Blog Category: Posts By Common Concern

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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 ...

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Dear mums of smelly, unmotivated, lazy, moody and confused 14-year-old boys

“The problem I am having is with my 14-year-old son who does not apply himself ...

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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 ...

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Preparing kids for a divorce

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

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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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The Moonlight Relaxation for Mums – FREE audio track

I went into the studio with the talented Chris Liddell of Digital Tao to create a ...

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Keeping kids safe from unsafe people

I am writing this in response to the disturbing story of two young children who ...

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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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Sanctuary from violence

As an ambassador for The Sanctuary women’s shelter opening soon, Maggie and her co-ambassadors got ...

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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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Healing our profound wound of human disconnectedness

The latest suicide figures from the ABS are alarming, worrying and hide a world full ...

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Childhood stress: Why (and how) we all need to calm down

Increasingly, scientists are linking stress in infancy and childhood to the soaring numbers of people ...

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Top Tips: Resources to teach children body safety, consent & protective behaviours

Books: Get 25% off shipping on many of these books available at esafekids.com.au… just enter ...

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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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Screen addiction

Maggie chatted with Today Tonight about children being addicted to screens view the full post with comments here… ...

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Show caution when implementing change

In this article forTeachers Matter, Maggie writes about changing fads in education and how we ...

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Family meetings

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