February 10 2020 Managing screen time with primary school aged kids: One family’s story
Using her experience as a public health consultant and a mother of three kids aged 10, 8 and 3, Rebecca Zosel offers parents some tried and tested scr...
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January 28 2020 New Year, New Team – Meet Evie
2020 marks the start of a new decade and a new Parents’ Voice team! Although we were upset to see long-time Communications Officer, Bek, leave us at...
January 15 2020 Staying sane inside with kids during the school holidays
Our first article of 2020 comes from Parents’ Voice Steering Committee member and mother of three, Cat Walker. She has more than 15 years’ experie...
December 18 2019 2019 – in all its glory!
As we head towards the dawn of 2020, before we begin the yuletide wishes and new year’s countdown, we thought it would be fun to recap everything th...
February 21 2019 Being a Lone Voice in the Parenting Wilderness
The following article was written by Kristy Schirmer. Kristy has a background in health promotion and public health, both at a community level and p...
February 6 2019 Meet the team – Meg
When I first met Alice in 2018 she told me about the work that her and Bek were doing at Parents' Voice to represent members and protect our kids agai...
January 16 2019 Rock on this school holidays – VIC ROCKS craze sweeps across the state inviting creativity and nature play.
Our first article of 2019 comes from VIC ROCKS founder, Jude Rangitaawa who also co-manages Moongala Women's Community House in Bentleigh East. If you...
September 4 2018 “Mum, so where does our food really come from?”
During one of our most recent trips to the local supermarket, my 4-year-old asked me this question. He’s going through the ‘why’ phase at the mo...
August 28 2018 How to get children to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables
The following article was written by Yasmine Probst, University of Wollongong and Ruth Crowe, University of Wollongong and was originally publishe...
August 2 2018 Submission to the Select Committee into the Obesity Epidemic in Australia
In July, we asked you what you thought were the most pressing issues that the Senate Select Committee into the Obesity Epidemic in Australia should co...