With many college students forced to return home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tensions and arguments are bound to flare up.

Most children are stuck at home due to the outbreak of COVID-19. They need to find ways to socialise, do their school work, exercise and entertain themselves.

About 55 million U.S. schoolchildren attend schools that have been closed or are being directly affected by the new coronavirus social distancing rules.

Effective learning is a two-way process between the teacher and students, meaning both need to engage.

It’s hard enough juggling a job with parenthood when you’ve got young kids. But what do you do when social-distancing policies mean you’ve all been sent home?

Parents have always helped with homework and made sure their children fulfill responsibilities like chores, but the extended and often unstructured time families are spending together during the current crisis creates new challenges.

Earlier that day her swimming and basketball lessons were cancelled, a birthday party postponed, and she had to race with me between several meetings before the university campus shut down. “Stupid coronavirus indeed!”

Some schools in Australia have moved online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools in which students and staff have tested positive have temporarily shut over the past three weeks.

When stress is heightened — which it is for all of us right now because of the COVID-19 pandemic — children become aware of it and they try to locate the source of the stress.

During this pandemic, it is fair to say that pre-COVID-19 family routines may shift, or even completely fall apart!

Stories can be mirrors that help young people express feelings about a given situation. They give children a vocabulary for what is happening.

As families everywhere adjust to social distancing measures like closed schools and child care centers, workplaces and more, parents are grappling with questions regarding their kids’ use of technology.

It’s important for parents to be there for their children to ease any concerns they may have about the virus and how it could affect them.

For years, psychologists, educators and church leaders have warned about subversive and decadent influences on children in our society -- the internet, pornographic literature and films, violent video games, raunchy TV, and so on. It's an old story: the more sexually perverted the entertainment, the more teenagers watch it, and the higher the ratings and the profits.

Many parents believe teaching their child to read is the best way to get them ready to start school, but teachers often disagree.

It is understood that childrens’ emotions in school are connected to their learning and academic achievement.

During the last couple of decades, new types of parents have emerged. From the anxiously involved helicopter parents to the pushy tiger mums

Emotional competence is an important life skill. Children with a high level of emotional competence, tend to have more friends, do better at school, and are more likely to help others. 

Unlike traditional face-to-face bullying, a bully can conceal their identity online and target their victims constantly without the limits of location or time.

Many parents complain of difficulties in managing clingy children – whether it’s a baby who cries every time the parent is out of sight, a toddler who clings to their parent’s legs at social events, or a primary school kid who doesn’t want their parents to go out for dinner without them.

Learning outside the classroom through adventurous activities is known to have significant educational benefits.

Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional death from injury worldwide. From July 2018 to June 2019, 276 people drowned across Australia – a 10% increase on the previous year.

The first almighty toddler tantrum is a milestone in every child’s development that will never make the baby book.