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

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Speaker 2: Time poor parent who just once answers now, Happy New Year,

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Speaker 2: Happy new Kylie. Kylie is literally sitting there doing that

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Speaker 2: how to do it, but Kylie, how do you describe

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Speaker 2: this that kind of face, the like you're pulling a

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Speaker 2: face at me. I'm excited it's a new year, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three, it's the first podcast of twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: and you're looking at me like I'm.

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Speaker 1: A happy new Year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right. You were up late on Saturday

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Speaker 2: night for New Year's z weren't you anything after nine pm?

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Speaker 2: And you turn into a pumpkin for a few days.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that was a big year last year. But fresh start, Kylie,

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Speaker 2: Fresh start, so exciting, I know. So thanks for joining us. Well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many people are going to be

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Speaker 2: listening to our first podcast of the year, but if

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Speaker 2: we've dropped into your feed and you've taken the time

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Speaker 2: to listen, We're going to keep this one short, just

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Speaker 2: a few minutes. But we wanted to kick off the

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Speaker 2: year by talking about how to be the best parent

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Speaker 2: we can be. For a new year. So every Friday

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Speaker 2: on the Happy Families podcast under normal programming, not the

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Speaker 2: Happy Family Summer series, but normal programming, you and I

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Speaker 2: talk about how we will do better tomorrow. We've got

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Speaker 2: this concept, I'll do better tomorrow. Parenting is about being intentional.

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Speaker 2: I thought today, as we kick off twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: we should start by talking about how I'll do better

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Speaker 2: this year. I'll do See what I've done with that?

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Speaker 2: Do you like that? You're still asleep from yesterday in

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Speaker 2: the day before, aren't you?

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Speaker 1: No? Wait if you ask me what my top tip is,

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Speaker 1: how to be a better parent?

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Speaker 2: So sorry, So we thought we'd share a few ideas

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Speaker 2: with you about how you can be a better parent

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. I've got three, you've got three.

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Speaker 2: We haven't conferred. We don't know what they are. You

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Speaker 1: Well, my best parenting started in December, actually because I

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Speaker 1: brought the dogs. What's happy?

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Speaker 2: Bought the dogs puppy, Dogs are puppy. Don't believe you

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Speaker 2: said that you are tired. You are struggling today, struggling.

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Speaker 1: I brought the kids.

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Speaker 2: Are puppy Okay, so parent of the Year, well done.

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Speaker 2: Do you know why I'll do better this year by

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Speaker 2: buying the dogs a dog, both by buying the kids

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Speaker 2: and you've just heard us refer to the well getting

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Speaker 2: that mixed up, I'm not gonna we weren't. It was

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Speaker 2: It was just a it was a slip of the tongue.

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Speaker 2: It's been a big I thought I was ready for

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking back to the podcast we recorded all about

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Speaker 1: why you shouldn't get a dog earlier last year, and

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Speaker 2: You, regret that podcast. We need to raise it.

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Speaker 1: Regret it because everything I said in their stands true. However,

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Speaker 1: with time and obviously healing after losing our beautiful puppy, Benson,

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Speaker 1: So my number one is to laugh more.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, Hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: Please Oka anyone who's listening to the podcast, I laugh

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Speaker 2: So a quick insert on that. I do a workshop

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Speaker 2: But it's one of my big three. Laughter is one

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Speaker 2: Laugh more, like, just laugh more. I love that. What's

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Speaker 1: Find ways to say yes more?

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Speaker 2: All this is for you, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It can be so again, It's so easy when the

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Speaker 2: No to everything because Noah is convenient. No means you

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Speaker 1: It just don't add to our kids suffering. Again, it's

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Speaker 2: to actually deconstruct or reverse engineer what a happy family does. Oh,

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Speaker 2: out the specific actions that you're going to take. And

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Speaker 2: is supportive of their sense of involvement with us, their

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Speaker 2: with having us provide the scaffolding saying I believe in you,

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Speaker 2: is up. Kylie, have you got anything that you want

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Speaker 2: wrap this up. Oh there is one more thing if

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Speaker 2: a puppy. Apparently that's it. The Happy Famili's podcast is

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Speaker 2: produced by Justin Roland fro Bridge Media, with Craig Bruce

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Speaker 2: our executive producer. Tomorrow we're back with more of The

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Speaker 2: Happy Family's summer series. If you want more info, though,

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