Thanks to everyone who left questions for Pinky, winners of the double passes to the Baby & Toddler Show in Melbourne (30 March to 1 April) have been notified. Thanks also to Pinky Mackay for taking the time to personally answer these questions and sharing her wisdom – I am most appreciative and hoping it [...]

Pinky Mackay is appearing at this year’s Baby & Toddler Show in Melbourne (30 March to 1 April, more details at the end of the post). Pinky Mackay is a best-selling baby care author with four titles published by Penguin including Sleeping Like a baby, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Toddler Tactics and Parenting [...]

Today’s guest post is by Kathy Chapman. Kathy is the Health Strategies Director for Cancer Council NSW and is responsible for leading cancer prevention work, focusing on encouraging healthy living. She is passionate about making healthy choice the easy choice for Australians, young and old and she is one of the leading Australian researchers on [...]

Today’s post is answering a question from a reader. I will note first that I am not a child behaviour specialist. My suggestions come from the reading I have done and the practical experience of being a parent over the last 12 years. ***** We are experiencing some unusual difficulties with our four year old. [...]

Today’s brilliant guest post is by Janet Powell from Mentor Maestro. Janet is a Parenting Coach who conducts private parenting coaching and group Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) Courses. The next Parent Effectiveness Training course will start in October, 2011, in Camberwell, Melbourne. More details will be available closer to the date. You can call Janet [...]

PSST: Poems, songs & story times is a CD of rhymes and songs for young children. Created by the Young Readers Program, it encourages listening to rhymes and stories as an important early step in reading and language development. The Young Readers Program is a partnership between the State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Department [...]