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What every parent needs to know about the childcare changes
Patience – the ability to remain calm in the face of acute frustration - is a skill all parents of young children must learn.
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Furious mum slams daycare worker for breastfeeding her son
A furious mum is hoping police will press charges against a daycare worker who breastfed her three-month-old son without permission.
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Childcare is expensive, but not working costs more
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How fake nature in child care centres could be damaging
The grass is always greener when it's real and outdoors.
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No, Senator, childcare workers don't just wipe noses and stop fights
The only thing childcare workers spend their time doing is "wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other"? Not quite.
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I'm a stay-at-home mum, and I'm sending my son to daycare
When you become a mum you give birth to a beautiful baby, but you also give birth to guilt.
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'We're overworked, overlooked and grossly, grossly underpaid'
Looking after toddlers is no walk in the park and childcare workers deserve to be paid properly for all that they do.
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Man with long history of lewd acts allowed to work with children
A man with a long history of lewd acts including masturbating in front of two 16-year-old schoolgirls will be allowed to work with children, in a decision described as "bizarre" by a former children's commissioner.
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How Melissa made $3.6 million 'rorting' child care
A 28-year-old woman has been found guilty of fraud after she forged children's attendance records at her Aussie Giggles family day care centre to rake in more than $3.6 million in taxpayer funding.
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Childcare worker investigated after threatening toddler's mother
An early childhood teacher has been censured for serious misconduct after she threatened the mother of a young child.
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