While talking about drugs with young people isn’t always comfortable, research has shown that it’s critical for prevention.
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Policymakers can get more for their money when planing incentives for mothers to work.
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.
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?”
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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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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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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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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor at MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
