Blog Category: Building Family Relationships
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Tips for Step Parents – Part 1
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australia’s ‘queen of common sense’ discusses how to have a cohesive ...
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When fathers are tough, inflexible and unloving
Over the years I have been asked many times by mums about what they can ...
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When Parents are Absent
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author Maggie Dent offers simple strategies to help families ...
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Raising other people’s children
Parenting is one of the most important and at times difficult journeys that an adult ...
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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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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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We need to talk about the power of touch
In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...
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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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Top Tips: Road Trips without Screens
A while ago, we asked our Facebook community to share any suggestions they had for ...
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Top Tips: Best Reads to Prepare Children for a Sibling
In September 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...
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Ways of connecting with your children or grandchildren when you’re far away
In August 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook addressing ...
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The rise of the nan van: The role grandparents play in parenting – ABC Brisbane
Research from Queensland’s motoring authority, RACQ, shows nearly 1 in 3 cars having baby/toddler car ...
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Fathering alone
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how fathers who are sole parenting can be ...
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Coping as a sad, absent grandparent
A couple of months ago I wrote this blog about becoming a grandparent for the ...
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The one question mums of sons should ask
As a mother of four sons, a former boys’ basketball coach, counsellor and a secondary ...
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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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The things you don’t realise about being a grandparent
Recently one of my best and longest-serving girlfriends became a grandmother. I am beyond thrilled ...