Blog Category: Early Years, Babies & Toddlers

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Getting little ones ready for big school

Most academics and early years experts prefer to reframe “readiness” to mean transitioning into the ...

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8 Simple Strategies to Prevent Your Child’s Techno-Tantrums

A guest post by Dr Kristy Goodwin Many parents today have endured their child’s techno-tantrums ...

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Tips for busting phobias & fears for frightened children

It is normal for many young children to have irrational fears like being frightened of ...

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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in NSW, SA, ACT, TAS & NT

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in WA

As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...

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Fragile boy friendships and why they matter so much

  How we can help our boys be good mates. In my life from my ...

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We need to talk about the power of touch

In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...

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‘Time outs’, are they good or bad?

As part of one of our regular online course Q&A sessions, parenting author and educator ...

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Top Tips: Best Reads to Prepare Children for a Sibling

In September 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...

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To praise or not to praise

Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...

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Go Slow Parenting Podcast

Maggie shared some audio from her 9 Things Online Course with US-based website iMothering.com.     Image credit: ...

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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?

It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...

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Why being a firm, loving parent matters

Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...

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The power of the parental pause

In those tough parenting moments, this secret may be your saving grace. There are many ...

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Sobering truths about being a mother

Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...