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What You Need To Know About Girls and Their Frenemies

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

Oct 7, 2017

How to Respond to Your Child’s Friendship Problems

How to Respond to Your Child’s Fri...

Jun 12, 2018

Your Teen Needs Connection With You. Full Stop.

Your Teen Needs Connection With You. Ful...

Dec 2, 2019

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

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

Aug 10, 2018

When Should Parents Step Back?

When Should Parents Step Back?

Sep 22, 2020

The 10 Emotional Skills Every Teen Needs To Be Taught

The 10 Emotional Skills Every Teen Needs...

Feb 5, 2017

So, You Think You Understand Kids On Social Media?

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

Jan 30, 2021

What You Really Should Know About Teenagers And Sleep

What You Really Should Know About Teenag...

Apr 3, 2019

How To Help Introverts To Be Happy And Thrive at School

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

Jun 27, 2018

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

What Is The Question That Will Help Kids...

Jun 5, 2021

14 Ways to Help Children With Their Worry

14 Ways to Help Children With Their Worr...

Jul 11, 2020

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

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

Jan 22, 2020

‘Let it go’ is absolutely terrible advice

‘Let it go’ is absolutely te...

Sep 10, 2019

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

Early Adolescents: What’s Going On...

Jun 27, 2020

5 Gentle Messages For Our Teens

5 Gentle Messages For Our Teens

May 21, 2020

Do you want to help shut down social problems at school?

Do you want to help shut down social pro...

Apr 13, 2021

What Are The Benefits Of Boarding School? Ask A Psychologist

What Are The Benefits Of Boarding School...

Jan 31, 2017

Rituals and Family Customs: How They Empower Your Children

Rituals and Family Customs: How They Emp...

Apr 2, 2017

Top 10 Internet Safety Tips For Parents

Top 10 Internet Safety Tips For Parents

Apr 2, 2019

This Is Why Our Kids Are So Anxious

This Is Why Our Kids Are So Anxious

Apr 2, 2017

Far From Home: Boarding School Homesickness

Far From Home: Boarding School Homesickn...

Mar 2, 2016

What Is The Most Important Factor In Your Child’s Education?

What Is The Most Important Factor In You...

Oct 28, 2017

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

Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’s Grit

Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’...

Mar 21, 2018

How to Talk About Weight Gain Without Shaming

How to Talk About Weight Gain Without Sh...

Jul 24, 2018

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

Sexual Consent Education: The Keys To Te...

Feb 28, 2019

How To Raise A Boy To Be A Gentle-man

How To Raise A Boy To Be A Gentle-man

May 1, 2019

How to help your child through big ugly feelings

How to help your child through big ugly ...

May 27, 2018

Love Is A Gift – A Beautiful Christmas Tale

Love Is A Gift – A Beautiful Chris...

Nov 24, 2017

Why You Need To Teach Kids These 7 Manners That Matter

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

Jan 13, 2019

Starting High School: How To Support your Child

Starting High School: How To Support you...

Jan 28, 2019

Does Your Home Promote Resilience?

Does Your Home Promote Resilience?

Apr 2, 2019

The Wonderful Power Of Celebration

The Wonderful Power Of Celebration

May 15, 2021

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversations With These 10 Rules

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversation...

Aug 10, 2019

Honouring The Father-Daughter Relationship

Honouring The Father-Daughter Relationsh...

Aug 29, 2019

Why Every Family Needs Weird And Wonderful Christmas Rituals

Why Every Family Needs Weird And Wonderf...

Dec 17, 2019

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

For Kids, Making Friends Isn’t Alw...

Dec 14, 2019

Kids From The Bush Thriving In The City

Kids From The Bush Thriving In The City

Jun 3, 2020

Teaching Your Child Financial Literacy: An Age Guide

Teaching Your Child Financial Literacy: ...

Jun 10, 2020

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendships (with useful download)

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendship...

Nov 17, 2020

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

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

Jun 13, 2017

Talking to Kids About Manchester

Talking to Kids About Manchester

May 23, 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 29, 2020

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

That National Book Week Costume is Perfe...

May 21, 2017

Talking to Kids About Las Vegas

Talking to Kids About Las Vegas

Oct 4, 2016

When Should Parents Pull Back?

When Should Parents Pull Back?

Sep 2, 2017

How To Have Important Conversations With Teenagers

How To Have Important Conversations With...

Mar 7, 2019

5 Powerful Ways to Build Resilience in Kids

5 Powerful Ways to Build Resilience in K...

Oct 2, 2016

What Makes Your Child’s Sparents So Special?

What Makes Your Child’s Sparents S...

Jun 11, 2017

What You Need To Know About Your Teenager and Alcohol

What You Need To Know About Your Teenage...

Jul 2, 2017

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

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

Jan 9, 2017

Why You Need To Talk About Sex…Often

Why You Need To Talk About Sex…Oft...

Jul 2, 2018

How To Teach Your Child To Be A Perfect Failure

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

Nov 4, 2017

First Job, Second Education: Why Your Teenager Needs A Job

First Job, Second Education: Why Your Te...

Feb 4, 2017

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

10 Positive Conversations You Can Have A...

May 9, 2017

10 Proven Ways To Build Your Child’s Resilience

10 Proven Ways To Build Your Child’...

Aug 8, 2018

Little Girl Sex Symbols

Little Girl Sex Symbols

Apr 3, 2017

A Message to My Parents, With Love From Your Teenager

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

Apr 29, 2017

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Conflict

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Confl...

Oct 25, 2019

The Weapon We Need In The War On Bullying

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

Jul 17, 2017

10 Schoolies Tips To Keep Kids Safe And Parents Sane

10 Schoolies Tips To Keep Kids Safe And ...

Nov 6, 2017

Big, Toxic Shame: Why It Is The Most Destructive Weapon Of All

Big, Toxic Shame: Why It Is The Most Des...

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

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

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

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

May 18, 2019

Understanding How To Help An Angry Child

Understanding How To Help An Angry Child

Jun 23, 2018

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

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

Jun 22, 2019

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

Connect Your Kids to Their Grandparents ...

Aug 14, 2017

What’s More Important Than A Happy Childhood?

What’s More Important Than A Happy...

Jun 29, 2019

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

The Transition To High School: Help Your...

Nov 14, 2018

Top 10 Most Popular Articles on Teens and Tweens In 2018

Top 10 Most Popular Articles on Teens an...

Dec 29, 2018

Nuggets: Simple But Powerful Clip About Addiction

Nuggets: Simple But Powerful Clip About ...

Jan 18, 2019

Tell Kids They Aren’t Always Entitled To Their Opinions

Tell Kids They Aren’t Always Entit...

Apr 9, 2019

How To Make Sure Your Child Is Ready For School

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

Jun 6, 2019

Creating Better Parent-Teacher Meetings

Creating Better Parent-Teacher Meetings

Sep 15, 2017

Why Do Kids Swear And How Do You Respond?

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

Sep 25, 2019

Spotting Mental Health Problems in Teenagers

Spotting Mental Health Problems in Teena...

Nov 27, 2019

Social Media Friends vs Real Life Friends

Social Media Friends vs Real Life Friend...

Oct 20, 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

5 Conversations We Need To Have With Kids In These Strange Times

5 Conversations We Need To Have With Kid...

Apr 1, 2020

Keeping a journal through this pandemic will boost kids’ mental health

Keeping a journal through this pandemic ...

Mar 19, 2020

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

Why does my teenager care so much about ...

Jun 20, 2021

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

by Linda Stade | Jun 20, 2021 | Parenting, Wellbeing | 0 |

Teenagers really care what other people think. Why is this approval-seeking behaviour so strong and how can we help them decide whose opinion matters?

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

by Linda Stade | Jun 5, 2021 | Favourites, Friendship, Parenting, Relationships | 0

Inside: Choosing healthy, positive friendships is one of the skills we learn growing up. To help...

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The Wonderful Power Of Celebration

by Linda Stade | May 15, 2021 | Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

Active-constructive responding is a set of behaviours that promote intimacy and trust,...

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Do you want to help shut down social problems at school?

by Linda Stade | Apr 13, 2021 | Friendship, Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

Social problems at school can be devastating for our kids. How can we teach them to build each...

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Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendships (with useful download)

by Linda Stade | Nov 17, 2020 | Friendship, Parenting, Relationships | 0

Healthy friendships are a huge protective factor for our kids’ mental health and wellbeing....

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When Should Parents Step Back?

by Linda Stade | Sep 22, 2020 | Mental Health, Parenting | 0 |

I’m sure you’ve all heard the terms ‘helicopter parents’, ‘bubble wrap parents’, ‘lawnmower...

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Linda Stade is an education writer, speaker, and consultant in Western Australia. She has worked in various teaching and management roles in education for 30 years.

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