Blog Category: Building Resilience
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Maggie’s secrets to raising happy children – ‘Today Tonight’
Maggie is thrilled to have been asked to be an ambassador for the Telethon7, a registered ...
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Helping kids learn to lose well
Increasingly here in Oz we’ve been hearing about violence in junior rugby clubs around the country. On ...
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The Importance of Bare Feet
Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...
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Helping our teen girls shine
I often have mums of teen girls speak to me about how worried they are about ...
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Perfectionism in children
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about the unintended phenomenon of unhealthy perfectionism and unhealthy ...
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How Risk Can Benefit Children
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how as a society we can tend to ...
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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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Maggie on Mindsets & Expectations
In this ’Maggie Moment’, Maggie speaks about children’s mindsets, how they can label themselves good ...
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Fairness and Kindness
In this ’Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about the importance of instilling in our children a ...
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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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Accidents happen and so they should!
A very good friend of mine shared a funny story one day about her young ...
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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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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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Getting Kids Active
In a world where screens seem to dominate, statistics for Australian kids around activity levels are ...
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Q&A webinar with parents – 3/02/2014
In this 1 hour recording of a live webinar Q&A conducted between Maggie and a ...
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Why stickers, treats and ‘tificates don’t work (much)
When I was an undergrad at The University of Western Australia (UWA) I did Psychology ...
