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How you can be a better parent
Rachel Carlyle FROM infancy to adolescence, boys and girls take different steps towards adulthood and parents can help them in growing up.
How Kerr runs her blooming family
8:46AM Staff writer SUPERMODEL Miranda Kerr has told of how she and Orlando Bloom are keeping their family together, despite hectic schedules across the globe.
The most out-there baby names of 2012
Rosie Squires ACE, Batman, Blaze and Charisma - these are just some of the unusual names parents conjured up for their newborns last year.
Warehouse faces baby milk probe
Stephen Drill, Patrick Lion NEW Zealand officials are investigating a Melbourne warehouse shipping up to 10,000 cans of baby formula a month to China.
Don't want to grow up? Punch your birthday cake!
10:21AM Cover Media PETE Wentz's son has threatened to "punch" his next birthday cake. Why? Because he doesn't want to grow up. We don't have the heart to tell him it won't work!
Good table manners are back in fashion
9:37AM By Lucy Kippist Learning how to eat properly at the dinner table could be even more important than parents realise, experts say.
- Dr.Justin Coulson
- Psychologist
Children who have nightmares
HELP! My two year old wakes up screaming every night, what can I do to get her back to sleep and also make the stop?
Women drinking to harm their unborn babies
12:19PM PREGNANT women in South Africa are drinking to deliberately harm their unborn babies in order to claim higher welfare payments.
Mum almost killed by unborn baby's fingernail
10:56AM Liz Hull A WOMAN almost died after a suspected fingernail or hair from one of her twins passed into her bloodstream during their birth.
Lesbian pair's donor fights child support bid
10:07PM A SPERM donor is fighting efforts to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple.
Antidepressants not linked to pregnancy risks
11:57AM THE use of antidepressants during pregnancy is not linked to a higher overall risk of stillbirth and death in newborns.
Thousands of mums seek help
SUE DUNLEVY MORE than 41,000 new and expecting mums worried about their baby's health sought help from a government hotline last year.
Thousands of mums use baby hotline
SUE DUNLEVY MORE than 41,000 new and expecting mums sought help from a government hotline last year.
The most out-there baby names of 2012
Rosie Squires ACE, Batman, Blaze and Charisma - these are just some of the unusual names parents conjured up for their newborns last year.
Warehouse faces baby milk probe
Stephen Drill, Patrick Lion NEW Zealand officials are investigating a Melbourne warehouse shipping up to 10,000 cans of baby formula a month to China.
Paying premium for baby formula
ROSIE SQUIRES DESPERATE parents paying jacked up prices for baby formula that disappeared from local shelves in a buy up by Chinese customers.
How to have a more confident baby
By Nick McDermott WANT a child who is "emotionally secure, self-confident, curious, and autonomous"? Ditch the pram and carry them upright, tribal-style.
Foreign buy-up hits baby formula
SUE DUNLEVY and SHELLEY HADFIELD THE nation's top-selling baby formula is being rationed because Chinese customers are buying it in bulk to send home.
Thousands of mums seek help
SUE DUNLEVY MORE than 41,000 new and expecting mums worried about their baby's health sought help from a government hotline last year.
Don't want to grow up? Punch your birthday cake!
10:21AM Cover Media PETE Wentz's son has threatened to "punch" his next birthday cake. Why? Because he doesn't want to grow up. We don't have the heart to tell him it won't work!
Man caught drink-driving with kids
12:34PM Rikki-Lee Arnold A MAN has been caught driving at three times the legal limit - and with his friend's two children in the backseat.
Rappin' and tappin' in the Motherhood
9:19AM FIAT has scored big with its rap-lyric litany of the challenges of "mother-hood" - scoring more than two million hits in less than a month.
Boys more likely to repeat kinder
Shelley Hadfield THOUSANDS of children are being held back for a second shot at four-year-old kindergarten every year, with boys more likely to have to repeat.
Order to use correct mum and dad titles
1:00AM Ainsley Pavey SIBLINGS caught up in their warring parents' "poisonous" split have been ordered by a court to stop calling their step parents "mum" and "dad".
Is this funny video a good car ad?
10:35AM Karla Pincott, Carsguide EVERY parent will laugh at the rap video Motherhood for Fiat's new compact family car. But is it too bold for a car ad? Take a look.
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