Five tips for parental guilt
Do you ever feel guilty about your parenting? UQ Triple P Innovation Precinct Head Mr John Pickering shares his top tips on dealing with parental guilt. Read more on The Conversation and listen to...
Engagement not punishment is key to good behaviour in schools
Corporal punishment, detention, suspension and expulsion are bywords associated with traditional and historic ways of maintaining discipline in schools in a bid to promote good student behaviour.
But a UniSA partnered study has found when...
Mobile phones and kids’ sleep
Study investigates the effects of mobile phone emissions on the sleeping patterns of kids and teens.
A world-first study investigating the effects of mobile phone emissions on the sleeping patterns, brain activity and cognitive performance of...
Toppling furniture: Anchor it and protect a child
Small children have died or suffered serious injuries from unstable furniture that has tipped over. You can help prevent death or serious injury to small children from toppling furniture.
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Injuries and deaths
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Body image concerns not just for girls
Researchers from ACU's Institute for Health and Ageing have found that Australian boys as young as eight are trying to lose weight and gain muscle. The year-long study found that boys feel body image...
Novel way of protecting male reproductive cells and addressing male infertility
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine has demonstrated for the first time that hydrogen sulphide (H2S) could protect testicular germ cells, which are...
Want to boost your toddler’s development? Put a toy chicken on your head!
Parents who joke and pretend with their children are teaching them important life skills, research by the University of Sheffield has revealed.
The study showed that children as young as 16 months old naturally learn...
Improving Mental Health of New Mothers
Call for participants in mothers’ mental health study
The School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health at The University of Western Australia, is currently seeking healthy 1st time mothers, who are between 30-38 weeks pregnant, to...
Growing greener kids
In kitchens throughout Australia, many parents are worrying about their children's diet.
Temptation lurks everywhere in an unhealthy mix of readily available junk food and energy drinks, pernicious advertising and the siren call of sedentary...
Pregnancy and postpartum pain
A Bond University team has launched an extensive research project involving 60 pregnant women and 120 new mothers to ascertain the effectiveness of SRC Shorts on the management of prenatal and postnatal pain.
The aim of...
