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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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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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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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Out of control toddlers

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australia’s queen of common-sense parenting Maggie Dent talks about how we ...

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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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‘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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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 ...

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Top Tips: Best Reads to Prepare Children for a Sibling

In September 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...

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Top Tips: Night Terrors

In February 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...

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Ways of connecting with your children or grandchildren when you’re far away

In August 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook addressing ...

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Leaving high school & joining the school of life: Words of caution & hope

As a former high school teacher I can remember the excitement and unbridled enthusiasm that ...