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Expert insights and practical advice on parenting, child behaviour management, and professional development in education.
Parent-led guidance for developing grit in children
I’ve been reading about how childhood anxiety can be exacerbated by how parents model their own anxiety to a child. Indeed, according to what I’m hea...
A parent-led method for managing a child's anxiety
My wife, who is a special education teacher, is seeing an increasing number of children presenting at the learning centre in the school where she work...
Are we watching the unfolding of a public health emergency?
Many of my middle-aged friends and colleagues are seeing more and more parents not looking at their infants, compared to a time before devices came in...
Mental wellness and resilience
Hardly a day goes by without a report in the media about the rising rates of anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses in children and young peop...
What the heck is going on with young people?
Currently three members of our family or close friends have young adult children who are facing significant mental health problems. It seems that anxi...
Look into my eyes
by Kathryn Daniels, speech pathologist, and Michael Hawton, child and family psychologist.
Building resilience before bullying occurs.
Let’s not wait until they’re bullied to prepare our children for other’s meanness.
Why over 100,000 Australian children are on antidepressant medication and what we can do about it.
By Michael Hawton, former teacher, psychologist (MAPS) and
Not succumbing to our own anxiety about risk
By Michael Hawton, former teacher, psychologist (MAPS) and