Manage MembershipBlog Category: Schools: Choosing & Transitioning
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Getting little ones ready for big school
Most academics and early years experts prefer to reframe “readiness” to mean transitioning into the ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in New Zealand
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2017 A summary of people’s ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in NSW, SA, ACT, TAS & NT
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in QLD
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in VIC
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in WA
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Important information re starting age for pre-primary in WA
2020 Update: Please sign Maggie’s petition to Premier Mark McGowan to give concerned WA parents ...
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Why are we STILL stealing childhood?
As one of Australia’s leading parenting educators I regularly travel the length and breadth of ...
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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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Coping with test-driven education in early years
In this ‘Maggie moment’ Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent shares her ...
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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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Little boys beginning big school
We have seen some disturbing trends in recent times: Increasing number of 4-6-year-old boys being ...
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6 year old boy fidgety in school – 9 Things Q&A
Maggie responds to a participant question about helping a young boy who is fidgety in school. ...
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Top Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
In 2015, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking for ...
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Nova 937
Maggie talked about heading back to school, being a new grandma and more with Nathan, ...
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Stop stealing childhood in the name of education
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie passionately shares her concerns about the ‘push down’ of formalised ...
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Angry children
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about why some children vent after school and how ...
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Which school is right for your child?
A lot of parents have asked what Maggie thinks about single-sex vs co-educational schools for ...