Maybe you knew when you fell pregnant that there would be no ‘normal’ baby shower. Or maybe, you had it all planned out and then, when the Delta variant hit in June, and June turned into July, August and then September, your hopes for a big celebration were dashed. Well, fret not Mama! There are […]
Handing our children back to their capable educators after almost four months in lockdown seems, on the surface, to be straightforward. Let’s face it, we all need the break. Who among us wants to keep doing Year Six science anyway? But, as Shevonne Hunt, our Feed Play Love podcast presenter, wrote on her Facebook page, […]
Bluey, the Emmy award-winning animated series about a family of anthropomorphized cattle dogs, has become a ratings phenomenon since it was first broadcast on the ABC in 2018. Bluey follows the eponymous six-year-old Blue Heeler, her younger sister, Bingo, and their playful parents, Bandit and Chilli. As part of our new research project, Australian Children’s Television Cultures, we are surveying audiences about […]
With nearly half of Australia’s population in lockdown, a lot of children and young people are still not attending face-to-face school. In Melbourne students in year 12 go back to the classroom this week, and there are staggered return plans for the rest of the year levels. Preps and grades 1 and 2 will return part time […]