Blog Category: Raising Boys
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Teen safety (without suffocation) – Understanding Boys
Maggie spoke with Harb Gill from the Understanding Boys blog about how to keep your teen sons ...
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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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Creating risk in a risk-averse society: ABC Nightlife
Maggie joined one of the longest-running national ABC radio programs, Nightlife, to discuss why risk ...
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Anxious kids, worried parents
ABC Perth’s Gillian O’Shaughnessy hosted a one-hour forum on anxiety in childhood, featuring Maggie and ...
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The one question mums of sons should ask
As a mother of four sons, a former boys’ basketball coach, counsellor and a secondary ...
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Boys’ behaviour is their language
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how boys are often conditioned to respond with ...
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Angry Boys
This article was first published in Kids in the City/Kids on the Coast Sadly, despite ...
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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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Little boys beginning big school
We have seen some disturbing trends in recent times: Increasing number of 4-6-year-old boys being ...
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6 year old boy fidgety in school – 9 Things Q&A
Maggie responds to a participant question about helping a young boy who is fidgety in school. ...
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Boys & Mums: the tween years (Part 2 of 2)
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about parenting boys as they approach their adolescence. Maggie ...
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Boys & Mums: the tween years (Part 1 of 2)
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about the challenges for mums raising boys in the ...
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Teen Boys & Gaming: The 10 Agreements for Healthy Balance
Recently a mum of 15-year-old boy came up and asked me a frequently asked question: ...
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Boys, Boys, Boys
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about her own experience of raising four sons and ...
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Boys, Boys, Boys – Feature article
On the eve of the release of 9 Things: A back-to-basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...
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Parenting imperfectly
Maggie joined Perth’s NOVA 937 brekky crew Nathan, Nat and Shaun to talk about her ...
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Top Tips: Books to inspire struggling readers to get into reading
This list is compiled from our community to share their favourite books to hook readers ...
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Why schools are failing our boys
Boys will be boys, they tell us, but how many of us actually take this ...