Category: Parenting

Parenting
School Holiday Inspiration for Entertaining the Kids at Home

School holidays don’t always look like packed calendars, big outings, or expensive activities. Here are some flexible, low-pressure ideas for what to do when staying home is the best option.

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Parenting
School Holiday Survival Guide: Free Activities Near You (Easter Edition)

Your guide to surviving school holidays – a list of resources packed with free and low‑cost school holiday activities. Perfect for parents, foster and kinship carers and anyone juggling busy holidays on a budget!

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Parenting
Simple Steps for Starting School

Starting school isn’t about ticking every box perfectly. It’s about creating a steady runway so your child can take off with confidence.

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Featured, Parenting, Prevention & Strengthening
Adolescence on Netflix: A Powerful Reminder of Why Early Intervention Matters

Current trending Netflix show Adolescence has sparked important conversations about the challenges young people face as they navigate life through the pre-teen and teenage years. While fictional, the series shines…

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Event, Parenting, Prevention & Strengthening
Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures

Every child deserves a healthy beginning, and this year’s World Health Day focuses on just that. Under the theme “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” the campaign highlights the importance of maternal…

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Foster Care, Parenting
Can You Give Danny a Forever Home? Become a Long-term Carer Today

Every child deserves a safe, loving home where they can grow, heal, and thrive. For Danny, a resilient young boy, that home is still out of reach. But with the…

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Foster Care, Parenting
Carer Support

Australia is facing a critical shortage of foster carers, a situation that poses a serious threat to the wellbeing of thousands of vulnerable children. While the number of children entering…

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News, Parenting, Prevention & Strengthening
Make the ordinary extraordinary!

OzChild’s SafeCare® Educator, Belinda Guilmartin, spends her days teaching parents of at-risk children five years and under the skills and knowledge they need to properly care for their children.

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News, Parenting
Keeping kids and teens entertained while you’re at home

Being stuck at home all day doesn’t have to be boring! Here are nine great ways you can keep the kids (and maybe even yourself) entertained while in lockdown.

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News, Parenting
Improving parenting skills to better protect little ones

The very real need to better protect newborns and toddlers from abuse and neglect was the driving force behind OzChild’s quest to break the cycle of disadvantage many children and…

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