21+ hour, 48+ min ago  (194+ words) Many devoted parents instinctively step in to protect and guide their children yet struggle to know when to step back. For 35 years, Jenny Brown has researched child and adolescent mental health and parent’s involvement. She says while “helicopter parenting” is…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (913+ words) As screen time problems rise some countries have turned to boot camps and detox centres to help children reduce their dependence on screens. Now it's our turn. The first specialist treatment centre for cellphone and screen addiction is opening in…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (769+ words) 1:08 PM.As you no doubt will have heard, yesterday we lost perhaps the finest actor New Zealand has ever produced, Sir Sam Neill, at the age of 78. From Kiwi classics like 'Sleeping Dogs' and 'Hunt for the… Read more Audio…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (753+ words) Wake up and go straight to the cellphone? Feel anxious when your battery dies? If someone tells you you spend too much time on your phone do you get defensive? Most of us are 'addicted' to our cellphones, but don't…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (378+ words) An emergency medical technician has told an inquest even with the benefit of hindsight, she wouldn't have handled a birth where a 33-year-old woman later died any differently. Maria Hiune Pirihira Neho was 39-weeks pregnant when she went into cardiac…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (347+ words) A coroner has referred the deaths of a woman in childbirth and her son in Palmerston North Hospital to the Health and Disability Commissioner. Samantha Whyman, 29, died on 13 April 2024 at the hospital of a heart attack caused by chronic heart…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (898+ words) Best selling English novelist Louis de Bernières is unimpressed with many aspects of modern life. English novelist Louis de Bernières recently wrote an impassioned column for The Guardian condemning the creeping use of imprecise and redundant speech, including the word…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1200+ words) If you witness behaviour at the playground or sport that doesn’t meet the definition of abuse, you can gently intervene. A competitive parent or caregiver with minimal self-control heaping humiliation and cruelty on their child during a sports game. That’s…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (1092+ words) "The grief of losing the chance to have a baby is something I expect to carry forever. But I'm becoming more comfortable with the unconventional life I'm building with my partner, April." When Sally Davis was diagnosed with a rare…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (328+ words) A midwife has told an inquest she made the wrong call when deciding to move a 33-year-old woman who had just had a seizure and subsequently died during birth. Maria Hiune Pirihira Neho was 39-weeks pregnant when she and her…...