Blog Category: Social Skills & Friendship Issues
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Top Tips: Family friendly games (not online or digital)
A recurring theme is how can we help our kids master disappointment and learn to ...
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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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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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Top Tips: Best reads on teaching children kindness
Picture books and story books are a wonderful way to teach kindness. I shared this ...
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Top Tips: Best reads on enhancing empathy in our children
In August 2017, Maggie shared this list compiled by TINYBOP.com of books to spark conversations ...
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Fragile boy friendships and why they matter so much
How we can help our boys be good mates. In my life from my own ...
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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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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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Horror movies, GTA and other parents’ boundaries
I recently received a message from a mum of a 7-year-old who was concerned about ...
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8 ways to nurture friendships in our schools
“We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered. ― A.A. ...
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Friendless teens
I normally use the word adolescence when writing about the transition stage from child to ...
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The fun, fickle and fragile world of children’s friendships
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ― A.A. ...
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Getting Kids Active
In a world where screens seem to dominate, statistics for Australian kids around activity levels are ...
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Bullying: It takes a mindless society to raise a heartless bully
The Rigby Report on bullying in Queensland schools released last week (April 2010) suggests that ...