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Four-year-old Luca de Groot with mum Jodi Lowe, suffered severe eye injuries when a washing machine tablet ruptured and went into her eyes.

HealthCommentsPremiumMum’s plea after daughter suffers burns from detergent pod

A Perth mum has issued an urgent warning to parents after an everyday household chore almost left her four-year-old blind.

Sarah Steger

An early learning expert has given insight into things parents can do with their kids.

THE NIGHTLYFive things parents can do to deliver success for their kids

After over 10 years of studying with child development experts, an early learning educator reveals five things parents can do differently to help deliver long-term success. 

An early learning expert has given insight into things parents can do with their kids.

EducationCommentsFive things parents can do to deliver success for their kids

After over 10 years of studying with child development experts, an early learning educator reveals five things parents can do differently to help deliver long-term success. 

Maya Payne Stewart

‘Rather than sheltering kids from technology, we must equip them to navigate it wisely,’ writes Sherrill Nixon.

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Sherrill NixonPremium
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Don’t ban kids from technology, teach them how to use it

It’s a daunting landscape that parents, teachers, and policymakers often respond to with bans and restrictions, hoping to shield young minds from harm. But these solutions are short-sighted. 

Sherrill Nixon

Petey (Pete Davidson) and Dog Man (Peter Hastings) in DreamWorks Animation’s Dog Man, directed by Peter Hastings.

MoviesCommentsThe best family movies in cinemas these school holidays

Here are the ways you can entertain the kids – for a few hours, at least. SEE THE LIST OF MOVIES.

Ben O'Shea

Public comment is open for a proposal to develop a medical centre containing a GP clinic and physio and 92-capacity childcare centre in McKail in the City of Albany.

MCKAIL DEVELOPMENTPremiumHave your say on proposed medical and childcare facility

A proposal to build a childcare facility that could cater for almost a hundred children and a medical centre with a GP clinic and physio in McKail is open for public comment.

Melissa Sheil

Dr Justin Withnall, Dr Smriti Shah, Dr Chris Peyton and Haley Peyton who are creating a new model of care for kids at Kinkaya Urgent Care in Innaloo.

HealthCommentsPremiumNew urgent care centre for Perth kids

The owners of a new private urgent care centre for sick kids are aiming to offer the first real alternative to Perth Children’s Hospital for non-emergency cases.

Rhianna Mitchell

More children are turning up to school wearing nappies.

EducationCommentsPremiumShocking number of kids turning up to school wearing nappies

More children are turning up to school wearing nappies, prompting education assistants to call for kindergartens and pre-primaries to be better equipped to help them cope with the influx.

Bethany Hiatt

Australia not only faces a severe skills shortage of day-care workers, the industry is now fraught with quality and security issues affecting the children of families facing both financial and lifestyle stress.

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Ross TaylorCommentsPremium
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Live-in nannies could revolutionise Aussie childcare woes

Australia not only faces a severe skills shortage of day-care workers, the industry is now fraught with quality and security issues affecting the children of families facing both financial and lifestyle stress.

Ross Taylor

WA Secondary School Executives Association president Melissa Gillett said it was worrying that more than half of school principals had reported being physically assaulted in the past year.

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The West Australian exclusive
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The West Australian exclusive
Attacks on WA school principals soar to record high

Nearly 60 per cent of WA school leaders have reported being shoved, punched, bitten or kicked in the past year, prompting warnings of a ‘mass exodus’ of experienced principals and deputies.

Bethany Hiatt

Jack and Alex Nicol, William and Maxim Hewitt, and Christopher and Leo Chan.

HealthCommentsPremiumTwins ‘baby boom’ marks multiple birth awareness week

Midwives at a Subiaco hospital are seeing double after the births of eight sets of twins in the space of just one week.

Bethany Hiatt

WA’s children are increasingly vulnerable to poverty, homelessness and being kicked out of school, the State’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has warned.

WA NEWSCommentsPremium‘Alarming’ figures expose child poverty, homelessness in WA

WA’s children are increasingly vulnerable to poverty, homelessness and being kicked out of school, the State’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has warned.

Bethany Hiatt

Genius Hamilton Hill

WA NewsPremiumWA childcares go into administration after mass resignations

Genius Childcare Centres has appointed voluntary administrators to its businesses across Australia, including three in WA, after dozens of staff quit over unpaid wages.

Rachel Fenner

Riley Hughes, who died from whooping cough in 2015

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Riley’s short life had a profound impact

A decade on, what hurts the most is the simplicity of how Riley’s life could have been saved and how many Australians are blind to the benefits of vaccines. 

Christopher Dore

Christopher Dore

Genius Childcare Centre in Hamilton Hill.

Workplace mattersCommentsPremiumStaff say WA childcares won’t reopen after mass resignation

Dozens of staff at WA’s Genius Childcare Centres have resigned after months of issues around pay, superannuation and penalties. 

Rachel Fenner

Catherine and Greg Hughes lost their baby son Riley Hughes ten years ago this week. He died from whooping cough and they have spent the last decade raising awareness on this issue.

WA NewsCommentsPremiumFamily’s vaccine fight in baby Riley’s memory

It has been 10 years since Catherine and Greg Hughes last held their baby boy Riley, as he succumbed to whooping cough just 32 days after he was born. 

Rhianna Mitchell

Gaming addiction is particularly prevalent in children with ADHD, autism, and anxiety disorders.

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Andrew LeechCommentsPremium
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Gaming addiction is a crisis

Gaming addiction is particularly prevalent in children with ADHD, autism, and anxiety disorders.

Andrew Leech

‘I am struggling. Not with the separation or the emotional shift or even the snacks for the lunch boxes. It’s the WhatsApp,’ writes Edwina Bartholomew.

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Edwina Bartholomew CommentsPremium
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Why I’m hitting mute on my kid’s school WhatsApp groups

I want to be engaged, get to know other parents and stay in touch with the teacher but it’s all slightly overwhelming. Is anyone else on the same page?

Edwina Bartholomew

Leinster Community Daycare centre director Christine Bell, pictured right, recruited FIFO educator Tracey Mouna, left, last month.

EducationCommentsPremiumWA’s childcare crisis pushes centres to turn to FIFO

Regional and rural childcare centres are offering fly-in fly-out positions, accommodation and relocation incentives to attract staff amid a critical worker shortage which is forcing some centres to shut down.

Rhianna Mitchell

Comedian Ben Elton has called on adults to do more to limit the pernicious effects of social media on children.

SOCIAL MEDIACommentsPremiumComic urges adults to protect kids from clutches of big tech

Ben Elton, who begins a series of stand-up shows at the Astor Theatre this week, said big-tech companies had been allowed to operate without appropriate checks and balances and were destroying childhood.

Alison Wakeham

Australia’s leading after-school care service was slapped with a series of fines after it was revealed several children had managed to leave the premises without anyone noticing. 

Courts & JusticePremiumAfter-school club fined $220k for kids leaving premises

Australia’s leading after-school care service was slapped with a series of fines after it was revealed several children had managed to leave the premises without anyone noticing. 

Harriet Flinn

Isobel McNab, 8, has won the Scout of the Year award for her work with Dolly's Dream in her school.

Speaking upPremiumDonnybrook primary school student named Scout of the Year

An eight-year-old girl from Donnybrook has been recognised for her dedication to ending bullying in her school community.

Sofia Fimognari

Eliza Zaknich 6, Dr Amelia Harray and Samuel Zaknich, 8, eating breakfast.

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The West Australian exclusive
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The West Australian exclusive
Skipping breakfast linked to poor NAPLAN results

Kids who skip breakfast are more likely to have poorer NAPLAN results than their breakfast-loving counterparts, new research has found. 

Hannah Cross

Children exposed to their mother’s cannabis use during pregnancy and after birth are three times more likely to develop behavioural problems.

HEALTH PremiumMaternal cannabis use triples risk of wild behaviour in kids

Children exposed to their mother’s cannabis use during pregnancy and after birth are three times more likely to develop behavioural problems, new Curtin University research has revealed. 

Claire Sadler