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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

What You Need To Know About Girls and Their Frenemies

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

Oct 1, 2022

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

Early Adolescents: What’s Going On...

Jun 27, 2020

5 Friendship Lessons That Will Save Your Kids A Lot Of Grief (With Great Download)

5 Friendship Lessons That Will Save Your...

Feb 5, 2018

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

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

Why You Need To Teach Kids These 7 Manners That Matter

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

Jan 13, 2019

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversations With These 10 Rules

Teach Kids How To Have Good Conversation...

Aug 10, 2019

Gossip at School: Who spreads rumours and how do we stop them?

Gossip at School: Who spreads rumours an...

Sep 22, 2021

4 lessons that will help reduce social problems at school

4 lessons that will help reduce social p...

Nov 13, 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

Friendship Skills Must be Taught Not Caught

Friendship Skills Must be Taught Not Cau...

Nov 20, 2022

4 Powerful Ways To Help Boys With Learning At School

4 Powerful Ways To Help Boys With Learni...

Nov 15, 2021

8 messages your teenager needs you to hear

8 messages your teenager needs you to he...

Jun 28, 2024

When Kids Don’t Fit In At School

When Kids Don’t Fit In At School

Jun 21, 2017

Why Do Kids Bully and How to Make Sure They Don’t

Why Do Kids Bully and How to Make Sure T...

Nov 10, 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

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

What’s behind status, the cool kid...

Sep 29, 2023

Connecting with Your Teen: Finding the 10 Seconds of Gold

Connecting with Your Teen: Finding the 1...

Mar 24, 2023

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

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

May 18, 2022

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

A Little Tribute To Siblings

A Little Tribute To Siblings

Aug 29, 2018

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

For Kids, Making New Friends Isn’t...

Dec 14, 2019

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendships (with useful download)

Talking to Kids About Healthy Friendship...

Nov 17, 2020

Parenting Through Your Child’s Friendship Issues

Parenting Through Your Child’s Fri...

May 26, 2021

Hey Dad, your daughter needs you in the world of school

Hey Dad, your daughter needs you in the ...

Jun 11, 2022

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

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

How To Have Important Conversations With Teenagers

How To Have Important Conversations With...

Mar 7, 2019

The Importance Of Student-Teacher Relationships: Build The Bond

The Importance Of Student-Teacher Relati...

Jun 2, 2018

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Conflict

How To Help Kids Navigate BFFs and Confl...

Oct 25, 2019

A Message to My Parents, With Love From Your Teenager

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

Apr 29, 2017

Hug Like A Child

Hug Like A Child

May 2, 2021

The Death of the Male Teacher

The Death of the Male Teacher

Oct 22, 2016

What You Need to Know About Girls and Their Frenemies (Interview)

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

Oct 9, 2017

The Weapon We Need In The War On Bullying

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

Jul 17, 2017

When Friends Turn Into Frenemies (Interview)

When Friends Turn Into Frenemies (Interv...

Nov 9, 2018

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

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

Connect Your Kids to Their Grandparents ...

Aug 14, 2017

The ‘Mean Girl’ Resource We Wish We Could Use At School

The ‘Mean Girl’ Resource We ...

Oct 31, 2018

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

The Social Media Contract That Will Get ...

Feb 21, 2019

10 top attributes of an effective teacher

10 top attributes of an effective teache...

Oct 18, 2019

How Do Teens Really Use Technology To Communicate?

How Do Teens Really Use Technology To Co...

Jan 16, 2019

Healthy Friendship Manifesto for Kids

Healthy Friendship Manifesto for Kids

Feb 9, 2021

Friendship is the Subject Testing Our Kids Daily

Friendship is the Subject Testing Our Ki...

Jul 25, 2023

Healthy Friendships: 6 questions to help kids navigate their relationships

Healthy Friendships: 6 questions to help...

Jul 8, 2024

I Have My Father’s Hands

I Have My Father’s Hands

Aug 30, 2024

The Sibling Bond: How to Help Make It Stick

The Sibling Bond: How to Help Make It St...

Nov 4, 2024

Artificial Intimacy – The Other AI

Artificial Intimacy – The Other AI

Jan 15, 2025

6 Battles Worth Having with Your Kids This Year

6 Battles Worth Having with Your Kids Th...

Jan 21, 2025

Leaving time: When and how should kids leave friendship groups?

Leaving time: When and how should kids l...

Mar 26, 2025

Leaving time: When and how should kids leave friendship groups?

by Linda Stade | Mar 26, 2025 | Friendship, Relationships | 0 |

When a middle school friendship group turns toxic, it can be brutal. Good kids can behave badly....

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6 Battles Worth Having with Your Kids This Year

by Linda Stade | Jan 21, 2025 | Parenting, Relationships | 0 |

“Choose your battles wisely.” It is sage advice, particularly when parenting children...

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Artificial Intimacy – The Other AI

by Linda Stade | Jan 15, 2025 | Relationships, Technology | 0 |

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

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The Sibling Bond: How to Help Make It Stick

by Linda Stade | Nov 4, 2024 | Mental Health, Relationships | 0 |

My mum and dad had three kids in three years. They created for themselves quite the parenting...

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I Have My Father’s Hands

by Linda Stade | Aug 30, 2024 | Relationships | 0 |

I have my father’s hands. They are the same shape, the same nails, the same tapered fingers, and...

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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 held them. You got them to slow down,...

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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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