Parenting
What happens when your teen joins Tinder?
Joining Tinder at 18 is becoming as unremarkable as going for your driver's license. So, how do parents navigate that?
- by Kerri Sackville
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Opinion
Opinion
The deep-seated hypocrisy of the performing arts peacock parent
Spare us the performing arts parents, unless they're going to put their money where their mouth is.
- by Penny Flanagan
Opinion
Opinion
Good riddance to the doofus dad
We need to update how fathers are depicted on our screens.
- by Christopher Scanlon
Opinion
Parenting
Why isn't the government doing more to help Millennials afford kids?
If our government wants to lift the birth rate then why aren’t we doing more to ease the financial burden of raising a family?
- by Jamila Rizvi
Parenting
Parents main source of alcohol for children, ignoring health warnings
Experts says there is no evidence to support the notion that providing alcohol to children will teach them to drink responsibly.
- by Andrew Taylor
Healthcare
Dentists warn against teens using at-home teeth whitening kits
The kits are often promoted by social media influencers.
- by Nicole Economos
Opinion
Childcare
The problem with helicopter parenting is that it works
The allergy to risk and failure, appears to be influenced by real fears about social mobility, fuelled by schools determination to give parents bang for their buck.
- by Natalie Reilly
Opinion
Gender
We need to build a herd immunity against the sexualisation of girls
If you have ever seen a group of teens at a party, you will notice a huge difference between the boys and the girls.
- by Kerri Sackville
Opinion
Motherhood
Headphones in the home are the devil's work
Sometimes we are that cartoon family who texts or even calls each other inside the house.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Opinion
Childcare
The question famous men never get asked (and women always do)
The battle for true equality will only be won when men assume, and are granted, their proper share of the childcare burden.
- by Jemima Lewis
Government
Monique felt like her birth father's 'dirty little secret'. Not any more
It took 30 years for one Queenslander to decide again to track down her birth father and now she has four half-brothers.
- by Felicity Caldwell