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Top Tips for Teens: How to nurture yourself

What Protects and Nurtures You? There are positive, life-affirming ways and life-negating ways of overcoming ...

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Top Tips for Caring Communication with Teens

The task of ‘lighthouses’ is to help young people find their unique strengths and weaknesses, ...

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Why emotional turmoil in adolescence is normal

I care deeply about young people and have done since I too was a moody, ...

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Should twins be separated at school?

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about the common practice of separating twins in classes ...

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The 5 things your son isn’t telling you

For many boys – not all boys – being able to communicate their unmet needs, ...

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Roosters & Lambs as Teenagers

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how temperament may be a factor in how ...

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When children lose someone they love

In my life before becoming an author I worked around death and dying a lot. ...

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Raising Boys With Love: ABC Conversations 2018

Maggie joined Sarah Kanowski from ABC Conversations to chat about what it’s like to raise ...

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HELP! What is wrong with my son’s memory?

Have you had the experience of sending your son off to his bedroom to get ...

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What dads offer their sons and daughters

Maggie chatted to Little Rockers Radio about the important role that fathers play in raising ...

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Managing the elephant in the classroom: stress & anxiety

The University of Sydney recently surveyed 18,000 teachers, and found they are “drowning under increasing ...

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Are you so overwhelmed you’re skating on thin ice?

Life can have moments when things get hectic and we get stressed and that is ...

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Maggie’s Message for Dads

Maggie celebrates dads and father figures in the lead-up to Father’s Day in Australia. She offers ...

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Being a dad in the 21st century

It is a fabulous time to be a father historically, anthropologically and emotionally. The restrictive ...

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The Teen Tipping Point

In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses our vulnerable adolescents. She discusses how we all have ...

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Helping our children become their best selves

I’ve been chatting with many parents and teachers recently about the pressure and angst which ...

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Boys, Schools and the change that is needed

Maggie wrote for Australian Education Reporter on what change is needed in our schools to ...

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Parenting hacks for a calmer home

Everywhere I go around Australia parents tell me how stressed, exhausted and overwhelmed they are. ...