Families

LAURA’S PLACE By Laura Kiln PgDip (CBT) (Child & Adolescence), BSc (Hons) CMHN As I sit here it’s Sunday evening across the Coast, I guess many parents are preparing their…

by Catherine Schasser Hi. Hello to you, the reader of these words. As we spend this time together, I’m curious about you. If we were together, I’d notice your surroundings,…

GREEN POINT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 2020 has witnessed huge impacts on education with schools having to radically change their mode of learning. As a result, it has caused educators, and others,…

Dr Farag answers your questions Congratulations on having a baby on the way! This is the most exciting time for you but unfortunately with the situation right now you are…

By Kathryn Barwick, Australian Breastfeeding Association Central Coast My boy, only minutes old, lay skin-to-skin across my chest, his head resting on my breast. I looked at him and I…

Young people on the Central Coast are being urged to apply for Government Scholarships worth up to $5,000 a year to put towards their studies. The Coast is just one…

by Catherine Schasser According to vocabulary.com “Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can’t help but smile.” Similarly, Sonja Lyubomirsky, a…

By ADRIENNE GARSIDE Some years ago, a friend’s young son received a merit award at his school’s weekly assembly. He was recognised not because he topped the class in a…

“Knowing that our daughter is not only being cared, for but engaged with, brings us such peace of mind. We didn’t just want someone to come and look after our…

by Dr Sam Pethen In the words of children’s author, Taro Gomi; ‘everybody poops’, and, I believe, becoming a parent marks the transition where most people start thinking about poo…