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E-bikes fill the laneway at Mackellar Girls High School.

Doctors urge parents to stop buying illegal e-bikes as children’s injuries double

Children across Sydney will be unwrapping new e-bikes this Christmas. Trauma specialists at the city’s hospitals are concerned.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Mostafa Rachwani

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Each year at Christmas, Tanya’s family throw out ideas for the next year’s theme, making sure it’s budget-friendly and appropriate for all ages.

It began as a joke but Tanya’s family keeps up this quirky Christmas tradition

The festive season is a time for observing traditions – no matter how personal or unusual.

  • Shona Hendley
From left: Sean, his sister Samantha and brother Steven as children with Santa.

One year, my mother ‘cancelled’ Christmas. Then something magical happened

As adults, we can be a bit obsessed with the perfect day. But this is what our kids really want.

  • Sean Szeps
Parents often give non-parents a rose-coloured account of the experience.

If you’re on the fence about having kids, don’t do it

My son is about to turn two, and while he has changed my life in incredibly positive ways, he has also irrevocably altered it in challenging ways too. Parents should be more honest about this.

  • Zoya Patel
Robyn Ivett and her children Charlotte and Kai O’Brien. Parenting through perimenopause has had its challenges.

Robyn thought fatigue was a normal part of motherhood. But that was just the start

As the average age of first-time mothers rises, more women are finding themselves juggling the stresses of motherhood with the symptoms of perimenopause.

  • Sassica Francis-Bruce
Bindi, Robert and Terri Irwin after Robert won the US version of ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Take a bow, Terri Irwin. You’re an inspiration to single mothers everywhere

I could barely get all my children in the car with socks on, let alone create kids who understand that their responsibilities – to nature, to their dad’s legacy – matter more than anything else.

  • Kate Halfpenny
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Danni Rowlands said her daughter Winnie made a PowerPoint presentation to make a case to go on Snapchat.

Life without social media is coming. Here’s how to help teens (minus the eye-roll)

The social media ban is coming, causing concern among parents and children as they grapple with a leaner online landscape. Here is how experts in the field are talking to their kids about it.

  • Kimberly Gillan

In an increasingly dark world, we could all use more of this in our lives

Our children use play to make sense of their world. We could learn a lot from them.

  • Jamila Rizvi
Nikhil Kulkarni with his daughter Neeti, 6, at the gates to SCG. He is teaching his daughter how to play and sharing his love of the game.

I’m a cricket tragic, and a dad. This statistic saddens me

When I moved to Australia from India seven years ago, I was thrilled to be moving from one cricket-obsessed country to another. Now I want to inspire dads who love the game.

  • Nikhil Kulkarni
Michelle McLaughlin started a not-for-profit targeting child road trauma in busy areas, including holiday towns, following the death of her son, Tom.

After Michelle’s son Tom, 4, was killed, she began a life-saving mission

A ‘split-second’ incident turned a family holiday into a tragedy.

  • Dilvin Yasa

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