Blog Category: Posts for Parents

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What dads offer their sons and daughters

Maggie chatted to Little Rockers Radio about the important role that fathers play in raising ...

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Are you so overwhelmed you’re skating on thin ice?

Life can have moments when things get hectic and we get stressed and that is ...

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Being a dad in the 21st century

It is a fabulous time to be a father historically, anthropologically and emotionally. The restrictive ...

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Helping our children become their best selves

I’ve been chatting with many parents and teachers recently about the pressure and angst which ...

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Boys, Schools and the change that is needed

Maggie wrote for Australian Education Reporter on what change is needed in our schools to ...

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Parenting hacks for a calmer home

Everywhere I go around Australia parents tell me how stressed, exhausted and overwhelmed they are. ...

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5 tricky times in boyhood that every parent needs to understand

  So often, as parents we find ourselves asking: What’s happening with my boy? Over ...

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Today’s parents and teens: the generation chasm

There has always been a generation gap between parents and teens. Things change from one ...

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Maggie Dent on how to respond to backchat – ABC radio

Maggie chats to ABC Perth about how we might respond when our kids dish out ...

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Why I’m glad my sons took up surfing

Pic: The four Dent lads at the Pipeline break, North Shore Hawaii When I grew ...

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The power of words to make a difference at home or school

Name-calling, exclusion and put downs can scar anyone, especially children – that makes sense for ...

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The power of one-on-one

Last year a mother came to chat to me after a seminar to thank me ...