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New forum topic for Parents with a Disability

Moderator — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:02:15 GMT

As a result of feedback from parents requesting a topic in the forum area of the site that is specifically for parents with a disability, we have added a new section Parents with a Disability.

If you would like to participate in the new forum topic Parents with a Disability, see http://raisingchildren.net.au/forum/Forum132-1.aspx

Posting to the most appropriate forums

webmaster — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:38:56 GMT

Just a reminder that this Announcements forum is a place for the Raising Children team to post news about your website, including new features, content additions and the like.

If you are a parent or carer, there are more appropriate RCN forums to post to, where you can chat to others who share your experience.

If you want to connect with people experiencing life in a whole variety of circumstances, please chat to them in the Baby and Child forums, which are for all parents and carers. If you are raising children in particular circumstances, or from a particular perspective, and you want to connect with people who share those circumstances or that perspective, then the Parents Like Me forums are intended to make it easier for you to find and support each other. In the My Neighbourhood forums, you can share ideas and discussions with people who live in your area.

To view all our forums, you can go to our forums Home and scroll down the page.

Cheers,

Tell us what you think

webmaster — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:11:09 GMT

The month of May has marked the second anniversary of the Raising Children website - we hope you're enjoying the new homepage design. Why not tell us what you think by replying to this topic? As part of our goal to expand and improve the site, we're also evaluating the website. We'd love your contribution to this important research - take the feedback survey today!

Your website is a winner!

webmaster — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:35 GMT

Raising Children has won four major awards, including NetGuide's Site of the Year and Best Parenting Website for 2007. Thanks for all your support! By sending us emails, spreading the word, rating your favourite articles and taking our surveys, you help us make this such a great website. Help us to make the site even better - complete the feedback survey.

New Make a Books

webmaster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:39:36 GMT

Just to let everyone know that we have two new Make a Book books up on the site - a parenting book called 'What about me and us?' and 'Favourite family recipes'.

Thanks for your patience waiting for these.

Enjoy!

New to the site

mum-of-3-a's — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:38:47 GMT

Hi all, my name is Suzee and I have 3 beautiful children. I am 26, DH is 34, DD#1 is 8, DS is 4 and DD#2 is 2. I am a stay at home mum from Melbourne.

Hiya all I am a newbie

Joles — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:22:28 GMT

Hiya everyone,

Im new to this website, I have spent an hour or so looking through it and I would have to say that its the best one I seen. I have a daughter that is just over 9 months old, Sophie. She can be an absolute angel then on the otherhand she can be an absolute terror. In our eyes she is perfect of course.

Look forward to read all the input from everyone on everything.

Cya

hello all im new to this forum

christina todi — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:16:10 GMT

hello all im christina 29 yold with one dd 18 months and one on the way due on the 3rd dec.....

im from melb looking forward to getting to know you all....

New to this forum

canberramomma — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:46:44 GMT

Hi, I am a sahm to 4 children ages 1 to 21. We are a blended family. I live in Canberra (obviously) and love to get to know new people. I also love these forums to try and glean info on how I can better parent my children.

hello, Im new!

lachysmum — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:36:44 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm new, My DS is 9 months old.

Just came across this website while googling the pregnancy and baby expo. Glad i found it have already got heaps of info off the site!

Hope to chat with you all!

Jodie

Hey everyone, newbie here!

BeckzNCo — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:41:52 GMT

Hey Im Beck, Im from Dubbo (western NSW). Im the mother of 2, Jasmine will be 4 this November and Adrianne (pronounced Adrian) is 4 months old. I am originally from Sydney, and hope to move back there in the next few years...

Replying to posts

Missy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:17:48 GMT

On some other forums when you hit 'reply post' the box for you to type your message comes up, as well as the rest of the thread, or at least the original post, underneath. Just wondering if that could be added to this forum. I have a bad memory and sometimes can't remember all the things, or people's names, that I want to reply to.

Cheers.

Opinions on this aticle?

MikeAccord — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:52:54 GMT

Hey my name is mike, me and my wife are expecting our first kid next month, and i've been doing some research and looking up parenting news, I was wondering what everyone thought of this article: We've basically been having trouble with our 3 year old lately when it comes to bed time. http://www.edukey.net/services-workshops/child-behavior-consultation/

I'm new here

Treegirl — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:49:34 GMT

Hi there guys,

My name is Rachel, I'm 21 years old and live in South Australia. I currently work at Berri Regional Child Care Centre as a Qualified Relief. It's an awesome job, the kids are inspiring, cute and amazing to watch.

When I signed up, I realised I had to add children's details into my registration form. I thought it was a bit silly that you have to have children to be put of this forum, so I entered my godson's details. I hope this is ok.

I mainly joined this forum because I thought it would be useful for me to discuss different issues with different people.

I look foward to getting to know this forum and making more posts in the future,

Treegirl

im new

motherof2 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:24:00 GMT

hey there

im tracy and i am 22 yrs old and have 2 kids

teneisha is turning 5 in 2 wks and has just started prep and seth is 6.5 months and has started swimming lessons.

i live in victoria

Seasons Greetings

Moderator — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:21:04 GMT

Seasons Greetings

and

Happy New Year

To You and Your Families

from

The RCN Project Team

RCN Survey: Making the daily shift from work to home

Moderator — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:00:54 GMT

Hi All

The RCN Survey: Making the daily shift from work to home has now closed. Thank you to all who completed the survey.

As the survey results will be published through the Raising Children Website and we inform the media, the RCN Project Team are interested in hearing from any parents or carers who would like to offer further comments on this topic. Your insights could then be included in our publicity material.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could contact us via a Private Message (PM). The RCN Project Manager will then contact you should further information be required.

Your interest and support is much appreciated.

Welcome to the Raising Children forums

jane@RCN — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:52:49 GMT

Welcome to the forums of Raising Children. Feel free to talk about anything to do with parenting - have a look at the forums for the different age groups, those for all kinds of different parents, and the forums about your neighbourhood. But before you start, have a look at our discussion guide and terms of use to get an idea of what is and isn't allowed.

Cheers,

Jane.

Posting to specific forum topics

webmaster — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:48:37 GMT

There has been some interesting discussion across a number of topic areas about who can post messages in certain topics. Some readers contribute to topic forum areas intended for a specific group, for example, mums posting in the dads forum or dads posting in the mums forum.

We see the forums as a great opportunity for people to share information and support each other, and hopefully take an interest in other’s experiences, perspectives and offerings. So, we make no restrictions on who can visit a forum, but we ask people to respect the wishes of the primary forum user group.

If you want to connect with people experiencing life in a whole variety of circumstances, please chat to them in the Baby and Child forums, which are for all parents and carers. If you are raising children in particular circumstances, or from a particular perspective, and you want to connect with people who share those circumstances or that perspective, then the ‘Parents Like Me’ forums are intended to make it easier for you to find and support each other.

Emotional Development in Children - Web-survey

Macquarie Uni Researcher — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:06:48 GMT

Hello, my name is Richard Stevenson am currently running a web-survey about emotional development in children. The study requires parents of children aged from 0 to 18 years to complete the survey which takes about 10 minutes and concerns the emotion of disgust. We are approaching sites like this one because it has a bulletin board which parents read and contribute to. The study has been approved by the Macquarie University Human Ethics Committee (HE24FEB2006-RO4485C). If possible, I would like to post a brief description of the survey and a web-link to my internet-survey site. I would be grateful if you could let me know if you do not want me to post a message on your bulletin board about this research. I can be contacted via email on (rstevens@psy.mq.edu.au).

Many thanks,

A/Prof Richard Stevenson

Adelaide Meet Up

supamum — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:52:22 GMT

Hi,

Just wondering if all the Adelaide people would like to meet up some time? It would be good to put faces to names! I already catch up with a couple of people on this site, but it would be great if we could make a day where everyone meets, say at the Zoo or something? Obviously we can wait until it's a bit warmer, say in September or something. Let me know if you would be interested by replying or you can PM me.

Make a Book

webmaster — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:54:42 GMT

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the first lot of 'books' in our Make a Book section was published today.

We'll be releasing more books over the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned...

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the feature and we look forward to getting your feedback on it.

Cheers

Free Resilience Program for Year 7s and 8s

Emma_Wade — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:00:07 GMT

Dear Parents of Year 7 and 8 students,

My name is Emma Wade and I am a registered psychologists and a PhD student at RMIT University in Bundoora.

I am currently trying to recruit Year 7 and 8 students who have been bullied at school. My program is free, runs for 9 weeks, and teaches students the skills they need to be resilient to the effects of bullying. The program teaches optimistic thinking, coping skills, social skills, and helps build self-esteem.

If you are interested in your child participating in the program please call me on 9925-7646, email on s9805383@student.rmit.edu.au, or visit the webpage at www.rmit.edu.au/psychology/bravo

Reagrds,

Emma Wade

Optimising Pregnancy & Infant Health

functionmed — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:32 GMT

Fish Oil is now established as a key nutrient in all health-enhancement. Hereunder is some of the emergent evidence. The bootom line is that Fish oil reduces mortailty from all causes. But do not rush out and purchase just any brand, beacuse there are only a select few which absolutely guarantee low levels or no of toxic elements such as mercury.

Scientists have discovered that eating large amounts of fish during the later stages of pregnancy might increase fetus growth but doesn’t extend the duration of the pregnancy.
A study conducted involved 11,580 women who found the more fish they consumed at the 32-week mark in their pregnancy the lower the likelihood of restricted growth in the baby. One researcher stated these findings supported the data that increasing the intake of fish or omega-3 fatty acids while a woman was pregnant increased the fetal growth rate.
The women in the study were questioned on the amount of fish they ate and the levels of
sed to be mercury free.
About 10 percent of pregnant women--13 percent to 15 percent among new mothers--develop depression severe enough to interfere with their functioning.
Although studies looking at the risk of antidepressant drugs in pregnant and nursing women have showed low risk, there have been few studies about long-term effects.
The current research shows a strong correlation between low levels of omega-3 fatty acids and symptoms of depression, researchers said. However, further studies are needed to prove that boosting levels of fatty acids will fight depression.
Government warnings have urged pregnant women to avoid eating shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish because they can contain high levels of mercury, which can damage the nervous system of the fetus. Additionally, fish may also pose other contamination risks. Researchers suggested that women follow local recommendations in regard to eating fish.
Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association; San Francisco, CA May 20, 2003

WARNING of as about 2 weeks ago the FDA in the US. warned against eating any tuna at all if pregnant. Also only purchase Salmon that has Alaska or USA on the lid and do not eat Orange Ruffy or Gem Fish. All crustasians and shell fish should be safe.

It is also proven that women who supplement fish oil throughhout pregnancy never suffer post natal depression and their offspring are more mentally/emotional ly stable through life.

University of Queensland Parenting research

TimUinOfQueensland — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:18:23 GMT

Dear Parent/Caregiver,

I am currently completing my Masters Degree in Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. If you are a parent or carer of a child between 2 and 16 years, I would greatly appreciate your time completing an online survey.

The survey takes approximately 45 minutes to complete and can be accessed at the address below:

http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~paulh/php/Tim/TMConsentPage.php

By filling out the survey you are greatly contributing to our understanding of the how families function in real life situations. The information you give will be used to further develop efficient and effective programs to support families with the challenges they face around parenting. The surveys contain questions about parenting styles and life stress. All information collected will be confidential and anonymous.

If you have any question please feel free to send an email to the details given below. On the behalf of the University of Queensland, thank you very much for your time and effort in completing this survey.

Yours truly,

Tim McLauchlan

Please pass this information on to anyone who may be interested.
This study have received ethical clearance for the University of Queensland
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~paulh/php/Tim/TMConsentPage.php

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Timothy McLauchlan BPsych, BSc (Hons) Psych
Psychologist in Training (Reg No. 1051027)
Master of Clinical Psychology Student
School of Psychology
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Email: t.mclauchlan@psy.uq.edu.au
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Swap And Sell & bargins/freebies

Truelove — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:59:46 GMT

a swap and sell section for parents to sell or buy items of any kind.

and to see what bargins and freebies people have found or know about.

this would help people after nappies or things like that. this way they can find where to get them..

Routine maintenance: 11/07/06 @ 10 pm

webmaster — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:06:00 GMT

Routine maintenance is required on the Raising Children website and as a result, the site and these forums will not be available on Tuesday 11 July 2006 from 10 pm until 2 am on Wednesday 12 July.

We appreciate your understanding and apologise in advance for any inconvenience.

Place to show recent posts

JohnF — Sun, 21 May 2006 22:04:38 GMT

Some forums have a section where you can view all unread posts since last visit.

Is this an option with these forums.

Thanks

John