Blog Category: Posts for Parents
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The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting
There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is ...
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Raising Remarkable Boys
Maggie chatted about Raising Remarkable Boys with Libby-Jane Charleston and Tory McGuire from HuffPost Australia ...
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Beware the teen tipping point
Helping our teens to cope, conquer and shine Technically adolescence starts well before the age ...
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The risk of not letting our children take risks
Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...
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Helping badly behaved students
Recent reports have exposed the alarming impact badly behaved students have in Australian schools, both ...
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Top Tips for Bedwetting
This PDF contains some useful advice and resources for dealing with bedwetting. Download: Top Tips for ...
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Best-ever communication tips around teens
After teaching, counselling and living with teens for 40 years, I have worked out some ...
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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids
As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...
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Help! We found marijuana in our son’s room
Maggie runs Q&A sessions for members of her online course community. In this session for ...
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Feeding your child’s passion from the banquet of life
When a child is born all parents hope that s/he will live a meaningful life and ...
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Surviving the first week of high school
As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...
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We need to talk about the power of touch
In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...
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Finding calm amidst the holiday chaos
Let’s begin by remembering that emotional contagion is real – we are influenced by the ...