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Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to the Happy Families Podcast. It's Friday. It

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Speaker 1: means that we revisit the week that was and share lessons, ideas,

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Speaker 1: and maybe even activities that could make a difference in

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Speaker 1: helping your family to be happier based on what's happening

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Speaker 1: in our home today. Kylie's insight into how involving grandparents

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Speaker 1: and technology can make your kids happier, and my little

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Speaker 1: insight about a whole lot of little things stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Good day.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Happy Families podcast, Real parenting solutions every

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Speaker 1: single day on Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast. We are

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Speaker 1: Justin and Kylie Colsonhan. We're supposed to have some banter

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Speaker 1: at the start of this podcast. Is there anything you'd

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Speaker 1: like to banter about?

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Speaker 3: I am so over three am starts.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so we've mentioned this a couple of times

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Speaker 1: on the pod. Our daughter at industry school. She is

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Speaker 1: mucking out horse stables from literally three am. We have

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Speaker 1: to the racetrack.

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Speaker 2: And I really shouldn't be complaining because I'm not the

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Speaker 2: one who has to muck them out. No, she has

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Speaker 2: to get up, get herself ready, I do the driving driver.

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Speaker 2: He there and then she works for five hours.

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Speaker 1: That's been and can I just mention I'm exhausted thinking

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Speaker 1: about I don't know if I should say this on

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Speaker 1: a but you've been a big grump this week, and

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Speaker 1: it's all because you're getting up at three o'clock in

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Speaker 1: the morning, and that's not what life's meant to be.

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Speaker 1: These are the things we do for our kids. So

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Speaker 1: amid all of your exhaustion, do you have an i'd

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Speaker 1: do better tomorrow for us?

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Speaker 3: I sure do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear it.

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Speaker 2: We give screens a really hard wrap for the most

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Speaker 1: Yeah, justifiably so for the most part.

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Speaker 3: But I just think that sometimes they come in handy

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Speaker 3: and we can utilize them to our advantage. So our

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Speaker 3: she's almost two, and she has had a massive vocabulary,

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Speaker 3: that kind of the word. She has had a massive vocabulatecabulary.

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Speaker 1: I believe you in you, I believe in you. I

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Speaker 1: know you can do this.

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Speaker 3: She has a massive.

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Speaker 1: This is what getting up and came for three am

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Speaker 1: Maybe I need to be let's drive one more time.

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Speaker 3: She's had a massive vocabulary.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you say you got it?

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Speaker 1: Explosions and goes wild. I don't even know where we're

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Speaker 3: And so she usually wakes up in the morning and

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Speaker 3: she says, ring wall we and so she'll she'll ring.

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Speaker 1: Me yeah, so you're Lolly, I'm Pops okay instead of

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Speaker 2: So she's so adorable, and we FaceTime and as soon

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Speaker 3: She's so excited. And then at nighttime, before she goes

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Speaker 1: So this goes back to this thing that I've been

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Speaker 1: What you're describing here is what I think is premium

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Speaker 3: And I just I think our children's lives are richer for.

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Speaker 1: It, Like our daughter's vocabulary go so easily showing off.

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Speaker 2: Now I just love how much richer our grand baby's

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm seeing a practical take home message here,

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Speaker 1: what's yours before I jump in, Maybe you've got the

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Speaker 3: All of us have access to this technology, utilize it

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Speaker 1: And I'm even thinking, if you've got kids that are

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Speaker 1: take home message in just a sec the little things

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Speaker 1: that add up to big things. My older Better Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: on the Happy Face Emily's podcast, Stay with us. Okay, Kylie,

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Speaker 1: we've heard about you and your sudden enthusiasm for technology.

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Speaker 1: I guess it plays a positive role in our lives

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing I left on Monday. We had

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Speaker 1: and this week I left on Tuesday morning after having

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Speaker 1: I want to emphasize the value of the little things,

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Speaker 3: But the reality is that the big things in our

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the little things actually are the big things.

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Speaker 1: So here are my little things that I've just relished

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Speaker 1: Whenever she walks in the door or whenever she sees

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Speaker 2: They've all got their own entrance because our twenty two

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Speaker 1: She steals that from I love from the TV showing

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Speaker 1: up with, first date enthusiasm. One of our kids went

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Speaker 3: I asked her, why not? She said, did you hear

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Speaker 3: the way Dad interrogated me at the end?

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know about him.

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Speaker 2: Well, what was so funny is I was part of

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Speaker 2: that conversation. But she didn't think I was interrogating her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I did say how old is he?

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Speaker 1: What does he do for work? Where does he live?

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Speaker 4: Seriously, it's about getting to know each other. You don't

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Speaker 4: She didn't know anything.

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Speaker 1: even if it's just small stuff. Taking those moments of

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Speaker 1: for this week. Thanks so much for listening. We really

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Speaker 1: hope that this helps your family to be happier. If

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Speaker 1: it helps you to be a better parent too. We

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Speaker 1: can't wait to share more with you. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. The Happy Families podcast is produced by Justin

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Speaker 1: Ruland from Bridge Media. Mim Hammond's assists with research, admin

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Speaker 1: and other support. If you would like to make your

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Speaker 1: family happy. We've got a thousand bajillion resources at happy

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Speaker 1: families dot com dot au. Have a great weekend and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you on Monday.