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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just

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Speaker 2: once answers now Gooday?

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Speaker 3: This doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy Families dot

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Speaker 3: com dot you, thank you so much for joining me

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Speaker 3: on this holiday edition of the Happy Families Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Kylie and I making the most of our.

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Speaker 3: Time together with the kids, try to work out this

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Speaker 3: move as we get closer and closer to being on

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Speaker 3: the coast and creating that awesome life that.

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Speaker 1: We've been working on for so long.

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Speaker 3: But during this time on the podcast, we're revisiting some

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Speaker 3: of our favorite interview moments from the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: And today it's a conversation I had with Mem Fox.

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Speaker 3: This was episode one hundred and twenty four of the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Mem is one of Australia's, if not one of the world's,

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Speaker 3: most celebrated children's authors, and I asked Mem, if you

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Speaker 3: could spend an hour with your daughter, what age would

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Speaker 3: you pick if you could be with her at any

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Speaker 3: age for that hour.

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Speaker 2: I pick now. I mean I'd pick now. The older

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Speaker 2: she is, the you know, the more of a parent

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Speaker 2: that she becomes, She's just loved. I would just like

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Speaker 2: her as she is as she is. I would not

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Speaker 2: like her at seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: I don't know too many parents that would ask for

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Speaker 4: a seventeen year old again, no matter how good life

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Speaker 4: has been them and how glad you are to be

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Speaker 4: in the moment, what are you most looking forward to

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Speaker 4: is either as a mum or as a grandma.

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Speaker 2: I'm hope. I'm seventy four, and I've got a very

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Speaker 2: bad asthma, a very bad athmetics. So I'm very very

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Speaker 2: frightened of the coronavirus, right terrified of it. But my

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Speaker 2: great hope is that I live long enough to see

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Speaker 2: what my grandson wants to do in life. You know,

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Speaker 2: there are so many choices that kids have now, you

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Speaker 2: know whatever, I just want to know which way he goes.

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Speaker 2: It's because it's fascinating to see what the choices are.

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Speaker 2: Maybe my daughter was a politician for eight years, she

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Speaker 2: was a journalist of seven years. He's been a teacher

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Speaker 2: on and after, she's a teacher again. It's just fascinating

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Speaker 2: to watch people of development and their interests, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I just want to be there. I just want to

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Speaker 2: live long enough for that beautiful and I hope, I

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Speaker 2: hope I will I hope I will.

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Speaker 3: My last question for you, mem is this, if you

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Speaker 3: could go back to Mempox as a young mum, probably

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Speaker 3: having one of those tough moments with maybe that seventeen

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Speaker 3: year old or maybe with a two year old, and

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Speaker 3: you're going to such little experience as a parent, what

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Speaker 3: advice would you give yourself.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, let it rips your block. Just lose it,

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Speaker 2: get over it, but lose it. You know, there are

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Speaker 2: two experiences in my life with my daughter that neither

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Speaker 2: of us has ever forgotten, and we often bring it

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Speaker 2: up in a sort of joking way. I hope it's joking.

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Speaker 2: Where she had a mug with Chloe written on it, okay,

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Speaker 2: and it was precious I get had been made specifically

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Speaker 2: for her, and in a fit at absolute rage about

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Speaker 2: something I've got no idea what it was, I threw

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Speaker 2: it on the kitchen floor and it smashed. And although

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Speaker 2: that was terrible, it was absolutely tragic and it was

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Speaker 2: completely wrong with me. I'm not saying it was right

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Speaker 2: at all. You know, the explosion of rage, it was

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Speaker 2: over and I was devastated, and you know that we

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Speaker 2: made it up. But you can't hold it in all

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Speaker 2: the time. You've got to be real. You have to

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Speaker 2: be in a marriage. You've got to be real. You've

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Speaker 2: got to see how you feel otherwise it, you know,

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Speaker 2: makes you what inside. You just have to have these

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Speaker 2: well raazing you know, rowse and then but then get

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Speaker 2: over it. The forgiveness has got to be fast.

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Speaker 3: You can hear the rest of my conversation with mem

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Speaker 3: Fox on episode one hundred and twenty four of the podcast.

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Speaker 3: It was a great chat. I'd love for you to

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Speaker 3: go back and have listened to it. Enjoy the download,

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Speaker 3: Enjoy the listen. Some really nice ideas come out of

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Speaker 3: that discussion. The Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin

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Speaker 3: Ruland from Bridge Media.

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Speaker 1: Craig Bruce.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for being our executive producer and if you'd

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Speaker 3: like more info, check out Happy Families dot com dot U.

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Speaker 3: I want a quick reminder tomorrow the Bringing Up Boys Summit.

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Speaker 3: If you've got boys between eight and eighteen, This is

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Speaker 3: one that you don't want to miss as a parent.

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Speaker 3: Loads of great experts giving us all the info we

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Speaker 3: need to deal with what, frankly is a masculinity crisis

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Speaker 3: happening around the world at the moment in our society.

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Speaker 3: I hope you'll join us for the Bringing Up Boys

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