A Masterclass with Maggie Dent and Gen Muir
For anyone raising kids, birth-12.
Clayfield College
Online guide for parents and carers to explore the more challenging moments in raising kids from toddlers to tweens.
In this masterclass, Maggie is joined by fellow mum of four boys, parent educator and obstetric social worker Gen Muir.
Together, they will explore the why and the what to do by bringing practical strategies to help you help your toddler, child or tween
with some of their bigger emotions.
Maggie and Gen will traverse a range of issues including
- Parenting has changed – what are the pressures and challenges for modern families?
- Big, difficult emotions often drive difficult behaviour – why? When should you worry?
- What are the core needs of every child?
- Common struggle points including anxiety, meltdowns, separation anxiety, friendship struggles, screen dramas and more.
- The influence of temperament and neurotype.
- Triggers for distress – and building predictability.
- Ideas on what boundaries should look like short- and long-term to have the best impact on your child.
- Navigating transitions with more success – what helps?
- Every child is unique - nurturing connection often needs to be different too.
- Let's do a deep dive – sibling conflict, ongoing tantrums and power struggles.
- Rupture, repair and self-care.
Maggie Dent
Maggie Dent is one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators, with a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience – as well as being an undisputed 'boy champion'. Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling, and working in palliative care/funeral services and suicide prevention. She is a dedicated advocate to quietly changing lives in our families and communities. She is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother.
Maggie is the author of 10 major books, including her new 2024 release, Help Me Help My Teen, 2022's Girlhood: Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard, the bestselling Mothering Our Boys and the 2020 release From Boys to Men. She has hosted six seasons of the award-winning ABC podcast, Parental As Anything and in 2021 released a book of the same name. Maggie is also host of the
The Good Enough Dad podcast.
Gen Muir
Connected Parenting founder Gen Muir is a parent educator, obstetric social worker and mother of four boys. She is passionate about helping families to connect and thrive amid the many challenges of modern parenting.
Gen has a Bachelor of Social Work from UNSW and a Graduate Diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling. She is also a qualified Circle of Security and Tuning into
Kids facilitator.
Gen has appeared on Sunrise, The Morning Show, Studio 10, 2Day FM and ABC, and is a spokesperson for LEGO Duplo, H&M Parent Hub and Kiindred. Gen's first book, Little People, Big Feelings, was published by Macmillan Australia in January 2024.
When emotions are running high for our children, we can hit some real turbulence in
our family lives and things can start to feel overwhelming for us, as well as the kids in
our care.