Blog Category: Posts By Common Concern

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Family Conflict Podcast with Maggie Dent

Talking sibling rivaly, relationship breakdown and separation with Maggie Dent In this podcast interview, Maggie ...

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Stop Stealing Childhood

Are we setting our children up to fail? In short, there is no evidence that ...

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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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10 Tips to Ease Separation Distress

Separation distress or anxiety is quite common and Margot Sunderland in her book, The Science ...

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Creating a safe place for today’s adolescents

According to the Mission Australia Youth Survey 2020, the top four concerns for young people ...

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Creating Your Own Life

Before I explore empowerment – which is what I plan to cover in this article ...

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Submission to Government to Stop Stealing Childhood in the Name of Education

The attached PDF is adapted from a submission originally made on 11 October 2013 to office ...

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Strategies to help your child deal with big feelings

A book I’ve been reading recently is The Whole Brain Child: revolutionary strategies to nurture your ...

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The Nightmare of Adolescent Sleep

“One clear casualty of sleep deprivation is learning. That’s a tragedy—a recent tragedy.” — Professor ...

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Motivating Students Beyond Carrot & Stick

How stickers and certificates can undermine students’ self-direction and motivation, and why influence is more ...

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Adolescent Stress

Today’s adolescents are facing more stressors and risk than any previous generation. In 2020, the ...

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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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Why Women Shouldn’t Always Leave Themselves the Burnt Chop

I have met so many interesting and weary grown-ups lately. I put a beautiful picture ...

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Alcohol & Adolescents

I once spoke at a State Rotary conference in Busselton, West Australia and one of ...

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Sibling Rivalry

Sibling rivalry is such a hot potato – no matter how many books we read, ...

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Winning the war on hugs

A recent ‘hugging ban’ in a primary school in WA has triggered quite a response ...