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Christmas tips for step families
Dolla S Merrillees Christmas Day for many families is an exercise in controlled chaos, for stepfamilies the demands of the holiday season can be doubled or tripled.
Preparing for a babysitter
When you hire a new babysitter, you'll want to make sure you give them all the information they need to care for your children. The more prepared you are, the more at ease you'll feel about going out.
Rangamma’s story: stone quarrying in India
Estimates as to the numbers of girls and boys working in India’s mines and stone quarries vary widely, and there is no specific data on girls.
Girls around the world born into inequality
David Cook For the past 10 weeks I have spent nearly every waking hour thinking about the baby girl who has brought so much joy to my wife and me.
Tips for work-life balance
In Australia, we have a reputation for being laidback and carefree, but when it comes to hard yakka, our deeply ingrained preference is for a culture of long hours.
Pornification of pop is bottom of the charts for children
Suzy Freeman-Greene What does a 10-year-old make of many of today's pop songs? Once, something was left to the imagination, but in our porn-tinged culture lyrics and videos have become far more sexually explicit.
T'keyah, To The Moon and Back - Dandy Walker syndrome
Anni Taylor Kerry, a homeschooling mum of six, tells the story of her fifth child, T'keyah, born with Dandy Walker syndrome.
Dads in Australia: Their changing role
Neil Jameson Not too long after man first walked on the Moon, I thumbed a ride with a tile salesman who couldn't wait to get home to spend time with his kid.
Being a ballet mum
Deanne Duncombe EB member, Deanne's daughter, Erin wanted to be Angelina Ballerina. In her new pristine uniform Erin looked beautiful as I dropped her off for her first lesson.
Kids belong in high rises (and everywhere else)
Carolyn Whitzman From Melbourne to Darwin, apartment buildings have sprung up in central cities. High rise living is assumed to be bad for children, despite – or because of – the fact that public...
Our dads better than yours: Aussies lead world in parenting
Adele Horin Australian dads have a poor reputation for sharing the housework and childcare. But compared to fathers in Italy or France, Australian dads are domestic paragons, a new study shows.
Never too early for a piggy bank
Bina Brown It is never too early to learn the value of money and how to budget and save. The earlier you teach children about saving versus spending, the better prepared they will be to manage their own money.
Cooper's story
Nicole Salinas When Cooper came into our world it changed everything. It turned our world upside down, it changed us, it changed our family. It was nothing we had expected, and nothing that we knew.
Spoiling Christmas
Mindy Laube Australian parents intend to spend an average of $584 on Christmas gifts for their children this year according to this week's "Toy Treasure Trove" report from BankWest.
Online bullying: tips for parents
Click Whilst you've probably got a lot of outdoor activities planned for summer, it's likely your little ones will be spending time online too. Here are our cybersafety tips.
Thrifty Christmas might be the magic pudding
Maggie Dent A survey released by the Australian National Retailers Association reported that 34% of people intend to spend less on gifts this Christmas than they did last year.
Mum, please try harder
Jane Willson Jane Willson grills British nutritionist Amanda Grant about her "secret" to raising healthy eaters. It's one of those details you don't share or — if pushed — utter quietly.
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