Reports a study linking maternal anaemia with smaller newborn brain regions involved in learning, movement and emotion.
Key regions of the brain linked to movement, learning and emotions were affected and may lead to cognitive problems Babies born to mothers with anaemia have smaller brains, particularly in key regions linked to movement, learning and the regulation of emotion, according to a study. Researchers said the differences, first detected at the age of one, could lead to cognitive problems when children started school. Continue reading...
A parent’s account of finding local connection and joy through the ritual of children’s Saturday-morning sport.
Slowly, we started to understand that perhaps we hadn’t moved somewhere boring after all – we had simply been looking for excitement in the wrong places When my family moved into our first suburban house in Melbourne’s south-east, the biggest attraction, at least for me, was the public school directly across the road. With younger kids to think about, it seemed like a sensible choice. Beyond that, though, our new neighbourhood appeared to have very little going on. Continue reading...
A humorous parenting-adjacent column about defending rest and lie-ins while raising a five-year-old.
CEOs may like to get up at the crack of dawn and go for a run, but I prefer optimising my life with lie-ins, trashy films, swearing and coffee This evening I’m going to tuck my five-year-old into bed and read her a chapter from one of her princess books, followed by a summary of research recently presented at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology. Once upon a time, I’ll tell her, there was a scientist called Dr Nawon Lee who authored a study that found having a weekend lie-i…