Blog Category: Separation Anxiety

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S5 – Help Me Maggie 8 – My child is shy and scared of everyone

Does your kid clam up and hide behind your legs when people try to talk ...

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Maggie talks Calming Anxious Children on the Play it Forward Podcast

Maggie joined the Wearthy podcast, Play it Forward to discuss calming anxious children. In this ...

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🧡 💚 A message for families in the flood disaster 🧡 💚

In the wake of the flood devastation that is still occurring on parts of Australia’s ...

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Grandparenting in a pandemic

One thing we have all learnt from COVID-19 is how much extended family really matter. ...

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Maggie’s anxiety toolkit – a chat with This Glorious Mess (Big Kids)

Anxiety is one of the biggest topics plaguing parents today. In discussing her new book, ...

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When your child has to start school but they don’t seem ready

In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about what you can do when your child has ...

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Another new normal: back to school after isolation

Schools across Australia are gradually opening their doors for more and more students to return ...

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S2 Episode 10 – All by myself – isolation as an only child or sole parent — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Being an only child or single parent can be hard when all your usual social ...

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Separation anxiety & starting school

In this ‘Maggie moment’, Australian parenting author and queen of common sense, Maggie Dent talks ...

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When Parents are Absent

In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author Maggie Dent offers simple strategies to help families ...

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Bringing mindfulness home: tips for parents

As a proud ambassador of meditation app Smiling Mind, Maggie wrote about how to create ...

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Ways of connecting with your children or grandchildren when you’re far away

In August 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook addressing ...

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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 ...

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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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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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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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Sensitive kids starting school

As school holidays run out faster than the water out of the bath, parents know ...