Toddlers

Nat Dunworth was forced to send her triplets to two different childcare centres each week for 18 months.

Toddlers who get more screen time could be learning fewer new words, an Australian study finds, warning parents of the opportunity cost of distracting children with devices.

At a time when most toddlers are just getting the hang of walking, 18-month-olf Lucy Brown has staked her claim as the youngest person to reach the Mount Everest base camp.

Two parents who withheld “vital” information from paramedics after their toddler ingested a potentially lethal dose of the party drug fantasy (GHB) will both spend time behind bars.

A childcare director says households suddenly requiring a second income to get by are desperately seeking care for their children in south-east South Australia — with some waiting up to 18 months for a place.

A 15-month-old has died in hospital after being run over in a north Queensland driveway.

Johnson & Johnson agrees to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging talc in its baby powder caused cancer. 

As a child growing up in Sydney, Emma Watkins was always enthralled by sign language and she is channelling that interest into a new passion project for children.

It is alleged three-year-old Rylee Rose Black died of heat stroke after being left in a car in Townsville in 2020. Aaron Hill, 32, will face a jury charged with her manslaughter.

Often foster children arrive at a carer's home with "the clothes on their back or a few items shoved in a plastic bag". This couple is doing something about that for Queensland kids.

Calls are growing for the government to accelerate its plans to provide more support to help remedy worker shortages. Stephanie Borys reports.

Johnson & Johnson says while its talc-based range will be discontinued globally from next year, its Australian products already contain the new ingredient. 

Mealtime with toddlers and little kids can be the most dreaded time of day for some parents, but is it ever OK to trick your kids into eating what's on offer?

Almost a year after hanging up her yellow skivvy, Emma Watkins has unveiled what she's doing next.

Her parents say they are broken after she died from a rare neurological disease triggered by COVID-19 weeks before her second birthday and days before the birth of her brother.

An infectious diseases specialist says that, for the most part, COVID-19 is not a serious infection for children and that vaccinations for those under five years are expected to be available from next month.

Parenting is hard. So we put your curliest questions to the host of ABC podcast, Parental as Anything, Maggie Dent.

Parental as Anything host, Maggie Dent answers your curly questions about parenting.

Advocates says this data should not be collected and want more regulatory protections. Conor Duffy reports.

Some of Australia's most popular entertainment apps for children contain risky code that allows companies to gather data on children and build profiles that can follow them for life, according to an organisation calling for bolstered privacy regulations. 

Does your child or teen struggle with falling asleep? These are the tips you need about sleep and development from the experts who know.

Experts are calling for parents to be vigilant as cases of a lung virus that causes inflammation of the airways grow in NSW.

Three-year-old Nevaeh Austin, who was left on a day care minibus in Central Queensland for six hours last week, has been reunited with her entire family at her home in Gracemere.

A three-year-old girl who was found unconscious after being left on a childcare bus in Central Queensland for six hours is reunited with her entire family at home.

A toddler left on a bus for six hours at a childcare centre in central Queensland last week is discharged from hospital and arrives back home to Rockhampton.