Strategies for helping your kids feel seen
I talk a lot about the dos and don’ts and the practical side of having conversations with your kids, which is all well and good, but in...
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Tasha Lawton
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
Teachers want parents to do it, parents want teachers to do it. The question is, who IS doing it?
It seems since Chanel Contos’s petition hit the webways, the debate around who’s responsible for teaching our kids about topics relating...
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Tasha Lawton
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Do you ever wish someone told you as a kid that 'good is good enough'?
Yesterday was a big day for me. Tough conversations with my 17 year old daughter about her future and then a lightbulb moment after...
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Tasha Lawton
- Feb 14, 2021
- 4 min
What happened to me before I started having REAL conversations with my kids
I used to think that parenting babies and toddlers was hard (and tbh, it was at the time). I spent hours, weeks, months, in tears because...
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Tasha Lawton
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Kids teaching other kids? Whatever next?!
We’re so used to doing it the ‘traditional’ way - teachers standing at the front of the room, kids all sitting facing the teacher,...
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Tasha Lawton
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Some tips on how to talk about suicide and self-harm with your students and kids
I recently returned from speaking at an ACHPER Conference in WA and to be brutally honest, wasn’t expecting what happened while I was...
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Tasha Lawton
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Education should be about providing everyone with the skills required, to pursue a life they choose.
Even though females are more likely to complete school (85% compared to 79% of boys) and attain a university degree (39% compared with...
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Tasha Lawton
- Oct 23, 2020
- 2 min
Why getting trans and gender based decisions in schools right, is so important.
Each year at my kids’ school, it’s tradition for the year 12 students to swap uniforms with each other in their last week of Term 4 as...
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Tasha Lawton
- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
No wonder teachers hesitate to ‘get real’ when they might end up with their head chopped off.
A history teacher, who is said to have discussed images of the Prophet Muhammad with his pupils during a moral and civic education class,...
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Tasha Lawton
- Oct 10, 2020
- 3 min
What do you do when you know your mate’s 14 year old daughter is lying to her about her sex life?
I spend a lot of time talking about how important it is to be authentic, real and transparent with your kids. Now Iet’s see how that...
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Tasha Lawton
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
When your 17 yr old daughter wants to start ‘being friends’ again with the boy that broke her heart
This morning, she announced that she was going up the beach with her ex-boyfriend - the one who cheated on her, the one who she let treat...
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Tasha Lawton
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
What my 15 year old son and I are discussing when it comes to ‘dating’
My son told me on Wednesday, that he’s asked a girl to have breakfast with him next week. I was proud, intrigued and nervous for him all...
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Tasha Lawton
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min
Who’s responsible for the mental health of our kids?
Parents, teachers, schools, governments or themselves? Here’s what I think. I think that as humans, most of us are privileged enough to...
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Tasha Lawton
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
It’s been a tough 2020 for kids, but Schoolies in Neeeewwsaaaaaa…….
A little left of field, however something I feel needs to be talked about! I’ve drawn the short straw and been dealt the hideous hand of...
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Tasha Lawton
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Why it's important to talk to your kids about farts
Why do we find it so hard to have uncomfortable conversations with our kids? We’re embarrassed by the topics No-one had the conversation...
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Tasha Lawton
- Aug 28, 2020
- 2 min
Remember the first time you were body shamed?
Interesting question, right? because body shaming to one person could be seen as a complement to another. For a female, being told your...
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Tasha Lawton
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
Can Teachers help kids witnessing and/or experiencing domestic violence?
As a kid, I witnessed a fair bit of domestic violence and even copped a bit of it myself. Black eyes and bruises were a staple in my...
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Tasha Lawton
- Aug 14, 2020
- 2 min
My Daughter's Boyfriend Cheated on Her
At the moment I found out, I realised I had two choices. Jump on the ‘my poor perfect daughter, what a dirty, cheating, low life, scum...
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Tasha Lawton
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
Teachers are Emotionally Invested in Each and Every Student
As a mum of two teenagers, one of whom has recently passed her driving test, it’s not uncommon for me to lie awake worrying about them....
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