Parenting

A new app that taught girls as young as nine to perform plastic surgery on an overweight blonde woman has been pulled from sale.

Ann Sherry – head of cruise line Carnival Australia – is one of Australia’s most respected CEOs. She is the woman credited with introducing maternity leave to corporate Australia in the mid-’90s  when she was an executive at Westpac, the former head of the Bank of Melbourne and the first woman to run a bank […]

A study carried out by University of New South Wales researchers showed that if fathers and grandfathers ate a high fat diet and were obese, their grandsons were more likely to be overweight. Research conducted on rats, led by Professor Margaret Morris, found that sons and grandsons of fat fathers had worse outcomes than those […]

“Yuta was breech (in a bottom-first, not head-first position),” Kyoko says. “The doctors tried to turn him around so I didn’t need a caesarean, and discovered the growth.” Kyoko couldn’t believe the diagnosis, “I was like … whaaat? My son has what?! The ultrasound looked perfect, and I couldn’t believe he could be sick.” To […]

In a pilot scheme launched by Sheffield University researchers and funded through a collaboration between the government and medical research sector, shopping vouchers worth up to $340 will be offered to 130 mums as the initiative is tested. Areas with low breastfeeding rates among new mums – around 25 per cent compared to the national […]

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans has opened up about the first time he saw his adopted son Robel in an emotional interview. Speaking in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly Cadel and his wife Chiara recall clicking on an email attachment and opening a photo of the Ethiopian orphan who would become […]

One in four Australian households now have a female as their major breadwinner, leaving blokes to take over the primary parenting role. Dads play Mr Mum in 140,000 households more than they did 10 years ago, a new report shows. The number of families with two working parents has also risen dramatically with 58 per […]

Today’s tips are taken from the feedingkids.tv episode — Veggie and Mince Spaghetti. Getting kids to eat healthy food can be hard work. It’s all very well to cook up a storm, but what a dreadful waste of time if they won’t eat it. I hate cooking, so if I am going to do it […]

An army of angry parents have forced toy store giant Toys ‘R’ Us to strip their aisles of sexist signage in a move to end gender marketing to children. The UK arm of the global toy retailer has given in to the pressure of a grass roots campaign started by concerned parents, agreeing to freshen […]

A mother’s scathing blog post about a raunchy TV advertisement that aired at 8am has gone viral. Florida woman Rebeca Seitz was watching Good Morning America with her two young children when a commercial came on that nearly caused her to choke on her cornflakes. The ad, for new ABC drama Betrayal, showed a completely […]