Stress

Healthy children actively involved

To make a change for the better, parents and children have to become actively involved in changing their lifestyles. They need to support and encourage each other.

Safe websites for kids

Lia Timson With thousands of sites on offer it's no wonder parents are confused and troubled about which websites to let their children visit. Read more about popular and safe sites for kids to use.

Do babies and start-up entrepreneurship mix?

Tony Featherstone Is the challenge too great to launch and build a fast-growth venture, and raise babies and toddlers at the same time?

Making time for your partner

Kim Kind Sometimes we forget there is nothing more important to children than the quality of the relationship between their parents. Are you making enough time for each other?

Women stretched to snapping point

Adele Horin The Howard government's family policies left a legacy of stressed, overworked parents and set gender equity back a decade, a new study shows.

A child's right to be safe: teaching self-protection

Family Planning Queensland Self protection skills are one way to help children to be safe or know how to find safety.

Bipolar disorder in children

Margaret Rice Diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children has increased dramatically in the US, and Australia is struggling to resist temptations to follow suit, writes Margaret Rice.

Joanne McCarthy It was a Monday in March last year when Belinda and Shaun Hedley faced what no parents want to imagine, let alone see their twin two-year-old sons lifeless and blue floating in a swimming pool.