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To homeschool or not to homeschool?
In this month’s Maggie Moment, I share the dilemma that seems to be on many ...
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Dads and daughters in the 21st century
One of the best and most significant cultural changes in the last 20 years, has ...
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Raising resilient, capable girls
Social and cultural norms can be deceptively powerful in conditioning both our girls and boys ...
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Finding Calm & Control in the Chaos of Parenting
Do you ever lay awake at night feeling stressed? Worried? Anxious? Do you find yourself ...
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Navigating difficult times with grit, glimmers and hope
How are you doing at the moment? No, really, how are you doing? Are you ...
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Moods: Helping Girls Build Optimism
Have you ever noticed sometimes our little girls, maybe our tween or teen girls, even ...
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The wonder of little girls’ memories
While I was busy researching for my book about young girls, Girlhood: raising our little ...
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What’s your child’s love language?
In this month’s ‘Maggie Moment’, Australian parenting author and educator Maggie Dent explores how our ...
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Helping our girls to be heard
In this month’s ‘Maggie Moment’, Maggie talks about how important it is to enable our ...
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Helping your Young Daughter Find her Sense of Self
Every child is born as a one-off, unique human being. Given genetic gifts or challenges, ...
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Protecting our kids from sexual abuse
Trigger warning: This video talks about child sexual abuse and online grooming. If this raises ...
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Why fairness really matters in families
“Character is shaped by life experience and cannot be seen from the outside or from ...
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Top Tips: Best Books for Teens/Adolescents
In February 2022 I had a question from someone in my membership community about trying ...
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🧡 💚 A message for families in the flood disaster 🧡 💚
In the wake of the flood devastation that is still occurring on parts of Australia’s ...
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Helping boys cope better at school: Tips for teachers and parents
Boys struggling in school, in the Western world, from transition to high school, is ...
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My message about boys not listening at school
As the school year kicks off, I am getting a few messages from parents and ...
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The downside of big dreams and what can help
It is considered a positive and even noble thing to encourage our children and teens ...
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Living in Toddler Land
Toddlers are hard work! In this ‘Maggie Moment’, parenting author, educator and host of the ...