Posted by Unknown | 4:59 AM

I had a scary experience recently at a park in the inner-west of Sydney while I was out with one of my daughters, her husband and two of the...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:55 PM

From the Archives - This is a revised version of a post on 23rd Nov 2009 The erosion of time for play As I wrote in a post last year, chil...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:30 PM

The erosion of time for play As I wrote in a post last year, children's play is seen by psychologists, educators and paediatricians as ...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:30 PM

I wrote a post on ' The Challenge of Boys and Reading " in July in which I commented that boys are more likely to be attracted to b...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:06 PM

We live in an age of increasing busyness. A 2008 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report on how Australians use their time indicated t...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM

The Australian Fatherhood Research Network ( AFRN ) was launched at a seminar sponsored by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:15 AM

The principal of Presbyterian Ladies College (Sydney), Dr William McKeith, has said what many of us have been thinking for a long time. The ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:35 AM

In a recent article in the New York Times the findings of a major study by the USA Educational Testing Service highlights just how importan...

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