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Parenting

5 occasions when parents should step back…

5 occasions when parents should step bac...

Sep 22, 2022

You Know Empathy Is Important, But How Can You Teach It?

You Know Empathy Is Important, But How C...

Jan 22, 2020

Puppeteers in the Playground and How We Can Cut Their Strings

Puppeteers in the Playground and How We ...

Dec 6, 2021

How to Respond to Your Child’s Friendship Problems

How to Respond to Your Child’s Fri...

Jun 12, 2018

Early Adolescents: What’s Going On In Their Heads?

Early Adolescents: What’s Going On...

Jun 27, 2020

What You Need To Know About Girls and Their Frenemies

What You Need To Know About Girls and Th...

Oct 1, 2022

Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’s Grit

Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’...

Mar 21, 2018

What You Need to Know About Praise and Positive Self-esteem

What You Need to Know About Praise and P...

Aug 10, 2018

Emotional Regulation Skills for Teenagers

Emotional Regulation Skills for Teenager...

Sep 10, 2019

Your Teen Needs Connection With You. Full Stop.

Your Teen Needs Connection With You. Ful...

Dec 2, 2019

Building Trust and Connection: How Do Your Responses Shape The Bonds with Your Kids?

Building Trust and Connection: How Do Yo...

May 15, 2021

5 Gentle Messages For Our Teens

5 Gentle Messages For Our Teens

May 21, 2023

So, You Think You Understand Kids On Social Media?

So, You Think You Understand Kids On Soc...

Jan 30, 2021

What Are The Advantages Of Boarding School? Ask A Psychologist

What Are The Advantages Of Boarding Scho...

Jan 31, 2017

Far From Home: Boarding School Homesickness

Far From Home: Boarding School Homesickn...

Mar 2, 2016

How To Help Introverts To Be Happy And Thrive at School

How To Help Introverts To Be Happy And T...

Jun 27, 2018

What You Really Should Know About Teenagers And Sleep

What You Really Should Know About Teenag...

Apr 3, 2019

What Makes The Biggest Difference In Your Child’s Education?

What Makes The Biggest Difference In You...

Jun 18, 2021

Why You Need To Teach Kids These 7 Manners That Matter

Why You Need To Teach Kids These 7 Manne...

Jan 13, 2019

Sexual Consent Education: The Keys To Teaching Your Child About Consent

Sexual Consent Education: The Keys To Te...

Feb 28, 2019

What Is The Question That Will Help Kids Find Healthy Friendships?

What Is The Question That Will Help Kids...

Jun 5, 2021

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversations With These 10 Rules

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversation...

Aug 10, 2019

How to Talk About Weight Gain Without Shaming

How to Talk About Weight Gain Without Sh...

Jul 24, 2021

The 10 Emotional Skills Every Teen Needs To Be Taught

The 10 Emotional Skills Every Teen Needs...

Feb 5, 2017

Teaching Money Matters: How do we teach financial literacy to kids?

Teaching Money Matters: How do we teach ...

Jun 10, 2020

14 Ways to Help Children With Their Worry

14 Ways to Help Children With Their Worr...

Jul 11, 2020

4 lessons that will help reduce social problems at school

4 lessons that will help reduce social p...

Nov 13, 2021

Friendship Skills Must be Taught Not Caught

Friendship Skills Must be Taught Not Cau...

Nov 20, 2022

Help Your Kids Create Balance and Calm in Their Lives

Help Your Kids Create Balance and Calm i...

Sep 28, 2021

Our kids know we love them and are here for them. Don’t they?

Our kids know we love them and are here ...

Mar 8, 2022

Rituals and Family Customs: How They Empower Your Children

Rituals and Family Customs: How They Emp...

Apr 2, 2017

What Makes Your Child’s Sparents So Special?

What Makes Your Child’s Sparents S...

Jun 11, 2017

Why You Need To Talk About Sex…Often

Why You Need To Talk About Sex…Oft...

Jul 2, 2018

Talking to Kids About Las Vegas

Talking to Kids About Las Vegas

Oct 4, 2016

This Is Why Our Kids Are So Anxious

This Is Why Our Kids Are So Anxious

Apr 2, 2017

Top 10 Internet Safety Tips For Parents

Top 10 Internet Safety Tips For Parents

Apr 2, 2019

What Are Our Kids So Afraid Of?

What Are Our Kids So Afraid Of?

Nov 18, 2017

Teach Your Child to be Mindful (Quick Clip)

Teach Your Child to be Mindful (Quick Cl...

Nov 24, 2017

Why Do Parents And Teachers Find It So Hard To Work Together?

Why Do Parents And Teachers Find It So H...

May 18, 2022

How to help your child through big ugly feelings

How to help your child through big ugly ...

May 27, 2018

How To Raise A Boy To Be A Gentle-man

How To Raise A Boy To Be A Gentle-man

May 1, 2019

Nuggets: Simple But Powerful Clip About Addiction

Nuggets: Simple But Powerful Clip About ...

Jan 18, 2019

Starting High School: How To Support Your Child

Starting High School: How To Support You...

Jan 27, 2023

Love Is A Gift – A Beautiful Christmas Tale

Love Is A Gift – A Beautiful Chris...

Nov 24, 2017

Tell Kids They Aren’t Always Entitled To Their Opinions

Tell Kids They Aren’t Always Entit...

Apr 9, 2019

Does Your Home Promote Resilience?

Does Your Home Promote Resilience?

Apr 2, 2019

Honouring The Father-Daughter Relationship

Honouring The Father-Daughter Relationsh...

Aug 29, 2019

That Sex Ed Podcast: Interview with Friendships Expert Linda Stade

That Sex Ed Podcast: Interview with Frie...

Dec 11, 2022

Social Media Friends vs Real Life Friends

Social Media Friends vs Real Life Friend...

Oct 20, 2019

For Kids, Making New Friends Isn’t Always Simple: How To Help

For Kids, Making New Friends Isn’t...

Dec 14, 2019

Why Every Family Needs Weird And Wonderful Christmas Rituals

Why Every Family Needs Weird And Wonderf...

Dec 17, 2019

Why does my teenager care so much about what other people think?

Why does my teenager care so much about ...

Sep 20, 2021

Kids From The Bush Thriving In The City

Kids From The Bush Thriving In The City

Jun 3, 2020

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendships (with useful download)

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendship...

Nov 17, 2020

Build a strong emotional launchpad and kids will fly

Build a strong emotional launchpad and k...

Oct 26, 2021

7 Ways to Promote Powerful Emotional Growth in Your Kids

7 Ways to Promote Powerful Emotional Gro...

Oct 12, 2021

The best way to teach kids boundaries is to set them

The best way to teach kids boundaries is...

Jul 16, 2021

Emotional Skills Should Be Taught, Not Caught

Emotional Skills Should Be Taught, Not C...

Aug 7, 2022

What’s behind status, the cool kids, and fitting into high school?

What’s behind status, the cool kid...

Sep 29, 2023

10 Tips For Building Better Father-Daughter Relationships

10 Tips For Building Better Father-Daugh...

Aug 27, 2022

Can you teach integrity? Yes… and here’s how

Can you teach integrity? Yes… and ...

Jun 25, 2023

Our Kids and Vaping: Practical advice for parents

Our Kids and Vaping: Practical advice fo...

Jan 3, 2024

How to support your kids as they start high school and make new friends

How to support your kids as they start h...

Feb 10, 2024

8 messages your teenager needs you to hear

8 messages your teenager needs you to he...

Jun 28, 2024

Boosting Boys’ Education: 11 ways to get boys reading

Boosting Boys’ Education: 11 ways to get...

Aug 30, 2024

Top 10 Most Popular Articles on Teens and Tweens In 2018

Top 10 Most Popular Articles on Teens an...

Dec 29, 2018

How To Have Important Conversations With Teenagers

How To Have Important Conversations With...

Mar 7, 2019

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Conflict

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Confl...

Oct 25, 2019

The Power of Consistency in a Now, Now, Now World

The Power of Consistency in a Now, Now, ...

Jun 13, 2017

5 Powerful Ways to Build Resilience in Kids

5 Powerful Ways to Build Resilience in K...

Oct 2, 2016

What You Need To Know About Your Teenager and Alcohol

What You Need To Know About Your Teenage...

Jul 2, 2017

10 Positive Conversations You Can Have About ’13 Reasons Why’

10 Positive Conversations You Can Have A...

May 9, 2017

Beautiful Boredom! Why It’s Important to Let Your Child be Bored

Beautiful Boredom! Why It’s Important to...

Jan 9, 2017

10 Proven Ways To Build Your Child’s Resilience

10 Proven Ways To Build Your Child’...

Aug 8, 2018

Benefits of Teenage Jobs: First Job, Second Education

Benefits of Teenage Jobs: First Job, Sec...

Feb 4, 2021

When Should Parents Pull Back?

When Should Parents Pull Back?

Sep 2, 2017

Little Girl Sex Symbols

Little Girl Sex Symbols

Apr 3, 2017

Creating Better Parent-Teacher Meetings

Creating Better Parent-Teacher Meetings

Sep 15, 2017

A Message to My Parents, With Love From Your Teenager

A Message to My Parents, With Love From ...

Apr 29, 2017

13 Top Tips For Parenting During Exams

13 Top Tips For Parenting During Exams

Sep 18, 2019

Turn This Hell Week into Highlight Week!

Turn This Hell Week into Highlight Week!

Aug 31, 2022

Having teenagers doesn’t need to be this exhausting

Having teenagers doesn’t need to b...

May 5, 2023

That National Book Week Costume is Perfect…No Matter What!

That National Book Week Costume is Perfe...

May 21, 2017

How To Teach Your Child To Be A Perfect Failure

How To Teach Your Child To Be A Perfect ...

Nov 4, 2017

The Weapon We Need In The War On Bullying

The Weapon We Need In The War On Bullyin...

Jul 17, 2017

Talking to Kids About Manchester

Talking to Kids About Manchester

May 23, 2017

10 Schoolies Tips To Keep Kids Safe And Parents Sane

10 Schoolies Tips To Keep Kids Safe And ...

Nov 6, 2017

The pain and damage caused when a child is shamed… and how to fix it!

The pain and damage caused when a child ...

Jan 17, 2019

The Social Media Contract That Will Get You and Your Kids Talking

The Social Media Contract That Will Get ...

Feb 21, 2019

Healthy Friendship Manifesto for Kids

Healthy Friendship Manifesto for Kids

Feb 9, 2021

How Old Should My Kids Be Before I Let Them Use Social Media?

How Old Should My Kids Be Before I Let T...

Dec 28, 2018

Understanding How To Help An Angry Child

Understanding How To Help An Angry Child

Jun 23, 2018

Connect Your Kids to Their Grandparents and the Past (Downloadable activity)

Connect Your Kids to Their Grandparents ...

Aug 14, 2017

Kids and Gaming: When Does Good Fun Turn Into Addiction?

Kids and Gaming: When Does Good Fun Turn...

Jun 22, 2019

What’s More Important Than A Happy Childhood?

What’s More Important Than A Happy...

Jun 29, 2019

How To Make Sure Your Child Is Ready For School

How To Make Sure Your Child Is Ready For...

Jun 6, 2019

The Transition To High School: Help Your Child Make A Great Start

The Transition To High School: Help Your...

Nov 14, 2018

Why Do Kids Swear And How Do You Respond?

Why Do Kids Swear And How Do You Respond...

Sep 25, 2019

The road from child to adult is smoothest when we do two things

The road from child to adult is smoothes...

Apr 23, 2023

Spotting Mental Health Problems in Teenagers

Spotting Mental Health Problems in Teena...

Nov 27, 2019

Schoolies: The Good News Story We Need

Schoolies: The Good News Story We Need

Nov 17, 2019

Write It Down! 7 Reasons Your Kids Should Be Keeping a Journal

Write It Down! 7 Reasons Your Kids Shoul...

Dec 4, 2019

10 Ways To Create Calm For Your Kids

10 Ways To Create Calm For Your Kids

Apr 9, 2020

Please, Please Heed the Golden Rule of Cybersafety

Please, Please Heed the Golden Rule of C...

Aug 9, 2022

Welcome to High School Generation Alpha!

Welcome to High School Generation Alpha!

Jan 26, 2022

Friendship Lessons from a Fishbowl

Friendship Lessons from a Fishbowl

May 18, 2022

How to develop persistence in your child

How to develop persistence in your child

Feb 16, 2022

Why are family holidays so very important?

Why are family holidays so very importan...

Jan 3, 2023

How to find the calm when your teen is drowning in emotion

How to find the calm when your teen is d...

Apr 5, 2023

Why are we rushing our children?

Why are we rushing our children?

May 30, 2023

No… Teens shouldn’t choose their own bedtime!

No… Teens shouldn’t choose t...

Aug 25, 2023

Taking days off school: Is it really such a big deal?

Taking days off school: Is it really suc...

Apr 12, 2024

How to teach kids to be more empathetic and less entitled

How to teach kids to be more empathetic ...

Jun 2, 2024

Why are part-time jobs so important for our teens?

Why are part-time jobs so important for ...

Jul 30, 2024

Healthy Friendships: 6 questions to help kids navigate their relationships

Healthy Friendships: 6 questions to help...

Jul 8, 2024

Beyond Bubble Baths: The Self-Care Routines Your Kids Really Need

Beyond Bubble Baths: The Self-Care Routi...

Aug 2, 2024

How to respond when your child is anxious about challenges at school

How to respond when your child is anxiou...

Sep 27, 2024

Artificial Intimacy… The Other AI

Artificial Intimacy… The Other AI

Dec 19, 2024

Artificial Intimacy… The Other AI

by Linda Stade | Dec 19, 2024 | Friendship, Mental Health, Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

I read a meme the other day, “Adult friendship is just shooting off texts saying, ‘Let’s catch...

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How to respond when your child is anxious about challenges at school

by Linda Stade | Sep 27, 2024 | Anxiety, Health, Mental Health, Parenting | 0 |

When I was 13 years old, I had to present an Australian ballad to my English class for assessment....

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Boosting Boys’ Education: 11 ways to get boys reading

by Linda Stade | Aug 30, 2024 | Boys, Learning, Parenting | 0 |

You may have heard of ‘the million-word gap’. It is the idea that if you read five picture books a...

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Beyond Bubble Baths: The Self-Care Routines Your Kids Really Need

by Linda Stade | Aug 2, 2024 | Health, Parenting, Wellbeing | 0 |

Our language is diffused with psychology-speak. We talk about toxic relationships, narcissism,...

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Why are part-time jobs so important for our teens?

by Linda Stade | Jul 30, 2024 | Learning, Parenting | 0 |

Me: That’s a lovely dress. Can I help with sizing Sir? Him: It’s for my wife. She’s about your...

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Healthy Friendships: 6 questions to help kids navigate their relationships

by Linda Stade | Jul 8, 2024 | Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

The best thing about school for most students is friends. Your friends bring the laughs in class,...

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8 messages your teenager needs you to hear

by Linda Stade | Jun 28, 2024 | Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

Remember when your toddler got emotional and frantic? You looked at them gently and said, “Use...

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Linda Stade is an educator, writer, speaker, and consultant in Western Australia. She works with parents and teachers to help grow happy, healthy kids who thrive on learning. [email protected]

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