Blog Category: Raising Adolescents
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Why we need to teach our teens how to handle stress
Stress is something we, as adults, are all too familiar with. For teens though, because ...
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Teen safety (without suffocation) – Understanding Boys
Maggie spoke with Harb Gill from the Understanding Boys blog about how to keep your teen sons ...
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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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Best-ever communication tips around teens
After teaching, counselling and living with teens for 40 years, I have worked out some ...
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Surviving the first week of high school
As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...
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Supporting your teen through grief
When I was running seminars for teens, I noticed one afternoon working with some 14- ...
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Leaving high school & joining the school of life: Words of caution & hope
As a former high school teacher I can remember the excitement and unbridled enthusiasm that ...
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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World
with an afterword by Steve Biddulph The story in the media this week about the ...
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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 ...
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Dear mums of smelly, unmotivated, lazy, moody and confused 14-year-old boys
“The problem I am having is with my 14-year-old son who does not apply himself ...
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Adolescent Life Skills – FREE Download
What skills do adolescents need in their kit bag for life when they venture into ...
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Helping your teen girl with volatile emotions
I once shared an article on Facebook written by Susan Stiffelman called Why Is My ...
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Teaching with the teen brain in mind
Over the past 15 years there has been a massive outpouring of research that explores ...
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Teen Boys & Gaming: The 10 Agreements for Healthy Balance
Recently a mum of 15-year-old boy came up and asked me a frequently asked question: ...
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Helping our teen girls shine
I often have mums of teen girls speak to me about how worried they are about ...
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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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Teen drinking
Good Health magazine sought Maggie’s opinion for an article they were publishing on teens and ...
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Friendless teens
I normally use the word adolescence when writing about the transition stage from child to ...