Resilience

Helping children learn how to cope with uncertainty may well be the most important role that parents play, says psychologist Dr Lyn O’Grady. To do that, we need to help them find reasons to hope.

Maggie Dent shares her tips for helping your teens see failure through a growth mindset and develop the grit to bounce back after a disappointment.

In a world still cloaked in gender stereotyping, the need to empower young women to envision a life of limitless possibilities is critical.

Helping our children overcome their fears goes a long way to boosting their motivation, says clinical psychologist and family therapist Andrew Fuller.

Motivation is a slippery customer. Just when you want to rely on it, it puts its feet up, takes a few days off and generally wants to be about as active as a sloth on long service leave. Your ‘get up and go’ has ‘got up and gone’.

We can help children confront their social fears and develop tools to deal with anxious feelings, writes Jamie Lynn Tatera.

If you're not on time for pick up, how does your child react? Here, tween and teen parenting author and speaker Michelle Mitchell, shares her common sense ideas to promote resilience.

When teaching our children about consequences, the aim is to set clear boundaries based on family values and expectations. Here, Dr Deborah Trengove shares advice on how parents can use positive discipline in their parenting toolkit.

How bush kinder teaches children to be organised and prepared, an experiment in free-to-air TV, and the inappropriate games kids play.