Blog Tag: building resilience

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Connected Teaching, Child Development & Emotional Intelligence – Let’s Get Schooled podcast

Maggie appeared on the Let’s Get Schooled podcast with Emma Gentle and talked about: The ...

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Raising boys and happy, healthy and resilient men – The School of Wellbeing

How can we better support boys to become healthy and happy individuals? In this conversation, ...

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S1 E 30 The Good Enough Dad with Prof Bruce Robinson – Fatherhood has changed, but there’s still a way to go

In this final episode for Season One of The Good Enough Dad, Maggie is joined ...

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S1 E 29 The Good Enough Dad with Chadden Hunter – New dads can grieve the loss of their old life

For many years, documentary filmmaker Chadden Hunter’s work life consisted of travelling the world doing ...

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S1 E 28 The Good Enough Dad with Graham Long – Finding solace for grief in the most unlikely place

Rev Graham Long served an eclectic flock as the pastor at the Wayside Chapel in ...

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S1 E 27 The Good Enough Dad with Jeremy Hutchings – How Kids Can Learn True Grit

Farmer Jeremy Hutchings grew up on a farm and has carried the lessons he learnt ...

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S1 E 26 The Good Enough Dad with Arne Rubinstein – Stepping up as a man means putting your kids first

Founder and CEO of The Rites of Passage Institute Dr Arne Rubinstein has spent over ...

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S1 E 25 The Good Enough Dad with Sam Drummond – Why kids need agency

Sam Drummond’s mum worked several jobs to make ends meet when he was a child, ...

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S1 E 24 The Good Enough Dad with Richard Harris – Why risk is the secret to raising resilient kids 

Dr Richard Harris is most famous for his role in helping to save the Thai ...

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We need more lighthouses for our kids and teens

From the earliest civilisation in traditional kinship communities, the role of significant safe, adult guidance ...

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S1 E9 – The Good Enough Dad with Matt Okine – ‘Co-parenting is a whole new ball game’

Before he became a dad, Matt Okine thought that he could make music while hanging ...

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S1 E8 – The Good Enough Dad with Sean Szeps – ‘A non-traditional approach to fatherhood’

The path to fatherhood was not straightforward for Sean Szeps and his husband Josh, but ...

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S1 E7 – The Good Enough Dad with David Campbell – ‘Your past does not determine the dad you will be’

Until he was 10 years old musician and TV presenter David Campbell believed his grandmother ...

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S1 E6 – The Good Enough Dad with Stephen Page – ‘Being raised by women made me a great dad’ 

In 1993 Stephen Page became a dad in the most spectacular of ways. He says ...

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S1 E5 – The Good Enough Dad with Jordan Watson – How to Dad NZ on why we need to say “no” more

His posts may be hilarious but Jordan Watson – best known as How to Dad ...

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S1 E4 – The Good Enough Dad with Ben Hannant – Why head counts are important with big families

Ben Hannant had a kid nearly every year of his professional NRL career. He retired ...

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S1 E2 – The Good Enough Dad with Gus Worland – ‘Chill brother’: the words that made me a better dad

Aiming to be a GOOD dad is important. But you know what? Being a good ...

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S1 E1 – The Good Enough Dad with Hamish Blake – ‘we’re all basically winging it’

Aiming to be a GOOD dad is important. But you know what? Being a good ...