EDITOR’S PICKS

How can I be sure my child has outgrown their food allergy?
Some children grow out of their food allergies, but researchers don’t exactly know why says Paxton Loke. Here’s how to work with your allergy specialist if you suspect your child isn’t allergic any more. Who’s more likely to grow out of their food allergy? Food...
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26 February, 2020
1 in 5 kids start school with health or emotional difficulties that challenge their learning
Teachers identify one in five children as having emerging health or developmental concerns when they start school, report researchers Meredith O’Connor, Jon Quach, and Sharon Goldfeld, This might include a child being disruptive, having difficulties understanding the teacher’s instructions, or experiencing fears and anxieties at...
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26 February, 2020
3 ways to help children think critically about the news
Like adults, children use the news to learn about what’s happening in the world. But the circulation of misinformation, such as the recent spread of fake news about COVID-19 (the disease caused by coronavirus), blurs our understanding of events and issues, researchers Tanya Notley and...
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26 February, 2020
The happiness of motherhood
Stefan Klein examines the changes in the female brain upon pregnancy, and in relationships upon parenthood. We all know what it feels like to be happy, but what mechanisms inside our brains trigger such a positive emotion? Love blossoms when a child is born. In...
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26 February, 2020
Raising Resilient Kids
In Disney’s Frozen, the eternal optimist Anna displays remarkable resilience in the face of sisterly separation, danger, a perpetual winter and talking snowmen.
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26 February, 2020
Tu Tu Girlie? Ballet bigot to stage mum
Johanna Rigg-Smith wanted a no-frills childhood for her daughter, but has learned to embrace pink tulle…up to a pointe. If only I could bottle this confidence, this serenity, and hand it back to her when she turns 15, when those stars will seem out of...
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24 February, 2020

Celebrating Mothers

In The Public Interest?
The village is most welcome to help raise her child, writes Maxine Clarke, but through practical gestures, rather than unconstructive heckling. For a few short months, I was completely content with the new-found public interest in my condition. Even a few pats on the tummy...
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12 November, 2019
A Life Less Lived: Loss and Motherhood
Jeanie Baxter strives to move beyond the boundaries set by the early death of her mother. This year, I am older than my mother ever was. I am living in time that she never experienced. I watch my eldest daughter move into her mid-teens and...
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05 November, 2019
Birth And Bottle Battles
Mandy Collins finds the judgements of other women in relation to birth and breastfeeding to be difficult to accept. I clearly remember the morning I decided to stop breastfeeding my daughter. I lay in my hospital bed, tears running down my face, terrified to tell...
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15 October, 2019
When Pregnancy Disables
Anna Bourozikas was shocked when pregnancy temporarily disabled her. I was 34 weeks into my first pregnancy, standing at the kitchen sink washing the dishes when I felt a sharp pain rush through my right leg and groin. My leg buckled and I collapsed to...
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11 September, 2019