Tickets are a complete reward system encouraging you and your child to work together to manage behaviour.

You start by setting clear, achievable goals together. Follow this up with lots of direct praise when you see your child achieve the goal. Finally, watch the surprise reward appear before your eyes as they scratch their Tickets to reveal fun and creative activities you can all share in.

‘Tickets’ is the latest resource to come from the creatives minds at the Quirky Kid Clinic. An inventive and cooperative tool for managing your child’s behaviour.

It is simple:

- Set a goal
- Give your child a ticket to acknowledge when the goal is achieved
- When your child collects enough tickets, he/she gets to scratch and win!
- Lastly, enjoy the fun and interactive reward activities together!

The Sunday Telegraph completed an article about our resource. You can read about it on The Telegraph online.

Visit the Quirky Kid Shoppe for more information on the Tickets and other unique Therapeutic and developmental resources for children and families.

We love therapeutic resources and go to great lengths to personally develop and produce our hand-packed kits. We are committed to providing parents and professionals around the world with creative and effective therapeutic tools that are tried, tested and loved in classrooms, clinics and lounge rooms around the globe.

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We’ve opened the doors to our new Quirky Kid Clinic in Wollongong.

Located in the coastal village of Austinmer (10 minutes North of Wollongong), this unique therapeutic space offers children and families a range of services and resources also available in our Sydney office.

Local parents are already making use of our comprehensive assessment services and we will soon share our 2011/2012 Workshop Calendar incorporating many new initiatives for children and young people with an emphasis on positive psychology and community development programs.

With more than $40 000 invested in this state of the art clinical and creative space, we look forward to welcoming new clients, colleagues and organisations in the Illawarra, Southern Highlands, Sutherland Shire and beyond to a vibrant new beginning for Quirky Kid Wollongong.

The key services offered at Austinmer are:

- Psychometric Assessments (inc. Developmental, Educational and ASD)
- Individual Counselling, Sibling Groups and Family Intervention
- Therapeutic workshops (inc. Best of Friends and Why Worry?)
- Comprehensive services under the Helping Children with Autism Package
- Classroom Observations, Case Conferences and Consultancy
- Mentoring and Youth Work.

You can contact  us on + 02 9362 9297 to find out more information or to make an appointment.

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Kimberley O’Brien, our principal child psychologist, discussed our new children’s book ‘How to be  Friend and Children‘ social skills with  2UE radio  presenter Tony Pilkington last night. You can find our more about our new book on the Quirky Kid Shoppe. We have recently posted a media release to discuss the new book as well as children social skills.

You can find useful, practical and informative advice about parenting and young people by visiting our resources page, – or discussing it on our forum.

If you have a story and would like to discuss it with us, please contact us to schedule a time.

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The Face It cards, published by Quirky Kid, was recently shortlisted for the Galley Club award 2011 printing aware under the category Non-standard Novelty book or stationary item.

The Galley award was held on the 22nd of July 2011 and celebrated excellence in book and magazine production.

This is a prestigious context often represented by stablished publishing companies like Allen & Unwin, Ramdon House, Pacific Magazines, Hachette Australia and Penguin Group. Quirky Kid feels incredibly proud to have made to this stage.

Ok, we did not win it… but if consolation is a good excuse, we lost for the non-standard item of the year.

We are committed in publishing unique and high quality resources for parents, professionals and children. Visit our online shop at: Http://TherapeuticResources.com.au

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We are very proud to launch our newest therapeutic resource written and illustrated by Mark Brown and Laurie Krasny Brown -the acclaimed creators of Arthur. How to Be a Friend is the perfect prop for parents and professionals working with children to build social confidence and explore playground politics.

The book offers practical suggestions for making and keeping friends, resolving arguments, overcoming shyness, dealing with bossy children,  handling bullies and more.

How to Be a Friend is easy-to-read and provides children with many fun examples and illustrations of how to be a good friend. The book was published to support our social skills program ‘The Best of Friends’. For more information on this program, click on the link.

You will find out:

- Who can be your friends
- How to show someone you would like to be friends
- How to handle bossy kids and bullies too
- The best ways to be a friend and ways NOT to be a friend
- Ways to settle an argument with a friend

This high quality Australian Edition has been produced on a Hard Cover with 33 uncoated and illustrated pages

Buy now a copy and head to the Quirky Kid Shoppe

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We are very excited to introduce our new Therapeutic resources Shop – the Quirky Kid Shoppe. This specialist book and resources shop provides parents and professionals with unique therapeutic resources, including books, toys, games and cards for children, adolescents and families.

The New Shoppe Home Page

More than a Shop!

The new Quirky Kid Shoppe offer many advantages in relation to our old system and it is really easy to navigate. For example, you can find handpicked resources by the Quirky Kid Team. These resources will be changed and updated often.

Resources for Parent and Professionals

The Quirky Kid Shoppe will provide more than just resources. We will also comment, discuss and demonstrate new tool and approaches – simple visit our blog to see videos, interviews, photos and instructions.

Below you can see am example of the grid pages view were parents or professionals can easily find resources. You can search by Issues, Resource Type or Target Age.

Work in Progress

This major project involved a lot of work and dedication over the past 6 months and it comes as a response to many requests from parents and colleagues that often asked us about the resources and products used during therapeutic intervention and workshops at the Quirky Kid Clinic.

We still have some small details to go over however be sure that you will find new and interesting ideas here on the Quirky Kid Shoppe.

You can get access to the Quirky Kid Shop via: http://therapeuticresources.com.au

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The Steering Committee provides advice to the Office for Youth, DEEWR and the Minister for Youth on the implementation and future development of the AYF.

A position on the Steering Committee provides individual young people with an opportunity to contribute to the future direction of the AYF, gain an insight into the working of the government, promote the AYF at events and be involved in discussions that are important to young people.

If you are interested in applying for a position on the next AYF Committee please visit the AYF website for more Information and an Application Form.

Applications close on December 17th, 2010.

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Table of QK Resources

Whilst at the conference we had the privilege to observe many Maoir customs, such as the Pōwhiri (call of welcome from tribes) and were able to attend a number of sessions. The sessions informed us of the amazing and creative work that is being carried out in New Zealand, to support young people.

Additionally, Quirky Kid were provided with an opportunity to display our Therapeutic Resources. They were incredibly well received by many organizations who purchased our stocks out.   This was another major step towards promoting and expanding our resources and we were delighted to see that the resources were received with great enthusiasm.

Young people in New Zealand are very dedicated to the future and well being of their generation. We  found it extremely inspiring to be a part of this conference, and are grateful for the hospitality that was shown to us.

If you would like to have Quirky kid at your next conference, please contact us.

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If you like reading  the parenting magazine ‘Practical Parenting’  stop at the toddler & preschooler section on Info&ideas on page 80 to ready the great review about the Quirky Kid Resources on the July 2010 edition.

We are really proud to appear at this great publications. Practical Parenting is full of other useful information for parents and others interested on subjects about  children, pregnancy and parenting.

The ‘Info & Ideas’ section also features other fun activities ideas and expert tips for parents. It lhas been compiled by Anna Scobie.

You can buy the Quirky Kid Resources at our online  shop.

The July edition of Practical Parenting is out now.

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Our Resources were really well received and several organizations purchased our tools on the day and are now in use by their teams. Many more health professional were truly impressed with this sophisticated tools and how they can complement their work on resilience.

The conference was well supported and organised. As Social Developer I was inspired by the presentation from Kim McConville (Beyond Empathy

Our resources are available at our Online Shop or thought ACER.

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