6 myths about Year 11 and 12 subject selections
From about August each year, students in year 10 go through a round of interviews to close in on ...
Make the most of lockdown (yes, there are upsides!)
It sux, I know, it’s never nice to be ‘trapped’ in your own home with your kids...
How Mothers Work: Courtney Adamo
Mums of babies and younger kids seem to share their day-to-day story all the time, but after that...
Steiner schools are good for creativity, capability and resilience
Steiner schools are a popular choice of alternative schooling in Australia, with more than 40 sch...
6 strategies to help teens get enough sleep
We recently published an extract from Dr Ginni Mansberg and Jo Lamble’s new book The New Te...
Besto scrolls: simply the best pesto and cheese scrolls recipe
I’ve called these besto scrolls because they are simply the best pesto and cheese scrolls e...
Parent
Tweens and social media: ‘I wish I was wearing a filter right now’
My new research investigated tweens and social media and the issues they face when engaging with social media...
Eat
Marie’s lamb curry – another CWA fave
I've got another fab recipe from the CWA Victoria cookbook From Our Kitchen to Yours for you. This one is an excellent...
Learn
We talk to Yumi Stynes about ‘Welcome to Consent’
Welcome to consent! Have you had the consent talk with your teen yet? It's very, very important that you do: click...
LIVE
The problem with teens and sleep (or lack of sleep!)
In this extract from The New Teen Age, Dr Ginni Mansberg and Jo Lamble talk us through teens and sleep. Or, teens and...
Organise
How to comparison shop for anything in one hour
You know the letter, the one that says your contract is about to expire and here are the new rates? The letter you...
Wellbeing
Happy people raise happy kids
After almost a decade of writing about parenting, and 16 years as a parent myself, there's only one thing I know for...
Celebrate
Easy Christmas dessert: Pandoro with vanilla mascarpone cream
I do love Christmas (I really do), but sometimes I find it's all a bit too hard. I hate it how you slave away to make...
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“You probably won’t know your teen is smoking pot”
I'm here to tell any parent of a teen that even if you think you know them well, your teen has secrets. They might even have...
What exactly does it take to become a professional gamer?
There are plenty of frustrated parents out there who are tired of hearing their child grunt 'professional gamer' whenever they...
Healthy homemade chocolate digestives recipe
Ooh, this is such a good one! Who wouldn't want to devour a batch of homemade chocolate digestives bickies for afternoon tea?...
Tweens and social media: ‘I wish I was wearing a filter right now’
My new research investigated tweens and social media and the issues they face when engaging with social media platforms. It...
Is vaping really that bad?
Fortunately, it's really only a small proportion of kids who are regularly vaping (estimated at about 1.8 percent of high school...
5 common screen time issues and how to solve them
TVs, gaming consoles, tablets, phones and the screen time issues they throw up in our families would have to be the Achilles...