Tagged: childcare

Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Feb 24, 2022 •

• childcare,
• COVID-19,
• education,
• New Zealand stories

Julie Bennett, Philippa Anderson, Sarah Donovan, Amanda Kvalsvig, Alison Leversha, Subhadra Rajanaidu, and Jin Russell* Aotearoa New Zealand is in a major Omicron outbreak. With Covid-19 cases doubling every few days, what opportunities are there to strengthen the mitigation approaches in early education settings? In this blog we discuss what is needed to protect this group of children and their … Read More

How compassion can triumph over toxic childhood trauma - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 09, 2018 •

• abuse,
• adversity,
• child psychology,
• Childbirth,
• childcare,
• compassion,
• developmental delays,
• gestational diabetes,
• hypersensitive,
• Hypertension,
• motherhood,
• premature childbirth,
• resilience,
• stress,
• toxic stress,
• trauma

Sheri Madigan, University of Calgary; Nicole Racine, University of Calgary, and Suzanne Tough, University of Calgary This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In a recent piece on the television show 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey discussed childhood trauma — shining a public spotlight on the lasting … Read More

Book Review: The Tale of Mrs Possum – A Reflection on NZ Society - Scibooks

Jean Balchin • Mar 20, 2018 •

• biology,
• book review,
• chapter,
• childcare,
• epigenetics,
• Euthanasia,
• fashion,
• genetics,
• healthcare,
• history agriculture,
• human body,
• neuroscience,
• New Zealand,
• possum,
• Science Literacy

When I was a child, I was rather prone to misbehaving. On occasions when I was particularly naughty, my father would sit me down with a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and would order me to rewrite four of my favourite entries. It wasn’t actually that bad a punishment; being rather childish and petulant, … Read More