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Interview with Tano Veron: Co-founder of art project Rock at Six Years, a collaboration with his six-year-old niece, Nicolina Lorenza Vachetti What is this project about? Rock at Six Years is a family art project by me and my niece, Nicolina Lorenza Vachetti. It’s a collection of contemporary abstract album...

Imagine a school with a courtyard that transforms into a giant paddling pool when it rains, or a rooftop playground that can only be accessed by a vertical climbing rope. Japanese architects Youji no Shiro take a creative approach to design.

Adorable pets, cartoon heroes and an intractable environmental scourge: this is the story of the world’s most lovable pest. Okay, we admit it: ‘rodent’ is a bit mean. While the rabbit was once a card-carrying member of the order Rodentia, it achieved such world-spanning success and biological diversity that, in...

Kids love cubbies! And it turns out that building cubbies is a great way for kids to  externalise and re-create what’s going on internally, whether that’s joyful, challenging, confusing, interesting, different or simply unknown.

We all want our kids to be kind human being, but an increasing body of research is showing that kindness is also good for our mental and physical health. Here's how to cultivate more of it in your family.

PARENT OPINION BY NICK LONG My dad knows how to catch fish in almost any waterway. He can fix and make stuff, not expertly, but with ingenuity that makes you think that if we were marooned somewhere, we’d survive. (He reckons the secret is to always have cable ties.) And...

Parenting aint easy, but blind parenting comes with a whole other set of challenges. Writer, disability advocate and mother, Courtney Tabor-Abbott talks about the highs and low of blind parenting.

Parents know the power of Band-Aids extends beyond healing cuts and grazes. Father of three, Rick Bannister, muses over the power of these adhesive patches.

“Why are my beautiful kids SO worried? Is it me? My first port of call is to blame myself. With three different fathers to my four kids, it’s clear that I am the common denominator. Damn! I really wanted to blame their fathers.” My four kids all have various presentations...

My first child was born, and it turned out that I was an amazing parent. We potty-trained him just before his second birthday. Three days. Done. Then I had another child. A strong-willed child. And now I'm no longer a smug-mum...

It’s a brave new world, where boys don’t always have to be so brave anymore, thanks to illustrator Keith Negley. Men might be cooking risotto, folding the towels and staying home to mind the kids nowadays, but we’re still not talking about our feelings. Not really. A few might have...

Adolescents spend more time on screens than any other demographic, and, they're also the most vulnerable when it comes to addiction. If smartphone apps are designed to cause addiction, what are the longterm impacts on our teens, if any?

As Pampa’s co-founder and Global Director, Vicky is passionate about sustainable practices and loves working closely with artisans to help empower remote communities and preserve traditional knowledge and craftsmanship. Everything she designs and photographs is influenced by her love of the natural world and her desire to communicate a sense...

Harriet from Mountain Culture has two passions in life: beer and mountains. So she and her husband spent two years travelling across the world, exploring the best of both until they finally decided it was time to get a real job. So with a lot of hard work they launched...

There are lots of great benefits of having an ordinary kid. For one, you don’t have to drive them to sporting or dance events every weekend. You won’t spend empty hours in your car, sitting at the wheel in pitch black, wondering what the hell happened to your life while...

I vividly remember tea in the ’70s. On most nights it was chops with two veg, sausages with two veg, rissoles with two veg, ki si ming/chop suey/chow mein (or whatever your family called the dish made from mince, a packet of chicken noodle soup, Keen’s curry powder and cabbage,...

By Zoë Foster Blake I enjoyed a simple, semi-rural upbringing in the ’80s. It was EXACTLY like Stranger Things, just with less paranormal activity, and more wheatgrass. My parent’s completely biodynamic, self-sufficient approach to food pissed me off so hard, cos it meant junk food was completely off limits, (“White...

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Navigating tantrums and meltdowns from toddlers and children isn't easy. But, if you under how a kid's brain works, the tasks is much simpler. Here's what you need to know. How different is a kid’s brain from an adult’s? The short answer: extremely. We've always known that a child's brain...

When Dee Tang lost her almost four-year-old daughter Kawa Leaf in a drowning accident, her life changed, and so did her perspective on the bigger picture. Here Dee shares her thoughts on life, death, love, universal grief and what’s most important to learn from loss.

When Danielle Egan couldn’t find a non-toxic nail polish, she decided to make one herself. After seeking the advice of a chemist friend and assembling the ingredients, Sienna was born.

Making trade fair is all about changing the way trade works, so farmers and growers get better working conditions and paid properly for their products. Here’s some Fairtrade brands we love…

Molly Harriss Olson, CEO of Fairtrade Australia New Zealand talks about what Fairtrade is and why it matters now more than ever.

As a mother of teenage boys Bec navigated countless sleep-overs, picnics, sporting events and beach trips, mostly in absolute discomfort. Inspired by a need to be comfortable whenever she was driven Bec to invent GlamSwag; a soft, feather-packed portable bed.