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Being possessive doesn’t mean he cares: Schools need to teach Dating 101

Social media is full of advice about toxic relationships – but experts say schools must start teaching young women vital life lessons about ‘green flags’ as they start dating.

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Teenage Girl Visits Doctor's Office Suffering With Depression

Growing pains or serious illness? Health system is hurting our kids

A new report has found doctors are routinely dismissing chronic pain in kids as “normal”, forcing families to wait years for answers at the expense of their wellbeing.

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HSC students are being offered psychostimulant drugs like Ritalin for $2 a pill â as an underground economy of juvenile dealers swarm unsuspecting teens in lead up to exams. Art: Fuzz Hamzah

Hospitals sound alarm on teen black market ADHD drug overdoses

Increasing numbers of school students as young as 11 are ending up in hospital after deliberately overdosing on ADHD medications – and almost half aren’t prescribed the drugs.

Girls and boys learn in some segregated classes at Pittwater House.

Co-ed schools that segregate boys and girls – is it the best of both worlds?

Some co-ed schools have a secret weapon pitting them head-to-head with high-performing single-sex schools – they hold segregated classes for girls and boys. But does it work?

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Anna Gilkison is helping cancer patients, including Masie, finish school and navigate their working options at the Peter Mac cancer hospital. Wednesday, August 6. 2025

‘What about school?’: How one educator is helping teens with cancer

Anna Gilkison’s unique role is helping Victorian teen cancer patients finish school. Here she busts some myths around the common advice they hear and says a diagnosis “doesn’t have to derail everything”.

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1/6/2025: Actress Madeleine West, talks about a new education resource being released to new parents from Project Paradigm, ACCCE and AFP to help them protect their newborns from child sexual abuse, outside the CH10 studios on Mt Coot-Tha, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Madeleine West: Pay parents like me to stay home with the kids

The former Neighbours star has called for a revamp of the childcare subsidy system to allow payments to be made to parents, grandparents and nannies.

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Clinical psychologist Clare Rowe on PlayStation parenting.

Bratty kids? Constant meltdowns? ‘PlayStation Parenting’ is the answer

Educational psychologist Clare Rowe says ‘PlayStation Parenting’ is the key to parents taking back control over their kids – but it’s not what it sounds like.

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Technology & Digital Safety

Sewell Seltzer took his own life at the urging of an AI chatbot, an American lawsuit alleges.

‘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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Lexi Crouch, School

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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Dark feminine influencer Kanika Batra. Picture: Instagram @kanikabatra

Sex, money, manipulation: ‘Dark feminine’ icons sell a toxic path to love

You’ve heard of women-hating incels – now meet the ‘femosphere’ flipside, where glamorous influencers amass millions of followers by teaching women to manipulate men for money.

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Claire Clutteham playing the piano

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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An AI image of a child being rescued from floods that went viral on Facebook because many older users didn't realise it was fake.

Fakebook kids: Social media giant harvests your child’s photos to train AI

Your innocent family photos may be being used to train Facebook’s artificial intelligence app to create AI deepfakes. Here’s how to stop it happening.

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I will not punish. Pretty delighted female standing in semi position and putting left hand on the belt while talking to her son

10 things your child needs to hear (and it’s not ‘clean your room’)

It’s all too easy for parent-child conversations to fall into an unhealthy pattern of nagging – education guru Gavin McCormack says you need to be telling your kids this instead.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 21, 2025. High Steaks with sexual consent campaigner and author Chanel Contos at Merivale's Felix restaurant in the Sydney CBD. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sex education crusader’s new mission – explaining porn to kids

The average Aussie child is just 11 when they’re first exposed to pornography. That’s why Chanel Contos is on a mission to introduce “porn literacy” into the national curriculum.

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