Growth & Development

A large selection of topics covering all stages of children's development from birth through to adolescence...

Topics

• Aboriginal - coping skills for our kids
• Aboriginal - identity
• Aboriginal - now you are a parent
• Aboriginal - storytelling
• About babies Updated
• About babies - their senses Updated
• ADD and ADHD - what are they?
• Adolescence - when times get tough
• Alcohol - effects on unborn children Updated
• Asperger syndrome
• Attachment Updated
• Attention Deficit Disorder (see: ADD and ADHD - what are they?)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (see: ADD and ADHD - what are they?)
• Autism
• Babies - day and night patterns in the early months
• Bad language (see: Swearing)
• Bedwetting
• Behaviour management (see: Discipline - what is discipline?)
• Being a dad
• Being a mum
• Being a parent Updated
• Boarding school
• Books from Birth (see: Reading with babies)
• Car sickness (see: Travel with children)
• Cheating (see: Winning, losing and cheating)
• Child development: 0-3 months
• Child development: 1-2 years
• Child development: 10-12 years
• Child development: 12-15 years
• Child development: 2-3 years
• Child development: 3-4 years
• Child development: 3-6 months
• Child development: 4-5 years
• Child development: 5-6 years
• Child development: 6-9 months
• Child development: 6-9 years
• Child development: 9-12 months
• Children's sexual behaviour
• Choosing child care
• Colic in babies
• Comforters (see: Dummies, thumbs and other comforters)
• Coping skills
• Cross dressing in children
• Crying baby
• Developmental delay
• Developmental disabilities (alcohol related) (see: Alcohol - effects on unborn children) Updated
• Discipline (teens)
• Discipline - how parents can discipline children
• Discipline - what is discipline?
• Discipline for different ages
• Discipline for toddlers (see: Toddlers - tips for toddler troubles)
• Dummies, thumbs and other comforters
• Dyslexia (see: Specific learning difficulties)
• Dyspraxia
• Eating things that are not food
• Enuresis (see: Bedwetting)
• Eyes (see: Your baby's eyes)
• Fathers (see: Being a dad)
• Fears - young children
• Fetal alcohol synrome (see: Alcohol - effects on unborn children) Updated
• Fussy babies (see: Wonder weeks)
• Gay or lesbian sons and daughters
• Gifted and talented children
• Going back to work
• Growing and learning in the family
• Growing and learning with babies
• Growing and learning with preschoolers
• Growing and learning with toddlers
• Habits
• Helping your child learn to read
• How children learn
• Imaginary friends
• Learning in young children (see: How children learn)
• Learning Problems (see: Specific learning difficulties)
• Learning to talk
• Leaving home
• Lies and fibs
• Limits that stick (see: Discipline (teens))
• Literacy (see: More than reading and writing)
• Lying (see: Lies and fibs)
• Menstruation (see: Periods)
• Milestones
• More than reading and writing
• Mother-child relationship (see: Attachment) Updated
• Motion sickness (see: Travel with children)
• Motor development (see: Moving around)
• Moving around
• Neonatal screening test
• Newborn screening (see: Neonatal screening test)
• Optimism
• Pacifiers (see: Dummies, thumbs and other comforters)
• Parent-child relationship (see: Attachment) Updated
• Parenting (see: Being a parent) Updated
• Peer groups and peer pressure
• Periods
• Pets
• Pica (see: Eating things that are not food)
• Play with children
• Playstages - easy read
• Pocket money
• Poos, wees and nappies
• Pregnancy in adolescence (see: Teenage pregnancy)
• Puberty
• Reading with babies
• Reading with children (see: Why stories are important) Updated
• Resilience (see: Coping skills)
• Right from the start
• Second baby
• Secondary school (see: Starting high school)
• Separation anxiety
• Sexual and reproductive health of young people
• Sexual development in adolescence (see: Talking sex with teens)
• Sexual development of children (see: Children's sexual behaviour)
• Sleep - 3 to 6 months
• Sleep - 3 years to 5 years
• Sleep - 6 months to 3 years
• Sleep - birth to 3 months
• Sleep in early childhood
• Specific learning difficulties
• Speech Development (see: Learning to talk)
• Stammering (see: Stuttering)
• Starting high school
• Starting school Updated
• Stealing
• Stuttering
• Swearing
• Talking sex with teens
• Tantrums
• Teenage parents
• Teenage parties
• Teenage pregnancy
• Teeth - development and teething
• Television Updated
• Toddlers - tips for toddler troubles
• Toilet training
• Toys
• Travel with children
• Unsettled Baby (see: Crying baby)
• Vision (see: Your baby's eyes)
• What are babies like? (see: About babies) Updated
• Why stories are important Updated
• Winning, losing and cheating
• Wonder weeks
• Working and parenting (see: Going back to work)
• Your baby's eyes