Anxiety becomes a problem when it prevents your child from experiencing, enjoying and participating in the things that children their age would typically be involved in. Anxiety can interfere with your child’s friendships, opportunities and learning…and if it is not...
Ryan Spencer, from the University of Canberra is Clinical Teaching Specialist and Lecturer in Literacy Education. Here, he explains why reading your child’s favourite book aloud is so important for learning and development. As parents know all too well, children...
Speech Pathologist Vickie Leung is the former director of the Multi-Lit Literacy Centre at Macquarie University. Here she provides great at-home strategies for helping your child learn to read. Why do some kids struggle with reading? When we are learning a new skill,...
Is your child refusing to give up a dummy? Adamant that monsters live in their room? Anxiously hanging on to a blanket or comfort toy that is well past its used by date? Unwilling to stay in their own bed all night? Kids First’s Child Psychologist Robyn Fallshaw has...
Experienced teacher, parent educator and author Sonja Walker will present a free seminar for parents of children starting high school next year in Brookvale on Tuesday 27 October. Sonja says that transitioning from primary school to high school is a big step for 11...
