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School lunch box packing tips
School starts across most of Australia this week, so parents and carers are breaking out the lunch boxes once again.
School starts across most of Australia this week, so parents and carers are breaking out the lunch boxes once again.
Benjamin Gaze started at Auckland Grammar School this week, 132 years after his great-great-grandfather faced the same nerve-racking initiation.
North Shore teenager Kate Stewart has spent hours studying the famous names engraved on the Tauranga Cup.
Child Youth and Family are investigating a video in which a 6-year-old boy is seen drinking from a beer bottle as part of a Neknominate dare.
A drinking game played through social media which has caught on in NZ has been labelled "incredibly foolish" and "very, very harmful" by an alcohol-harm advocacy group.
Three people have been charged with giving alcohol to a 9-year-old who was filmed, apparently drunk, at a Hamilton skatepark.
The parents or guardians of young people before the courts could have bail conditions imposed on them as well as their children, under a private members' bill.
Oh the shame of reading the Daily Mail online and seeing two stories from New Zealand featuring prominently.
A violent daylight attack in a small Otago town has resulted in three arrests and an appeal for information about two travellers who police hold concerns for.
Three people have been charged with giving alcohol to a 9-year-old who was filmed, apparently drunk, at a Hamilton skatepark.
A video of an apparently drunk Hamilton boy has been removed from YouTube - but not before more than half a million people watched the uncensored footage.
The mother of a Hamilton boy filmed celebrating his ninth birthday drinking at a skatepark says she was shocked and angry to discover he'd been consuming alcohol.
A Tauranga campsite which has banned adults and families in favour of those who are "young, dumb and full of beer" has been criticised by police and an alcohol abuse expert.
Nearly three-quarters of New Zealanders feel that the Roast Busters case showed high school students needed to be taught about respectful attitudes to sex.
I imagine parents need to dial down the effusive praise and cast a realistic eye over these artistic endeavours.
Here are the four youngsters Tennis New Zealand are hoping to propel into the world's top 150.
A funny portrayal of a "cool dad" in a television ad about under-18s drinking has won praise for challenging parents' thinking on how they should behave at young people's parties.
Cognitive development research is, like its subjects, still in its infancy, but it seems that our tiny tots are a lot smarter than science once gave them credit for. Angela Saini reports on the latest evidence — and argument — from the baby labs.
A new study has shown that a major contributor to alcohol-related harm among underage drinkers is their older mates supplying them with large amounts of booze.
Manatu 'Ofa Mei Vailahi Fia has always had a heart for helping people and thanks to up to $5000 in prize money she'll be able to continue her work in her community.
More students are seeking help from counsellors and guidance services - and a report has found many school services are struggling under pressure or simply not up to scratch.
I am constantly impressed, and sometimes amazed, by what our young people are doing and achieving, writes Prime Minister John Key. They, of course, are the leaders of the future.
The rate of babies dying prematurely or from sudden unexpected death in infancy has dropped sharply - but it's still too many, say child health experts.
Ten-year-old Charlotte Cornwall was one of more than 1300 local kids to swim, bike and run their way through the Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids Try-athlon in Manurewa yesterday morning.
A young girl has tried to take her own life at school in a town already stunned by two other girls' sudden deaths.
Hey kids, get ready to shout 'Look behind you!' when the Christmas panto season starts, says Dionne Christian.