What To Expect From Your Twelve Year Old
As they stand on the precipice of becoming official teenagers, this can be a challenging time for the twelve year old and their parents. Physical/Health Your twelve year old child will continue to experience growth spurts and may start developing adolescent sleeping patterns. Children at this age need on average 10 hours sleep. Girls: For […]
5 Ways To Give Your Kids Healthy Habits
Busy lifestyles combined with the added temptation of screen time and social media can make it hard for parents to get their children outside and get active. For the past 40 years Life Education has visited schools across Australia to empower children and young people to make safer and healthier choices through education. Now Yates and […]
Ways To Relieve The Financial Cost Of Special Needs Parenting
Everyone knows having kids is an expensive business. However, parenting a child with special needs come with many additional financial costs. Depending on your child’s diagnosis, costs can include, but are not limited to, assessments, medical interventions, therapy and educational support. Then there are costs associated with transport, resources and equipment. Some parents are also […]
4 Ways To Recruit Volunteers To Your Community Group
Volunteers are the lifeblood of most communities. Whether it be a school P&C, sporting team, recreational group or charity, vollies keep the fundraising up and overheads down. Some people are born volunteers. They love to be involved, are dedicated to their cause and get a buzz from being involved in their community. Then there are […]
Check Out This Fantastic Fundraising Idea For Your School!
According to the Australian National Waste Report 2016, in 2014-15 Australia produced about 64 million tonnes of waste. That is equivalent to 2.7 tonnes of waste per person! The good news is almost 60% of this was recycled. However, this still leaves a phenomenal amount of waste going into landfill across the country. Recycling programs […]
Research Discovers What Your Child Needs To Succeed At Life
My daughter is officially in kindergarten this year. For those of you not in Queensland, that’s the year before formal school (why can’t we all just use the same terminology?) She is 4 years old. As she’s my 3rd child, I’ve been less preoccupied with developmental milestones than I was with her brothers. I’ve come […]
This Is How The New Child Care Subsidy Will Impact Your Family
This post is Sponsored By the Australian Government Department of Education and Training Child care has been a big part of my life for the past 9 years. Our kids have gone to family day care, non-profit centres, for profit centres, large centres and small centres but the one thing that has remained consistent is […]
How Do You Parent A Highly Sensitive Child?
Does your child feel deeply? Do they struggle with change? Are they attuned to the emotions of others? Do they ask BIG questions? Are they sensitive to sensory input? If so, you may have a Highly Sensitive Child. A highly sensitive child is is one of the fifteen to twenty percent of children born with […]
Do Australians Send Their Children To School Too Early?
Across Australia, starting ages for school are highly variable with some children starting school as young as 4.5 years old and others being as old as 6. “Cut off” dates indicate the age a child has to have turned 5 by to be enrolled in school. These differ widely between between states. ACT, VIC – […]
Ever Wondered What Rewarding Your Child To Motivate Them is Doing To Them?
Humans are naturally motivated by rewards. Like a carrot dangled in front of a donkey, we are more likely to do something if there is something enticing at the finish line. There is so much evidence of it in our society. If we do a good job at work we might get an end of […]