Blog Tag: discipline

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Shifting kids’ habitual behaviours

Do your children have any habitual responses that are disruptive to your family? In this ...

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Forgetful boys

In this “Maggie Moment”, Australian parenting author, educator and host of the ABC Parental As ...

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S1 Episode 6 – How to discipline your child — Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

Threats, bribes, shouting, and time-outs can work in the heat of the moment but when ...

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Kids’ Backchat & Rudeness

In this month’s ‘Maggie moment’, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors Maggie Dent discusses strategies ...

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Worried your child is an attention seeker? Here’s the real truth.

A guest post by Dr Vanessa Lapointe In my work, I often hear from parents, ...

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When fathers are tough, inflexible and unloving

Over the years I have been asked many times by mums about what they can ...

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Are your problem students bad or just struggling?

Here in Australia, there has been quite a bit of media focus on the alarming ...

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The only three rules that matter: KISS parenting

There are so many parenting styles floating around in the sleep-deprived, chaotic world that is ...

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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 ...

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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?

It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...

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Why being a firm, loving parent matters

Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...

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Potty Mouth Kids

Recently a mum was telling me how her 5-year-old daughter, in a casual kitchen setting, ...

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In praise of a common-sense revolution

Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a motoring expert, and a listener ...

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Motivating Students Beyond Carrot & Stick

How stickers and certificates can undermine students’ self-direction and motivation, and why influence is more ...

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The Little Things are the Big Things: Building Resilience

Today’s modern world is full of so many innovations, knowledge and new ways of doing ...