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- Risky play: Why it benefits children
- When, how and why to read to your child
- Gardens teach children lifelong skills
- Focusing on the strengths of your child
- Starting school: How can parents help?
- The role of gestures in a child's learning
- Play: How and why to play with your child
- Helping children build language skills
- Changing early learning for under 5s
- Supporting toddlers’ pretend play
- Let’s chat! Conversations with infants
- Quality programs for birth to threes
- Conversation skills: Teaching preschoolers
- 2021: Transitioning children to school
- Avoid screen time before school: Study
- Boys lagging behind when school starts
- How to include maths in children’s play
- The hidden support playgroups provide
- When too many toys are a big distraction
- Teach and support children through play
- The benefits of high-quality preschool
- Outdoor play: The benefits for children
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- Small teaching moments while travelling
- Child speech development milestones
- A parent's gift guide for sensory play
- Using brain science to build potential
- The importance of drawing to writing
- A parent's role in literacy and numeracy
- Giving children the best start in life
- Tips for building a child's imagination
- Bluey: Children's favourite Blue Heeler
- The ongoing benefits of bilingualism
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- The role of parents and home learning
- Helping children through play therapy
- The value of play to literacy and numeracy
- Why talking to your baby or child matters
- Why repetitive reading helps your child
- Childhood physical activity in crisis
- Adventurous play: Why children need risk
- Why childhood social skills are important
- Boost imagination with ‘loose parts’ play
- The importance and benefits of free play
- Preparing for the transition to school
- School readiness: How can parents tell
- Six top nature play ideas for summer
- Learning to persevere with perseverance
- Sport and music training for children
- Reading to children: Quality over quantity
- Raising the quality of early learning
- Why play is more than just good fun
- Tips for helping children learn to read
- Why conversations with toddlers matter
- Building language through conversation
- Household chores help children learn
- The 30 million word gap
- Why reading with Dad matters
- ELLA offers play-based language learning
- Child development first 1000 days
- Why you need to talk to your baby
- Is superhero play good for kids?
- Baby Talk How to talk to your baby
- Building better brains with bilingualism
- 8 reasons make believe is good for kids
- Play a key to learning for 3 to 5 year olds
- Curiosity leads toddlers’ play-based learning
- Children's Books: 2018 new releases
- Answering questions as teachable moments
- Funding high quality early learning vital
- Aussie kids among world’s least active
- Why you should read to children
- Music a key to childhood learning
- 6 ways to support your child’s learning
- Early years educators act as role models
- Managing your child's screen time
- Australia urged to invest in the early years
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- The value of letting children play
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Child Development
- Raising a Healthy Eater: Expert Advice and Tools for Parents Dealing with Picky Eating
- Managing food allergies in children: Tips for parents and caregivers
- The effects of childhood trauma
- How to build your child's love of reading
- Supporting children's communication development
- Teaching children how to focus attention
- Tackling perfectionism in young children
- Courage: Teaching children how to be brave
- 5 ways to teach your child confidence
- ADHD: Parenting with Attention Deficit Disorder
- Supporting parents of pre-term babies
- Teaching your preschooler about giving
- Failure’s gifts: self-determination and grit
- Why seek parenting advice and support
- Bullying: What parents should know
- Tantrums: A roadmap to keeping your cool
- How to build your child a balanced diet
- Whining: how to stop children whinging
- 3 reasons why children have big feelings
- How screens impact our children's brains
- What is gentle parenting and how to do it
- Why saying 'no' to your child is okay
- 10 tips to get your children to listen
- Your First Steps – Guide to baby product safety
- Mindfulness: Preventing mental illness
- Biting: What to do when your child bites
- Loving relationships and a safe brain
- Parenting trends: What is a 'Yes Day'?
- How to teach your child patience
- Helping your child reach their full potential
- Allergies in children: How to help
- Is there a right and wrong way to parent?
- What is colic? Soothing a 'colicky' baby
- 7 tips for those tough parenting days
- Gender identity: How to talk to children
- Parenting mistakes: How to eat humble pie
- Pufferfish parents: How to stop using threats
- Dealing with big emotions in under fives
- Helping children face their fears
- Why under-fives always seem to be sick
- Preparing girls for their teen years
- How to keep children physically active
- Your child's vision and when to seek help
- 5 tips to help kids manage disappointment
- Childhood milestones: When to seek advice
- Tips for raising boys during a pandemic
- The importance of healthy sleep
- Preventing accidental overdose in children
- Masks and isolation: Impact on children
- Why spanking children doesn't work
- 5 tips to help guide children's behaviour
- Dental care: Caring for children's teeth
- Child health issues: What parents think
- Family Man: Involving dads in parenting
- Why children’s mindset matters
- How maternal nurse home visits help mums
- The complex problem of childhood obesity
- Signs your child might be a perfectionist
- How to respond to negative self-talk
- Raising emotionally intelligent children
- Helping children with sensory sensitivity
- Tantrums and meltdowns: How to respond
- Should parents use rewards and praise?
- Listening: How to get your child to listen
- Supporting social-emotional learning
- How to raise mentally healthy children
- Why positive discipline practices work
- How to celebrate diversity with children
- Lies and Lying: Why do children tell lies?
- Raising, educating and understanding boys
- Anxiety: Preparing children for change
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- Teaching your child to feel gratitude
- ADHD signs: Does your child have ADHD?
- Exercise: How to raise active children
- How our childhood affects our parenting
- 'Parent shaming' affecting mental health
- COVID-19 testing in children: RCH Poll
- The impact of junk food ads on children
- Pressure cooker parenting
- Teaching under-5s about big emotions
- Blast off to toilet training success
- Baby-bonding: Secure attachment for dads
- Raising your child to embrace diversity
- Helping a child maintain healthy weight
- Teaching pet safety and responsibility
- Parenting your children as individuals
- Baby won't sleep? Here's why babies wake
- Stepping away from parental peer pressure
- Online health searching: Is it reliable?
- Genomics: Would you test your child?
- Twins: Safe sleep, settling and routines
- Baby apps: helping or hindering mums?
- Creating good habits around screen time
- ‘High quality’ rough and tumble play
- Siblings fighting it out can be healthy
- How to discuss nutrition with under 5s
- Baby sleep associations and self-soothing
- The benefits of active play for children
- Top tips for teaching children kindness
- Many children with ADHD skipping meds
- Child lead levels down but risks remain
- Why children behave differently at home
- Fussiness and managing toddler mealtimes
- Why we need to raise boys differently
- How to stop yelling at your children
- Stress: Enemy of a developing brain
- Managing your mental health in pregnancy
- The secret to making mornings magic
- Introducing solid foods: How and when?
- 5 ways to build wellbeing in children
- Supporting mothers: Bring back the tribe
- Understanding the keys to good sleep
- ODD: More than just 'bad behaviour'
- How to talk to children about disasters
- Learning to navigate life and emotions
- What to do when your child is the bully
- Judging parents: How we learn together
- Reducing the risk of peanut allergies
- Predicting a child's weight or obesity
- Teaching children crucial life skills
- Screen time and the science of learning
- How to answer a child's tough questions
- Finding confidence in your parenting
- Is a plant-based diet safe for children?
- Midwives key to improve vaccination rates
- How to handle tantrums and meltdowns
- Boys: Understanding rough and tumble play
- How to introduce children to chores
- The importance of an active childhood
- How to talk to children about disability
- Techno-tantrums? We’ve got some tips
- A new approach to overcoming picky eating
- Children thrive with a regular bedtime
- Children's tooth decay not ruled by genes
- A guide to childhood shyness and anxiety
- How to deal with a perfectionist child
- How to build quality family relationships
- Understanding left and right handedness
- Skin-to-skin cuddles help babies thrive
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- Night terrors and child sleep issues
- Premature birth and the link to ADHD
- The truth about parenting an only child
- Dealing with fussiness and food refusal
- Child safety around the home: Checklist
- Promoting children's positive body image
- When your child has a fear of the dark
- Finding ways to motivate your child
- Epigenetics: Child development and genes
- Fixing sleep issues with 'bedtime fading'
- Report warns against physical discipline
- Helping a child through loss of a pet
- What I want you to know about my child
- Top toilet training tips: When and how?
- Top 10 Essential Parenting Questions
- Making friends: How to help your child
- How to praise and encourage your child
- Starting school and the impact of age
- When do babies crawl and is it necessary?
- Breakthrough in apraxia speech research
- Effective ways to build positive behaviour
- Supporting curious and creative children
- Growing up with a special needs sibling
- When fear and anxiety drives parenting
- Helping a child deal with disappointment
- When is it okay to lie to your children?
- Why boys wrestle, play fight and fidget
- Bringing up girls: Biology and behaviour
- How and when to teach your child to share
- Helping your child through troubled times
- Should you reward children with food?
- Daylight saving survival tips for parents
- Understanding stuttering in preschoolers
- Why spend one-on-one time with your child
- Teaching children about body boundaries
- How to prepare your children for change
- Colour blindness: What you should know
- Connecting children with food and nature
- Twin Milestones – expect the unexpected
- Teaching children the joy of giving
- Safe Strangers: when children get lost
- How to raise happy and successful girls
- Dad: A film about autism and fatherhood
- Physical discipline and parent attitudes
- Six steps for parenting Alpha children
- Coping with sibling rivalry and conflict
- Tantrums, defiance and how to respond
- Brain scans predict variations in ADHD
- How mental health impacts on learning
- How to raise kind and helpful children
- Helping children express gender identity
- How to avoid 'over parenting' your child
- The role of childhood comfort objects
- Brain imaging to shed light on autism
- 5 childhood illnesses: A parent's guide
- Raising boys: How to nurture gentle sons
- Raising a SunSmart generation of children
- How to talk to children about death
- Preschool bullying: How parents can help
- Healthy eating sets families up for life
- How to help your shy or anxious child
- Tresillian baby sleep and settling
- How to handle swearing and cursing
- Building children's motor skill development
- Slow cooking for kids with Paulene Christie
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Separation anxiety: 6 tips for saying goodbye
- Supporting children’s big emotions
- Digitod cyber safety on the internet
- Dyspraxia: signs, therapy and support
- Why toddlers bite and what to do
- How to discipline your children
- Hothousing kids: Too much too soon?
- Managing behaviour through boundaries
- Fighting obesity raising healthy kids
- Children’s book helps kids with anxiety
- Autism spectrum disorder overview
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- Living with children’s food allergies
- Harrison Craig’s story of resilience helps kids
- Look I’m a Cook! Teach your kids to cook
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- Rise in autism explained
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- Gender Disappointment: A hidden shame
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