Blog Tag: schooling

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Changing Schools: Meeting the challenges of a broken system

A few weeks ago, I posted this on I am a country government-educated woman and ...

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Why our schooling system is flawed and what we need to change

Over the last month while running seminars and attending conferences I have had many conversations ...

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S5 Episode 7 – When Your Kid Hates School – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

While most kids will complain about school at some point along the way, what happens ...

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Schools key to our kids’ recovery: Why the 3 Cs count before grades

I am writing this blog not in my usual role as a parenting author and ...

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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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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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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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Helping badly behaved students

Recent reports have exposed the alarming impact badly behaved students have in Australian schools, both ...

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Surviving the first week of high school

As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...

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Sensitive kids starting school

As school holidays run out faster than the water out of the bath, parents know ...

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Little boys beginning big school

We have seen some disturbing trends in recent times: Increasing number of 4-6-year-old boys being ...

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In praise of a common-sense revolution

Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a motoring expert, and a listener ...