Sleep apps: a toy or useful tools for assessing children’s sleep problems?
Smartphone applications are not the best tool to assess sleep problems, according to research by Monash University.
With up to 40% of children experiencing a range of sleep problems, parents are turning to specialised devices...
Families find value in frugality
Middle-income earners are just as thrifty as those less well-off when it comes to budgeting the family finances, QUT research has found.
Researchers from QUT's Science and Engineering Faculty investigated the budgeting techniques of families...
Strength-based parenting improves children’s resilience and stress levels
Children are more likely to use their strengths to effectively cope with minor stress in their life if they have parents who adopt a strength-based approach to parenting.
In a ground breaking study published recently...
Diet linked to asthma severity in pregnancy
A University of Adelaide study has found asthmatic women who eat a high-fat, high-sugar diet are more likely to have uncontrolled asthma while pregnant.
Dr Jessica Grieger from the University’s Robinson Research Institute says diet...
Parents urged to give themselves some loving
The struggle of parenting is real, but are mothers and fathers making the situation worse by failing to give themselves sufficient credit?
University of Queensland School of Psychology’s Dr James Kirby has commenced a new...
Award-winning autism program to be adapted for preschools
A new preschool program that will help foster kind and compassionate behaviours towards children with high-functioning autism is under development at UOW.
The ‘Understanding our peers’ program, created by UOW psychologist Dr Mitch Byrne and...
ATARs a weak predictor of student performance
A new report shows that ATAR scores are a weak predictor of academic performance for first-year students.
The report by Victoria University’s Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) and supported by the National Centre...
Gardasil vaccine adverse event monitoring update
The TGA has made available on its website an enhanced school-based surveillance report of acute adverse events following immunisation with the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, in males and females, 2013 from which no safety...
How to keep kids safe online
An expert in how young people interact with the internet and video games will deliver the first talk in The West Australian ECU Lecture Series.
ECU Professor of Communications Lelia Green will speak on the...
Take My Hand: Campaign to improve child pedestrian safety
Parents are being urged to take their child's hand when walking as part of a new road safety campaign launched today (Friday May 8), aimed at reducing child pedestrian injuries and deaths when crossing...
