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Speaker 1: It's that Happy Families podcast. I love the feeling of Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I know it's stressful, i know I'm spending money, but

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Speaker 1: I just love the feeling of Christmas. One of the

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Speaker 1: things that I've made a lot of noise about over

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Speaker 1: the years is, by the way, if you've got young

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Speaker 1: ears listening, you might want to be careful here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're just going to give you a warning. This is

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Speaker 1: not a podcast for little people. This is only a

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Speaker 1: podcast for big people. Five seconds to go until we

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Speaker 1: start the conversation about the big people stuff. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: five seconds. You've had time to press pause and save

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Speaker 1: this for later. I've been pretty outspoken about conversations arout

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Speaker 1: honesty when it comes to mythical elements of big personalities,

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Speaker 1: big people who might visit on Christmas Eve, and as

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Speaker 1: a result, some people have said that I'm spoiling Christmas.

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Speaker 1: So today's podcast is really about just highlighting the kids

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Speaker 1: around the young once and what we've save seen Kylie.

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Speaker 1: As the kids have gotten older, once they've moved into

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Speaker 1: their later teen years and even into adulthood and eventually

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Speaker 1: moved out of home, they still love coming home for Christmas,

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Speaker 1: but it's not quite the same. It's a totally different vibe.

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Speaker 1: Like the teenagers, they don't really care about waking up

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Speaker 1: at five o'clock to find out what's under the tree.

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Speaker 2: It's blissful.

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Speaker 1: We do get to sleep in a little bit more

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Speaker 1: because our youngest is now eight, and she wakes up

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Speaker 1: at a reasonable hour about seven o'clock, so that we

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Speaker 1: can die.

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Speaker 2: I'll be saying that, but we're not sitting at Christmas

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Speaker 2: Eve yet, so it could be a totally different scenario

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Speaker 2: come Christmas morning.

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Speaker 1: Okay. My point though, is it changes as the kids

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Speaker 1: get older. So we wanted to just share with you

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Speaker 1: three quick tips to help you to absolutely get the

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Speaker 1: very best, the very most out of embracing Christmas while

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Speaker 1: they're young. Number One, Kylie, you've got an idea that

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Speaker 1: you've been looking forward to sharing. I've got one right

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Speaker 1: after you.

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Speaker 2: So I've been really open and acknowledging that we haven't

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Speaker 2: been great at creating traditions in our home. We've done

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Speaker 2: a lot of traveling over the years between in laws

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Speaker 2: for Christmas, and so our time has pretty much been

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Speaker 2: spent in a car and in someone else's house.

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Speaker 1: We've done it for years, driving in a state.

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Speaker 2: So all of the things that I thought I would

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Speaker 2: love for our children to experience never actually happened the

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Speaker 2: way I imagined that it would. But what I have

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Speaker 2: come to recognize is that we can be really intentional

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Speaker 2: about creating some traditions, but often it's the traditions that

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Speaker 2: actually just happen because of circumstance that have the most

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Speaker 2: lasting impact on our children. And so one of the

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Speaker 2: ones that we started way back when, when our kids

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Speaker 2: were younger and you were a student, we didn't have

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Speaker 2: a lot of money, and I didn't want them eating

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Speaker 2: a holy ber junk food in the morning. So they

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Speaker 2: loved ginger beer. But we didn't have ginger beer very

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Speaker 2: often because we couldn't afford it, so we'd share like

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Speaker 2: one bottle between all of them. So on Christmas morning,

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Speaker 2: they would wake up and their stocking would have a

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Speaker 2: ginger beer bottle completely all to themselves and go. Because

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Speaker 2: we didn't buy mangoes very often, I was so expensive.

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Speaker 2: But one of the reasons I did that was because

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Speaker 2: we couldn't afford it, firstly, but secondly, it filled up

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Speaker 2: the space and the stocking, so it felt like they

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Speaker 2: got a lot in their stocking that today is still

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Speaker 2: their favorite tradition. It never meant to be a tradition.

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Speaker 2: It was just something that we did to kind of

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Speaker 2: make it feel like they were getting something on Christmas morning.

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Speaker 1: I didn't tell you this, but just the other day,

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Speaker 1: our fifteen year old said, I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day so i can have my ginger beer and

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Speaker 1: my mango.

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Speaker 2: And the funny thing is we can have a ginger

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Speaker 2: beer and a mango whenever we want these days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we don't. That's the thing, like it, ed

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Speaker 1: really has become something that's mostly reserved for Christmas, and

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Speaker 1: the kids really look forward to it. And so traditions,

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Speaker 1: even the accidental ones, you carry them forward. You do

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Speaker 1: them year in, year out, and it makes Christmas magical.

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Speaker 1: The second thing, the main point that I was going

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Speaker 1: to highlight, is well, I'm not a huge fan of

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Speaker 1: that mythical character. What I am a huge fan of

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Speaker 1: is getting excited about everything that Christmas is going to be.

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Speaker 1: So keeping the kids up late on Christmas Eve, letting

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Speaker 1: them wrap presents, getting them excited about going shopping for

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Speaker 1: Mummy or daddy or their brother or their sister, so

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Speaker 1: kids just love to give. They love to get, but

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Speaker 1: bring the magic Christmas in is to really look at

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Speaker 1: the things that make them come alive. The gift giving,

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Speaker 1: the staying up late, the treats, the waking up in

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Speaker 1: to open up presents first thing in the morning instead

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Speaker 1: of making them wait until after lunch or until all

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Speaker 1: the relows arrive, let them have the opportunity to savor

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Speaker 1: every moment. That's my number one tip for that.

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Speaker 2: My third one is actually just a bit of an

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Speaker 2: extension of the traditions that we create as our family

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Speaker 2: has grown. Obviously we have recognized that something's work and

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Speaker 2: some things don't. And the energy that is in the

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Speaker 2: house often on Christmas Eve means that for time parents

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Speaker 2: who was trying to do Santa's job at the very end,

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Speaker 2: last minute, it can mean getting the children to bed

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Speaker 2: being really late night for mom and dad, and then

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Speaker 2: you're exhausted on Christmas and you can't enjoy it. So

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Speaker 2: we actually brought in a Finland tradition a handful of

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Speaker 2: for Christmas to actually come together, they get given a

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Speaker 2: new book to read on Christmas Eve, so it's gift

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Speaker 2: wrapped and it's ready to go. And on Christmas Eve

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Speaker 2: they all anticipate being able to open up and read

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Speaker 2: a book till the very early hours of the morning

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Speaker 2: if they want to. There is no time limit. They

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Speaker 2: can read that book all night long if that's what

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Speaker 2: And what I have loved about it, number one is

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Speaker 2: it has fostered continue to foster a love of reading.

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Speaker 2: But it was also created the calm that I needed

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Speaker 2: actually be as energetic and fun as they need it

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Speaker 1: So it's Iceland. It's called Jola Boca Flood, which basically

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Speaker 1: means the Christmas book flood, and that's been a tradition

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Speaker 1: that we've been doing for years and they just love it.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad.

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Speaker 2: I love it because it does come with chocolate.

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Speaker 1: It but they're still reading. We really hope that these

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Speaker 1: ideas are going to help you to maximize the merry

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Speaker 1: in your Christmas. They're only young ones embrace it. That's

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Speaker 1: it for today's Happy Families podcast. We'll be back again

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