Blog Category: Press & Online
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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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Making Memories that Matter
When my sons were at school, we got to the end of this particular term ...
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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?
As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as ...
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Helping Children who Struggle with School
This article was first published in Parenting Ideas magazine in November/December 2013. More and more in ...
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Move baby, move: Why movement matters for babies
As parents we often can’t wait until our babies can crawl and then walk, and ...
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Childen’s Temperaments – Roosters and Lambs
Something we don’t talk about much anymore is that children are born with a certain ...
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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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In praise of a dangerous, dirty childhood
Originally published in Parenting Ideas. I think there is something missing from the average modern ...
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Bringing out the best in all students
Maggie wrote for Teachers Matter about what she learned from neuro linguistic programming and how ...
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Why schools are failing our boys
Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this ...
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Boys and gaming: finding the balance
Gaming on a computer or device is a wildly popular pastime for kids in Australia. ...
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Why boys need a boyhood to become good men
Given the current deep community outpourings of concern for the senseless violence present on Australian ...
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Helping kids’ develop self-regulation
Even with our fully developed brains, we adults still struggle with managing our moods, energy ...
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Stop Stealing Childhood
Are we setting our children up to fail? In short, there is no evidence that ...
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Creating a safe place for today’s adolescents
According to the Mission Australia Youth Survey 2020, the top four concerns for young people ...
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Schoolyard Violence a Symptom of Modern Teenage Life
This opinion piece ran in The Courier-Mail in September 2009. This week we have heard ...
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The Nightmare of Adolescent Sleep
“One clear casualty of sleep deprivation is learning. That’s a tragedy—a recent tragedy.” — Professor ...
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Building Connectedness in the Classroom
Maggie wrote for the Positive Times about the best-kept secret to exceptional education — relationship. ...