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Thanks Salt Magazine for the feature here. I've been thinking a lot about the power of words and the stories that shape our experiences of pretty much everything. We live by our stories. Seriously. During this time of COVID19, when narratives of panic and despair and...

I've been teaching for two decades now, and now, as an academic, I'm aware that the same problems that plague our youngest school-goers plague university students: we are a punitive society - we create these things called 'Fail' grades, and then students of all ages...

Unlocking Parental Intelligence:Finding Meaning in Your Child’s BehaviorInterview with author Laurie Hollman, Ph.D.  Holidays are here and children are home. However wonderful this may be, this is also the time when family dynamics can get pretty intense with everyone...

With the upcoming release of my biographical memoir Whisperings in the Blood (UQP 2016), I think with compassion of the millions of people all over the world who are compelled to leave the land they are born in and search for new homes. If this book does one thing...

Why does the self-esteem of today’s kids seem to be falling? We’re so obsessed by measurable outcomes in terms of quantifiable achievement in our kid’s lives these days, that I think we’re generating a huge problem in terms of their feelings of self-worth. For...

As parents, we’re often anxious…we want our kids to be successful in the world, so this often leads to us pushing them to succeed, sometimes from when they’re really young. But what we don’t get, is that being stressed actually gets in the way of healthy emotional and...

The recent sale of Raising Stress-Proof Kids to Familius Books in the USA is really great news. They're a publisher with a wonderful ethos...supporting families, parenting, and children. I'll be writing regular articles for them online...here's the first...

After a wonderful, full two weeks in the UK, I'm back in the land of OZ. Conversations with readers of Raising Stress-Proof Kids at my two book events in London and Norwich lead me to realise that so many parents in the UK as well as Australia are dealing with very...