Blog Category: Raising Adolescents

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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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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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Top Tips: Best Books for Teens/Adolescents

In February 2022 I had a question from someone in my membership community about trying ...

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Helping boys cope better at school: Tips for teachers and parents

Boys struggling in school, in the Western world, from transition to high school, is not ...

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Leaning in with light for our tweens and teens

Navigating the huge transformation from being a child to an adult has never been more ...

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Teen boys are hungry for fathers who can care and connect

“Young males rise to the occasion under the approval of men they respect. As fathers, ...

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More concern around consent training for teens to avoid more harm

**Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.** Schools around Australia are no doubt scrambling ...

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Why we need much more than consent training in our schools to stop sexual assault

Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and uses sexual terms.  One of the main reasons ...

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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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The scary reality of a teen’s search for identity in a world of socials, selfies and fake news

One of the fundamental biological drivers of adolescence is the search for identity. And let’s ...

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Top Tips: Best resources for supporting kids with ADHD

We reached out to our online community for their favourite books, online resources and experts ...

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Why I’m so worried about the cost of a lost boyhood for our teenage sons

Like toddlerhood, adolescence is such a paradoxical time in our children’s lives and there are ...

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Lets’ talk about it: Communicating with teen boys

In this abstract from From Boys to Men published at The Parents Website, Maggie offers her ...

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Why our tween and teen boys need a safe adult tribe

All tweens and teens benefit from having a safe circle of grownups somewhere in their ...

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Understanding teen boys’ anger

Let’s be honest. We all get angry at times and that is because it is ...

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Why parenting is really all about neuroplasticity

When our precious babies are born, their brains are full of neurons with no connectors. ...

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Our adolescents are passive and inactive and we can’t just blame screens 

We grown-ups know that eating well, sleeping well and exercising well are the three key ...

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Please help me with my lazy, unmotivated 18yo son who is stuck on the couch and going nowhere

It has only been in the past few years that I have started to hear ...