Blog Post Type: Article
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Coping as a sad, absent grandparent
A couple of months ago I wrote this blog about becoming a grandparent for the ...
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Building Connectedness in the Classroom
Maggie wrote for the Positive Times about the best-kept secret to exceptional education — relationship. ...
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The one question mums of sons should ask
As a mother of four sons, a former boys’ basketball coach, counsellor and a secondary ...
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Why won’t my kids play outside?
It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like ...
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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World
with an afterword by Steve Biddulph The story in the media this week about the ...
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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?
It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...
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Why being a firm, loving parent matters
Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...
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The things you don’t realise about being a grandparent
Recently one of my best and longest-serving girlfriends became a grandmother. I am beyond thrilled ...
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Angry Boys
This article was first published in Kids in the City/Kids on the Coast Sadly, despite ...
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Being a wise, ‘wonder woman’ teen girl out and about
** updated 2021 ** As our girls get older and want to stretch their wings ...
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The power of the parental pause
In those tough parenting moments, this secret may be your saving grace. There are many ...
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Top Tips: List of books on separation & divorce to help kids
One of the mums in our FB community was looking for suggestions for children’s books ...
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Dear mums of smelly, unmotivated, lazy, moody and confused 14-year-old boys
“The problem I am having is with my 14-year-old son who does not apply himself ...
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Sobering truths about being a mother
Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...
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When children are hard work…meltdowns, tantrums, screaming and whining
Babies, toddlers and young children are learning how to do so many things in the ...
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4 Steps to Toddler Genius
Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...
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Keeping kids safe from unsafe people
I am writing this in response to the disturbing story of two young children who ...
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Save your cash & pull out the pegs
Babies and toddlers are learning constantly from everything they see, hear, taste, touch and smell ...