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Health & emotions
The effects of childhood trauma
Helping children through trauma
Lifestyle
Estate planning for young families
What parents need to consider when it comes to writing a will - including financial distribution, who cares for the children, who manages the children's wealth until they come of age, what happens if it's just one parent and not the other
Health & emotions
Tackling perfectionism in young children
In this article Dr Kaylene Henderson provides her top tips for handling a child’s perfectionism.
Health & emotions
5 ways to teach your child confidence
Confidence in the preschool years, not only translates into success at school, but to increased job satisfaction as an adult.
Child Development
Failure’s gifts: self-determination and grit
Well-intentioned parents spend hours trying to protect their children from experiencing imperfection, especially failure. Maggie Dent, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors, explores why letting our children fail may be a gift for life.
Child Development
Your First Steps – baby product safety
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched Your First Steps, a new website parents and carers can use to get the latest, most reliable information on baby product safety in the first six months of a child’s life.
Child Development
Mindfulness: Preventing mental illness
The importance of mental health is not a new concept. The way we look at mental health however, particularly for our children, is changing from reactive help in a crisis, to focus on proactive and preventative strategies to build mental health skills.
Child Development
Loving relationships and a safe brain
A paper on the Science of Neglect explains that when adult responses are unreliable, inappropriate or absent, a child’s developing brain can be disrupted and subsequent learning and behaviour can be impaired. So how do we ensure a child feels safe?