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The silver lining to every natural disaster
Whether it be storms, earthquakes, bushfires or floods, life can hurl some unexpected hurdles our ...
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Let’s Take it Slow: The Importance of a Go-Slow Childhood
Stress is a new challenge to children’s health and social wellbeing in our modern world. ...
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Taming the teen stress monster
For many of our teens one thing is certain: stress levels are set to rise ...
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21 Things I Wish I had Known as a New Teacher
In this article for Teachers Matter, Maggie wrote about what she wished she’d known about being ...
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Why our children’s ability to think deeply is suffering
I want to chat about thinking. When I explore my building block about life skills ...
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Taming the Stress Monster Handout
A downloadable handout relating to Maggie’s seminar: Taming the Stress Monster in Adolescence: Silence, Stillness ...
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The 3 Rs to family happiness: resilience, routine & relaxation
It’s something that’s easy to forget or hold on to in our busy lives, but ...
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Expectations and the inconvenient truth of parenting
One of the chapters in my book 9 Things: A back to basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...
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The shift back to nature play – it’s happening!
Many of you know of my passionate commitment to outside play in our homes, schools ...
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Teen drinking
Good Health magazine sought Maggie’s opinion for an article they were publishing on teens and ...
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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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Parenting imperfectly
Maggie joined Perth’s NOVA 937 brekky crew Nathan, Nat and Shaun to talk about her ...
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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?
As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as ...
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Move baby, move: Why movement matters for babies
As parents we often can’t wait until our babies can crawl and then walk, and ...
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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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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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Communication for family harmony
Every human being sees the world through their own unique lens, which is based on ...