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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 ...
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Coping with test-driven education in early years
In this ‘Maggie moment’ Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent shares her ...
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Screen addiction
Maggie chatted with Today Tonight about children being addicted to screens view the full post with comments here… ...
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Top Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
In 2015, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking for ...
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Connecting with kids: building love bridges
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how quality time can be a rare commodity for ...
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Helping kids learn to lose well
Increasingly here in Oz we’ve been hearing about violence in junior rugby clubs around the country. On ...
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The Importance of Bare Feet
Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...
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Hitting, biting and other parenting challenges
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie Dent talks about challenging childhood behaviours. Maggie looks at what ...
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Top 5 Tips for Today’s Parents
Recently during an interview on Channel 9 in Perth I was asked what my five ...
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Understanding children’s choices
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie discusses how sometimes we need to see our children’s actions ...
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Teaching kids self-regulation
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about the challenge of self-regulation and how to help ...
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Stop stealing childhood in the name of education
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie passionately shares her concerns about the ‘push down’ of formalised ...
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Which school is right for your child?
A lot of parents have asked what Maggie thinks about single-sex vs co-educational schools for ...
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Why We Need to Prioritise Play
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie responds to a Facebook post from a mum who is ...
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Helping Anxious Children
In this “Maggie Moment”, we talk about anxiety in young children. Although anxiety is developmentally ...
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The 3 Rs to family happiness: resilience, routine & relaxation
It’s something that’s easy to forget or hold on to in our busy lives, but ...
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Expectations and the inconvenient truth of parenting
One of the chapters in my book 9 Things: A back to basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...
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Parenting imperfectly
Maggie joined Perth’s NOVA 937 brekky crew Nathan, Nat and Shaun to talk about her ...