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Real parents. Real problems. We’re here with a group of leading early learning and parenting professionals to answer your questions.

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Help! My child is biting other children

I’m so embarrassed but my child care provider called me in to say my two-year-old has been biting other children. I hate to think what the other parents must be thinking. What do I do?

How to handle a demanding child

I am a mother to three children and my middle child who is four years old is demanding all of my attention. He frustrates his brother and sister by teasing and annoying them and throws temper tantrums when he gets into trouble for it. Nothing I’m doing is working!

Employer attitudes to carer's leave

If you are a working parent and have to take unexpected or necessary leave to take care of a child, what is your employer's response?
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Support Services

Reaching out for help when you’re a parent means looking to organisations or services with a range of expertise or the means to assist. Whether it’s government payments or a specialised support service, sometimes you just need to ask.

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Our Child Development Professionals

Jane De Vita

Jane De Vita

Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning

Jane De Vita has worked in early childhood in various roles for more than 30 years. In this time she has been a kindergarten teacher and director, a university tutor, a supervisor of students on practice teaching, a family day care co-ordinator, and a child care director. Jane is currently an early childhood...

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Gabriella Calvo

Gabriella Calvo

Educational Leader, Goodstart Early Learning

Kylie Romero

Kylie Romero

Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning

Marie Stuart

Marie Stuart

State Social Inclusion Coordinator QLD for Goodstart Early Learning

Keti Ivanoska

Keti Ivanoska

Acting Director and Educational Leader, Goodstart Early Learning

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