A Parent asks, I am continually amazed at how little young people know about how their own body works. I am in Australia and in grade 6 (aged 12ish) and year 7 & 8 (13-14years) there is a very comprehensive sex eduation program. Just seems like A LOT of young people HAVE NO IDEA AT ALL! Am I just lucky they do it at my children’s schools? Do schools/parents not teach their kids this anymore???? Do they teach it at your Read More

A Parent asks, my daughter’s primary school has an excursion planned for the zoo in sydney on sept 11 just after apec finishes. am i right to be worried about letting her go on this date, while some of the world’s leader’s are still in town? i know it sounds paranoid but i would rather be safe than sorry! a few other parents are also in doubt about letting their kids attend and some of the kids are worried to go. one of the Read More

A Parent asks, Im a teacher in a primary school. School holidays start when Im 8 months – so I still get paid anyway. Thanks for the answers.Read More

A Parent asks, I have wrote this question before but i wrote it so terribly nobody could understand so i am putting it in dot form .my Daughter had a best friend for 4 years .There family were very trashy and let someone verbly abuse her .They got drunk and drove her home . Told my daughter not to say anything to me cause she would not be friends anymore with her .My daughter sent an email to her friend telling her what happened and repeated Read More

A Parent asks, I’m just wondering… Because some of my friend’s parents make it as if they committed a crime, then some laugh. My mom doesn’t mind; my step-dad does.. Do you think it’s that big of a deal to cut class, not like, everyday. Maybe once or twice a week. Good grades… I skip a lot, and I get straight A’s in AP classes. :] Lol. The security in my school write you passes to excuse you if they Read More

A Parent asks, my school year hasnt started yet and i was bored so i was looking through my books for this year ….and i was looking in the human bio ones..and it has all about the reproductive system and stuff like conceiving and childbirth, but will we have to watch videos about ladies giving birth or anything? we never had sex ed in primary school, coz one kid’s parents in our class didnt think it was appropriate..we were in Read More

A Parent asks, Okay where do I start. Well I just need some advice but I need to tell you my story first. Me and 2 of my friends are at the same high school and w went to the same primary school. I made ALOT of friends but I became sick for 2 days and I didnt go to school when I came back she made all (but one of my primary friends and another new friend) against me. She told them bad stuff about me. I didnt really care… I made other Read More

A Parent asks, Do you think it’s had an affect on how you are socially now? Like, do you think it’s affected your confidence or lack thereof? I went to daycare from the time I was about 2 and I’m an extremely confident person now (I’m 16), I wasn’t shy at all when I started school when I was 5 and have never had any trouble making friends. However my friend (we were talking about this today) said that she Read More

A Parent asks, I am in Australia. Here, kids can attend pre-school if the parents want to from age 4 and they attend for 3 hours at a time, 2 or 3 times a week. It costs about $600 a year. They then start Primary school once they turn 5 and go into Prep – then it is grade 1,2,3,4,5 & 6. Then they move onto High School which is year 7,8,9,10 and their VCE Years of year 11 and 12. We start the school year in January and have 4 terms Read More

A Parent asks, my 3 yr old started preschool 3 weeks ago. He always cries when i leave and is Ok within sometime usually. Some days he is crying even when i go to pick him up. I am a work at home mom and he is always used to seeing me at home. The duration of the preschool is 2.5hrs. He likes to do his own thing at the school and does not listen to what his teacher say. Since the teacher told me this, i explained to him yesterday after Read More