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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for the

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Speaker 1: time poor parent who just once answers now Gooday.

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Speaker 2: This is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy Families

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Speaker 2: dot com dot Au and the Six Kids. Normally, I'm

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Speaker 2: here with Kylie, my wife, missus Happy Families as my

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Speaker 2: parenting podcast co hosts. But it's school holidays in Queensland.

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Speaker 2: I hope that you're having a great school holiday break

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Speaker 2: with your kids. Kylie and I will be back from

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Speaker 2: our holidays with a whole lot of new episodes of

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Speaker 2: the Happy Families podcast starting again on July the eleventh,

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Speaker 2: but for now, some highlights from recent Happy Families podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Amantha Imber is the host of the How I Work podcast.

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Speaker 2: She also has a new book coming out real soon,

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Speaker 2: and I asked her from I mean, this podcast is amazing.

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Speaker 2: She's talked to some of the biggest names in the

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Speaker 2: business when it comes to happiness and wellbeing, productivity, time management,

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Speaker 2: and just being effective as a human including people like

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Speaker 2: Adam Grant and Greg McKeon. So I asked Amantha from

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Speaker 2: all of the interviews that she's done, what would be

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Speaker 2: on her greatest hits for families to implement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So something a few of my guests have spoken

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Speaker 1: about is the idea of chronotypes. So this is underpinned

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Speaker 1: by a huge body of psychological research, and it basically

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Speaker 1: what a chronotype is is it's where are peaks in

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Speaker 1: terms of energy and lack of energy over a twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour period. So broadly speaking, there are mourning people

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Speaker 1: who were laks who you know, upright and early at

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Speaker 1: five am, there's owls four thirty.

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Speaker 2: If you don't mind for me, it's four thirty. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying you.

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Speaker 1: Are a lark, justin and probably deeply irritating to owls,

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Speaker 1: who are about twenty percent of the population. They do

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Speaker 1: their best thinking they've got their highest energy at night,

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Speaker 1: and then everyone else is a middlebird. So follow the

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Speaker 1: patterns of a lark, so more sprightly in the morning,

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Speaker 1: just delayed by a couple of hours. And what is

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Speaker 1: really important for parents to know, particularly parents of teenagers

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Speaker 1: that feel like they're just fighting against these people that

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Speaker 1: want to sleep in and not be at school on time,

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Speaker 1: is that our chronotype is genetically predetermined and it changes

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Speaker 1: with eight So when we're young, when we're really little people,

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Speaker 1: we're quite larkish. When we get into our teenage years,

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Speaker 1: our chronotype shifts and we become like ours, and then

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Speaker 1: in our twenties and thirties we start to level out

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Speaker 1: at where unnatural chronotype is. So I think that is

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Speaker 1: a really helpful thing for parents to be aware of.

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Speaker 1: This is genetically predetermined, So wherever possible, try not to

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Speaker 1: fight against where your child is out in terms of

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Speaker 1: their chronotype phase.

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Speaker 2: Even in some of the trickiest situations, screens can work

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