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Around 8% of young people are thought to hear voices at some stage in childhood, making it about as common as having asthma or dyslexia.
Front cover of Tjarrany Roughtail - the book features a collection of Dreaming stories.
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These books introduce children to Indigenous culture and experiences through colourful pictures and powerful storytelling.
Children don’t always want to eat what’s in front of them.
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Having trouble getting your kids to eat? Here are six things you could do at the table, and before, to make meal times a bit less stressful.
Why not ask a parent to play a problem-solving video game with you?
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Bo, aged nine, wants to know why adults think video games are bad.
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Children’s imaginations around events can be even more frightening than reality.
Manchester, the morning after the attacks.
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Social media was alive with offers of help: ‘a bed for the night’, ‘a lift home’, ‘free taxi rides’.
What can parents do to help their children manage the political climate?
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With emotionally charged rhetoric from both sides of the aisle and many parents in a heightened state of distress, children are more vulnerable than ever to anxiety. What can parents do?
Kids are inundated with advertising for junk food on social media.
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Junk food brands are blurring the line between advertising, entertainment and socialising.
A flick, a spin and a…fad?
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Adults are dumbfounded – and according to an expert on fads, that’s probably the point.
Learning to read is not actually that easy.
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We are not hard-wired to read. It has taken thousands of years of practice to forge connections in our brains to help us do this.
Stressful times.
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Parents need to focus on context and consistency.
DaddyOFive parents Mike and Heather Martin issue an apology for their prank videos.
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As the case of US YouTube channel DaddyOFive shows, there’s a fine line between pranking your kids and exploitation.
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The Victorians had some interesting solutions to the problem of telling children where our stuff comes from.
Having children can drastically change women’s economic and financial status.
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The economic costs of having children are more often shouldered by women, so mothers tend to accumulate less capital over time.
A Pirahã family.
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From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves?
The truth is we don’t really know if space goes on forever – but maybe, one day, we will find out.
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People used to think that when they looked up at the night sky, they were seeing all of space. Then American astronomer Edwin Hubble found out something so amazing, NASA named a telescope after him.
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Children’s opinions about their own care are often not sought by parents and healthcare professionals.
The aim of all reading is comprehension.
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Four tips for teaching reading.
Laws introduced in 2009 and 2010 stipulate specific car restraints for children of different ages.
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Car seats and their endless harnesses, straps and buckles feel like an engineering nightmare for parents. But they work.
The state of play.
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It’s not all child’s play.