What Happens When Mum Refuses To Cook For A Week?

When we become parents we gain an immense amount of love, strength, and resilience from our beautiful children, however, if we don’t look after ourselves, we also lose a ridiculous amount of sanity. I love them but sometimes kids can drive us crazy! If you’re like me, you’ll spend most of your day tending to every…

ByThe Carousel10/09/20180Comments

Lifestyle & Homes Parenting

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

Lifestyle & Homes Parenting

Lunchbox Snack Tips Perfect For Back To School

Preparing a decent lunch doesn’t sound too difficult, but when combined with ensuring homework is done on time, planning weekend activities, organising clean uniforms, after school sport, and your own day’s agenda, then organising healthy and yummy lunches every day can get hard. Whole Kids founder Monica Meldrum knows the importance of healthy eating for kids. Here…

ByThe Carousel04/02/20180Comments

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Trainer Urges Australia To Support Children With Cerebral Palsy

Popular Youth Manager and exercise physiologist Teigan Butchers says getting children with cerebral palsy moving as early as possible is vital if they’re going to reach their full potential. “Early intervention with evidence-based therapy and practice can make a lifetime of difference to young people with cerebral palsy,” says the Cerebral Palsy Alliance manager of youth…

ByPresenter25/08/20170Comments

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Aussie Women Leading The Way For Tomorrow’s Generation

Technology has changed the world at a rapid rate. Will Australia’s kids have the skills they need for the Australia of tomorrow? Data collected for the CommBank Connected Future Report suggest women are confident they do. Each generation has faced a world of technological change. The ‘Builders’ Generation (before 1945) remember the introduction of the television…

ByClaire Madden23/06/20170Comments

Book Review: When The Lyrebird Calls

Author Kim Kane magically transcends the reader on a journey making us reflect on the past and coziness of the present day. I could not help but get locked into this book. It made me feel comfort from my own childhood books. This is a story about a curious girl named Madeleine who goes to see…

BySacha Kaluri04/02/20170Comments

Lifestyle & Homes Parenting

Croc’s Play Centre : Paradise For Kids… And Parents !

In fact we actually built our first business together in a play centre. Each Saturday afternoon we would go to our local place and let our kids go off and play. We would have a table reserved in the corner, right near the power point so we could charge our lap tops and we would work…

BySacha Kaluri03/02/20170Comments

Food & Drink

7 Recipes To Keep Kids Busy In The Kitchen These School Holidays

More like boohoo... It's 10am and you have already exhausted every possible activity to keep your children busy. You've got one kid on each arm begging for your attention and you're trying to avoid plonking them in front of the TV to watch Frozen for the 64th time. Here's where cooking comes in! Pop an apron on…

ByMillie Constable04/07/20160Comments

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Jacinta Tynan: Family Adventure At Western Plains Zoo

Not much has changed (in my mind) at Western Plains Zoo except for these fundamental things: it’s bigger. From 300 hectares established on a former WWII army training camp in 1977, Taronga Western Plains Zoo (as it’s now known) is now 1100 acres over a 6km circumference. There are more animals (from 400 different animals back then…

ByJacinta Tynan09/06/20160Comments

Parenting

Jules Allen: Why Kids In Cafes Don’t Always Mix

Witnessing mothers practice their displays of over-indulgent ‘public parenting’ as their children whinge about the fact that their milkshake doesn’t have enough ice cream, I find myself reassured that I will never be out of work. In a decade when these little angels turn age 15, their mothers will be tearing their hair out, wondering…

ByJules Allen04/04/20160Comments