While it can be painfully repetitive to adults, re-reading your child’s favourite book aloud can help boost their vocabulary and fluency.
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Dyslexia is often poorly understood by the public, leading people to attribute a problem they have, like bad spelling, to dyslexia. Here are the most common misconceptions explained.
The severing of what many consider an everlasting bond is more common than you’d think.
The media often paints social media as a dangerous place for young people, but the reality is far more complex and nuanced.
Can you fake innocence? The four professional actresses playing Mathilda are part of a long tradition of idealised childhood.
About 220,000 kids under the age of 18 are being raised in same-sex families in the US. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling failed to provide them with equal protection under the law.
How FOI requests revealed the massive burden on two local authorities, and how to end the damaging effects on children.
This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
When most people think of book censorship, they imagine political regimes and potentially book burning in Nazi Germany. What is little considered is that most books that have been challenged or banned are books for young people.
When it comes to whether Australia should have a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, children’s rights have been notably absent from the discussions.
Some might say we’re in the age of the ‘priceless’ child, but The New Yorker certainly doesn’t think so.
One in 10 children report spending multiple hours on homework. There are no benefits of this additional work, but it could leave a negative impact on health.
People need to be taught how to behave around art.
There were only 3,964 seniors in the graduating New Orleans class of 2015, which represents only half of the original cohort of babies. What happened to the missing children?
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
Only when adults and institutions hear from children and young people directly, take their views and ideas seriously and act on what they say will institutions will become safer places.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
A stalwart of the charity sector is dead and gone - so now what do we do?
When funding comes sporadically with strings attached, how can vital services keep running?
Globally, evidence points to children becoming less active because they would rather play computer games than be outdoors.
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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
