Blog Category: Building Family Relationships
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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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A ‘good enough’ Christmas
Take a quick trip to a shopping centre around Christmas and you will likely witness frenetic rushing, ...
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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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Helping your teen girl with volatile emotions
I once shared an article on Facebook written by Susan Stiffelman called Why Is My ...
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Connecting with kids: building love bridges
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how quality time can be a rare commodity for ...
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Maggie talks with the Hands Free Mama herself
Few people articulate the challenges and gifts of mothering better than Rachel Macy Stafford. The ...
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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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Top 5 Tips for Today’s Parents
Recently during an interview on Channel 9 in Perth I was asked what my five ...
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Parenting Only Children
In this ”Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about the challenges of parenting only children and dispels ...
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Finding support as sole parent
Maggie talks about the challenges of sole parenting and guides parents on ways to find ...
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Digital abandonment in modern families
Maggie talks about how technology is disconnecting parents and children. Watch more ‘Maggie Moments’, subscribe ...
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Understanding children’s choices
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie discusses how sometimes we need to see our children’s actions ...
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Celebrating Dads
With Father’s Day falling in September in Australia, this month Maggie talks about why Dads ...
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Being a mean, loving mum
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses parenting styles, in particular mothering styles. She discusses the ...
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Coping with Christmas
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how intense life can be at the end ...
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The 3 Rs to family happiness: resilience, routine & relaxation
It’s something that’s easy to forget or hold on to in our busy lives, but ...
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Expectations and the inconvenient truth of parenting
One of the chapters in my book 9 Things: A back to basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...
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Love bridges: Why micro-moments of connection matter
Most parents would never question that they love their children wholeheartedly – even when their little ...