Don’t dismiss kids’ sadness or anger. How to minimise family conflict over the social media ban
Cottonbro Studio/ Pexels In just over a month Australia’s social media ban will begin. From December 10, those under 16 […]
How common is sexually abusive behaviour between children? How should daycare centres respond?
Gpointstudio/ Getty Images Parents have spoken about harrowing cases of their young children being abused by other children in daycare
7 ways to teach little kids about body safety before they can talk
Johner Images/ Getty Images Families with young children are yet again reeling after this week’s Four Corners investigation into abuse
Are you finishing Year 12? Here’s how to avoid a post-school slump
Mart Production/ Pexels The period immediately after completing Year 12 can feel unexpectedly anticlimactic. You have been building up to
Is Halloween too scary for kids?
Charles Parker/ Pexels It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody
A UK hack shows Australia needs to be very careful about its CCTV trial for daycare centres
Stock Wizard/ Getty Images It has been a horror year for eary childhood education and care in Australia, amid ongoing
A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time
Getty Images If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that’s because
Foreign spies are trying to steal Australian research. We should be doing more to stop them
Ross Tomei/ Getty Images When we think of spies, we may go to images of people in trench coats and
There is little evidence AI chatbots are ‘bullying kids’ – but this doesn’t mean these tools are safe
Over the weekend, Education Minister Jason Clare sounded the alarm about “AI chatbots bullying kids”. As he told reporters in