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Immunisation in childhood
Published by Raising Children Australia Immunisation, often called vaccination, helps to protect your child from infectious diseases. It’s one of the best ways of improving your child’s health and wellbeing and stopping diseases from spreading in your community. Why immunisation …
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Co-Sleeping and How to Change
Question – I made the mistake of co-sleeping too long. Now I can’t get my son into his own bed. He refuses to settle if he isn’t in our bed. I transfer him during the night only to have him …
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Creating a home for your child after separation.
A child must have a ‘home’ We can manage separation better, than we have in the past How can you help them to adjust? This question weighs heavily on parents who are thinking of separating or are separated. Your one …
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Are you doing this when you wrap your baby?
Doctors say the condition has increased threefold in babies over the age of three months since 2013. Most newborn babies are swaddled to help them settle and fall asleep but parents are being warned about the dangers of wrapping their little …
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Singing Calms babies longer than talking
Toronto: Parents, take note! Singing can calm your babies longer than talking to them, suggests a new study that found infants become distressed twice as fast when listening to speech compared to song. In the study from the University of Montreal, …
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Toddler TV Meltdowns
My daughters are 3 and 5 and love watching shows on TV. We’ve always had limits on this and the past few months we’ve limited it to only weekends. I find that this works well. When they know it’s not …
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WARNING: The dangerous pram mistake we’re all making
By Rebel Wylie on Kidspot We always thought it was OK, and NSW Health even suggests it as a way to keep baby cool, but overseas experts claim that covering a pram with a muslin cloth or blanket may actually be …
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No More Day Sleeps
There comes a time in a child’s life unfortunately for parents when they no longer seem to need their day sleep and are quite happy to be up for hours at a time. Problem is that mum or dad still …
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Keeping Children Busy
Needing an activity to keep your children busy? Mother nature provides us with wonderful sensory items One can never walk along the trail of shells without stopping to touch, pocket or exclaim over a few Needing an activity to keep …
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Creating a home for your child after separation
A child must have a ‘home’ We can manage separation better, than we have in the past How can you help them to adjust? This question weighs heavily on parents who are thinking of separating or are separated. Your one …
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