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Designer sangers a lot of rot

IT IS ''back to school'' time - the supermarkets are full of stationery, the shoe departments full of kids and glossy magazines full of ideas for school lunches.
Joanna's lunchbox tips

With our kids back to school this week, you may be breathing a sigh of relief or missing their noise and chatter around the house. But one commonality I hear from all parents is stress over what on earth to put in their lunchboxes.
Parents say son should never have been born

Debbie and Lawrence Waller love their 11-year-old son, Keeden, but they believe he should never have been born.
Who wants to be a stage parent?

Every parent wants the best for their children and to see them excel in any field they choose to tackle. That should be a given. But there are some parents, particularly with kids who have a flair for the arts, who perhaps want it just a little too much.
Coke for breakfast for the Jolie-Pitts

Brad Pitt admits he gives Coca Cola to his kids for breakfast some days to get them up in the morning.

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Katie Carlin When Grant Hackett hung up his green and gold in 2008 the triple Olympic gold medallist retired at the top of his sport. But retirement hasn’t managed to slow him down. The former Olympian sits down with Essential Kids to chat about fatherhood, life after swimming and his determination to help eradicate childhood drowning in Australia.

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Malcolm Moore in Shanghai China's Little Emperors, a generation of chubby, spoiled children, have given way to a new era of Precious Snowflakes, youngsters so coddled they cannot tie their own shoelaces.

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Designer sangers a lot of rot

IT IS ''back to school'' time - the supermarkets are full of stationery, the shoe departments full of kids and glossy magazines full of ideas for school lunches.

Joanna's lunchbox tips

Dr. Joanna McMillan With our kids back to school this week, you may be breathing a sigh of relief or missing their noise and chatter around the house. But one commonality I hear from all parents is stress over what on earth to put in their lunchboxes.