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Bedtime stories can be comforting, chilling and mysterious, but new research highlights how emotions change depending on how children are doing it.
Because educating young people about mental health and well-being is no simple task
Pornography is having negative impacts on children and young people. And increased sexual violence among children is only the tip of the iceberg.
Telling parents how to love their child undermines parental confidence.
No Theresa May, “deprioritising” school places for children isn’t the right way to go about reducing immigration figures.
The questions young people tend to ask about maths often relate to their personal experience of how they found maths in school.
The gender gap matters, and we need to recruit, train and retain more men to care for and educate our youngest children
There’s no good reason why diagnosis rates differ. And it may be down to gender discrimination.
Being able to sound out letters in words doesn’t mean you can understand them. There is no clear evidence that a new phonics screening test for children in Year 1 will help improve reading levels.
Parents of children who have complex healthcare needs often find their role as a mother or father is overwhelmed by all the clinical tasks they have to undertake.
Research shows early childhood educators tend to prop up their low-paid jobs using their household income, or by borrowing from families.
By four years, children have already begun to internalise bias and stereotypes. Yet research shows teachers and parents are often uncomfortable or unsure about talking to children about cultural difference.
Little kids cover their own eyes and feel hidden, even if they’re still fully visible. New research suggests this doesn’t mean children can’t understand others’ perspectives, as had been assumed.
For bilingual children, the constant switching between languages is like a frequent exercise for the ears and the brain.
Experts are desperately trying to find solutions to the growing public health problem of type 2 diabetes in the young. A number of trials are underway, and some look promising.
Developmental coordination disorder has only recently been recognised for what it is.
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.
As the torrent of carefully created social media posts to sites such as Facebook grows, who is to say which is the ‘real’ you.
We need a clear plan in place to ensure that no child falls through the net. Such a plan needs to be both effective and cost-effective.
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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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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Elizabeth Handsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development, Staffordshire University
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Lecturer in Digital Literacies, University of Sheffield
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Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, York University, Canada
