Some private schools have introduced behaviour contracts for parents. Meanwhile, some states let principals ban abusive parents from public school grounds.
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Parents have an important role to play in educating children about consent and relationships. But it can be hard to know where to begin.
Connected devices could expose more data than parents expect.
Be curious about why children don’t want to dress up, rather than immediately trying to persuade them to join in.
The current debate risks turning into a zero-sum choice between screens and pen and paper.
Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of what family should be.
Sometimes we think ‘if it feels scary, it must be unsafe’. But feeling nervous or excited is often part of the experience.
Caregivers often seek a specific age that their child can be left home alone. However, the neuroscience of brain development suggests that readiness depends on much more than a birthday.
A children’s writer explains how ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ ‘The Rabbit Listened’ and other stories can help prepare kindergarten students for this next phase of life.
To afford milk parents described restricting their own food or heating, getting into debt and returning from maternity leave very early.
It’s okay if a child occasionally chooses one parent over the other. What matters more is whether the child has reliable relationships with both parents.
Most research on kids’ screen time has focused on a child’s behavior. Far less attention has gone to parents and their role in their children’s media use.
Navigating personal problems are a normal part of growing up. Young people are now turning to AI for help.
When both parents appeared equally available, schools were 40% more likely to call students’ moms, rather than their dads.
Children have a right to leisure.
Tube slides aren’t like traditional playground slides. But children can still have fun without getting injured.
A ‘use it or lose it’ paid parental leave policy like Sweden’s could encourage more new fathers to share the early child-rearing months.
The eSafety Commissioner has just warned how AI tools have ‘significantly escalated’ safety risks around sharing photos and videos online.
Parents are guided to respond to their child’s behavioural challenges in real time.
As a parent, it can be painful to witness our child’s struggles after rejection. But there are ways to help them process the setback.
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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 Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Psychology, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Research Fellow with the Grow&Go Toolbox, The University of Queensland