Best-selling baby bottle brand Tommee Tippee has just released new self-sterilising baby bottles. Tommee Tippee has spent nearly 60 years engineering its breast-like baby bottles, which are made from soft-silicone and have a breast-like shape. These baby bottles encourage a natural latch and means babies can bottle feed at their own pace. Know the news … Read more
New social media age limit legislation is set to be introduced before the next election, to protect the mental health and safety of children and young teens — but will it work? The Albanese government announced the proposed ban last week, with the age limit and implementation plan yet to be outlined. Experts worry the … Read more
WARNING: Distressing content The Christchurch parents of a toddler who died of an accidental hanging, when he became caught in the cord of his bedroom roller blind, are pleading for better safety messaging about the danger in New Zealand. They had put their three-year-old son down for a nap earlier this year, and discovered him … Read more
Cases of children eating up to 120 multivitamin gummies in a single day are among a “significant” increase in parent calls to the Queensland Poison Information Centre concerning overuse of the gummies. QPIC received 180 calls relating to toddlers eating multivitamins with iron — which can be toxic for children if overused — in 2023. … Read more
Like most parents, mother-of-three, Kydonia* wants to make the best decisions to help her young children thrive. But the Adelaide mum was shocked to find out the extent of misleading marketing around toddler foods and the lack of laws to prevent it. “I ended up downloading an app that tells you if there’s additives and … Read more
Parents are being urged to secure freestanding ovens and supervise their children at all times after a 19-month-old girl was crushed under an oven in New Zealand. The inquest of Kendra Paisley Ann Scanlon found the oven was unsecured when it fell on her on April 28, 2022 at her family home in Rotorua, on … Read more
Social media platforms are prioritising profits over keeping our children safe from predators, according to a former police officer turned child safety advocate. “It’s not if, it’s just when” predators will contact children on these platforms, Raven CEO and co-founder John Pizzuro told Scrolling 2 Death podcast host Nikki Reisberg. Raven is a non-profit lobbying … Read more
Jas Rawlinson still lives with the invisible, emotional wounds of the abuse she suffered from her father. From ages 8 to 18, she was the target of a barrage of emotional abuse, threats and coercive control. “I’ll never forget one of the last things my dad said to me before he passed away was that … Read more
You don’t need a quiet, harmonious household to raise the next Steve Jobs or Frida Kahlo. Kids who grow up with parents who regularly disagree — in a constructive fashion — can become more creative adults, Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania recently told the “What Now? … Read more
Two flight passengers who locked a stranger’s crying grandchild in a plane restroom have caused outrage in China and sparked a heated online debate on how to handle upset children in public spaces. The incident went viral this week after one of the two women involved posted a video on Chinese social media, which showed … Read more
