Parenting
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What other cultures can teach parents about raising their children
We live in a competitive world, where worth and value are increasingly based on league tables and performance indicators ā and parenting hasnāt escaped this sort of scrutiny.
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Sleep problems that persist could affect children’s emotional development
Sleep. Many children make a sport out of resisting it, reaching Olympic levels of prowess in bedtime shenanigans. And while night waking is a part of human sleep, requiring adult attention on every night wake is not only tiring for parents but may also be indicative of childrenās overall ability to self-regulate.
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Migraines in childhood and adolescence: more than just a headache
This is part of our series on kidsā health. Read the other articles in our series here. Headaches are uncommon in toddlers.
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Breastfeeding dictator or breastfeeding enabler? Midwives’ support styles can make a difference
We have come a long way since the days when babies were whisked away from their mother at birth to be bathed and wrapped before being presented back as a brand-new packaged bundle.
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Parent education and complementary therapies reduce birthing risks
Most women and their partners are offered or recommended childbirth education classes as part of routine care during pregnancy. Most first-time parents attend these classes but this declines considerably for following pregnancies, although there is no recent
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More parents are choosing to home school their children ā why?
More parents in New South Wales (NSW) are choosing to home school their child. There are now around 10,000 registered children who are home schooled each year in Australia.
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Should parents ask their children to apologize?
Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when you didnāt get one? Have you ever found it hard to deliver the words, Iām sorry?
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How cute things hijack our brains and drive behaviour
What is the cutest thing you have ever seen? Chances are it involves a baby, a puppy or another adorable animal. And chances are it is forever imprinted on your mind.
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Explainer: what are women’s options for giving birth?
For many women, getting pregnant is the easy part. After that line appears on the pregnancy test, it can be difficult to work out who to visit for care, and where you should have your baby.
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The shame game: why it’s time to end the āmummy warsā
Women experience shame and judgement from the earliest moments of motherhood. Mothers commonly experience shaming in connection with childbirth and infant feeding, regardless of the type of birth they had or the feeding method used.
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The system often forgets children of people with cancer: here’s how to help them
Every year around 21,000 teenagers and young adults in Australia are told their parent has cancer. The need to care for their parents often disrupts these young peopleās efforts for increased social, emotional and financial independence.
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Ghana’s school feeding scheme is slowly changing children’s lives
Millions of Ghanaian children live in poverty. About one in ten ā roughly 1.27 million ā come from households that are so poor they canāt afford the amount and type of food thatās needed to stave off malnutrition.
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Fathers also want to āhave it all,ā study says
Have you seen the T-shirt slogan: Dads donāt babysit (itās called āparentingā)? This slogan calls out the gendered language we often still use to talk about fathers.
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Why we need to support Aboriginal womenās choice to give birth on country
Around 9.6 out of every 1,000 Aboriginal babies are stillborn, or die in childbirth or the first 28 days of life, compared with 8.1 non-Aboriginal babies.
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How to stop vampire bats wreaking havoc (no stakes or garlic required)
During the darkest hours of the night, they fly and hunt for prey. They live in caves and ruined buildings and have to drink blood every night to survive.
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Stories of vaccine-related harms are influential, even when people don’t believe them
In 2013 a boy who was given the HPV vaccine died almost two months later. Two quick questions: First, does this worry you? And second, do you believe that the vaccine caused the boyās death?
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Debunked: links between term-time holidays and lower grades
A recent victory for parent Jon Platt means that the 2013 ban on parents taking their children on holidays during term-time is now out of step with English law.
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The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding
Breastfeeding in public is the controversy that never seems to die. A recent YouTube video that went viral shows a woman breastfeeding in public.
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From tiger to free-range parents ā what research says about pros and cons of popular parenting styles
Our politicians talk a lot about āfamiliesā, but what do they really mean when they use this term? What does a modern family look like and how does it compare with ten, 20 or even 30 years ago?
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From frozen ovaries to lab-grown babies: the future of childbirth
It is almost 40 years since the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born. While this amazing breakthrough was highly controversial at the time, IVF is today commonplace.