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How to be a firm yet loving parent
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Why your teen’s brain is wired to make poor choices
In this month’s Maggie Moment, Maggie explains that Mother Nature is preparing our teens to ...
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What’s going on in your teen’s brain – Part 3 (the emotional stuff)
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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What’s going on in your teen’s brain – Part 2 (the incredible potential of the teen mind)
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of the ‘Parental As Anything’ ...
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Why our teens need to learn about failure
Every caring parent wants to protect their children from any form of suffering. This ...
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Avoiding ‘safetyism’ and allowing our kids to stretch and grow
Let’s begin with an honest truth – every parent is biologically wired to want to ...
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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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Why today’s teens might surprise you
As a former high school teacher, counsellor and a parent who has raised four sons ...
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Teen safety (without suffocation) – Understanding Boys
Maggie spoke with Harb Gill from the Understanding Boys blog about how to keep your teen sons ...
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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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Creating risk in a risk-averse society: ABC Nightlife
Maggie joined one of the longest-running national ABC radio programs, Nightlife, to discuss why risk ...
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How Risk Can Benefit Children
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how as a society we can tend to ...
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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?
As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as ...
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In praise of a dangerous, dirty childhood
Originally published in Parenting Ideas. I think there is something missing from the average modern ...