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Speaker 1: Ever do for see, Ellen, looks like so called parent

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Speaker 1: influences may be starting to get a little bit more

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Speaker 1: careful about putting their kids' pictures online. When I say

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Speaker 1: parent influences, you know what I'm talking about, right. These

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Speaker 1: are the mums and dads who post pictures that're we

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Speaker 1: ones doing cute or wacky things online and then in

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Speaker 1: return they get paid for it in money or products.

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Speaker 1: Now one of these parent influences is Maria Foy, who

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Speaker 1: runs the Facebook and Instagram pages Happy Mum, Happy Child

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Speaker 1: and Maria's with us. Hey Maria, Hey, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? Are you pulling back and putting the kids up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean absolutely pulling back on it. But it's

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Speaker 2: more of an age thing, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, what's happened? What age have you hit?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm talking about their age. They're getting into the

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Speaker 2: teenage years and they you know, I made the decision

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Speaker 2: on their behalf. When they were younger, I was very

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Speaker 2: careful about what I shared. But now they're coming up

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Speaker 2: to a point where I don't feel comfortable talking about

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Speaker 2: certain things, even though as a parent you yearn for

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Speaker 2: that connection. It doesn't matter really what you're talking about

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Speaker 2: but they deserve that privacy, especially when they're coming into

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Speaker 2: those hormone filled teenage years, and so it just kind

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Speaker 2: of naturally has well.

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Speaker 1: At least us as well. Maria, I don't want to like,

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Speaker 1: I want to look at picture I want to look

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Speaker 1: at pictures of you two year old doing cute things,

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Speaker 1: but you're eleven year old at the least.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely absolutely, And they don't want to be

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Speaker 2: up there at all. Their friends are a lot more

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Speaker 2: aware of what's going online than they were when they

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Speaker 2: were two. So it's it's been a very.

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Speaker 1: You know, easy decision.

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Speaker 2: To make, but also a very subtle thing that's just

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Speaker 2: kind of happened in the background now.

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Speaker 1: And your son, I understand, actually doesn't like his photos

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Speaker 1: up at all.

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Speaker 2: No, he actually doesn't really like his photos being taken,

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Speaker 2: even in a family setting. So I made a we

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Speaker 2: had a big chat together him and I and we

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Speaker 2: made a decision that if I was going to take

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Speaker 2: any photos, that would just been for us here in

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Speaker 2: this family and nothing would go online, and between both

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Speaker 2: my children, so my son and my daughter there would

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Speaker 2: always be consent. So by my daughter always has the

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Speaker 2: final say if something goes up. You know it's often no,

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Speaker 2: and that's absolutely fine.

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Speaker 1: And do you think that there are risks with doing

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Speaker 1: this but not not with listening to the kids? I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's okay to a point. But do you think that

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Speaker 1: there are risks with putting out pictures of toddlers if

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Speaker 1: you are a mum influencer.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean I think I'd be a naive to

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Speaker 2: say no, oh, absolutely, there's predators out there nowadays. I mean,

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Speaker 2: people that think the worst things over something so simple,

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Speaker 2: and you know, something that wouldn't occur to you to

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Speaker 2: be taken the faiously will be taken a fairly now

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Speaker 2: In saying that, I believe that's a small percentage, but

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Speaker 2: it's still a chance.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. What about the digital footprint. I mean, if you're

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Speaker 1: sticking up pictures of a two year old and by

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Speaker 1: the time they get to, you know, fifty two, there's

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Speaker 1: fifty years or photos of them.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think for me personally, I just made when

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Speaker 2: we made that decision to continue posting what we were posting,

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Speaker 2: it was always from a respect and a respectful manner,

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Speaker 2: so that anything that went online, if they were to

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Speaker 2: grow up and look back on it, I would like

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Speaker 2: to think that they would be okay with what I'd

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Speaker 2: done and the decisions that I'd made, and it wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be embarrassing for them at all.

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Speaker 1: What's the best payment or product that you got?

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Speaker 2: I think for us as a family, our trip to

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Speaker 2: Australia with Netflix was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: For how long? And did you go first class?

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Speaker 2: No? Absolutely not first class. No, we just went for

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Speaker 2: the weekend. It was just such a fun thing to

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Speaker 2: do as a family and the kids had a blasts.

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Speaker 1: So oh yeah, Maria, thanks very much. Maria fory parent Influence,

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Speaker 1: the owner of Happy Mum, Happy Child. Best one I've

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