Parenting
This week, the ABC announced it had made all its educational products available to audiences from one destination, ABC Education. As ABC Education’s principal focus is on serving the needs of Australian students and teachers in primary and secondary schools, with over four thousand resources mapped to the Australian Curriculum, it may have left early […]
For many in our industry, packing up and clearing away the myriad of things, which children may have used in a play session, functions as a time where children are learning responsibility, cooperation and self-regulation. However, there are more opportunities for learning and development in packing up and clearing away than just these social/emotional domain […]
Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance – the next developmental psychology breakthrough, or is it bunkum? Recent research proposes that what we experience in our lifetime can modify our DNA, and that these changes can be passed on to future generations. Whilst a lot of attention is on the human genome, it is apparent, at least to […]
The frequency of reading to children at a young age has been proven, by a study undertaken in 2013, by Guyonne Kalb and Jan C. van Ours, to be a directly causative factor on their learning outcomes, when they go on to school, irrespective of their family backgrounds and home environments. The research, the outcome […]
One of the two Melbourne dailies featured an article in its Sunday edition, which announced the launch of a new book, The Me, Me, Me, Epidemic, by US parenting expert Amy McCready. When the book was previously ‘launched’ in August, 2015, the author was quoted as saying “Overly involved parents helicopter over their kids’ every […]