Blog Category: Discipline & Challenging Behaviour
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The importance of parental ‘swagger’
To begin with I need to acknowledge that the term parental swagger comes from my ...
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ABC News Live Blog Parenting Q&A with Maggie
Maggie was invited by ABC News to answer people’s questions in a live blog on ...
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Giving your kids the gift of emotional intelligence
Emotions can be so unpredictable and tricky for adults to understand at times, so what ...
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The exciting and often terrifying paradox of parenting
One of the most fabulous things about being a grandmother is that I get to ...
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Twelve top tips for those in toddler land
I often spend time with my grandchildren and it’s interesting to see how much toddlers ...
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Worried your child is an attention seeker? Here’s the real truth.
A guest post by Dr Vanessa Lapointe In my work, I often hear from parents, ...
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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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To praise or not to praise
Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...
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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?
It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...
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Why being a firm, loving parent matters
Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...
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When children are hard work…meltdowns, tantrums, screaming and whining
Babies, toddlers and young children are learning how to do so many things in the ...
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Potty Mouth Kids
Recently a mum was telling me how her 5-year-old daughter, in a casual kitchen setting, ...
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Parenting with the Brain in Mind
Over the past 15-20 years there has been a massive outpouring of research that explores ...
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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, ...