Parenting

The number of Australian kids who are not vaccinated is growing, putting all children at risk of potentially fatal diseases. Mum-of-two Zoe Arnold explains why there is no excuse not to immunise your kids. Picture this: a screaming infant sitting in a trolley, with his stressed mother pushing him as quickly as possible through a […]

The Queensland police union has sparked controversy by requesting tougher laws that could see pregnant women forced into institutions if they drink alcohol or take drugs. The union wants the power to lock up “risk-taking” mums-to-be to protect their unborn babies. Union president Ian Leavers has argued for the law change in a submission to […]

What do you do when your child breaks the rules? Shout at them? Take away their favourite toy? Post a humiliating photo of them on Facebook, which quickly goes viral exposing their wrongdoing to millions and staying online to haunt them for the rest of their lives? It seems extreme, but an increasing number of […]

Julius is like any three-year-old, energetic and curious. He is also a child model, which his mum, Catia Malaquias, hopes will challenge the negative stereotypes that come with his Down syndrome. “Julius is going to be a model for eeni meeni miini moh, a children’s fashion brand, and the photo shoot is in Brisbane,” I […]

David Koch has responded to the controversy he caused and “vitriol” he copped over his comments on the hot issue of public breastfeeding, but has he excused his actions or is he just making it worse? Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, Kochie has said he believes Australian women should be able to breastfeed “anywhere at […]

Mum-of-two Zoe Arnold has news for David Koch: mums don’t like exposing their breasts in public any more than he likes seeing them — but any mum, given the choice between a screaming baby and a content, well-fed one, will opt to get their boobs out. Anywhere, anytime. One day I was breast-feeding my five-month-old […]

She started smoking aged nine, was drinking alcohol by 11, using marijuana at 12 and snorting cocaine at 13 but Drew Barrymore isn't going to hide her troubled childhood from her own daughter.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is well known to trouble children and teens in their school years, but it’s also likely to affect sufferers’ careers and relationships later in life. A US study has shown young people diagnosed with ADHD are less likely to gain or sustain employment as adults, and if they are […]

She sparked worldwide controversy when she wrote about putting her seven-year-old daughter on a diet — now Dara-Lynn Weiss has admitted her approach was far from perfect. Weiss opened up about her daughter Bea’s battle with her weight in the April 2012 issue of US Vogue. The now-infamous article went viral, prompting a deluge of […]

Every day, in hospitals all around Australia, women who don’t need caesareans are having them. In the past 15 years our caesarean rate has nearly doubled — leaving us with one of the highest rates of C-sections in the world. Thirty-two per cent of women now have their babies delivered by caesarean in Australia, and […]