Children’s health takes centre stage with new research partnerships
A new partnership between QUT and the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute will lead to important advances in child health.
The partnership has been launched through QCMRI and QUT Collaborative Seeding Grants and provides $25,000 to projects based on...
Top reading tips for toddlers
It's never too early to start reading with your children.
Edith Cowan University education researchers have a simple message for parents who want to set their children up for academic success: it’s never too early...
Expectant Parents’ Play with Doll Predicts Later Parenting Behaviour
Having expectant parents role-play interacting with an infant using a doll can help predict which couples may be headed for co-parenting conflicts when their baby arrives.
Researchers videotaped 182 couples in the third trimester of...
Parents, listen next time your baby babbles
University of Iowa study finds how parents respond to their infant's babbling can speed the child's language development.
What researchers discovered is infants whose mothers responded to what they thought their babies were saying, showed...
Groups, communities help new parents cope
Parenthood is a significant life transition; a time often experienced by new parents as overwhelming and emotionally and physically exhausting - and new research into families in Perth's newer suburbs suggests that mothers' groups...
Safe sleeping pod for babies gains funding boost
An award-winning University of the Sunshine Coast program that provides portable safe sleeping places for at-risk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies has gained a funding boost of $143,560.
USC Professor of Nursing Jeanine Young...
Protecting newborns: milk protein could save millions from harm
An international effort led by the University of Sydney hopes to protect hundreds of Bangladeshi newborns from a host of severe health problems by assessing the effect of lactoferrin, a natural protein found in...
Literacy and Numeracy Week: 25-31 August
A simple message for parents who want to set their children up for academic success: it’s never too early to start supporting your child toward reading and writing.
ECU Early Childhood Studies Professor, Caroline Barratt-Pugh...
New Victorian Breastfeeding Guidelines
New Victorian Breastfeeding Guidelines have been released to protect, promote and support breastfeeding mothers across the state.
The guidelines were developed by La Trobe University's Judith Lumley Centre in partnership with the Royal Women's Hospital...
Father’s role in supporting mothers to breastfeed
The role of fathers in supporting breastfeeding is much more important than originally thought, new research has found.
The research, conducted at the University of Tasmania and funded by the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation (TEYF),...
