Blog Category: Maggie in the Media

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Sobering truths about being a mother

Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...

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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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Sanctuary from violence

As an ambassador for The Sanctuary women’s shelter opening soon, Maggie and her co-ambassadors got ...

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Show caution when implementing change

In this article forTeachers Matter, Maggie writes about changing fads in education and how we ...

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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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The comfort of family ritual

As the end of the year comes hurtling toward us, many of us who celebrate ...

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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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Teaching with the teen brain in mind

Over the past 15 years there has been a massive outpouring of research that explores ...

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In praise of a common-sense revolution

Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a motoring expert, and a listener ...

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Nova 937

Maggie talked about heading back to school, being a new grandma and more with Nathan, ...

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The Importance of Bare Feet

Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...

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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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The school pickup war zone

Thanks to the rapid changes in technology especially smart phones, well-meaning parents are much more ...

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Sibling rivalry: one of life’s great teachers

Sibling rivalry is such a hot potato – no matter how many books we read, ...