EDITOR’S PICKS

Raising Creativity
Gary Bertwistle encourages us to foster our children’s natural ability to question, explore and imagine. From a very early age, our belief in our innate creativity and capacity for generating ideas and the quality of those ideas are influenced by those around us to make...
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17 June, 2021
Party Priority: trying to be thoughtful and inclusive
There comes a time when parents need to relinquish some control to their children, writes Dr Elizabeth Reed. Parties undoubtedly are a highlight of childhood, but they also present parents and children with social challenges, such as how to cope when a much hoped-for invitation...
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17 June, 2021
Our Pet Project
After Vanessa Holt tries many different pets for her daughter, the perfect one slithers onto the scene. It’s the perfect pet. It doesn’t make a noise. It doesn’t smell. At most, we feed it once a week and it doesn’t leave a messy bowl. It’s...
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17 June, 2021
Duties Of Care
Her daughter’s dread of daycare leads Heather Catchpole to change her childcare centre. Each morning I awoke to the same question: “Is it daycare day?” Reluctantly awake, I would screw up my face and prepare myself for the onslaught. “Yes, darling, it’s daycare day.” Then...
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17 June, 2021
Under The Pillow Talk
When it comes to the Tooth Fairy, Anthea Rowan tries to put her money where her mouth is. My children have a charming book that tells the story of a little girl who is on a quest to discover what the Tooth Fairy looks like....
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17 June, 2021
Two Hot To Handle?
Mary Pearl reflects on the Terrible Twos as she spends some time with her energetic granddaughter. My two-year-old granddaughter slapped a perfect stranger at the park. All the poor kid wanted was a turn on the slippery slide, but as Rachel saw it, she was...
Editor
17 June, 2021

Celebrating Mothers

the nappy collective supporting struggling mothers
Can you imagine spring cleaning for a good cause? Besides the fact that culling is good for the soul, we’ve found another happy reason to pump your cleaning tunes and get to work. The Nappy Collective is an Australian initiative and the brainchild of founder, Sandra Jacobs, who...
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19 June, 2021
Under The Pillow Talk
When it comes to the Tooth Fairy, Anthea Rowan tries to put her money where her mouth is. My children have a charming book that tells the story of a little girl who is on a quest to discover what the Tooth Fairy looks like....
Editor
17 June, 2021
Two Hot To Handle?
Mary Pearl reflects on the Terrible Twos as she spends some time with her energetic granddaughter. My two-year-old granddaughter slapped a perfect stranger at the park. All the poor kid wanted was a turn on the slippery slide, but as Rachel saw it, she was...
Editor
17 June, 2021
Agony Aunt
Hellen Morgan-Harris ponders how children might figure in her life. I wonder how on earth I am to explain to the angelic eight-year-old face peering at me that her uncle is wearing swimmers to bed because we have been warned that she might jump into...
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10 June, 2021