Courses
Covid 19
Commonsense and the Coronavirus
The world is hearing a lot of scary news about coronavirus everywhere at the moment and the anxiety around this is going to be affecting parents, as well as children.
Helping little people understand masks
As the pandemic continues, you might notice that we're being asked to wear masks more often. How do we help little children to understand masks so that they feel more…
General Parenting
Talking to children about suicide
Perhaps one of the toughest things a parent can do is try to explain to a child or teen that someone they love has died by suicide. Here are some…
More merry, less mayhem at Christmas
These days there’s a lot of pressure to do everything LARGE including Christmas. In this video, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent challenges us all to turn the volume down…
Connecting with kids – building love bridges
In our time-poor world, quality time doesn’t always go to plan, especially as our children don’t necessarily want to work in with our ‘scheduled’ time together. The good news is…
Preparing children for a death
Here are some ways to use 'anticipatory grief' to help children process the forthcoming loss, and some things parents who are terminally ill can do to support their children during…
Celebrating Dads
Dads (and father figures, granddads, uncles, stepdads and other good blokes) are so important to raising healthy, happy children. This is a call to all father figures to celebrate Father's…
Friendship
How to help your friends when they’re struggling
Maggie Dent gives some good advice here for teens who are noticing their friends aren't doing so well, want to help, but aren't sure how to go about it.
How to be a good friend?
There are a few things you can do which make a big difference to being a good friend and Maggie shares what they are in this video.