Blog Category: Building Resilience
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Fairness and Kindness
In this ’Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about the importance of instilling in our children a ...
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The silver lining to every natural disaster
Whether it be storms, earthquakes, bushfires or floods, life can hurl some unexpected hurdles our ...
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Let’s Take it Slow: The Importance of a Go-Slow Childhood
Stress is a new challenge to children’s health and social wellbeing in our modern world. ...
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Accidents happen and so they should!
A very good friend of mine shared a funny story one day about her young ...
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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?
As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as ...
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Move baby, move: Why movement matters for babies
As parents we often can’t wait until our babies can crawl and then walk, and ...
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Getting Kids Active
In a world where screens seem to dominate, statistics for Australian kids around activity levels are ...
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Q&A webinar with parents – 3/02/2014
In this 1 hour recording of a live webinar Q&A conducted between Maggie and a ...
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Why stickers, treats and ‘tificates don’t work (much)
When I was an undergrad at The University of Western Australia (UWA) I did Psychology ...
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Let children judge risks, be resilient
When I was a young lass, most of the kids I knew only had to ...
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The dirty secret about raising kids: It’s child’s play
I am going to let you in on a little secret about raising children. It’s ...
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Building Resilience within the EYLF
Every child deserves to have the best start possible especially in the first five years. ...
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Free Audio Collection
Sleepytime and Safe’n’Sound audio tracks These 2 free audio tracks may be useful to parents ...
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In defence of the humble bunny: the importance of imagination
As Easter comes speeding towards us, I invite you to be kinder to the humble ...
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The Little Things are the Big Things: Building Resilience
Today’s modern world is full of so many innovations, knowledge and new ways of doing ...
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TODAY Show: Kids and diets
Maggie talked to Karl and Lisa on TODAY about how parents should parents deal with ...