Blog Category: Press & Online
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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World
with an afterword by Steve Biddulph The story in the media this week about the ...
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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?
It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...
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Why being a firm, loving parent matters
Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...
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Angry Boys
This article was first published in Kids in the City/Kids on the Coast Sadly, despite ...
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The power of the parental pause
In those tough parenting moments, this secret may be your saving grace. There are many ...
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Sobering truths about being a mother
Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...
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4 Steps to Toddler Genius
Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...
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Sanctuary from violence
As an ambassador for The Sanctuary women’s shelter opening soon, Maggie and her co-ambassadors got ...
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Show caution when implementing change
In this article forTeachers Matter, Maggie writes about changing fads in education and how we ...
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Family meetings
Technically a family operates like a small organisation, like a community or even a small ...
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Sensitive kids starting school
As school holidays run out faster than the water out of the bath, parents know ...
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The comfort of family ritual
As the end of the year comes hurtling toward us, many of us who celebrate ...
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Potty Mouth Kids
Recently a mum was telling me how her 5-year-old daughter, in a casual kitchen setting, ...
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Teaching with the teen brain in mind
Over the past 15 years there has been a massive outpouring of research that explores ...
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In praise of a common-sense revolution
Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a motoring expert, and a listener ...
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The Importance of Bare Feet
Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...
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Getting it ‘just right’ with extra-curricular activities
I was asked this week to comment for a national current affairs TV program about ...
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The school pickup war zone
Thanks to the rapid changes in technology especially smart phones, well-meaning parents are much more ...