Calming Our Children & Calming Our Homes
An online course for everyone who wants a calm family home
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Do you sometimes feel the pace and pressures of life are impacting negatively on your family?
In many ways, raising children today is far more stressful than it was just a couple of decades ago.
- Parents are often time-poor and overwhelmed.
- Our kids are suffering anxiety at unacceptably high rates.
- Our 24/7 news cycle & social media habits have created an unnatural feeling of constant change and, frankly, pressure….
So many families are struggling with stress, overload, overscheduling and disconnection. Surely there’s a better way?
Calmness CAN be learnt
This is something I have come to understand over 40 years as a teacher, counsellor, resilience specialist and a mum of four (now adult) sons. By creating new habits and patterns in our families, our kids will feel safer, calmer, more connected and happier.
That's why I have created this course for families with children 12 and under...
What you'll learn...
Session 1: What are the biggest concerns around children today?
I’ll
kick off the course by exploring the biggest stressors and concerns in
raising children today & we’ll reflect on which may be
impacting your family.
Session 2: How our stress-regulating system is formed
I’ll look at the main triggers for challenging behaviour & help you identify signs that stress is too high, and we’ll look at some ways to manage this.
Session 3: Stress, sleep & our cellular makeup
In this session, I explore how stress and sleep (or rather lack of it) affect us on so many levels – especially on how we learn and on our capacity to manage our moods. I also share some tools to soothe your children and help them sleep more soundly.
Session 4: Children's anxiety, what is it & what to do
Anxiety is the fastest-growing mental health issue in the western world. So in this session we explore what it looks like, what causes it and how can we help our children when feelings of fear and anxiety impair their wellbeing.
Session 5: Building more calmness into our lives
Do your kids know what calm means? Calmness can be learnt at any stage in life but in our busy world we can’t assume it will come naturally! In this session, we’ll talk about the simple but enormous power of play and nature in helping us have a gentler, calmer way of life.
Session 6: Staying calm amid the chaos
It’s not just our children who might feel anxious or struggle to cope. As the person/people in the household who keeps everything ticking along, it’s easy for we parents to let worries get on top of us. I’ll explore some key strategies to staying calm and compassionate, even when chaos reigns.
What you'll get...
Calming Our Children & Calming Our Homes is designed for busy parents of children 12 and under. It includes:
Lifetime access to 6 course sessions
Explore at your own pace. Each session contains:
Short audio/video presentations (each around 15mins)
Interviews with experts on
anxiety, digital wellbeing, stress-management, self-care & more
Video demonstrations of simple mood-changing
exercises
Printable notes from each presentation
A handout summarising each session's content at a glance to have at your fingertips
‘Homework’ activities to help you put your learning into action
...and lots of follow-up resources for you to continue your journey to calmness once you've completed the course.
Plus these bonus materials
To enrich your course experience and give you some practical tools to use in your home, I am including the following resources from my online store as free bonuses:
Saving Our Children ebook
Calming Our Angry Ant audio track
Soothing the Frightened Butterflies audio track
Beach Bliss audio track
"Happy, calm children learn best."
Daniel Goleman
Featured experts
Natasha Daniels,
Child therapist, author & creator of anxioustoddlers.com
Allison Davies,
Specialising in music
& the brain
Dr Kaylene Henderson
Child & adolescent psychiatrist
Dr Kristy Goodwin
Digital wellbeing expert & author, Raising Your Child in a Digital World
Karen Young,
Psychologist, author & founder of heysigmund.com
About Maggie
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.
"The most valuable thing I took from this course is once again knowing that I am not alone - that other people are dealing [with], struggling or facing similar things and that there is nothing wrong with me or the kids but there may be ways in which I can help them and help myself. I find this woman amazing!!! THANK U."
– Participant in Maggie's '9 Things' course
My Guarantee
If you are not satisfied with the course content or delivery within 30 days of signing up, I will happily return your sign-up fee. The bonus materials are yours to download and keep.
It is my absolute honour to be able to support families through my work and I look forward to connecting with parents through this course who are committed to quietly improving their lives.
Best wishes,
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