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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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Boys and Fortnite
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, parenting author, educator and author of “Mothering Our Boys” Maggie Dent ...
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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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Parents need our kindness, not judgement
In this month’s ‘Maggie Moment’ one of Australia’s most-loved parenting author calls for more kindness ...
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Taming the parental busy bug
“Hurry is the enemy of love.” — Steve Biddulph It seems that the more sophisticated ...
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Please help me with my lazy, unmotivated 18yo son who is stuck on the couch and going nowhere
It has only been in the past few years that I have started to ...
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When Boys Muck Up
In this ‘Maggie Moment’ author of the bestselling 2018 book “Mothering Our Boys”, Maggie Dent ...
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The one important thing all our kids should learn about
A guest post by Dr Kaylene Henderson Many of us watch on as our children ...
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When Kids Constantly Say No
In this ‘Maggie Moment’ one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent talks about what ...
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A letter to a 21st Century teen: 10 things I want you to know
Dear Teen, There are so many doomsayers and negative voices speaking despairingly about what’s wrong ...
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Please teach your sons about ‘the line in the sand’
Raising our sons to be the best expression of themselves — whether they are ...
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Supporting Children Who’ve Been Diagnosed with Chronic Illness
In this video blog, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors – and mum of four ...