Blog Category: Building Family Relationships

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To homeschool or not to homeschool?

In this month’s Maggie Moment, I share the dilemma that seems to be on many ...

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S5 Episode 18 – Help: Devices are ruining dinnertime – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Remember family dinners growing up, sitting around the dinner table talking about your day while ...

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S5 Episode 16 – How to parent spirited kids without losing your mind – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Wild. Defiant. Intense. LOUD. Spirited kids are called lots of things and when you meet ...

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Navigating difficult times with grit, glimmers and hope

How are you doing at the moment? No, really, how are you doing? Are you ...

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ABC Compass: Sacred Space with Maggie Dent

Maggie spent the day with Geraldine Doogue where she shares her sacred place, an ocean ...

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Maggie on the School of Wellbeing Podcast

“So often we jump in with advice when they just want us to listen.” Maggie Dent ...

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Girlhood on Channel 9 News Perth

A girl’s sense of self and identity is formed in the first five years of ...

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Maggie on the Better Thinking Podcast

Maggie joined Nesh Nikolic on the Better Thinking podcast where she talks about the healthy, ...

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Girlhood: Parenting Ideas to help young girls through ‘hot’ moments

The Parents Website wrote this wonderful extract taken from Maggie’s latest book Girlhood: Maggie’s list ...

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Girlhood on It’s all True Podcast

Maggie joined Grant and Chezzi Denyer on their podcast It’s all True to talk about ...

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Girlhood on Feed Play Love

Maggie joined Shevonne Hunt on the Feed Play Love podcast where she talks about raising ...

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What’s your child’s love language?

In this month’s ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author and educator Maggie Dent explores how our ...

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S5 Episode 6 – Help: Why is my kid a sneaky liar? – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Is lying an issue in your household? All kids (and actually most adults) lie. At ...

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S5 Episode 5 – Help: Will my only child be spoilt and lonely – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

There are many stereotypes around only children; that they’re too adult, too spoilt, and lonely. ...

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S5 Episode 3 – Help: My mother-in-law shames my kids – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

When parenting styles clash, it’s hard. Throw in a mother-in-law, and things get that little ...

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Why fairness really matters in families

“Character is shaped by life experience and cannot be seen from the outside or from ...

Honouring the human spirit in our homes and classrooms

Last week a story went around the media and socials about a farmer who was ...

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Maggie on the Great Australian Lives podcast

Maggie joined journalist Laura Turner for a long chat on 3AW’s Great Australian Lives podcast. ...