settling your child for sleep. If your child gets overtired, it can be hard for them to settle to sleep.
Lifestyle
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.
Health & emotions
Tackling perfectionism in young children
In this article Dr Kaylene Henderson provides her top tips for handling a child’s perfectionism.
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.
Child Development
Failure’s gifts: self-determination and grit
Well-intentioned parents spend hours trying to protect their children from experiencing imperfection, especially failure. Maggie Dent, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors, explores why letting our children fail may be a gift for life.
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.
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.