Blog Category: Anxiety & Fear / Calming Children
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Helping Anxious Children
In this “Maggie Moment”, we talk about anxiety in young children. Although anxiety is developmentally ...
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The silver lining to every natural disaster
Whether it be storms, earthquakes, bushfires or floods, life can hurl some unexpected hurdles our ...
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Let’s Take it Slow: The Importance of a Go-Slow Childhood
Stress is a new challenge to children’s health and social wellbeing in our modern world. ...
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Strategies to help your child deal with big feelings
A book I’ve been reading recently is The Whole Brain Child: revolutionary strategies to nurture your ...
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Invisible enemy of anxiety a real worry
In the past decade, we’ve seen large numbers of children diagnosed with depression and behavioural ...
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Helping Children Cope in a Crisis
When flood, fire or other natural disasters hit our communities, it can take a while ...
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A Bit of Shoosh Please… We’re Making Magic
When my four sons were young and I was working as a teacher life was ...
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Managing Anxiety in Children: Stop the Shame
Anxiety in children is on the increase. Shaming is partly to blame. Shaming causes distress ...
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Calming Our Students’ Lives
All parents and teachers want the best for the children in their care, we want ...
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Happy, calm children learn best
All parents want the best for their children – we want them to grow up ...
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Free Audio Collection
Sleepytime and Safe’n’Sound audio tracks These 2 free audio tracks may be useful to parents ...
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Sleep, glorious sleep
It never ceases to amaze me how similar parents’ concerns are about their children, no ...