In this podcast, Dr Norman Swan provides insight into parenting children in the middle years. Dr Swan focuses on the crucial primary school years, the ones that can make all the difference in a child’s life.
Dr Swan is a physician turned broadcast journalist and hosts the podcast series—General Practice in a Rapidly Changing World. He is the author of 3 books, including So You Think You Know What’s Good for You, So You Want to Live Younger Longer. This year he released So You Want to Know What’s Good For your Kids, which explores parenting children in the first 10 years of their lives and discusses issues with straight talk.
Maggie Dent provides invaluable advice to ease the transition to high school – for both students and parents. Maggie has a particular interest in the early years, adolescence and resilience, and is an undisputed 'boy champion'.
Maggie is the author of 9 major books, including the bestselling Mothering Our Boys and her 2020 release From Boys to Men. She hosts the award-winning ABC podcast, Parental As Anything and in 2021 released a book of the same name. In May 2022, Maggie released her first book about girls, Girlhood: Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard.