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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in NSW, SA, ACT, TAS & NT

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in QLD

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in VIC

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Raising other people’s children

Parenting is one of the most important and at times difficult journeys that an adult ...

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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in WA

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Fragile boy friendships and why they matter so much

How we can help our boys be good mates. In my life from my own ...

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Important information re starting age for pre-primary in WA

2020 Update: Please sign Maggie’s petition to Premier Mark McGowan to give concerned WA parents ...

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Too many toys?

Maggie spoke with ABC Radio in Perth about whether too many toys can limit creativity ...

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Why you’ll never be the perfect parent … and that’s OK

Maggie was interviewed by Huffpost Australia about why perfectionism, comparison and judgement in parenting are ...

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Bringing mindfulness home: tips for parents

As a proud ambassador of meditation app Smiling Mind, Maggie wrote about how to create ...

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Giving your kids the greatest gift of all: life skills

Life skills are more important than we might realise. I have had Year 1 teachers ...

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Best books and resources for supporting kids with anxiety

In March 2017, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking ...

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Why are we STILL stealing childhood?

As one of Australia’s leading parenting educators I regularly travel the length and breadth of ...

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The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting

There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is ...

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Beware the teen tipping point

Helping our teens to cope, conquer and shine Technically adolescence starts well before the age ...

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The risk of not letting our children take risks

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...

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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% ...