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RSPCA supporting victims of domestic violence
Every day, RSPCA NSW helps many 100′s of abused and neglected animals. But little known is the support they also offer to women (and Men) and their children to live a life free from fear and abuse. RSPCA NSW aims to assist in empowering women and their children to escape domestic violence through their Safe [...]
Win a Laptop and other prizes with Renault Koleos
How would you like to win a shiny new Dell laptop, or 1 of 2 $100 Coles Myer vouchers thanks to Renault Koleos. Read on to find out how you can win! The Renault Koleos is a sexy French compact 4×4 packed full of European styling and funky features. Thanks to Renault, I currently have [...]
Nature babycare – Good for baby, good for Mother Earth
I often think that it is really hard to be environmentally friendly when you have babies and small children. There is so much washing, so much wasted food, so much packaging and SO MANY NAPPIES. I will admit that I like the convenience of using disposable nappies. I know many cloth nappy users don’t find [...]
New national car seat safety laws announced
Car safety for children is an important issue for all parents. Currently 500 children under the age of ten are killed or seriously injured every year in car accidents with a further 2,300 receiving minor injuries. Last week, Transport Ministers from around Australia announced unanimous support for new national child car restraint laws. Babies up [...]
Back to School
The count down is on to back to school time. We just get over Christmas/New Year and then jump straight into the chaos and expense of preparing to get the kiddies off to school again. We have put together some information to help make Back to School a little bit easier. Do you have a [...]
Helping girls move beyond Bratz, Britney and Bacardi Breezers.
Guest post by Dannielle Miller, CEO of Enlighten Education. What is really going on in the playground and behind closed bedroom doors? Teenage girls are living in a girl poisoning culture and, whilst they may appear to be coping as they are still performing well academically, underneath that “oh so perfect” façade, many are silently [...]
We knew he was bright
The author of this guest post has asked to remain anonymous, we thank you for sharing your story with us. “I have a child with special needs”. Stating this in the waiting area of any school in Australia is bound to get you sympathy and a willing audience. However continuing the conversation with “yes, you [...]
Australian toy recalls
There has been disturbing number of toy recalls in the last few week due to dangerous toys in the marketplace. Today Mattel has announced yet another recall, 18 million toys including more than 460,000 in Australia, citing injuries to at least three children who swallowed small magnets that had broken loose. 2 weeks ago Fisher-Price [...]
National Simultaneous Storytime 2007
The first National Simultaneous Storytime was held during Library and Information Week 2001. In 2006, approximately 40,000 children at over 620 locations took part in the simultaneous reading of Good night, me written by Andrew Daddo and illustrated by Emma Quay. We read this book last year, it was such a beautiful story. The Australian [...]
Teaching Children to Take Tablets
And people think cats are bad, I have perfected that..can pill a cat with my eyes closed. Kids on the other hand, that is un charted territory. I spent 30mins this morning trying to get my 8yr old son, Hayden to take a nurofen tablet. I handed him the water and tablet, here take this. [...]
Children See Children Do
Children see, Children do is a confronting ad campaign from NAPCAN. through Child Friendly Australia It is one of the favourites to win at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, winner are due to be announced this weekend. We all know how impressionable our young children are, we as parents and society are their role models. [...]
Firefox extenstion for child safety online
Glubble is new extension for Firefox only which allows you to control the websites your children visit. Designed predominately for children under 12, once activated, your children will only be able to access a child-friendly, safe browsing environment that you have complete control over. We have been trying this out at our place with my [...]
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