Blog Category: Building Resilience
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Gentle Steps to Recovery
There are so many things that can make it harder to recover from a collective ...
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Why parenting is really all about neuroplasticity
When our precious babies are born, their brains are full of neurons with no connectors. ...
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Giving your kids the gift of emotional intelligence
Emotions can be so unpredictable and tricky for adults to understand at times, so what ...
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The magic of movement still really matters in our digital world
Early homo sapiens had to move to survive and we are still biologically wired to ...
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Let’s get creative – it is good for your health and wellbeing!
One of the greatest blessings of having a childhood filled with hours of unstructured play ...
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Smart parenting: helping your child grow an amazing brain
From the time a baby’s head travels through the birth canal, the brain is being ...
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The world needs more kindness warriors
In this age of selfies, Insta updates, over sharing and an incredible fascination with image, ...
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How to raise our boys with character
… or rather How to raise our boys with character, who will care about themselves, ...
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Being a dad in the 21st century
It is a fabulous time to be a father historically, anthropologically and emotionally. The restrictive ...
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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 ...
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Let your kids fail often. It’s just good parenting.
It is perfectly natural for parents to want to protect their beloved children and keep ...
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Top Tips: Best reads on enhancing empathy in our children
In August 2017, Maggie shared this list compiled by TINYBOP.com of books to spark conversations ...
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Giving your kids the greatest gift of all: life skills
Life skills are more important than we might realise. I have had Year 1 teachers ...
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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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The risk of not letting our children take risks
Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...
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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids
As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...
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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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Being a wise, ‘wonder woman’ teen girl out and about
** updated 2021 ** As our girls get older and want to stretch their wings ...