Positive stories about teens rarely make headlines – here’s why that matters.

The Kids Are Alright Viewing the younger generation as either trouble or troubled is nothing [...read more]

The four things we tell little girls that set them up for future heartbreak

I vote to eliminate the following phrases... [...read more]

Your online behaviour says a lot about the person you are

Whether the trolls realise it or not, their comments reveal far more about them than [...read more]

Finally, Girl Power being used for the right reason

  In the early 1990s, prominent feminists argued there was a media-driven backlash against the [...read more]

Ladies, teach your daughters to say ‘No!’

What’s the one word we need to teach our daughters to be more comfortable saying? [...read more]

 Everybody makes mistakes

What do a cage fighter, a quantum physics professor and an award-winning crime novelist have [...read more]

Take a bow, class of 2016. You’ve made it

This week the HSC exams finished for another year and, as an educator and the [...read more]

Do real men cry? How redefining masculinity can save lives

Tears don’t mean men are weak; it shows they have a heart. [...read more]

Porn crackdown: It’s not an invasion of privacy. It’s parenting

Further to last week’s post on an alarming new type of lewd cyber scavenger hunt, [...read more]

Dangerous games: ‘Girl on girl porn score the most points’

The following post was the lead Opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph 30/0/16. In it, I [...read more]