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Angry Children: Part 2
In this ‘Maggie Moment’ Maggie talks about anger as an emotion. She reframes angry children so we can ...
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Helping badly behaved students
Recent reports have exposed the alarming impact badly behaved students have in Australian schools, both ...
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Top Tips for Bedwetting
Bedwetting is fairly common in childhood, by the time children are 10, only about 5% ...
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Best-ever communication tips around teens
After teaching, counselling and living with teens for 40 years, I have worked out some ...
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Sleep: Night Terrors & Bedwetting
In this “Maggie Moment”, parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks about sleep ...
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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids
As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...
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Help! We found marijuana in our son’s room
Maggie runs Q&A sessions for members of her online course community. In this session for ...
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Feeding your child’s passion from the banquet of life
When a child is born all parents hope that s/he will live a meaningful life and ...
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Children and Screens: Finding the Balance
Is time spent on screens affecting my child’s development? Maggie shares some common-sense ideas for ...
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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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When Children Fear Death
In this “Maggie Moment” Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks about ...
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We need to talk about the power of touch
In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...
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Finding calm amidst the holiday chaos
Let’s begin by remembering that emotional contagion is real – we are influenced by the ...
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A good dog helps kids care
Parenting is a tough gig and in the pursuit of making choices that enable our ...
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‘Time outs’, are they good or bad?
As part of one of our regular online course Q&A sessions, parenting author and educator ...
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Supporting your teen through grief
When I was running seminars for teens, I noticed one afternoon working with some 14- ...
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When kids come home ‘naughty’
Have you ever had your child come home from a play date or sleepover and ...
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Top Tips: Road Trips without Screens
A while ago, we asked our Facebook community to share any suggestions they had for ...