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Maggie Dent - Parenting educator and author Maggie Dent has earned the love of a nation’s parents for her funny, practical and insightful advice on how to raise healthy and resilient children. What life path has Maggie travelled to become such an advocate for saving our stressed-out modern-day kids?
Maggie Dent has her audience in raptures as she strides across the stage, recounting hilarious tales of parenthood and sharing the practical, no-nonsense parenting advice for which she has become so revered. Though she loathes the title ‘parenting expert’, Maggie has captured the hearts of parents and teachers across the nation for her focus on building resilient kids – kids who spend their time outdoors, who get dirty, who have been given the chance to fall, fail and recover, and therefore build the confidence that comes from learning for themselves. Maggie’s wit and talent as a speaker, educator and author make her appear a master of confidence. But she hasn’t always been this way. For Maggie battled a self-esteem so low that she once attempted to take her own life. How did she rise from despair to eventually lead a movement that is guiding the nation’s teachers and parents? AN OUTDOORS KID Growing up on a farm in country Western Australia, Maggie spent her time outdoors, roaming the open spaces, or tagging alongside her beloved father, enchanted by the stories he shared and influenced by his strong sense of communitymindedness, equality and social justice. She developed her own sense of justice early. She remembers standing up to her teacher as a seven year old, her fists scrunched in anger as she berated the teacher for shouting at a fellow student and making her cry. Maggie spent the rest of the class sitting under the teacher’s desk as punishment. She hung out with the Aboriginal kids whose parents worked on her family farm. She argued with her mother. She played with her five siblings. She did farm jobs. She helped her dad with agricultural science – thinking nothing of helping with tasks like measuring the scrotums of rams. SELF-ESTEEM FALTERS Despite this robust childhood, by the time Maggie reached her teenage years she felt her self-esteem falter. Her bum was too big. She wasn’t into partying. She’d prefer to stay at home than socialise. She consoled herself that at least she was good at school. She was smart, she earned good grades. “School was my mask that I was ok,” Maggie says. She relied so heavily on this mask that, when she failed a politics essay at university, she unravelled. “It was like something shattered in my mind,” Maggie says. “I had pegged my hat on this thing that I was going to be clever and when that mask cracked I thought ‘oh my God I have nothing … there’s no point living’,” Maggie says.
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