Delight in the details
On World Autism Awareness day, Kalgoorlie-Boulder mother Jo Russell spoke with Emma Wynne about the challenges and joys of having two children with Autism.
View ArticleAn extraordinary gift
Natalie Dowd, and her husband Brad, became parents thanks to an anonymous egg donor.
View ArticleMy Vote: Jo Russell in Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie mother Jo Russell, in the electorate of O'Connor, tells what issues she's looking at this election.
View ArticleGeneration why: music
The music young people listen to these day just isn't the same as it was back in the day.
View ArticleGeneration why: games
How the games we play as children have changed throughout the generations.
View ArticleGeneration why: domestic skills
Have Generation Y women lost the domestic skills their mothers were so good at?
View ArticleGeneration why: food
The way we eat has changed throughout the generations so would a Generation Y enjoy the food her Baby Boomer parents ate when they were growing up?
View ArticleStress, loneliness and hard work, but for some families FIFO works
A federal government inquiry into fly-in, fly-out work in the mining industry has heard it causes strain on families, destroys regional towns and puts a drain on health services. But for some, it can...
View ArticleParent support services get boost
The Western Australian Government has committed about $27,000 in funding to improve parent support services in Esperance.
View ArticlePlea for more Kalgoorlie-Boulder foster carers
Foster children in Western Australia's Goldfields have been moved across the state because of a lack of foster parents in the region.
View ArticleScheme helping parents of wayward kids
Child Protection Minister Robyn McSweeney has launched a parenting support service in Esperance for families struggling with their children's criminal behaviour.
View ArticleLetting the kids get bored this summer
As adults we often look back on school holidays with nostalgia and think fondly of days of active play and joyous liberty. But as parents, as the weeks of summer stretch before us into February, we...
View ArticleMining town mums on isolation, absent partners and transient friends
For parents who live in remote mining towns, isolation from family, partners working long shifts, and a transient friendship circle are part and parcel of life.
View ArticleAwkward pre-baptism meeting with priest: 'His eyebrows went up, and I knew...
During the preparation to baptise her second child, Sarah Betts knew things would get awkward when the priest asked about her own religion.
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