The Best Beginning

04/03/2026

It is time to move beyond the “baby brain” cliche, say scientists who scanned dozens of women’s brains.

04/03/2026

⚠️Trigger warning: content may be distressing to some people.

Do you recognise this bed frame? Next to the re-created bed frame we have shown a sliver of the room where the bed frame was situated.

You can see the image in more detail on the webpage accce.gov.au/trace. If you recognise this bedroom, or have any information about any of the items shown, please use the report form to provide this information to our Victim Identification investigators.

This image is part of our series. The initiative asks you to help identify objects and locations from the background of child sexual abuse images and videos to help .

Out of respect for victims, we urge you not to share any personal information (recognisable pictures, names, etc.) on social media.

03/03/2026

01/03/2026

March is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month!

This month helps shine a light on autoimmune conditions — including autoimmune forms of arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, juvenile arthritis and more.

➕ Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells.
➕ Autoimmune arthritis can cause pain, swelling and stiffness that impact daily life.
➕ Early diagnosis and appropriate care can make a meaningful difference.
➕ Awareness and support help reduce isolation and improve understanding.

Learn about autoimmune forms of arthritis and why awareness matters. https://arthr.org/3yDXFF7

27/02/2026

Before the 20th century, children happily ate the same food as adults—then they got picky. Olga Khazan on a new book that explains what changed: https://theatln.tc/LJ3fU0cA

The historian Helen Zoe Veit explains in her forthcoming book, “Picky,” that children used to eat “spicy relishes, vinegary pickles, wild plants, and a huge variety of animal species and organ meats. They slurped up raw oysters and looked forward to their daily coffee.” Now, Khazan writes, many American kids like her son eat “little but macaroni and cheese.”

There are a few reasons for these changes. Children of the past used to do more chores and snack less, making them far hungrier at mealtimes and more willing to eat anything. As children became less active, a misguided, Progressive-era public-health campaign encouraged parents to serve their children “easily digested” food such as eggs, broths, and gruel. Additionally, child-nutrition experts at the time claimed that rich and flavorful foods were the culprits for children constantly getting sick. “Advice to parents on how to address pickiness in their children also shifted over time,” Khazan writes.

American kids today eat so poorly, Veit writes in her book, that they are actually getting shorter. At the same time, Veit notes, “parents are exhausted by the struggle” of getting picky eaters to eat.

At the link, Khazan explores the “kid food” phenomenon and reports on her attempts to use Veit's recommendations for her own son, a picky eater: https://theatln.tc/LJ3fU0cA

27/02/2026

✍️ 'Toddlers yearn for the ball pit. Stop bringing them to the pub' | Writes Shauna Brown

Read the full comment at the link below ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/02/25/problem-modern-parents-behave-childless-adults/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_modern-parents-behave-childless-adults/

25/02/2026

23/02/2026

Coeliac children can have a wide range of complexity in life...

Identity, isolation, compliance /non compliance to diet, learning needs, anxiety, feeding, fussy eating, ADHD, autism, dyspraxia other auto immune disorders, fatigue, other neurological issues and toileting.

These needs should be considered in context of the illness and the system and family supported around this. Psycho-social support is typical to many if not all medical ilness but not coeliac disease..

Ailish has over 20 years of experience working with medical /physical and mental illness as a senior social worker.

She brings the medical/physical and mental aspect of coeliac together through this and her experience as a Play therapist and is utterly child focused.

Ailish is experienced in child and adolescent mental health services (statutory and private) She continues to update (over 10 years) in infant mental health which impacts on the trajectory of child mental health and wellbeing and this influences her work hugely in suporting child coeliacs and their families.

All this combined provides a distinct and specialist lens to working with coeliac children and their parents.

Ailish is advocating for greater awareness amongst professionals in mental health services especially and all healthcare professionals to consider coeliac symptoms typical and silent and test as early as possible.

Her work is clincally supervised by 2 registered CoRU Social Workers (Physical and Mental Health) and Play Therapy work clincally supervised by a Play therapist.

She is also a diagnosed coeliac (26 years).

For a consult or discuss:
Ailishlydontherapy@gmail.com

22/02/2026

Dietetic and medical guidance for coeliacs is essential.

Psycho social support is essential for any mendical /physical condition where there have been complex emotions or behaviours for your child up to and after the diagnosis.

Ailish works with parents initially in support and guiding  families making changes necessary or responding in new ways to the challenges.
This means combining knowledge of coeliac disease medical physical and neurological and knowledge of child mental health from age zero up with skills and experience.

Support, guidance and intervention for parents and therapy for children if required.

Supporting you support your little coeliac.

18/02/2026

Its so "normal" amongst coeliacs that its only spoken of when theres a particularly outrageous price hike...

The expense

€7.49 for breakfast cereal.

Not luxury though.. a medical treatment for an autoimmune disease

Child coeliacs are frontline at risk of food poverty, particularly places and times of food shortage around the world but also in "wealthy" societies.

Coeliac food choice is often limited and often very limited for a child coeliac.

It takes great effort to eat well and eat healthy.

Dont underestimate the gluten free burden for the coeliac child.

17/02/2026

Birth order, temprament, circumstances, environment, child experience, parent experience and societal ebb and flow. We are all made of atoms inside and out❤️