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To praise or not to praise

Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...

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Maggie Dent on how to talk to young kids when someone they love dies – ABC Radio

Maggie Dent, who has supported many children and parents when someone they love has died, ...

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Coping as a sad, absent grandparent

A couple of months ago I wrote this blog about becoming a grandparent for the ...

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Building Connectedness in the Classroom

Maggie wrote for the Positive Times about the best-kept secret to exceptional education — relationship. ...

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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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Go Slow Parenting Podcast

Maggie shared some audio from her 9 Things Online Course with US-based website iMothering.com.     Image credit: ...

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Why won’t my kids play outside?

It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like ...

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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World

with an afterword by Steve Biddulph The story in the media this week about the ...

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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?

It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...

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The ‘birds and the bees’

Cushla Travers from ABC Kimberley spoke with Maggie to get some important advice on how to ...

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Why being a firm, loving parent matters

Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...

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Angry Boys

This article was first published in Kids in the City/Kids on the Coast   Sadly, despite ...