Blog Tag: resilience

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Things that Build Resilience in Kids

In this “Maggie Moment” Maggie looks at the key components to building resilience in our[...]

28
Feb

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#8 – How to raise a resilient child – Parental As Anything ABC Podcast

You want your kids to be able to handle the unexpected challenges life throws at[...]

03
Sep

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Helping our children become their best selves

I’ve been chatting with many parents and teachers recently about the pressure and angst which[...]

30
Jul

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Raising hopeful children

It isn’t always so easy, especially if we ourselves are prone to pessimism. In this[...]

30
Apr

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Helping badly behaved students

Recent reports have exposed the alarming impact badly behaved students have in Australian schools, both[...]

27
Apr

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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids

In this blog post originally published at Essential Kids, Maggie wrote about the importance of raising[...]

08
Mar

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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[...]

23
Feb

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A good dog helps kids care

This article was originally published at Essential Kids. Parenting is a tough gig and in[...]

06
Dec

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Raising emotionally resilient boys

Maggie chatted to Kinderling Kids Radio about how to raise boys to be resilient and[...]

04
Oct

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Why won’t my kids play outside?

It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like[...]

22
Aug

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Healing our profound wound of human disconnectedness

The latest suicide figures from the ABS are alarming, worrying and hide a world full[...]

23
Mar

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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[...]

23
Feb

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Bullying among young children

In this “Maggie Moment”, Maggie discusses two scenarios of bullying occurring among very young children.[...]

17
Jun

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Helping Children & Teens with Transitions

Transitioning from one state of being to another is always challenging. As children and adolescents[...]

17
Jun

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Maggie on Mindsets & Expectations

In this “’Maggie Moment”’, Maggie speaks about children’’s mindsets, how they can label themselves ‘good’[...]

17
Jun

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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[...]

29
Apr

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Are we about to ban childhood altogether?

As a passionate advocate for allowing children a childhood that allows them to play as[...]

08
Sep

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Parenting Imperfectly

I recently met Tim Gill my play guru from the UK at the C &[...]

18
Jun