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Valuing Children's Voice After Separation

Lucy Cook, our Centre Director has recent had a paper published in the Family and Relationship Services: Valued now and into the future - Peer reviewed papers from the FRSA 2024 National Conference, which we are happy to provide you access to below.
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Valuing Children’s Voice After Separation
Lucy Cook, F...

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Why Babbling Is So Important

WHEN parents share in babbling baby talk with their bubs, they are boosting their future vocabulary, scientists have found. While prelinguistic speech with a tot may be embarrassing for some, researchers found that when they listened to real-world recordings from homes that than in a lab, the children benefited greatly from the interactio...

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Spotlight on Pandemic Tots

CHILDREN who know nothing of life before the pandemic have behavioural patterns that would not have been seen pre Covid and they are not all bad. Childcare workers have witnessed a significant shift in how the tiny Queenslanders in their care play, how they react to disappointment and even how they handle separation from parents. Lucy Schweize...

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Time to Prepare Preppies

PARENTS despondent at the delayed return of school are being urged to use the time to better prepare their prep-aged children for the start of their formal education. Amaze Education's Lucy Cook said, instead of dwelling on the disappointment, now was the time to "super-proof" young ones. "We all want a stress-free start to ...

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Kids Switched on to Screens Despite Dangers

EXCESSIVE screen time is the No.1 health concern of Australian parents. The Royal Children's Hospital National Child Health Poll ranked the top 10 health concerns of almost 2000 parents, with cyber bullying and bullying and internet safety rounding out the top three worries for parents. It comes as new research shows children under five wh...

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