Tackles toddler learned helplessness when time pressure makes consequences hard to apply.
Crowdsources sustainable ideas for filling ordinary days with kids.
Asks pediatric experts for evidence-based guidance on long separations from a baby.
Examines the real safety risks of babies sleeping in bouncers, swings, and car seats.
Invites parents to identify family traditions that became burdensome rather than meaningful.
Offers a practical food-safety question: whether yogurt holds safely in a lunchbox for 3–4 hours.
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…
Semaglutide, the drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy, may have benefits that extend well beyond weight loss and diabetes. In a large Swedish study of nearly 15,000 people with bipolar disorder, its use was linked to a 21% lower risk of psychiatric hospitalization. Researchers think effects on inflammation and brain-related biological pathways could help stabilize mood, though other GLP-1 drugs did not show the same association.