Blog Category: Early Years, Babies & Toddlers
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8 Simple Strategies to Prevent Your Child’s Techno-Tantrums
A guest post by Dr Kristy Goodwin Many parents today have endured their child’s techno-tantrums ...
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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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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in NSW, SA, ACT, TAS & NT
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Best play/nature-based schools & early years centres in WA
As referred by followers on Maggie Dent’s Facebook page September 2021 A summary of people’s ...
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Fragile boy friendships and why they matter so much
How we can help our boys be good mates. In my life from my ...
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We need to talk about the power of touch
In many ways touch has been contaminated by our fear-based world. We have let our ...
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Top Tips: Best Reads to Prepare Children for a Sibling
In September 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...
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To praise or not to praise
Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...
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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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The power of the parental pause
In those tough parenting moments, this secret may be your saving grace. There are many ...
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Sobering truths about being a mother
Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...
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When children are hard work…meltdowns, tantrums, screaming and whining
Babies, toddlers and young children are learning how to do so many things in the ...
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4 Steps to Toddler Genius
Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...
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Save your cash & pull out the pegs
Babies and toddlers are learning constantly from everything they see, hear, taste, touch and smell ...
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Top Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
In 2015, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook asking for ...
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The Importance of Bare Feet
Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like ...
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Expectations and the inconvenient truth of parenting
One of the chapters in my book 9 Things: A back to basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...