Blog Category: Posts for Parents
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The Lost Hour of Sleep for Adolescents & Young Kids
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses how today’s children and young adults have lost one ...
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Helping Children & Teens with Transitions
Transitioning from one state of being to another is always challenging. As children and adolescents ...
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Helping Anxious Children
In this “Maggie Moment”, we talk about anxiety in young children. Although anxiety is developmentally ...
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Being a mean, loving mum
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses parenting styles, in particular mothering styles. She discusses the ...
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Coping with Christmas
In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie talks about how intense life can be at the end ...
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Boys, Boys, Boys
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about her own experience of raising four sons and ...
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Fairness and Kindness
In this ’Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about the importance of instilling in our children a ...
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Adolescent Brains: What’s Going on Up There?
In this ’Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about what’s going on in the adolescent brain and ...
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Parenting with the Brain in Mind
Over the past 15-20 years there has been a massive outpouring of research that explores ...
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Self-care in the age of 24/7 negative news cycles
So often when I tune into the news online, on the radio or on TV, ...
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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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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 ...