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Drive to Win – When Children Learn Competitive Behaviour 26 Aug 2013 | 10:47 am
Parents have a range of feelings about competitive behaviour in their children. But when and how do children learn about competition and how much of it is learned behaviour? It is often written that“C...
Junk Food Linked to Young Children’s Mental Health Problems 21 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
Researchers at Deakin University recently published research linking poor diet in pregnant women and in their young children, with children’s higher levels of behavioural and emotional problems. The i...
Conference on Children and the Media: Media, Minds and Neuroscience 20 Aug 2013 | 08:33 am
This conference is a joint venture between the Children and Families Research Centre at Macquarie and the Australian Council on Children and the Media. It focuses on the impact of children’s media env...
Discounted Entry to Mind and Its Potential Conference in November 2013, Sydney 20 Aug 2013 | 07:57 am
Stimulate your mind at the 8th annual Mind & Its Potential conference and unleash your brain power in all areas of life! happychild readers can use this promotion code to receive a 20% discount on reg...
Not Sure About Your Child Using Social Media? This Mum is Okay With It. 20 Aug 2013 | 06:56 am
One of the favourite memories from my teenage years was coming home at 16 years old to find that my mother had arranged to have my very own phone line installed INTO MY BEDROOM. I can picture my room ...
New Research Finds that Children Sleep Less if Media Devices Are In The Bedroom 6 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
We know from previous research reported on happychild that use of technology devices can negatively impact the sleep of teenagers. This new research from Finland studied an even younger population of ...
Missing the Moments– Feeling Sentimental As Children Grow Up 5 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
A couple of months ago I attended a performance of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play, Fury. At one stage the central female character, Alice, comments that it’s often best we don’t know when it’s the las...
Social Media for Under-Age Children Can Lead to Unnecessary Social Harm 4 Aug 2013 | 01:14 pm
There's a video doing the rounds on Facebook – an educational video teaching children how to protect their personal information online. While I do think parents and kids should watch it, as a cyber sa...
Teens–Accept the Dad Friend Request and Improve Your Relationship 31 Jul 2013 | 09:29 am
We know that traditional media can be an integral part of family life – watching television together, sharing the paper on a Sunday, having the radio on in the background – but less is known about wha...
Free Talk About the Impact of Violence and Trauma on Children 31 Jul 2013 | 07:03 am
Join child psychiatry expert, Professor Louise Newman, in conversation with ABC Life Matters presenter, Natasha Mitchell, and a childcare trauma specialist as they explore the impact of violence and t...
