by Catherine Suelo | May 1, 2023 | Childcare News, Family Day Care, Helpful Information, Long Day Care
Anne Nygard/Unsplash Marg Rogers, University of New England South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other...
by Catherine Suelo | Apr 1, 2023 | Craft & Fun, Helpful Information
Pxfuel John Dumay, Macquarie University; Cristiana Bernardi, The Open University; Samuel Mawutor, Oregon State University, and Stephanie Perkiss, University of Wollongong What distinguishes a company that makes “good” chocolate (chocolate untainted by child labour,...
by Catherine Suelo | Mar 1, 2023 | Child Development, Helpful Information
Shutterstock Lara Herrero, Griffith University and Wesley Freppel, Griffith University You might not have heard of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. But it caused more than 100,000 global deaths in 2019, making it a leading cause of death in children under one year...
by Catherine Suelo | Feb 20, 2023 | Childcare News, Family Day Care, Helpful Information, Long Day Care, Vacancy News
Paul Hanaoka/Unsplash Melissa Tham, Victoria University; Cynthia Leung, Victoria University, and Peter Hurley, Victoria University About 100 early childhood experts are meeting in Canberra today for a national summit on children who are five and under. This is part of...
by Catherine Suelo | Feb 1, 2023 | Child Development, Helpful Information
Erik Anderson/AAP Kate Highfield, Australian Catholic University Around Australia, about 320,000 children are starting school for the first time. As an early childhood researcher, former kindergarten teacher, and parent of a child beginning school on Monday, this...
by Catherine Suelo | Jan 2, 2023 | Child Development, Childcare News, Helpful Information
Written by Amanda Niland, University of Sydney and Marianne Fenech, University of Sydney The decision about whether to send a child to school “early” or “hold them back” can be a tortuous one for families who have a child born in the first half of the year. So a...
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