Professor Dorothy Scott

Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne; former Foundation Chair in Child Protection and Director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia

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Health & Medicine

Why helping at home is good for kids

There’s strong evidence that feeling useful builds resilience in children, but how much and what sort of work are modern parents asking kids to do?

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