Why do we say things we later regret?

Experiments show that when we are stressed, exercising or otherwise aroused, we are more prone to say things we shouldn’t. So try to stay calm if you want to keep a secret.

Watch your kids around water

Leaving young children unsupervised in or near water while checking a pot on the stove, hanging washing out to dry or monitoring other children can lead to tragedy.

15 ways to welcome spring into your home

Spring is the perfect time to have fun with your home decor. Be creative and have fun creating new decor for springtime.

Busy mums skip nutrition guidelines

Australia’s National Nutritional Guidelines are not helpful to working mums who may want to provide nutritious meals for their families but find this difficult under the time pressures of modern life.

Put down the phone girls

Very frequent use of social media could be harming teenage girls’ mental health through exposure to cyberbullying as well as reducing the amount of sleep or physical exercise they have.

Walking the tightrope of work and family

Once working hours are taken into account it is still mothers who experience the most conflict in terms of balancing work and family.

Kids cartwheel to better mental health

“Circus takes your mind off some things…sad things…it’s my weekly pick-up and sort of an escape.”

Too many chiefs make for ineffective teamwork

Some people are better team players than others, but people with goal-oriented and manipulative personality traits can actively undermine collaborative efforts and affect the team outcome.

Physical jobs take their toll in retirement

Men and women who have physically demanding jobs may experience poorer mental and physical health if they delay their retirement, new research led by Curtin University has found.

A new understanding of hoarding disorder

Hoarding disorder is distressingly common, and was recently classified as a medical disorder by the World Health Organization, in a move hailed by both psychiatrists and hoarders themselves as “extremely significant.”

Girls and boys

Society’s attitudes to gender stereotypes can prompt some tricky questions for children and parents alike.

The science behind your break-up binge

Bad news, emotional eaters: food doesn’t deal with the underlying problem you are reacting to, but there are biological reasons for your eating choices.