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Top 10 movies coming in 2012

2012 is shaping up as a huge year for pint-sized movie buffs. Enjoy the previews of the top ten movies Essential Kids are hanging out for this year!
Working parents go beyond the tuckshop

Working parents aren't always able to contribute to school life in the traditional ways, but there are other avenues, writes Jane Southward.
Heidi Klum: 'I worry for my kids'

Heidi Klum worries about her children's future, rather than "wrinkles".
Vanessa Amorosi lends her voice for a good cause

After being on the receiving end of bullying for most of her childhood, Vanessa knows firsthand how easy it is for kids who are being bullied to feel alone.
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.

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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.

China's Precious Snowflakes: the spoilt children who never lift a finger

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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Working parents go beyond the tuckshop

Working parents aren't always able to contribute to school life in the traditional ways, but there are other avenues, writes Jane Southward.

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Top 10 movies coming in 2012

Joseph Kelly 2012 is shaping up as a huge year for pint-sized movie buffs. Enjoy the previews of the top ten movies Essential Kids are hanging out for this year!