Sorry, but it’s time to get ready to go back to school. I know, I know, there is still a few weeks left of the holidays BUT… if you leave it until the last week it’s going to completely wreck the end of your holidays. Trust me, I know! For a start, it’s super stressful …
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Sexting involves taking self-made naked or partially naked sexual photos, videos or explicit texts and sending them online or via a mobile phone. They are more commonly referred to as “nudes” or “dick pics” by young people. A 2021 survey of almost 7,000 Australian teenagers (aged 14 to 18) found sexting was “ordinary practice” for …
School mode: on. Or is it? If your teen’s routine is all out of whack they need a body clock reset. Prepare for a rough ride. The end of school holidays often is a strange mix of celebration (that’s us!), sadness (the teens) and madness (life generally). It’s a rare teen who enthusiastically gives up …
It’s that time of the year when school reports on student learning come home. Anxiety for students and their parents and caregivers often tags along. Long gone are the days when school reports were a single handwritten page, with wisdom like “tried hard, but needs to try harder”, along with percentages or letter grades. Now …
As the school year hits the half-way mark, many Year 6 students and their families will be starting to think more about the move to high school next year. Moving to secondary school is a big change for young people. In addition to hearing stories – good and bad – on the school grapevine, students …
We can all agree that semester one was rough… but semester two gives us all a chance to hit the reset button and completely smash the second half of the year. You aren’t going to get the results you need if you just do the same old thing as you did in semester one. Or, …