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Sexting has led to a rise in under-18s reported for sex offences.
From broken limbs to blood tests, hospital visits can cause unnecessary pain for children. An emergency care pediatrician offers seven easy strategies for parents to lessen this pain.
Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child's pictures online.
Parents can help protect their kids from cannabis abuse by openly discussing the health risks, the pleasures and the responsible ways to use the drug.
When children and young people have opportunities for active citizenship, they demonstrate a wide range of ways of contributing to their communities.
Despite good progress in recent years, there is still more to do, including improving access to early childhood education for three-year-olds.
Millions of American children are being cared for by grandparents. To honor Grandparents Day we ask: What are the social and health impacts of this often unexpected turn of events?
A new mentorship program uses fiction to teach children's rights, and to help kids understand and prevent bullying.
As students return to school and prepare to join sports teams, here's what they and their parents need to know about concussions.
And yet it's still technically legal in the UK.
With a little advance planning and creativity, librarians can help keep kids and teens busy and safe during emergencies.
Why are parents increasingly inserting their child's name into stories?
There are benefits to shared reading long after children can read to themselves, so how long should you read to your children?
For centuries, most children’s books reinforced messages that children are unimportant, incompetent and powerless. Children need to shape up and adopt adults’ values. Children must change to fit into an…
It's important to understand the nature and extent of children's exposure to violence during general elections so they can be protected.
Technology enables many ways of interacting. We need to be more specific and scientific.
Bombarded with unhealthy offerings by the food industry, we blame and shame ourselves for gaining weight. But is it really our fault, or are we being "entrapped?"
Children are masters of play - it's one of the ways immigrant children learn to socialize. But due to language and cultural issues, play can also be complex and confusing.
The appearance a hot dish on your doorstep does more than relieve the burden of meal preparation. It says someone is looking out for you.
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Researcher: Children and Technology, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Lecturer in Critical Thinking; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor of Law, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Digital Literacies, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development, Staffordshire University
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Industry Fellow, School of Education, RMIT University
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Clinical associate professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Pain Specialist, Deakin University
