Blog Tag: anxiety & fear
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Recovery and parenting through a pandemic – Smiling Mind podcast
As a proud ambassador for Smiling Mind, Maggie was delighted to join their CEO Dr ...
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Tips for busting phobias & fears for frightened children
It is normal for many young children to have irrational fears like being frightened of ...
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Bringing mindfulness home: tips for parents
As a proud ambassador of meditation app Smiling Mind, Maggie wrote about how to create ...
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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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Anxious kids, worried parents
ABC Perth’s Gillian O’Shaughnessy hosted a one-hour forum on anxiety in childhood, featuring Maggie and ...
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Childhood stress: Why (and how) we all need to calm down
Increasingly, scientists are linking stress in infancy and childhood to the soaring numbers of people ...
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Sensitive kids starting school
As school holidays run out faster than the water out of the bath, parents know ...
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Maggie talks with the Hands Free Mama herself
Few people articulate the challenges and gifts of mothering better than Rachel Macy Stafford. The ...
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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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Taming the teen stress monster
For many of our teens one thing is certain: stress levels are set to rise ...
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What’s with all the angry kids?
As an author and parenting educator I chat to lots of parents and teachers, and ...
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Invisible enemy of anxiety a real worry
In the past decade, we’ve seen large numbers of children diagnosed with depression and behavioural ...
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Managing Anxiety in Children: Stop the Shame
Anxiety in children is on the increase. Shaming is partly to blame. Shaming causes distress ...