1Parenting It is common sense that children should be treated with love and care, with encouragement and understanding, and in a way which nurtures their self-esteem. There is no shortage of advice about what is right and wrong when it comes to parenting, and no indication of what produces good adults. Should children be smacked? Should someone be at home with children at all times? What television programmes should they be allowed to watch? Should stay-at-home parents be paid? Discussion and viewer feedback with family therapist and educational psychologist Sue Rouse.

2Chile is under a state of siege following a failed assassination attempt against General Augusto Pinochet. Five of the Dictator's bodyguards were killed in an attack on his convoy.

3A bomb has ripped through a Paris post office, killing one person and injuring sixteen.

4Pakistani authorities have freed Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and a number of other politicians detained during the last few weeks.

5A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

6Dunedin could get New Zealand's first Cot Death Assessment Centre which would be used to examine at-risk babies and in so doing reduce the number of cot deaths in Southland, which has the highest cot death rate in New Zealand. Meanwhile, British researchers have suggested giving at-risk babies more carbohydrates may reduce instances of cot death, having discovered an enzyme deficiency in a number of babies who died inexplicably.

7Parenting It is common sense that children should be treated with love and care, with encouragement and understanding, and in a way which nurtures their self-esteem. There is no shortage of advice about what is right and wrong when it comes to parenting, and no indication of what produces good adults. Should children be smacked? Should someone be at home with children at all times? What television programmes should they be allowed to watch? Should stay-at-home parents be paid? Discussion and viewer feedback with family therapist and educational psychologist Sue Rouse.

8Parenting It is common sense that children should be treated with love and care, with encouragement and understanding, and in a way which nurtures their self-esteem. There is no shortage of advice about what is right and wrong when it comes to parenting, and no indication of what produces good adults. Should children be smacked? Should someone be at home with children at all times? What television programmes should they be allowed to watch? Should stay-at-home parents be paid? Discussion and viewer feedback with family therapist and educational psychologist Sue Rouse.

9A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

10Parenting It is common sense that children should be treated with love and care, with encouragement and understanding, and in a way which nurtures their self-esteem. There is no shortage of advice about what is right and wrong when it comes to parenting, and no indication of what produces good adults. Should children be smacked? Should someone be at home with children at all times? What television programmes should they be allowed to watch? Should stay-at-home parents be paid? Discussion and viewer feedback with family therapist and educational psychologist Sue Rouse.

11A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

12Chile is under a state of siege following a failed assassination attempt against General Augusto Pinochet. Five of the Dictator's bodyguards were killed in an attack on his convoy. Military authorities have picked up several opposition politicians for questioning and have closed down at least six left-wing publications, including the international Reuters branch in Santiago. Pinochet appears to be using the assassination attempt to reassert his authority.

13The Superpower stand-off over American journalist Nicholas Daniloff has taken a turn for the worst with the White House toughening its stand. United States President Ronald Reagan has made his first public comment on the issue.

14Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie on a tour of Crossroads, one of South Africa's worst squatter camps.

15Food relief agencies are struggling to get badly needed supplies through to the people who need them. The civil war in Sudan is disrupting supply routes into the south of the country, leaving two million people desperate for food in Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.