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Children who are engaged at school are more likely to go on to a professional, semi-professional or managerial career. Image from shutterstock.com

School engagement predicts success later in life

Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation

Children’s interest and engagement in school influences their prospects of educational and occupational success 20 years later, over and above their academic attainment and socioeconomic background, researchers…
Children who go through puberty early have poorer mental health than their peers. But it’s not a simple case of cause and effect. Image from shutterstock.com

Growing up too fast: early puberty and mental illness

Fiona Mensah, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and George Patton, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Puberty has long been recognised as a transition point in which many emotional and behavioural problems emerge. These include depression and anxiety, substance use and abuse, self-harm and eating disorders…

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