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Swimming coach arrest raises alarm over safety in children’s sports

A swimming coach’s arrest has sent shockwaves through junior sport, as investigators reveal the hidden dangers in children’s sporting programs. Here’s what parents need to know.

Angela Mollard argues child-centred parenting can ruin relationships

‘A**holes’: The parenting trend that’s breaking your marriage

Parents are creating a generation of entitled children while destroying their marriages, but the solution isn’t as simple as experts claim.

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Frustrated entrepreneurs arguing during a business meeting in the office.

Stop sniping at school leaders: One principal has had enough

We’ve told the stories of many teachers who slam school leaders as selfish, out of touch and lazy. Now one principal has the right of reply – and doesn’t hold back.

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Technology & Digital Safety

Screens really are turning kids into zombies – it’s a medical fact

Screen time rewires children’s brains so they talk less and end up with a decreased IQ, a major international medical study has found. And it’s toddlers who are at greatest risk.

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1/10/25. Year 12 Exams - How parents can best support their teens as they complete their year 12 exams. Yr 12 CBC student Travis Cappelluti -17yrs with mum Alison. Picture: Keryn Stevens

How to transform teens’ exam stress into lifelong learning, skills

The CEO of an organisation dedicated to improving the lives and wellbeing of teens shares how to transform the challenge of exams into lifelong learning and skills.

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Teacher fed up with student's special needs.

Teacher’s confession: ‘Parents need to get back in their lane’

One frustrated high school teacher says students need to ‘turn up, shut up and listen’, and parents should stop going on about the ‘unique learning needs’ of their children.

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$240-a-day childcare centre offers white-glove service for parents

Australia’s poshest new childcare centre charges $240 a day but cares for parents as well as kids, with mums and dads picking up a coffee, breakfast and even their online shopping.

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Early Education

Prep students at Galilee Catholic Primary School after successfully transitioning. Noah (6), Jordan (6), Edith (5), Lilamrita (6) and John (6). Picture: Jake Nowakowski

‘My teacher and me’: Preps reveal what they love about school

Kids in their first year of school have drawn pictures of what makes them happy and safe as part of a new study into school transition. SEE THE PICTURES

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Bully intimidates a skinny kid.

Bullies – stop blaming your upbringing and own your bad choices

Bullying is a choice and perpetrators should take responsibility for their actions instead of blaming their parents, say two professors with some tough love for bullies.

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Angela Mollard on her biggest parenting regret

Party pressure sparks parenting regret, Angela Mollard says

Influencer Bec Judd has banned lolly bags in her house, now Angela Mollard reveals her biggest parenting regret about kids’ birthday parties.

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Personal trainer Theo Fedele warns TikTok influencers are promoting the use of dangerous animal steroids.

16yo Aussie boys injecting cattle steroids to ‘feel like a man’

A TikTok video shows a shirtless 16-year-old in a gym, needle in hand as he injects cattle steroids into his arm. Personal trainers and medical experts warn it’s alarmingly common.

Preschool little girl in sleeping bag camping. Outdoors activity with children in summer. Fun and adventure camp, family and friends vacations or weekend trip. Portrait of child with flashlight

Susie O’Brien: Watch out for this item on school camp lists

My son’s camp list contained an item that made me nostalgic for the era of dictionaries, street directories and cameras with film. How do we explain these items to our offspring?

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Frankie, with his mum Tracey and father Nate, faces an uncertain future amid NDIS changes.

It cost $8000 to diagnose our son – now we’re terrified he’ll lose his care

This family spent a fortune to get their autistic son Frankie the care he needs on the NDIS. Now they’re kept awake at night by fears he could be booted off the scheme.

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Psychologist Clare Rowe (right) says it's a disgrace that Victorian schools can enable children to socially transition their gender without parental consent, medical oversight or documentation.

‘Negligence sold as compassion’: School gender transition policy must go

Psychologist Clare Rowe says a state-sanctioned policy that lets teenagers switch their gender identity without parental consent or medical oversight is disgraceful and dangerous.

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