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Getting Ready for High School

Getting Ready for High School

Managing The Transition from Primary to High School Transitioning from primary to high school is often an exciting and nerve wracking time for children and parents alike. High school is often a different social, academic and behavioural...

Why so Blue? Autism Awareness Month

Why so Blue? Autism Awareness Month   April is Autism Awareness Month globally and Autism Queensland has officially launched their “Go Blue for Autism” campaign in order raise funds and awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a...

Deal with Changes in Life

HOW WELL DO YOU ADAPT TO THE INEVITABLE CHANGES THAT HAPPEN IN LIFE? How to deal with changes in life. Adapting takes RESILIENCE... read this! 10 Ways to build resilience 1. Make connections Good relationships with close family members,...

Tips to Prevent Bullying

Today is the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence and we all have a role to play in the prevention of bullying. Below are some tips for what to do when bullying occurs. Encourage our kids to speak up about...

Six Reasons Why Young People Bully

What makes a young person torment and assault other children and students regularly? Why do some kids repeatedly push, shove and hit other children at school? What makes adolescents humiliate, insult, or ostracise a peer? Finding answers...

Say No to Bullying

Say NO to Bullying…. On Friday 16 March 2018 and get ready to say 'Bullying. No Way!' with schools across the nation. This National Day of Action is Australia’s key anti-bullying event for schools.  In the lead up to this day, it is...

Sticking to Goals and Staying Motivated

Sticking to Goals and Staying Motivated One of our recent team meetings involved my colleagues and I setting goals for the year across different areas of our life.  This, and the usual start of year conversations around people’s New Years...

Can I Recover From Workplace Bullying?

Peer abuse or workplace bullying is a widely used term to describe the intentional and repeated emotional, verbal or physical harassment of an individual by one or more colleagues. It can vary from subtle intimidation or humiliation...

HELP, my child is a bully!

10 THINGS YOU CAN DO AS A PARENT WHEN YOUR CHILD IS A BULLY   Have a conversation with your child and try to understand his/her perspective of why he/she is bullying. Some children bully because they have been bullied themselves,...

Problem Solving Skills for Children

How do I help my children making the right choices? The problem solving process Does your child seem to struggle with making the right choices in the moment? Does your child experience difficulties to stop and think before he/she acts,...

How to build your child’s resilience

Resilient children bounce back in the face of setbacks and difficulties. While adults often assume that childhood is a carefree and happy period of life, the reality is that children experience stress too. Though they don’t have the...