Building Children's Resilience with Maggie Dent
Tuesday 4th March, 7:30pm AEDT
Thank You for Joining Us!
Our free webinar, “Building Children’s Resilience,” led by the renowned Maggie Dent, has now concluded. Maggie shared practical, common-sense strategies on how parents can make small changes at home that will have a big impact on their children’s cognitive, physical, psychological, emotional, and social health in the long run.
Missed the live session? No problem! You can still register to access the recorded webinar and gain valuable insights from Maggie’s expert advice on raising resilient children.
Insight Series for Families
Are you worried, confused or concerned about parenting in today’s chaotic world? Children need to have certain basic experiences to build the competencies that will help them manage life – the good, the bad and the ugly. Maggie has developed a common-sense, practical model of 10 building blocks that will reassure parents that what we have always known to be important in the early years of a child’s life is still important. This seminar offers practical, common-sense ideas and strategies to make small changes in the home, which will make a big difference to children’s cognitive, physical, psychological, emotional, and social health later in life.
Top 3 tips for building resilient kids
We hear a lot about resilience. It is often seen as a person’s capacity to ‘bounce back’ from adversity or adapt to challenges. When viewed only like that, it can seem a rather fixed, individualistic concept.
However, we aren’t born resilient and being resilient is not about ‘toughening up’. Instead, resilience is a fluctuating capacity to overcome hard times and adversity, and it’s determined by the systems and environments that surround an individual or community…
“All of the content was truly awesome, but I especially appreciated how many questions the presenters got through at the end. So often in webinars like this, the Q&A part is brief, so thank you for answering so many.”
“The micro engagement ideas. I had to leave partway through the event to put my children to bed – used these ideas STRAIGHT AWAY with amazing success. Quick and easy and it filled my cup as much as my children’s.”
“I am a parent and a teacher, and while I was attending with my teacher hat on, I took away so many valuable insights as a parent. Off to purchase Girlhood! Thanks.“
“They covered some questions that were sooo helpful, as a lot of them were questions I didn’t think I could even ask. I’m feeling grateful to have been able to access this opportunity for free.”
Our Expert Speaker - Maggie Dent
Commonly known as the ‘queen of common sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors, educators and podcasters. She has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed ‘boy champion’. Maggie is the author of 10 major books, including the bestselling Mothering Our Boys, From Boys to Men and Girlhood. In 2024, she released her final parenting book, Help Me Help My Teen. Maggie hosts The Good Enough Dad podcast and has hosted six seasons of the award-winning ABC podcast Parental As Anything. She is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother.
