Blog Category: Posts for Parents
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The importance of breath in anxious times – Maggie Soother 1
In this video, Australian parenting educator Maggie Dent shares the first of a series of ...
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Why I believe in the magic of the easter bunny
In this Maggie Moment, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent talks about the ...
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S2 Episode 6 – Nature play can still happen during coronavirus — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast
Coronavirus has meant the activities our kids love — playgrounds, sport, skate boarding with friends, ...
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Things that Build Resilience in Kids
In this “Maggie Moment” Maggie looks at the key components to building resilience in our ...
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Why parenting is really all about neuroplasticity
When our precious babies are born, their brains are full of neurons with no connectors. ...
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Why kids chuck tantrums
Maggie talked to Leigh and Tegan for Mamamia’s This Glorious Mess podcast about the terrible twos, ...
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Family Meetings
In this “Maggie Moment”, Australian parenting author and educator Maggie Dent talks about how to ...
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Giving your kids the gift of emotional intelligence
Emotions can be so unpredictable and tricky for adults to understand at times, so what ...
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What’s wrong with how we’re educating 5-year-olds?
In the wake of a 50% increase over 5 years in the number of young ...
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Our adolescents are passive and inactive and we can’t just blame screens
We grown-ups know that eating well, sleeping well and exercising well are the three key ...
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More merry, less mayhem this Christmas
These days there’s a lot of pressure to do everything LARGE including Christmas. In this ...
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Making your mornings a bit smoother
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australia’s ‘queen of common sense parenting’, author and educator Maggie Dent ...
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The magic of movement still really matters in our digital world
Early homo sapiens had to move to survive and we are still biologically wired to ...
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Let’s get creative – it is good for your health and wellbeing!
One of the greatest blessings of having a childhood filled with hours of unstructured play ...
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Boys and After-school Meltdowns
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how to navigate after-school meltdowns in young children, ...
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Raising rooster children: Parenting Without Power Struggles podcast
Maggie often refers to children’s temperaments as them being somewhere on the ‘rooster’ and ‘lamb’ ...
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S1 Episode 9 – How to raise girls — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast
In this episode, Maggie talks with Steve Biddulph — one of Australia’s foremost experts on ...
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S1 Episode 8 – How to raise a resilient child — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast
You want your kids to be able to handle the unexpected challenges life throws at ...