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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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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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Beware the teen tipping point

Helping our teens to cope, conquer and shine Technically adolescence starts well before the age ...

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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 ...

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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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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 ...

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‘Time outs’, are they good or bad?

As part of one of our regular online course Q&A sessions, parenting author and educator ...