Helping Children To Stretch Their Moral Courage

Our children are born with their own moral compass, beautifully untouched and set to true north. Their developmental progression, us parents - their immediate family, our extended family, social groups, schooling, peer groups, societal expectations - all add complex layers to our child’s self-identity and their moral being over the many years into adulthood. Today’s child and…

ByClaire Orange17/06/20220Comments

Lifestyle & Homes Parenting

Pushy Parents Syndrome: Will Our Kids Thank Us When They’re Older?

Things like: "My Child does karate three times a week; he is 4 and is a Black Belt. My child plays Aus Kick and they think they have potential for AFL so I have hired a personal trainer, my child plays the saxophone, speaks Japanese and dances three times a week." I made my mind up that…

BySacha Kaluri28/02/20220Comments

Parenting

Helping Your Child Get To Know The World

Children’s brains develop more quickly from birth to five years old than at any other point in their lifetime. In these early years, they are constantly learning from everything that happens around them so helping them to get to know the world by offering an array of experiences will be key to developing their natural…

ByDr Anna Cohen31/05/20180Comments

Parenting

Dr Anna Cohen Advises How To Support Your Child’s Friendships

Your child’s friends are a special part of their lives, helping to build emotional, social and psychological structures. Parents play a big role in helping children to develop the necessary social skills to build new friendships. Encouraging your child to be independent, considerate and willing to listen will provide them with important life skills that…

ByDr Anna Cohen26/03/20180Comments

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Raising Children That Have Both A Me And We Focus

A child’s ability to interact with other children their age and adults is a crucial aspect of their development. To develop this understanding and appreciation of considerate behaviour by-and-large starts in the home. Therefore, it is imperative for parents to model appropriate behaviour and demonstrate ways in which their children can conduct themselves in a…

ByDr Anna Cohen22/03/20180Comments

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Dr Anna Cohen’s Tips To Raise Children With Both A Me And We Focus

A child’s ability to interact with other children their age and adults is a crucial aspect of their development. To develop this understanding and appreciation of considerate behaviour by-and-large starts in the home. Therefore, it is imperative for parents to model appropriate behaviour and demonstrate ways in which their children can conduct themselves in a…

ByDr Anna Cohen28/07/20170Comments

Parenting

5 Tips To Make Your Child A Better Problem Solver

The foundations for problem solving are laid down in the first years of a child’s life and that’s when parents have the opportunity to really help their children. Skills can be trained, but when it comes to attitude you reach a certain point and then the foundations are laid. If everything is decided for a child,…

ByThe Carousel10/05/20160Comments

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Surrogate Ignores Termination Plea To Raise Little Miracle

Even then, doctors only gave the baby girl, already named Delaney, just a five percent chance of survival. Unable to deal with the bleak 12-week scan prognosis, Andrea’s friends told her to terminate the pregnancy immediately. "We were devastated. Andrea was catatonic,” says wife Kelston. “The doctors made it seem like Delaney was going to be blind [and]…

ByThe Carousel20/04/20160Comments

News

Meet The 10-Year-Old ‘Supermodel’ Melting The Internet

Her supporters say that modelling at 10-years of age is no different than being a child actor, while the other camp says it’s exploitative, and her innocent poses can too easily be misconstrued. Since amassing more than two million followers on Facebook, Kristina has been bombarded with sexualised comments referring to her legs and body. On a…

ByThe Carousel10/02/20160Comments

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Online Supporters Rally To Bring Brave Aussie Home To Die

Phelicity, who has spent most of her 13 years in a hospital gown, has a congenital heart condition and for the past two months has been in intensive care in Ohio, with mum Veronica barely leaving her side. After a life-saving operation there proved unsuccessful, all Phelicity wanted to do was come home to die, her…

ByJames Graham01/02/20160Comments