Blog Category: Press & Online
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Why we need to teach our teens how to handle stress
Stress is something we, as adults, are all too familiar with. For teens though, because ...
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Teen safety (without suffocation) – Understanding Boys
Maggie spoke with Harb Gill from the Understanding Boys blog about how to keep your teen sons ...
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Tips for busting phobias & fears for frightened children
It is normal for many young children to have irrational fears like being frightened of ...
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Are your problem students bad or just struggling?
Here in Australia, there has been quite a bit of media focus on the alarming ...
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Too many toys?
Maggie spoke with ABC Radio in Perth about whether too many toys can limit creativity ...
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Why you’ll never be the perfect parent … and that’s OK
Maggie was interviewed by Huffpost Australia about why perfectionism, comparison and judgement in parenting are ...
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Bringing mindfulness home: tips for parents
As a proud ambassador of meditation app Smiling Mind, Maggie wrote about how to create ...
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The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting
There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is ...
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The risk of not letting our children take risks
Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...
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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids
As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...
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The biggest challenges facing families today – The Advocate newspaper interview
Maggie was interviewed by The Advocate newspaper in Tasmania about the biggest challenges facing families ...
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Surviving the first week of high school
As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...
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A good dog helps kids care
Parenting is a tough gig and in the pursuit of making choices that enable our ...
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Supporting your teen through grief
When I was running seminars for teens, I noticed one afternoon working with some 14- ...
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Making kids feel safe in 24/7 bad news cycle
When I heard the devastating news last week that four lives were lost (and many ...
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Secrets of Successful Teaching-Positive Schools 2016
Maggie wrote for The Positive Times of the Secrets to Successful Teaching following her presentation ...
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To praise or not to praise
Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...
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Why won’t my kids play outside?
It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like ...