Are you looking for expert commentary on family relationships and raising resilient, socially adept children and teenagers?

Collett Smart, director and founder of FamilySmart, is a child psychologist, educator and parenting advisor. Collett speaks positively and passionately about this generation.

Collett's 3 main areas of focus are:

How to achieve stronger parent-child relationships:
Collett empowers parents through proven techniques in the areas of communication with teenagers and building resilience in children. Collett educates parents and teenagers through workshops and keynote speaking.

Life skills in Cyber Space:
Collett uses current research and information to assist parents and teachers in their interactions with the young people in their care, so that they may provide children with the skills to make wise choices and develop resilience in their daily technological relationships.

The current wallpaper of children's lives:
We are immersed in a society that sexualises children and normalises violence. Teachers and parents are left feeling disempowered and bullied by the media and cyber culture. Collett expertly engages with carers by presenting not only the problems, but also hope and positive practical solutions for talking with children about this issue.

For an interview with Collett Smart, Director of FamilySmart, please call: 0416332181 or email: JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING

Collett Smart
Empowered Parent - Resilient Child

Collett's YouTube channel can be found here

Media Archives:

TV and Video Links

Channel 7's The Morning Show - Boost your Child's Self-esteem - (9 May)

Channel 7's The Morning Show - Teens at Risk (drink driving) - (20 April)

Channel 7's The Morning Show - Brat Proof Your Child - (18 April)

Channel 7's Sunrise - Think yourself Healthy - (9 March)

Channel 7's Today Tonight - Tough Love - (30th January)

Channel 7's The Morning Show - Tobacco Tots - (8th December 2011)

Channel 7's Sunrise - Cotton Wool Kids - (3rd November)

Channel 7's The Morning Show - Buy, baby, buy - (7th October)

Channel 7's Sunrise - Outrage over raunchy jewellery (3rd October)

Channel 7's Today Tonight - Big Trouble on the Biggest Loser (21st September)

Channel 7's Sunrise - Showbiz Parents (25 August)

Channel 7's Sunrise - Sexting on the Rise (17 August)

Today Tonight - Child Beauty Pageants debate with Mickie Wood (27 July)

Channel 10 news - Child Pageant report (30 July)

Collett is the Parenting Teens Expert on 'The Family Series', with Olive Tree Media and Foxtel

Channel 10 News - Child Beauty Pageants in Australia (24 May)

Parenting in a Sexualised era - JustSalvos (2 May) video below:

Podcasts

103.2 - #Justsayin' Wednesday morning parenting panel (current)

96five - With Peter Janetzki about sexualisation and children (8 August)

103.2 - Parenting Teens series (1 - 6) found under 'Parenting with Passion' (from 17/07/2011)

Austereo - Talking to David and Tanya (1 August)

The Political Spot - Comment on the UK review  'Letting children be children.' (14 June)

103.2 - Child Beauty Pageants (30 May)

103.2 - Facebook and children - on 'Parenting with Passion' (10 March)

The Political Spot - 'We Dare' wii game gets a PG rating (8th March)

The Conversation - regarding self-worth and children

Print Media

The Herald Sun - Mario and gory war video games (29 June)

The Hoopla - 10 Tips on Parenting Teens' binge drinking (30 May)

The Herald Sun - Thanks Tom for a beaut' message (3May)

ABC The Drum - Children as 'eye candy' (1 May)

Mamamia - How do I make rape 'not funny' to my teenage son (8 March)

The Huffington Post (USA) - Glitz and Drama Downunder (3 August)

The Australian - The ugly truth about child beauty pageants (2 August)

The Herald Sun - Local mayor hopping mad at child beauty pageants (28 July)

Collett's blog post 'Esteem Destroying Pageants' linked in; The Age, The Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald articles

The Herald Sun article - Sex doesn't always sell to Gen-Y (2 March)