‘Let your teens wear a hoodie. It helps their concentration’
Kids love them. Parents hate them. But why wearing a hoodie could be your child’s secret weapon.
Parenting
Former child abuse detective: ‘My five warnings for parents’
Specialist child interviewer Kristi McVee explains how 90% of abuse happens to kids by someone they trust. Here’s how to spot it in five easy steps.
Bishops pen ‘desperate’ letter to A-G, call for child safety reform
Australia’s Catholic bishops have written to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland urging the federal government to adopt a national working with children check register. Read the letter.
Church leaders join national campaign to Keep Them Safe
Archbishops’ support for the Keep Them Safe campaign comes as new research reveals ‘box-ticking’ attitudes to child safety are rampant within Australian churches, and the nation’s “disjointed” patchwork of child protection policies are making matters worse.
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‘Must be a national priority’: How to keep kids in care safe
Child predators are slipping through the cracks of Australia’s child protection systems, with one key safeguard considered a “game-changer”.
Difficult calls needed to fix our broken childcare system
The village we know it takes to raise a child is no more, writes Madeleine West. Instead, we are obliged to pay for a ‘caring’ community that has failed us.
‘How my child’s past life helps me parent today’
Author and journalist Amy Molloy believes her son is a reincarnated healer from centuries ago – and shares how that helps her parent him today.
Toxic parenting trend exposed: ‘I won the baby walking race’
Competitive parenting is on the rise and it comes at a cost, according to experts.
‘A week without seeing my kids’: Realities of being a working dad
News Corp Great Australian Parent Survey 2025 results are in – and the country’s parents share the crushing reality of modern childrearing.
‘It felt like I was drowning’: Mum’s secret to carrying her mother ‘load’
Entrepreneur Verity Tuck thought life would be simpler when her daughter started school. She was wrong. Now, she’s created a solution to help her carry her overwhelming mother ‘load’.
Schools learn new truth about separating twins
Victorian primary schools are being urged to think twice about separating twins into different classrooms, after surprise new findings.
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