One of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators Maggie Dent gives you tips and answers to your real-world parenting dilemmas — screen time, tantrums, building resilience, homework and more. Parental As Anything is a common sense, relatable, practical guide on raising kids of all ages today.

Maggie Dent Parental as Anything

At Parenting Ideas, we’re here to help people successfully raise confident, happy and resilient kids. Over the course of nearly twenty years, we’ve become one of Australia’s most trusted sources of parenting education and support. Below you can explore the many resources we offer to help you in your parenting journey.

Michael Grose and Parenting Ideas 

Dr Justin Coulson does heaps of great work in the parenting and families area. He focuses on relationships and his website has access to articles from his blog through to podcasts on a wide range of topics. He has six daughters so he should know something about having kids! 

Justin Coulson and Happy Families

Dr Jodi Richardson is a wellbeing expert, speaker and educator who specialises in helping parents and teachers raise happier, more relaxed, resilient and optimistic kids with flourishing mental health. She combines nine years of university study with over twenty years of professional work in wellbeing, clinical practice, elite sport and education in all that she shares. She’s a mum of two and travels extensively speaking to parents and teachers at schools, and as a keynote speaker at conferences.

Dr Jodi Richardson Website and Resources

Researcher, speaker, author, and mum - and not only do I GET it, I’ve dedicated my entire career to helping my fellow professionals and parents explore this exact digital dilemma.

How can we tame our tech habits so we're not a slave to the screen? How can we use technology in healthy and helpful ways at work and with our kids so it doesn't encroach on our health and our performance...without resorting to digital amputation?

As a technology, wellbeing and productivity expert, I’ve spent over 15 years with my nose in the books studying how our brains (both kids and adults) process all the stimulation they’re exposed to today in this digital world we’ve inherited. 

I’m also a mum who deals with her kids' techno-tantrums and worries about the health effects of screen time.

I’m on a serious mission to help parents ditch their techno-guilt and raise happy, healthy kids (without suggesting digital abstinence). I also help professionals develop sustainable tech habits to ensure their health and performance isn't sabotaged by the screens we've become dependent on.

Dr Kristy  Goodwin and technology and kids