The respected parenting educator shares confronting details about her lowest point as a parent for the first time in the new doco, Seen. 

Maggie Dent’s shock confession: ‘I went to swing my son to hit him in the head’

Never before, however, has the author revealed the trauma that she herself faced at the hands of her own parents - and the moment that one of her own actions as a mum shook her to her very core.

In the transformative new documentary, Seen, made by award-winning Australian filmmaker Hailey Bartholomew and ParentTV founder Sam Jockel, Maggie is one of several experts and parents who open up about the mental health battles that have impacted their roles as mothers and fathers.

“I'm a child of the 50’s,” Gerringong-based Maggie says in an on-camera interview.

“We were belted heaps. We were ashamed, shut down, told not to cry, and the stories that I created from my childhood took a lot of therapy to undo. I had to do some serious, big work in some pretty weird ways; punching bean bags and screaming and all sorts of things to really find that who I was as a human - not what my poor, damaged, wounded child was still telling me; that I wasn't worthy of love, that ‘unless you do lots of good things for people, no one can care about you. You're worthless’.” 

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