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  • Why mothers of tweens – not babies – are the most depressed

    Lucia Ciciolla is a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on child psychology. Suniya Luthar is Foundation Professor of Psychology at the Arizona State University, and Professor Emerita at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York. The joys of motherhood quite literally wax and wane over time. If you had to guess, youRead more

    • Depression,
    • Parenting
  • What’s the best way to support someone after pregnancy loss? Here’s what you told us ABC Health & Wellbeing

    By Olivia Willis for Ladies, We Need To Talk, posted 27 May 2018. It’s remarkably common, and yet barely spoken about. Up to one in four pregnancies in Australia end in miscarriage. But an unwritten social rule that says we should keep pregnancy news quiet (at least for the first 12 weeks) means that manyRead more

    • Grief and Loss,
    • Parenting
  • Tips for Separated Parents

    This information sheet (from the Australian Psychological Society) provides advice for parents around how to make separation less stressful for all concerned, especially children. In general, the things that help children’s wellbeing following separation are the same things that work in any family: good quality parenting, supportive relationships with parents, low conflict between the child’sRead more

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  • Tips for helping your kids develop a healthy relationship with food

    ABC Health & Wellbeing By Dr Jocelyn Lowinger, 29 Jul 2016. Meal times can be a source of frustration and conflict in many families. In a scenario that is familiar to many parents, you go out of your way to provide healthy meals and encourage your kids to eat their leafy greens. But all theyRead more

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    • Nutrition,
    • Parenting
  • The Compassionate Friends: Understanding and support for grieving parents and families

    ABC Radio Sydney, by Linda Mottram and Matthew Bevan 11 May 2015. How do you talk to the grieving parent of a dead child? There is a “conspiracy of silence” when children die in our society, says a visiting bereavement expert. And we no longer have the time or the understanding of death that enablesRead more

    • End of life,
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    • Parenting
  • The best head start in life for babies is parental interaction, not spurious educational tools or toys

    David Dodwell, Sunday, 27 May, 2018. It is not just at Yale, in Singapore or in Hong Kong, that Tiger Mums reign, and fortunes are spent on often-spurious strategies to super-charge your baby towards Harvard or Oxford or Fudan. Nor is it surprising that marketing products to anxious and besotted parents begins the moment spermRead more

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  • Severe childhood obesity rate rising significantly, more than 30,000 Australian children affected: study

    By Virginia Small, 13 May 2016, 9:34am More than 30,000 Australian children may now be severely obese, a national study into childhood health has found. Researchers said their findings suggested they had underestimated the problem, and its extent may be even greater than figures show. “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesityRead more

    • Nutrition,
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  • Preparing children for the death of a parent is a confronting but important experience

    ABC Radio Sydney, by Amanda Hoh, 12 Jul 2017. As Lucas Cheang looks through photos in his scrapbook, he points to one of his mother Tina lying in bed and says simply: “This is when mummy died.” It’s a heartbreaking sentence to hear from a six-year-old. When Tina was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer inRead more

    • Life Threatening Illness,
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  • Parents can promote gender equality and help prevent violence against women. Here’s how

    The Conversation, by Gemma Hamilton, Anastasia Powell and Naomi Pfitzner, 30 Jul 2018.   So far today police in Australia would have dealt with on average 211 domestic violence matters It’s only a little over halfway through the year and already 37 Australian women have been killed by violence. On average, at least one AustralianRead more

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    • Relationships
  • Let me see my baby: How to talk about stillbirth and the death of a child

    By Cate Grant, updated 26 Apr 2018 Carleon Russell was three months pregnant with her second baby when her nine-month-old daughter Verity died. “I wanted to die, when I discovered my baby dead. I just tried to stop breathing and stop existing,” she said. “She was a healthy, beautiful little girl, who strangled in herRead more

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  • Tips for Separated Parents January 13, 2019
  • Boredom is not the enemy. Here’s how to make it work for you ABC Science January 5, 2019
  • Instant gratification behind teen anxiety epidemic, but parents can help January 5, 2019
  • Things that cause cancer are all around us, if you believe the news — how worried should we be? January 5, 2019
  • To be happier, focus on what’s within your control January 5, 2019
  • Obesity epidemic is fuelled by ‘truth decay’ January 4, 2019
  • The future of food: what we’ll eat in 2028 January 4, 2019
  • Anxiety has a cost, but can also be a power for good ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • Death doulas explain why everyone should have an end-of-life plan January 4, 2019
  • A video of a tradie helping out an elderly man has gone viral, clocking more than 20,000 hits January 4, 2019
  • Keeping therapies “complementary”, not “alternative” January 4, 2019
  • Parents can promote gender equality and help prevent violence against women. Here’s how January 4, 2019
  • The doctors who think it’s become too hard to die January 4, 2019
  • Sex workers offer intimacy and connection for disabled clients in the age of the dating app January 4, 2019
  • The digital detox is on the rise — and it’s good news for Australia January 4, 2019
  • Why getting motivated is hard (and how to do it anyway) ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • Antidepressants provoke extremes of debate January 4, 2019
  • Dry July: What you might learn from a month without booze ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • The ripple effect of cancer: three families, three different stories January 4, 2019
  • The Compassionate Friends: Understanding and support for grieving parents and families January 4, 2019
  • Preparing children for the death of a parent is a confronting but important experience January 4, 2019
  • Chris Martin began Just a Dad blog after losing wife but sharing grief becomes an inspiration January 4, 2019
  • Why mothers of tweens – not babies – are the most depressed January 4, 2019
  • Five myths about marriage January 4, 2019
  • The difference between great minds and small minds January 4, 2019

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