After years of guarded privacy, AFL legend Gary Ablett Jr and his wife Jordan have revealed the heartbreaking reality of parenting a child with a rare terminal illness, sharing ‘happy and sad tears’.
Kimberley Braddish
A Perth mum has issued an urgent warning to parents after an everyday household chore almost left her four-year-old blind.
Sarah Steger
After over 10 years of studying with child development experts, an early learning educator reveals five things parents can do differently to help deliver long-term success.
Maya Payne Stewart
It’s a daunting landscape that parents, teachers, and policymakers often respond to with bans and restrictions, hoping to shield young minds from harm. But these solutions are short-sighted.
Sherrill Nixon
Here are the ways you can entertain the kids – for a few hours, at least. SEE THE LIST OF MOVIES.
Ben O'Shea
A proposal to build a childcare facility that could cater for almost a hundred children and a medical centre with a GP clinic and physio in McKail is open for public comment.
Melissa Sheil
The owners of a new private urgent care centre for sick kids are aiming to offer the first real alternative to Perth Children’s Hospital for non-emergency cases.
Rhianna Mitchell
More children are turning up to school wearing nappies, prompting education assistants to call for kindergartens and pre-primaries to be better equipped to help them cope with the influx.
Bethany Hiatt
Australia not only faces a severe skills shortage of day-care workers, the industry is now fraught with quality and security issues affecting the children of families facing both financial and lifestyle stress.
Ross Taylor
Nearly 60 per cent of WA school leaders have reported being shoved, punched, bitten or kicked in the past year, prompting warnings of a ‘mass exodus’ of experienced principals and deputies.
Midwives at a Subiaco hospital are seeing double after the births of eight sets of twins in the space of just one week.
WA’s children are increasingly vulnerable to poverty, homelessness and being kicked out of school, the State’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has warned.
Genius Childcare Centres has appointed voluntary administrators to its businesses across Australia, including three in WA, after dozens of staff quit over unpaid wages.
Rachel Fenner
A decade on, what hurts the most is the simplicity of how Riley’s life could have been saved and how many Australians are blind to the benefits of vaccines.
Christopher Dore
Dozens of staff at WA’s Genius Childcare Centres have resigned after months of issues around pay, superannuation and penalties.
It has been 10 years since Catherine and Greg Hughes last held their baby boy Riley, as he succumbed to whooping cough just 32 days after he was born.
Gaming addiction is particularly prevalent in children with ADHD, autism, and anxiety disorders.
Andrew Leech
I want to be engaged, get to know other parents and stay in touch with the teacher but it’s all slightly overwhelming. Is anyone else on the same page?
Edwina Bartholomew
Regional and rural childcare centres are offering fly-in fly-out positions, accommodation and relocation incentives to attract staff amid a critical worker shortage which is forcing some centres to shut down.
Ben Elton, who begins a series of stand-up shows at the Astor Theatre this week, said big-tech companies had been allowed to operate without appropriate checks and balances and were destroying childhood.
Alison Wakeham
Australia’s leading after-school care service was slapped with a series of fines after it was revealed several children had managed to leave the premises without anyone noticing.
Harriet Flinn
An eight-year-old girl from Donnybrook has been recognised for her dedication to ending bullying in her school community.
Sofia Fimognari
Kids who skip breakfast are more likely to have poorer NAPLAN results than their breakfast-loving counterparts, new research has found.
Hannah Cross
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