Blog Category: Children’s Temperaments: Roosters & Lambs

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Raising sensitive lambs in our stressful world

Let’s start at the very beginning – the birth of a child. While we gaze ...

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Helping your Young Daughter Find her Sense of Self

Every child is born as a one-off, unique human being. Given genetic gifts or challenges, ...

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Roosters & Lambs – Book extract on Raised Good

Is your child a ‘rooster’ or a ‘lamb’: book extract on Raised Good Tracy Gillett ...

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Raising the rooster-orchid child

For those who are not familiar with my work, I often talk about the differences ...

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Top Tips: Resources for supporting autistic kids

With the help of our online community, we’ve compiled an extensive list of resources to ...

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How to raise our boys with character

… or rather How to raise our boys with character, who will care about themselves, ...

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Become an energy detective for your child

Every parent will struggle at times to maintain their energy levels in order to keep ...

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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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Helping our children become their best selves

I’ve been chatting with many parents and teachers recently about the pressure and angst which ...

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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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4 Steps to Toddler Genius

Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...

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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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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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Getting it ‘just right’ with extra-curricular activities

I was asked this week to comment for a national current affairs TV program about ...

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Let’s Take it Slow: The Importance of a Go-Slow Childhood

Stress is a new challenge to children’s health and social wellbeing in our modern world. ...

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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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Childen’s Temperaments – Roosters and Lambs

Something we don’t talk about much anymore is that children are born with a certain ...

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Getting Kids Active

In a world where screens seem to dominate, statistics for Australian kids around activity levels are ...