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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 wants answers.

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Speaker 2: Now, like kids be kids, let them enjoy the mud pile,

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Speaker 1: Right, And now here's the stars of our show, My

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Speaker 3: One of the great secrets of podcasts is that we

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Speaker 3: every now and again we jump into the studio a

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Speaker 3: And that's what we've done for today's podcast. This is

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Speaker 3: an old do Better Tomorrow for the fourth of March,

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Speaker 2: Well, the only reason I'm here is because I can't

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Speaker 3: So we've got a place where we're renting, hiring a

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Speaker 2: No, I was about to say it could be heaven,

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Speaker 3: Well, that was gonna be one of my big things

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Speaker 3: This is not how it's supposed to be when we're

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Speaker 4: But before we do that, Kylie.

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Speaker 3: Every now and again we get some really nice feedback

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Speaker 3: at Happy Families dot com dotu to pass on some

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Speaker 3: feedback missus Happy Families. Now, we don't normally read too

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Speaker 3: especially on the back of last week's I'll Do Better Tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: where you and I both shared how we've been struggling

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Speaker 2: It's the Happy Families podcast, the podcast for a time

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Speaker 3: Haven't got to that point, a big, big lump of soil.

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Speaker 3: Climbing on it in mud, because that's what soil becomes

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Speaker 2: And all I could think about was, I'm really glad

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Speaker 3: And then they stood under the hose and got all

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Speaker 4: So the older better tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Take home message for today is, first of all, make

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Speaker 5: Let kids be kids. Let them enjoy the mud pile.

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Speaker 4: Because the hoe can clean up pretty much anything. Right.

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Speaker 3: We hope that it's not too wet wherever you are,

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Speaker 3: safe and happy. The Happy Family podcast is produced by

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Speaker 3: your family your parenting to be better. Tomorrow next week,

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