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What to include in a care package

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Now that our students have had a few weeks to settle in, they will start to think about home – particularly if they are at a school where they don’t have any free weekends for the first few weeks. A care package is the answer. Care packages don’t need to be lavish. They are just…

How to talk about risky behaviour

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It’s easy to be the boss when your child is five. It’s harder to have that same influence when they’re 15. If you were lucky enough to have been at the Expo in Newcastle last month, I wonder if you were as impressed by the talk by positive psychologist, Dr Justin Coulson as I was?…

Struggling with bad behavior? Stop controlling

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Whether your child is at boarding school or closer to home, it’s all too easy to end up trying to control kids to keep them safe. Dr Justin Coulson suggests there’s a better way…. We all want our children to grow up making intelligent and sensible decisions, but that’s easier said than done. Teens are…

To My Teenager – My how You’ve Changed

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It’s very common to see a friend and think, my goodness, I haven’t seen you in so long, how you’ve changed. It’s harder when it’s your own flesh and blood and they are in their teens and they arrive home from boarding school. When we say farewell to our children at the beginning of term,…

That sinking feeling – Dealing with homesickness

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When we’re in the thick of the summer holidays, it can seem like an eternity until the school year starts again. Then one day the children are shipped off and parents are left with a ringing in their ears that was once filled with the noise of the kids. And it’s not just us parents…

Introducing Justin Coulson as our 2015 Guest Speaker

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Dr Justin Coulson is a positive psychology researcher, author, and speaker. He is the founder of The Real Men Project, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong, and a Senior Associate at the Positive Psychology Institute. Dr Coulson earned a first class honours degree in Psychological Science from the University of QLD, before completing…

Empty nest syndrome

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Empty nest syndrome is usually associated with families whose children leave home to gain independence, attend university or get married. But for some parents of boarders, there is a sense of loss when the youngest child goes off to boarding school. This time of year is typical for feeling that sense of sadness and loss…

Learning from defeat

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When educational speaker Dan Haesler addressed our Expo events in Dubbo and Wagga this year, he spoke about the importance of teaching our kids that losing is OK. Dan argued that, in the pursuit of success, it’s important to teach children to fail so that they can grow into well-balanced adults. We saw an example…