Mental Health

Parenting

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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Parenting

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.

Schools Hub

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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Parenting

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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Technology & Digital Safety

‘Come home to me’: Teen tragedy triggered by seductive AI chatbot

This teenage boy developed a close bond with his sexy and sympathetic AI chatbot “friend”. And then one day, the chatbot encouraged him to take his own life.

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Technology & Digital Safety

Soulless AI chatbots driving girls down the path to anorexia

‘You’re not dying, you’re improving.’ Schoolgirls are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for motivation to lose weight – and being given toxic advice verging on sadistic cruelty.

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Mental Health

I was emotionally crippled by cruel school bullies – now I’m a federal MP

With raw and powerful honesty, new federal MP Claire Clutterham tells how being relentlessly bullied in the schoolyard shaped her determination to stand up for others.

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Education

Your child’s ChatGPT ‘bestie’: What every parent needs to know

Aussie kids are increasingly beating loneliness by confiding in artificial intelligence chatbots – but there’s a dark side to their new AI “friends”.

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Parenting

Lose the tween tantrums: ‘My boys are resilient and this is why’

Mum-of-two Brooke Edwards has been focused on keeping her boys resilient – and her approach is backed by science.

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Education

What a former SAS soldier can teach kids about resilience

Tim Curtis has turned battlefield wisdom into practical tools to help kids build inner strength and resilience – and has some handy tips for parents to help the process.

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OpinionTechnology & Digital Safety

‘Spawn of satan’: Influencers take aim at social media

Social media is their brand and business but even influencers, like Abbie Chatfield and Brittney Saunders, are worried about the mental health of young people and kids who use it.

Secondary

‘I’m a teacher who won’t set homework for my students’

High school teacher Taylor Ford is ticked off with homework – find out why she refuses to set it for her students.

Mental Health

Full list of low-performing childcare centres at risk of losing funding

Services where hefty fines have been issued after children were force fed, subjected to unreasonable discipline or allowed to escape onto busy roads will come under renewed scrutiny under a new federal law.

Lifestyle

What every parent needs to know in wake of watching Adolescence

A gripping television series has parents across Australia questioning if we are doing enough to protect teens from harmful messages online. Read the expert advice.

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