Blog Category: Building Resilience
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Why I always say YES to puddles: Nature play and connection
Much has been written over the last 20 years about the concerns around raising children ...
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Why We Need to Let Our Kids Take Risks
As parents, we’re biologically wired to keep our children safe – so it’s completely natural ...
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Top tips for parenting tweens & teens
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Tips to Encourage Your Child’s Solo Play
Help! How can I encourage my child to play independently? In this month’s Maggie Moment, ...
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Why kids need more playtime not more schoolwork
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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What every parent should know about kids’ anxiety in under 8s
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Why sibling conflict happens and how to deal with it
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Raising our children to like themselves
Recently, together with my friend Dr Vanessa Lapointe and a team of helpers, I ran ...
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Being the dad you want to be
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Navigating parenting with a life-limiting illness diagnosis
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, host of ‘The Good Enough Dad’ podcast ...
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Three hidden drivers that influence our teens’ behaviour (and challenge parents)
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, host of ‘The Good Enough Dad’ podcast, ...
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Can chores really help kids develop better life skills?
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of The Good Enough Dad ...
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Why our teens need to learn about failure
Every caring parent wants to protect their children from any form of suffering. This ...
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Raising caring humans in an uncaring world
Our world seems to be in quite a lot of turmoil at the moment. ...
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Connected Teaching, Child Development & Emotional Intelligence – Let’s Get Schooled podcast
Maggie appeared on the Let’s Get Schooled podcast with Emma Gentle and talked about: The ...
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Raising boys and happy, healthy and resilient men – The School of Wellbeing
How can we better support boys to become healthy and happy individuals? In this conversation, ...
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Avoiding ‘safetyism’ and allowing our kids to stretch and grow
Let’s begin with an honest truth – every parent is biologically wired to want to ...
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Are you expecting too much of your child?
In this month’s Maggie Moment, parenting author, educator, and host of the ‘Parental As Anything’ ...