Blog Category: Press & Online

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Let your kids fail often. It’s just good parenting.

It is perfectly natural for parents to want to protect their beloved children and keep ...

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Does your child have music hiding in their soul?

It never ceases to amaze me when I watch the finals of reality music shows ...

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Getting little ones ready for big school

Most academics and early years experts prefer to reframe “readiness” to mean transitioning into the ...

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A good-enough, imperfect Christmas

Maggie wrote for the ABC Opinion site of the importance of lowering your expectations this ...

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Why we need to teach our teens how to handle stress

Stress is something we, as adults, are all too familiar with.   For teens though, because ...

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Teen safety (without suffocation)–Understanding Boys

Maggie spoke with Harb Gill from the Understanding Boys blog about how to keep your teen sons ...

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Tips for busting phobias & fears for frightened children

It is normal for many young children to have irrational fears like being frightened of ...

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Are your problem students bad or just struggling?

Here in Australia, there has been quite a bit of media focus on the alarming ...

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Too many toys?

Maggie spoke with ABC Radio in Perth about whether too many toys can limit creativity ...

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Why you’ll never be the perfect parent … and that’s OK

Maggie was interviewed by Huffpost Australia about why perfectionism, comparison and judgement in parenting are ...

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Bringing mindfulness home: tips for parents

As a proud ambassador of meditation app Smiling Mind, Maggie wrote about how to create ...

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The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting

There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is ...

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The risk of not letting our children take risks

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...

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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids

As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...

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The biggest challenges facing families today – The Advocate newspaper interview

Maggie was interviewed by The Advocate newspaper in Tasmania about the biggest challenges facing families ...

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Surviving the first week of high school

As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...

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A good dog helps kids care

Parenting is a tough gig and in the pursuit of making choices that enable our ...

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Supporting your teen through grief

When I was running seminars for teens, I noticed one afternoon working with some 14- ...