The app features 70 city overview guides and 14 detailed destination guides available for travelling families, including: Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Uluru, the Blue Mountains, Lake Macquarie, the Sunshine Coast, Phillip Island, Dubai, Fiji, Hong Kong and Singapore. The app also includes more than 200 kid-friendly attractions. . . .
more
What is Working Memory?
Working Memory is the thinking skill that focuses on memory-in-action: the ability to remember and use relevant information while in the middle of an activity. For example, a child is using their Working Memory as they recall the steps of a recipe while cooking a favorite meal. Children who have trouble with their Working Memory skills will often have difficulty remember . . .
more
Does Music Affect Our Children's Learning.
When you were a child, did your mother make you taking music lessons that you always hated and was finding all ways to avoid it? Without knowingly, your mother's insistence that you practice your musical instrument an hour a day actually made you smarter! Recent studies had shown that your mother was probably right to make you stick to you . . .
more
Do students really learn better when separated by gender? New research indicates that they do not.
Study results released this week by the American Psychological Association found that students do not perform better in math, science or verbal subjects when they attend single-sex schools, or single-sex classes within coeducational schools. The research, which analyzed 55 years wor . . .
more
Young Children Less Physically Able
According to Lee Corlett who is a physical educator there are a number of factors inhibiting our children's physical development. Things such as computer games, junk food, political correctness and apathetic parents are some underlying issues according to him. My Corlett before establishing Sporting Initiative Nelson, was general manager at Spor . . .
more
Assessing Your Parenting Style
I came across a very interesting article about parenting styles. We certainly live in a world that is constantly changing and now more then ever we are connected far more globally and are influenced by not only our, our family but also world issues. Our children are part of a world that is different from the one we were children in and the way we parents will . . .
more
Skylight knows that the brothers and sisters of children or teens who have a serious illness, a chronic health condition or a disability have their own unique needs too. Research from around the world lets us know that supporting them well is very, very important.
On this page we have brought together all kinds of information that may be helpful for siblings - and those who care about them.
Sib . . .
more
Teaching your child a second language has oodles of benefits and it isn?t as hard as you might think! For more information.... . . .
more
New Online Resource launched
The Childsafe Guide is a tool for organisations to help them evaluate how childsafe their organisation is and develop policies and procedures to ensure their organisation is childsafe in the future.
A step-by-step guide to help you manage risk and keep children safe in your organisation
Get started
The Childsafe Guide is a tool for organisations th . . .
more
Wednesday, 7 September 2011, Press Release: Health Quality and Safety Commission
Impacts of alcohol on children and young people
A new report highlights the strong contribution of alcohol to the dramatic increase in the rate of death by injury after the age of fifteen, with many young people becoming victims of their own drinking or the drinking of others.
The Child and Youth Mortality R . . .
more
