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Email Update August 2010
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e-Update August 2010 FOCUS ON: Your Kids Health and Well-Being |
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This month we explore issues affecting our children's health and well-being. Maggie Hamilton talks about her new book: 'What's Happening to Our Boys?', Dr. Philippa Sawyer helps us teach our kids about healthy teeth, Lisa Cox talks about pop culture's effects on body image, experts offer tips on safe laptop use, and Melinda Hutchings gives us tips on teen issues from her book, 'It Will Get Better'. |
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...and Be Healthy and Safe for more resources, just for kids. |
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Top 10 Father's Day Activitity Websites for Kids See our Special Offers below, for discount books for dad! |
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We have been working to make some small changes to our website. You will find some duplication in areas, but we plan to have this all tidied up soon. Please bear with us, and stay tuned! For YourKidsEd Competitions and Special Offers, keep reading... |
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Adolescent depression is one of the most frequently reported mental health problems. Bullying is the fourth most common reason young people seek help from children’s help services. A quarter of school children experience cyberbullying. And these are just a handful of statistics that represent the issues... |
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As parents, we may not be too concerned with our kids riding bikes in the backyard without a helmet but would insist on one if they were to go out on the road, and we need to apply these same principles to laptop use. Physical problems can result as our children spend more time on their laptops... |
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You wouldn’t want your young child entering a foreign country without a simple map or guidebook to help them find their way around, would you? Yet every day, children enter the foreign world of popular culture. Their young minds are bombarded with a confusing concoction of mixed, manipulating messages... |
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Dental health experts fear Australia’s complacency towards oral health is reaching epidemic proportions with a recent report revealing most Australians adults (along with their children) choose to avoid the dentist despite having serious dental health issues... |
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Twenty-first century life is exhilarating and challenging. So too is bringing up boys, as they too can be vulnerable. Now our boys are targeted by marketers within months of birth, and their days filled with branded junk and related DVDs... |
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On Now: 'What's Happening to Our Boys' Competition: WIN a copy of 'What's Happening To Our Boys', by Maggie Hamilton. This book investigates a range of the challenges boys and young men face as they grow up in the early 21st century. Ends August 27.
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Congratulations to K. Oldland of Madeley, WA, the winner of the YourKidsEd 'Green Philanthropy' Competition, and S. Trebeck of Athelstone, SA, the winner of the YourKidsEd 'Flat Stanley' Competition. Thank you to all our members who entered the draws! |
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Click here for kids competitions and challenges! |
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What's On over the next 4 weeks?
Click here for our event calendar Click here for museums and exhibitions |
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This month's featured kids link
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Welcome to the August issue of the YourKidsEd email update!
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Celebrate 
On Now: 'Kids and Pop Culture' Competition: WIN a copy of 'Does My Bum Look Big in This Ad?', by Lisa Cox. Ever wondered why you don't look like the people in magazine ads? This pocket-sized book is written for young people, and not about them. Ends September 10.
On Now: 'Safe Laptop Use' Competition: Have you or your kids been feeling pain in the neck, shoulders or back after using a laptop? WIN a LEAP Pack (wired) RRP $95.00. Includes LEAP Laptop Stand, Mouse and Keyboard Combo. Ends September 24.
Coming Soon: 'It Will Get Better' Competition: WIN a copy of 'It Will Get Better', by Melinda Hutchings. Teenage life brings up plenty of issues. Here teens speak openly about these issues - everything from family break-ups and troubled friends, cyber-bullying and the death of a parent.
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Youth Olympic Games, National Science Week, Book Week, Keep Australia Beautiful Week, National Literacy and Numeracy Week, Wattle Day Centenary, Biodiversity Month, NSW History Week, Father's Day, Landcare Week, Roald Dahl Day