Blog Category: Social Skills & Friendship Issues

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Top Tips: Family friendly games (not online or digital)

A recurring theme is how can we help our kids master disappointment and learn to ...

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Navigating Child Friendships: What to do when your kid has been rejected

Nothing tears at a parent’s heartstrings like hearing their child say the words, “no-one wants ...

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S6 Episode 12 – Help – How do I teach my kid not to be racist? – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Curious kids will ask questions about people who look or sound different to them. How ...

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Family 360 Podcast: Are Birthday Parties Needed For A Child’s Social Success?

A Mom’s wondering if she can bypass hosting a birthday party for her soon to ...

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Family 360 Podcast: Raising Mighty Girls and Women

Raising girls is complicated. In spite of all our empowerment messages, rates of stress, anxiety, ...

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A Life of Greatness Podcast

How can we raise our kids to see the light in themselves? Maggie joined Sarah ...

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Why calling kids ‘shy’ won’t help them warm up

Does your child take a while to warm up to people? Maggie sat down with ...

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Maggie talks developing grit and resilience in girls – ABC Melbourne

Maggie joined Alice Zaslavsky on Saturday Breakfast to discuss how to raise resilient girls. To ...

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S5 Episode 7 – When Your Kid Hates School – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

While most kids will complain about school at some point along the way, what happens ...

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Helping our girls to be heard

In this month’s ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how important it is to enable our ...

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S4 Episode 11 – Parenting Autistic Children – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

One in 70 people in Australia is autistic, so chances are you’ve had an experience ...

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Low Tox Life Podcast – An hour of parenting with Maggie Dent

Maggie was invited onto the Low Tox Life Podcast with Alexx Stuart to have a ...

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Why Teens Don’t Like to Leave their Comfort Zone

Do you have a teen who finds it hard to spread their wings and leave ...

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Top Tips: Resources for supporting autistic kids

With the help of our online community, we’ve compiled an extensive list of resources to ...

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Top Tips: Best resources for supporting kids with ADHD

We reached out to our online community for their favourite books, online resources and experts ...

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S2 Episode 4 – How to help your child make friends — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

For some kids and teenagers, making friends comes easily. But for others, it’s really tough ...

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Top Tips: Best reads on teaching children kindness

Picture books and story books are a wonderful way to teach kindness. I shared this ...

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Top Tips: Best reads on enhancing empathy in our children

In August 2017, Maggie shared this list compiled by TINYBOP.com of books to spark conversations ...