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Here are some of my articles, interviews and podcasts about parenting.

The Art of hopeful calm.

Posted on March 20, 2023

Managing your stress levels doesn’t need to be a tiresome, time-consuming chore. Read more about this from Megan here.

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Helping teens to de-stress

Posted on May 26, 2022

Megan’s talks to Independent schools in Australia . Howtoraiseaman · Helping teens to de-stress

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How to parent your teenager.

Posted on April 25, 2022

Megan de Beyer – psychologist, parenting coach, speaker and author chats with Christie Buss about raising teens. What makes them different, how we can prepare our homes and hearts for the tricky teenage years, and why it’s so important to understand and hold compassion for your teenager.

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What is going on with our teenagers? Why are they so perplexing?

Posted on April 13, 2022

You are not alone in your confusion. Read more about this from Megan here, along with top tips to help prevent anxiety in teens.

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Is My Teen Lying To Me?

Posted on January 17, 2022

Is there a foolproof way of telling whether your teen in lying? A local expert says yes, but trying to catch them in a lie is tricky. Here’s what to do instead. With teens having so much access to the online world, in addition to the usual pitfalls of teenage life, it’s a stressful time […]

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Mothers & Daughters Retreat

Posted on January 5, 2022

Family Matters – Afternoons with Pippa Hudson

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World Mental Health Advice

Posted on October 11, 2021

Deteriorating mental health amongst teenagers. The pandemic within the pandemic. There are many reasons teens may get depression. Further complications are happening now from the effects of Covid-19 restrictions: isolation, loss of important celebrations and milestones, the impossibility of meeting goals worked towards for many years or the family’s financial situation. Psychologist and author Megan […]

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Feeling Lost?

Posted on August 17, 2021

Tips for managing the post-pandemic identity crisis. The pandemic has changed every one of us. We are all a little different today compared to 2020. And even if we are better for those changes – more conscious, less entitled, perhaps kinder – we will likely each find ourselves facing some difficult questions. If I don’t […]

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Reactive?

Posted on June 28, 2021

A tutorial on emotions and communication

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Family Matters: Teen depression in the pandemic.

Posted on April 28, 2021

Lunch With Pippa Hudson and Megan de Beyer | Parenting coach and  author of the book, ‘How to raise a man.’

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Never give a 10-year-old a phone and other advice for parents

Posted on April 19, 2021

Megan De Beyer’s How to Raise a Man also has communication at its heart. Rather than the issues of technology per se, she looks at how parents are often the problem when their children hit puberty. Read the full article here as posted in the Australian Financial Review, 10 April 2021. Read More

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How to Help Your Teen Move Beyond Male/Female Stereotypes

Posted on March 15, 2021

Boys and girls are usually conditioned to fulfil quite different roles in the world.  Parents generally raise boys to be autonomous, brave, and self-sufficient. We want them to stand on their own two feet and face the world as archetypal warriors.  By contrast, most girls are raised to have good relationship skills.  Parents nurture girls […]

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Interview: The Morning Show, Australia

Posted on March 4, 2021

Watch Megan de Beyer’s interview on The Morning Show (Australia) where she discusses her book How to Raise a Man.

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Dads on the Air

Posted on February 8, 2021

The world’s longest running radio program on fathers’ issues Megan de Beyer in conversation with Bill Kable. Something many of us wonder about from time to time is what turns a boy into a man. With the title of Megan de Beyer’s new book being How to Raise a Man there was no hiding from this question […]

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Anger in teenage sons: How parents can help

Posted on February 4, 2021

Is your son showing signs of toxic masculine anger? Parenting psychologist Megan de Beyer, author of How to Raise a Man, offers advice on how parents can help their teenage boys. Featured on The Parents Website, an Independent Schools Victoria Initiative. Read Article Here

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Parenting expert Megan de Beyer reveals why boys and girls SHOULD be raised differently | Daily Mail Online.

Posted on January 11, 2021

Psychologist Megan de Beyer believes boys and girls should be raised differently, and the exact age parenting changes need to be made. By Alice Murphy for Daily Mail Australia Read Article Here

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The negaverse – when nothing is good enough

Posted on January 8, 2021

By Megan de Beyer I feel like I am always the bad cop in our house. I am always telling my son what he is doing wrong. I want to kick myself. But I do it again the next time. How can I have fun with him rather than always being the dragon? The Negaverse […]

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Dating again: when your kids don’t approve of your dating life

Posted on January 5, 2021

A parent psychologist on when your kids don’t approve of your dating life. Dating again after divorce or the passing of a partner is always a tricky one to navigate. Parent psychologist and author of How to Raise a Man, Megan De Beyer, shares her own experience with dating with kids and their opinions. Read […]

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Are you operating from a fear-based parenting style?

Posted on January 5, 2021

Megan de Beyer introduces her modern mother’s guide to raising teenage boys in the current #metoo #allmenaretrash era with her new book ‘How to raise a Man’Read the article here: Read More

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Parenting in the Pandemic

Posted on December 4, 2020

I feel compelled to reach out to each of you, as parents, in these unprecedented times. As lockdown restrictions lift, the future remains uncertain at best. Our natural reaction to uncertainty is to hold onto old coping patterns (even if outdated) and to try to control the outcome – an impossible feat in times of […]

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