Blog Category: Family Breakdown & Sibling Rivalry

Article

How to help your kids stop fighting at times of high stress

Maggie wrote for ABC Life about the challenges that the recent isolation during COVID-19 has[...]

25
May

Audio

#19 – How to get your kids (and you) to stop fighting – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Have you been breaking up World War III between your kids? Are you and your[...]

29
Apr

Audio

Balancing life as a co-parent – ABC Radio

Maggie chatted with Philip Clark on ABC’s Nightlife program about the various challenges of co-parenting.[...]

25
Feb

Article

The power of one-on-one

This article was first published at Essential Kids. Last year a mother came to chat[...]

07
Mar

Video

Tips for Step Parents – Part 1

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australia’s ‘queen of common sense’ discusses how to have a cohesive[...]

28
Nov

Video

Dealing with sibling rivalry – Part 2

Maggie talks about the challenge of sibling rivalry, why sibling rivalry is biologically normal, how[...]

21
Jul

Video

How to Cope with Chaos at Home

In this “Maggie Moment”, popular Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks[...]

30
Jun

Article

The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting

There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is[...]

14
Jun

Video

When Parents Separate

This ‘Maggie Moment’ is about supporting children after a separation. Maggie discusses ways of explaining relationship[...]

27
May

Article

Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids

In this blog post originally published at Essential Kids, Maggie wrote about the importance of raising[...]

08
Mar

Audio

Maggie talks sibling rivalry on Kinderling Kids Radio

Maggie chatted to Kinderling Kids Radio about how to negotiate sibling rivalry in your family.[...]

22
Feb

Article

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[...]

23
Nov

Audio

How do you talk to kids about family estrangement? – 9 Things Q&A Oct 2016

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

19
Nov

Video

Fathering alone

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how fathers who are sole parenting can be[...]

26
Sep

Article

Top Tips: List of books on separation & divorce to help kids

One of the mums in our FB community was looking for suggestions for children’s books[...]

23
May

Video

Preparing kids for a divorce

A sad topic, but a necessary one. How do we prepare our children for an[...]

27
Apr

Article

Family meetings

Technically a family operates like a small organisation, like a community or even a small[...]

15
Feb

Video

When siblings really dislike each other

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about what to do when siblings take their rivalry[...]

14
Dec