Parental As Anything

A common-sense guide to raising happy, healthy kids – from toddlers to tweens

From the queen of commonsense parenting and host of the popular ABC podcast Parental As Anything comes the ultimate guide to raising happy, healthy kids – from toddlers to tweens 

• How much screen time should you let your children have? 
• How and when do you talk about sex? 
• What can you do when your kid throws a tantrum? 
• Why should you let your children just play? 

Maggie Dent has answers to your real-world parenting dilemmas.

Focusing on the most engaged-with topics from her popular ABC Parental As Anything podcast, Maggie tells us what the experts have to say, relates the experiences of other parents, and offers her own reassuring guidance to provide practical solutions to the challenges parents and caregivers face today.

This book will give you the means to be the parent you’d like to be, and help you in your quest to raise happy, healthy, thriving, resilient children.

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• 1. Roosters and lambs: the influence of temperament
• 2. Managing the hot moments: meltdowns and tantrums – including your own
• 3. Help! How do I discipline my child?
• 4. Play and nature play: why they matter so much
• 5. Transitioning to big school
• 6. Raising our kids in this new, digital world
• 7. Anxiety in childhood and early adolescence
• 8. Talking to our kids about the birds and the bees in the 21st century
• 9. Help for feeding fussy eaters
• 10. Exploring death and loss in our families
• 11. How do I raise a resilient child?
• 12. Sole parenting: what helps and what doesn’t
• 13. Co-parenting in the 21st century
• Conclusion: You’ve got this!
• Acknowledgements
• List of sources
• Support services

272 pages
Paperback
Published by ABC Books

Other retailers and Ebook and Audiobook releases

The ebook and print book are also available from a range of bookstores and etailers.

The audiobook is published by Bolinda Audio and out now on Apple iTunes (access via your Apple device) or from Bolinda, Audible, Spotify or Google Play.

Overseas customers

Many of Maggie’s books are also available in paperback outside of Australia on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones and Indigo (in Canada), plus a wide range of other online bookstores, so please search your favourite booksellers to order wherever you live. NZ customers can order from Mighty Ape and Paperplus. And you can of course access the eBook or audiobook versions from all the usual platforms.