Blog Category: Friendships, Social Skills & Bullying
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S2 Episode 4 – How to help your child make friends — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast
For some kids and teenagers, making friends comes easily. But for others, it’s really tough ...
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S1 Episode 4 – Cyberbullying — what you need to know to keep your children safe — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast
Is your child on Snapchat, Instagram or Facebook? Ninety-one per cent of Australian teenagers use ...
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Top Tips: Best reads on teaching children kindness
Picture books and story books are a wonderful way to teach kindness. I shared this ...
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Top Tips: Best reads on enhancing empathy in our children
In August 2017, Maggie shared this list compiled by TINYBOP.com of books to spark conversations ...
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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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Giving your kids the greatest gift of all: life skills
Life skills are more important than we might realise. I have had Year 1 teachers ...
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Teen girl excluded at school
As part of one of our regular online course Q&A sessions, Maggie responded to a ...
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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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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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Horror movies, GTA and other parents’ boundaries
I recently received a message from a mum of a 7-year-old who was concerned about ...
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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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Helping children to make friends
Maggie urges parents to see their children’s behaviour through a child’s eyes.
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Bullying among young children
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses two scenarios of bullying occurring among very young children. ...
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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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8 ways to nurture friendships in our schools
“We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered. ― A.A. ...
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Friendless teens
I normally use the word adolescence when writing about the transition stage from child to ...
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The fun, fickle and fragile world of children’s friendships
“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ― A.A. ...
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Bullying – Radio Interview with Mix945 on National Bullying Day
Listen to Maggie’s interview with Clairsy, Shane and Kymba on Mix945 on National Bullying Day: ...