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Jennifer Wong, curator of OzAsia Festival’s writing and ideas program, In Other Words, talks with InReview about this year’s line-up.

What kind of parent are you? Dunno... depends how tired I am.

While there is a mismatch between the skills our economies need and the jobs our youngsters dream about, that is no excuse for rushing them into career planning. Life takes us in unexpected directions and we can’t know what skills will be useful in the future, so let kids relax and embrace where life takes them.

Be good, listen to your dad. Nothing like a dark revenge tale to end the week. Munkie is a dark thriller short film made by a talented Chinese-Kiwi

As parents’ stress levels rise, why it’s time to ease up on home schooling With no end in sight for school closures, it’s time for parents to prioritise their children’s mental health over their academic achievement 20 January 2021 • 1:18pm It was just a few weeks into lockdown last March that eight-year old Oliver* started to declare loudly how much he hated Maths. No sooner had his mother Sophie, 41, a business development manager from St Albans, put a worksheet in front of her youn...

Sometimes a lowly cattle shed is just too . . . lowly. Not to mention outdoorsy.  Ciara the Cow — so called because she arrived during Storm Ciara in February — would rather spend the festive period indoors, with the family, thank you very much. She was fed by hand as a calf because her mother didnt have any milk, so she thinks shes a human, says Amanda Owen, aka the Yorkshire Shepherdess and the woman who is possibly the most famous (not to mention glamorous) farmer in Britain. If a door ...

Out there is what, expose their kids to the widest range of things possible and see what sticks? >> yeah. id say a couple of things. one is to not be so much like a tiger parent. be more like a johnny apple seed parent. three stuff out there and see what your kid stares at. to stare is to think. its the most important signal our kids give us. the other thing is to give them a little bit of space to discover what it is that really connects to them. >> what i love about the whole practice argument...

Recovering from his injuries as well. anderson, back to you. >> aaron is ahead at 11:00. whats up? >> were going to talk about where mitt romney spent his day. south carolina and comments that rick santorum made. a fight he had with a student in new hampshire about gay marriage. how will that play in the battle for south carolina and evangelicals. and what is the margin of victory in new hampshire. also tonight, amy chua, shes the international sensation, the woman who wrote battle hymn of the t...

Help in identifying the men involved in this brawl after mondays hockey game twenty flyers and rangers. three men in flyers jerseys jumped two men in rangers shirts. a rangers fan, an offer duty cop from new jersey, is now recovering from his injuries as well. anderson, back to you. >> aaron is ahead at 11:00. whats up? >> were going to talk about where mitt romney spent his day. south carolina and comments that rick santorum made. a fight he had with a student in new hampshire about gay marriag...

race. he also got booed on stage. well show what you that is all about. first, the new polling from suffolk university. mitt romney with a commanding 41% of likely republican voters. he is followed by ron paul at 18%, rick santorum and newt gingrich at 7%. this, of course, in new hampshire. both paul and santorum are on the rise since iowa. congressman paul took the day off from campaigning. santorum had a full day trying to turn his near victory in iowa to gains in new hampshire and t...