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Sensitive Kids
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks about ...
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Soothing mama stress and angst
As a parenting educator I am always monitoring and enquiring of parents what’s happening at ...
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Top Tips: Best reads on enhancing empathy in our children
In August 2017, Maggie shared this list compiled by TINYBOP.com of books to spark conversations ...
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When Parents are Absent
In this ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author Maggie Dent offers simple strategies to help families ...
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Raising other people’s children
Parenting is one of the most important and at times difficult journeys that an adult ...
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Fragile boy friendships and why they matter so much
How we can help our boys be good mates. In my life from my own ...
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Defusing your anger as a parent… the Parental Pause
In this video, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent, “queen of common sense”, ...
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Dealing with sibling rivalry – Part 2
Maggie talks about the challenge of sibling rivalry, why sibling rivalry is biologically normal, how ...
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Giving your kids the greatest gift of all: life skills
Life skills are more important than we might realise. I have had Year 1 teachers ...
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Best books and resources for supporting kids with anxiety
In March 2017, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking ...
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How to Cope with Chaos at Home
In this “Maggie Moment”, popular Australian parenting author, educator and resilience specialist Maggie Dent talks ...
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Why are we STILL stealing childhood?
As one of Australia’s leading parenting educators I regularly travel the length and breadth of ...
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When Parents Separate
This ‘Maggie Moment’ is about supporting children after a separation. Maggie discusses ways of explaining relationship ...
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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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Angry Children: Part 2
In this ‘Maggie Moment’ Maggie talks about anger as an emotion. She reframes angry children so we can ...
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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
Bedwetting is fairly common in childhood, by the time children are 10, only about 5% ...
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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 ...