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Maggie Dent is an author, educator, and parenting and resilience specialist with a particular interest in the early years and adolescence.

Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling, and working in palliative care/funeral services and suicide prevention. She is an advocate for the healthy, common-sense raising of children in order to strengthen families and communities. She is a passionate, positive voice for children of all ages.

Maggie is the author of ten books, several e-books and a prolific creator of resources for parents, adolescents, teachers and early childhood educators, and others who are interested in quietly improving their lives. She is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother.

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Steve Biddulph / Author of Raising Boys, Raising Girls and The New Manhood (Facebook post)

Poor Maggie. Every time she comes into the studio to help our listeners, I unload all my problems onto her instead. Thank god she’s there for me; The ultimate parenting guide. PS. She’s also a great baker.

Shaun McManus / father of four & Nova 93.7 breakfast announcer

How do I put Maggie Dent into words? I think she shifted everyone’s thinking in that room to a different place and brought us all back to our childhoods and got us to look inside our hearts to see who we really are. No matter what trials and tribulations this ever changing world throws our way we can face it with grace and get through it.

Gloria Hackett / Inclusion Support Facilitator ECA, NT

I love your energy and your heart and I often think 'if only there were a few more Maggie Dents in this world for those having a bit of a hard time'. We all need an injection from time to time of your blithe spirit.

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Maggie is like a wise and entertaining aunt, whose experience and wisdom you want to drink in. She’s someone I’d love to have on speed dial to ask all those tricky parenting questions, to hear her sage words of sense and calmness. She’s someone who will tell you sit down with a cup of tea and keep a vague eye on your kids while they dig in the garden and climb trees. And that is the kind of advice I like to hear.

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