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Using Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal in the Classroom

When students turn up in your classroom they bring with them invisible inhibitors to learning. ...

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Why Dads Matter – Especially to Girls

I am not sure who said it but I think there is great wisdom in ...

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Adolescence Unplugged Part 1

Part One of a two-part series published in Spectrum magazine, this article explores what is ...

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Adolescence Unplugged Part 2

Part two of a two-part series (Part 1) on understanding and engaging with adolescents, published ...

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Building Blocks for Resilience – Free Illustrated Poster

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Emotional Acupressure Release Points Diagram

Emotional Freedom Therapy (EFT) is a quick way to help remove emotions from our nervous ...

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NAPLAN Nightmare — Education Review article

by Darragh O’Keefe Education Review (www.educationreview.com.au) 11 August 2011 Is the high stakes testing regime ...

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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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Just One More Day

To my child … Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I ...

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One Look, One Word, One Touch

When a child feels sad, alone or lost They yearn for kindness, reassurance and love ...

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Schools warn on sex, booze and parties

Letter to the Editor Congratulations on putting this story on the front cover of your ...

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They Didn’t Tell Me (Poem)

When I arrived at my first school full of missionary zeal, enthusiasm and lots of ...

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Stop over-pathologising our Children

There was a very interesting article in the Weekend Australian 15-16th August 2009 that I ...

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Sleep, glorious sleep

It never ceases to amaze me how similar parents’ concerns are about their children, no ...