Blog Category: Early Years, Babies & Toddlers
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When children are hard work…meltdowns, tantrums, screaming and whining
Babies, toddlers and young children are learning how to do so many things in the ...
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4 Steps to Toddler Genius
Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...
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Save your cash & pull out the pegs
Babies and toddlers are learning constantly from everything they see, hear, taste, touch and smell ...
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When kids’ silliness becomes too much
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how to handle it when children’s silliness gets ...
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Coping with test-driven education in early years
In this ‘Maggie moment’ Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent shares her ...
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Teaching children body safety
In this ‘Maggie Moment’ Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks about ...
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Top Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
In 2015, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking for ...
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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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Hitting, biting and other parenting challenges
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie Dent talks about challenging childhood behaviours. Maggie looks at what ...
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Raising girls in a sexualised world
In this ‘Maggie moment’, Maggie shares her concerns for girls today in particular their exposure ...
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When kids are mean: relational aggression
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about what to do when your child has been ...
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Teaching kids self-regulation
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about the challenge of self-regulation and how to help ...
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Stop stealing childhood in the name of education
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie passionately shares her concerns about the ‘push down’ of formalised ...
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Dealing with kids’ tantrums
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about navigating extended tantrums in older children. Watch more ...
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Which school is right for your child?
A lot of parents have asked what Maggie thinks about single-sex vs co-educational schools for ...
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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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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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Helping kids’ develop self-regulation
Even with our fully developed brains, we adults still struggle with managing our moods, energy ...