Depression
Post-natal depression: an interview with Katie Brown
Tracey Spicer, One2OneConversations Katie Brown is a journalist, yoga teacher, infant massage practitioner and mother of three. Her tumultuous journey through work, motherhood and post natal depression has become a book, aptly titled...
Depression test for new mums
Rachel Browne Expectant mothers could soon be routinely tested for their risk of suffering postnatal depression (PND).
Depression found in 15% of preschoolers
Louise Hall Almost 15 per cent of preschoolers have abnormally high levels of depression and anxiety, and a difficult temperament at five months of age is the most important early warning sign, a study has found.
Perinatal anxiety and depression
Gloria Barton & Catherine Knox Around 20 percent of women suffer from perinatal anxiety and depression, which equates to 50,000 women each year.
Boys are not as tough as they appear
Jen Vuk The Salvation Army, one of the Wishing Tree's three charities and its longest-running partner, has consistently identified a particular group - boys aged 10-13 years - above all others as missing out...
A world of their own
Jim Kellar Welcome to the world of autism, a lifelong developmental disability that affects one of every 160 people in the general Australian population.
Disappointment comes with the territory
Adele Horin Whether 'tis the season to be jolly depends in some households on how the kids have rated: better or worse than expected, better or worse than their peers, their cousins, their father's boss's...
The parent trap
Annabel Stafford Are today’s parents more permissive of bad behaviour? As Annabel Stafford reports, there has been a quantum shift in the way parents parent, where parents today feel like they have to please their...
Motherhood and fashion: have you let yourself go?
Amber Robinson "It's a shame so many mums let themselves go", mused the young, childless hairdresser attending to my mop last week. "You see them around here all the time in tracksuit pants.
Opportunities for babies and toddlers in a time poor society
Kathy Walker It was predicted in the late 70’s that Australia would, as it entered the 21st century, be a nation that had high level of recreation time, less working hours than many other OECD countries and a...
For health's sake, ditch your doona
Caroline Marcus It's the eve of winter: time to lose the doona. An Australian doctor with almost 50 years' medical experience says doonas were invented for the northern hemisphere and warns that overheating at...
Parents feel caught in children trap
Rachel Browne Almost one in four parents feels "terrified" or "overwhelmed" by the challenge of raising children, a study has found.
No more tears
Catharine Munro While the supernannies preach rigid routine, this Sydney pediatrician believes nothing but total devotion to a newborn will give it the right start in life, writes Catherine Munro.
Young troublemakers set on the road to antisocial adulthood
Adele Horin The idea a person's character is formed in the first few years of life is not new. ''Give me a child until he is seven,'' say the Jesuits, ''and I will give you the man.''
Match the treatment to the malady
Miranda Devine When the psychiatrist Gordon Parker talks to parents at boys' schools in Sydney, he describes the brave new world of gender relations in a terrifying way.
Busy-ness stressing children
The epidemic of "busy-ness" that has crept into Australian family life is creating a generation of unhappy kids, says psychologist Timothy Sharp.
Healthy choices need to start now
Ashlee Finch and Jordan Andrews In Australia there are healthy kids and unhealthy kids but the unhealthy kids are becoming a bigger problem. Research suggests that every year more and more kids are becoming obese.
How parents can help keep their children safe
Jill Stark Victoria's chief child psychiatrist has urged parents to remove computers from children's bedrooms, following the suicides of four Geelong teenagers, one of which had links to cyber bullying.
Over-nannying tots far from super
Louise Hall Infants subjected to Supernanny-style parenting end up behaving just as badly at two years old as other children, Australian researchers say.
Your second baby: tips for surviving
Advice on caring for babies is often geared towards first-time parents. When you have a toddler zooming about, that old ‘Sleep when the baby sleeps’ line may have you throwing your hands up in...
