Raising children
To play is to learn. Time to step back and let kids be kids
Play is crucial to building skills – and yet children have less and less time for it in the modern world.
Lisa Joshua Sonn says she regularly crosses the bridge between her childhood and contemporary childhoods and she is clear it's time we went back to basics.
In an experiment with 60 kids, researchers focused on how advertising influences what’s known as eating in the absence of hunger.
To improve children’s cardio fitness, researchers recommend that kids do at least 60 min of exercise per day.
Most women still lack knowledge about the costs & viability of freezing their eggs to preserve fertility.
Therapist Lesego Mashishi-Matlala spoke to the Night Talk about how parents can help their children reach personal milestones, without adding too much pressure on them.
Cape Talk host Kienno Kammies spoke to child psychologist Christine Kritzas about appropriate ways to discipline children.
Unless the trend is disrupted, by 2030 almost 70 million children may die before reaching their 5th birthdays.
Dr Nthabiseng Mabena shares her expertise on single mothers feeling guilty about having kids and her experience in working with children who suffer parental resentment.
Researchers have studied the timing of puberty for 672 girls and 846 boys relative to their parents.
Creative parenting expert Nicky Bush spoke to CapeTalk’s John Maytham about leaving kids home alone.
Author and doting father to three girls, Alan Hoskings, spoke to 702’s John Robbie about raising young daughters in this day and age.