Lifestyle
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.
Kids in hot cars
Kidsafe With summer well and truly on its way, so are the safety risks when combining kids, cars and hot weather. The heat of an Australian summer can be extreme and it can be dangerous for kids.
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?
Blurring the role of Mum and Dad
Rachelle Unreich Stay-at-home dads, working mums: modern parents are slowly, sometimes uncomfortably, blurring the traditional lines between breadwinner and caregiver.
Bad food can cut two years off a child's lifespan
Mark Metherell and Julian Lee The nation's children will live two years fewer than their parents unless there are urgent changes to lifestyle, government experts warn.
New wave childrens' entertainment
Clare Kermond Move over Wiggles, a new wave of childrens' entertainment hits the stage. By Clare Kermond.
Hand-me-downs and home-school savers
Caroline Marcus Cassandra Parker has become something of an expert in finding ways to save while raising her seven children.
Off-road with the rugrats
Sheridan Rhodes Mum's the word as two daredevil parents take their bubs on a 4WD tour of outback South Australia.
Children in the modern office - all part of a day's work?
Farah Farouque The exclusion of a toddler from the Senate has prompted calls for more flexibility.
Wiggles fans see red over user-pays site
Damien Murphy In the red, yellow, purple and blue world of the Wiggles the colour of money now seems to be the primary one.
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.
Communicating about sexuality with children
Family Planning Queensland It is important that children receive positive messages about sexuality. Parents, carers and schools can work together to promote healthy attitudes.
Tackling childhood obesity - get Mum fit too
Erin O'Dwyer Last year Anna Barwick was 95 kilograms and too embarrassed by her post-baby weight to join a gym. Tomorrow she will compete in her first team triathlon - at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast - along...
Australian adoptions hit a low
Yuko Narushima Adoption in Australia is at an all-time low as changed social attitudes ease the pressure on women to give up babies, and sex-education and birth control take effect.
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.
Adopting Palesa
Anni Taylor When Sian headed off to volunteer in an African centre for abandoned and HIV/AIDS affected children, she never dreamed she would end up adopting a child herself.
The economics of parenthood
Joshua Gans Joshua Gans seems like a regular family bloke till you look at the way he has brought up his three kids. The economics professor applied economic principles to his child rearing.
Fiji with Toddlers
Tracey Spicer As a singleton, I could never understand the attraction of Fiji. By all reports, the food was lousy, the service appalling and there were screaming children everywhere.
Gen Z: digital natives
Peter Hawkins & Lucinda Schmidt Generation Z is the first generation born into a digital world. Will Generation Z - history's most technogically adept - evolve into tomorrow's realists or idealists?
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