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Parker Thredgold may only be nine years of age, but she’s an old hand when it comes to painting, having been working the brushes since she was a tender two years old.

Do you remember writing a letter to Santa as a child? You’d make a list of the presents you were after, in the hope that you’d managed to crack the Nice List. You’d add an altruistic one on the end, like world peace, to get you over the line because you’d recently had a fight with your sister over a Barbie which may have pushed you into Naughty List territory.

Melbourne based psychologist Liv Downing gives us some tips on how to create the right environment for our kids with conscious parenting.

From pharmaceuticals to pageantry: meet this year’s National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant Queen. We chat with Dunya’s journey from pharmacist to pageant royalty.

We spoke to Morris Gleitzman to learn about inspiration, humour and his new book, Digging Up Dad which comes out on 18 October 2022.

Leah Itsines is unquestionably a powerhouse of a woman. At 27 years old she is the founder of three incredibly successful businesses; BARE guides—a healthy online eating platform helping people learn how to eat and live better, nutritional supplement brand Yes Please and Soli Sleep, the comfiest sleepwear EVER.

When I was a kid we had an Old English Sheepdog named Sam. They are those Dulux dogs who look so beautiful when they are groomed but the poor pup had so much fur we had to shave him in summer and he always looked slightly embarrassed.

If the mean girl inside your head has ever whispered in your ear that you’re not good enough, has ever taken a second look at a dimple on your thigh or a pesky upper arm wobble; if she’s ever questioned your worth based on the reflection staring back at you from the mirror…then body positivity powerhouse Georgie Thomas is here to shut that sh*t down.

Henlee is a small, Aussie-based family business designing and curating a growing range of premium vegan leather goods for the modern family.

With a desire to start contributing financially to the household following an extended break, Adelaide hairstylist Yovanka Loria opened her home salon in 2017 after her two kids had entered school.
Within 24 months, her business turned into a million-dollar global brand after she followed a hunch and developed a product line that is now not only coveted by women all over the world, but high- end salons are also scrambling to get their hands on.

Young Adelaide boy, Ethan Hall, hiccuped his way into becoming a viral youtube sensation at the tender age of seven as he sung the National Anthem at an Adelaide Bite Baseball game with the hiccups. Since then, Ethan has gone on to have two solo shows the the Adelaide Fringe, and more recently a four chair turn on Channel 7’s The Voice, all at the ripe old age of fourteen!

We were all pretty excited at KIDDO HQ when we got the intel that Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught was releasing a new book, The Bricktionary, an indispensable companion to any LEGO collection. We sat down with Brickman and talked all things LEGO, found out the biggest model he’s ever DROPPED as well as how to make your LEGO builds even better!