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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.
Landmark dental findings are likely to be the tip of an iceberg.
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.
There were games, sports, and improved moods and mobility.
They are learning from the moment they enter the world.
Writing is a fundamental outcome indicator of learning across subjects and grades. The latest NAPLAN results tell us we need to do more to empower children with these skills.
Australia will be left behind without adequate planning and preparation on fertility issues.
Top contributors
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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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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development, Staffordshire University
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Elizabeth Handsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West 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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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor at MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
