Preschool
One-third of all preschool centres could be without a trained teacher in four years
With many expected to drop out, modelling shows a significant shortfall by 2023.
Back to nature: Children reap benefits of braving the cold
Despite extensive research highlighting the benefits of outdoor play, many parents and kinder and school educators are still reluctant to let children outside during winter.
The childcare centre where kids make the decisions
A Melbourne childcare centre has embarked on an experiment to teach children about democracy and decision-making.
The 'million word gap': the reason some children have a higher vocabulary than others
How many books do you read with your child each day?
Children with autism thrive in mainstream preschools, study finds
Early intervention delivers positive results.
If we’re serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact now
Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace.
Starting School
The one thing we forget to tell new school parents
The transition hit me harder than it hit my carefree child.
Can you really get away with buying $15 school shoes?
You might be surprised!
Primary School
Join at your own risk: the truth about WhatsApp parenting groups
WhatsApp groups - they are an essential tool of modern parenting, right?
The simple trick that made my son do his homework - without nagging
Real talk: getting kids to do homework can be a real chore — for the parents. Today, kids seem to be getting more homework starting at a much younger age, which means getting them to actually sit down and do it requires a nightly battle of wills.
Why I'm not letting my kids read their report cards
If there's one thing I want my children to gain from their early years of school, it's a love of learning – a natural curiosity and desire to dig deeper and ask questions. So when the end-of-year report cards for each of my three children flooded into my inbox recently, I browsed them with passing interest, but that was about it.
High School
Do high schools need to teach adulting classes?
This year, as our high school graduates make their way, bleary-eyed, out of their darkened bedrooms and into the big wide world after surviving exam season and celebration season, I'm blown away by the knowledge they've attained in pursuit of their studies.
A teenager lied about her school marks. Is it a sign of something more serious?
Kids need to know failure is okay.
