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Finding calm amidst the holiday chaos

Let’s begin by remembering that emotional contagion is real – we are influenced by the ...

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S1 E13 – The Good Enough Dad’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays 

When you’re a kid the Christmas holidays feel like they stretch on forever. When you’re ...

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Making Memories that Matter

When my sons were at school, we got to the end of this particular term ...

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Top Tips for Caring Communication with Teens

The task of ‘lighthouses’ is to help young people find their unique strengths and weaknesses, ...

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Making kids feel safe in 24/7 bad news cycle

When I heard the devastating news last week that four lives were lost (and many ...

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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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Expectations vs Real Life

Recently I read an article on The Conversation about labels, written by postdoctoral research fellow ...

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NAPLAN Nightmare — Education Review article

by Darragh O’Keefe Education Review (www.educationreview.com.au) 11 August 2011 Is the high stakes testing regime ...

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Thrifty Christmas might be the magic pudding

With times being tight as families feel the pressure of rising interest rates, Christmas can ...

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Coping as a sad, absent grandparent

A couple of months ago I wrote this blog about becoming a grandparent for the ...

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Family meetings

Technically a family operates like a small organisation, like a community or even a small ...

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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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HELP! What is wrong with my son’s memory?

Have you had the experience of sending your son off to his bedroom to get ...

Margaret River Independent School, Forest Grove WA

Note from the school: The nature playgrounds have evolved over many years and have always ...

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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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Easing the ‘mental load’ during matrescence – becoming and being a mother

Many of you may have seen the reel in which I supposedly made radio announcer ...