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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just

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Speaker 2: once answers.

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Speaker 3: Now, our kids are far more willing to do anything

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Speaker 3: that we're asking them to do if we collaborate with

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Speaker 3: them and work on it together.

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Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show.

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Speaker 4: My mom and dad.

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Speaker 3: I'm not happy this morning. It's a Monday. I'm not happy.

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Speaker 3: I'm not happy at all.

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Speaker 1: This morning.

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Speaker 3: I got swipped by the first magpie of the season.

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Speaker 2: I feel like there is a bird theme going on here, sir,

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Speaker 2: do you know we have a little Is it a peeweet?

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Speaker 2: What are those black and whitebirds?

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Speaker 3: A carawong?

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Speaker 1: A magpie?

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Speaker 4: No, the carawong.

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Speaker 2: He flies into my house really leave my back door open,

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Speaker 2: and he literally, yesterday, I love.

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Speaker 3: He flows into my house like it's our house till I'm.

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Speaker 2: In the office and this is your space and that's

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Speaker 2: my space. It literally flew through the house, down the

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Speaker 2: corridor into the kitchen.

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Speaker 3: Every time a bird pops on my car rad to

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Speaker 3: play wings on the back porch, to show them what

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Speaker 3: I'm capable of.

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Speaker 2: So unkind Well, if that's what your morning was like,

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Speaker 2: my morning was a Monday disoriented?

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Speaker 1: What happened to you.

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Speaker 2: I drove here and I was trying to find where

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Speaker 2: your car was so I could just associate myself with

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Speaker 2: the fact that I'm here and I couldn't find it anywhere,

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Speaker 2: only to realize that we'd swapped cars this morning and

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Speaker 2: I was actually in your car and you didn't have

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Speaker 3: You got out of my car and started looking around

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Speaker 3: for me my car was That's so good, oh dear,

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Speaker 3: So I've dropped your car off.

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Speaker 1: I've scootered into the.

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Speaker 3: Office being swept by a mag stook by a magpoint. Meantime,

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Speaker 3: you've shown up at the office looking for my car

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Speaker 3: that you drove here in.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how this is going to go today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Monday.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope the day gets better because you have

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Speaker 2: a really big night tonight.

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited for our webinar tonight. The webinar is

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Speaker 3: all about getting kids to listen. Why do our kids

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Speaker 3: listen to us? So we've got a webinar for You

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Speaker 3: or if you would like to become a Happy Family's member.

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Speaker 3: This is the best way to get our webinars. Every

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Speaker 3: single month, we do one just like this, and it's

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Speaker 3: to be a Happy Family's Basic member. And once you remember,

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Speaker 3: you get a whole lot of stuff, including the monthly webinar.

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Speaker 3: The webinar costs thirty bucks, but if you remember, it's

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Speaker 3: like thirteen dollars or eighteen dollars. So Happy Families dot

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Speaker 3: com dot you everything that you need to know about tonight.

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Speaker 3: Is there how to get your kids to listen. But

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Speaker 3: we should give people a bit of a taste on

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Well, no matter what age your kids are, this is

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Speaker 2: a webinar that you just don't want to miss. And

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Speaker 2: if anyone's equipped to help parents with this, I think it's.

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Speaker 3: You, because our kids listen to me so well.

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Speaker 2: No, but it is the very reason why I actually

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Speaker 2: started listening to you. We had an experience with one

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Speaker 2: of our kids way back in the early days. You've

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Speaker 2: obviously shared multiple times that as a first time and

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Speaker 2: then even going into second time dadthood, you weren't such

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Speaker 2: and I wasn't taking advice from you ever, parenting wise.

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Speaker 2: And as you started on your journey of self discovery

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Speaker 2: and I guess betterment was.

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Speaker 1: A dad, it wasn't so much self discovery.

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Speaker 3: I discovered that I was lousy and I wanted to

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Speaker 2: But anyway, you would share stuff with me, but I

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Speaker 2: many years. But one day we had baby number three.

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Speaker 2: She was a baby. Baby number two had spent pretty

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Speaker 2: time you walked in the door, I was done, and

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Speaker 2: I pretty much much handed the kids to you and said,

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Speaker 3: Like I was.

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Speaker 4: I was pretty bad.

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Speaker 3: My recollection is that I showed up at the house

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Speaker 3: at about eight o'clock at night. The kids spent time

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Speaker 3: was between six and six thirty, and every light was

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Speaker 3: I'd been working hard all day, slaving away, trying to

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Speaker 3: and when I walked in, you growled at me and

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Speaker 1: From the second I walked into the door.

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Speaker 1: I I didn't walk into the door, walked through the doorway.

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Speaker 2: Just for clarification, But obviously you walked in, I walked out,

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Speaker 2: and within seconds of you walking in, the house went quiet,

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Speaker 2: And obviously I was keenly aware of that, because that's

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Speaker 2: And so by the time you walked in, everything went quiet,

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Speaker 2: and you said, it looks like you've had a really

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Speaker 2: And at that point I realized that there was something

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Speaker 4: A pretty good job working as a team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did too.

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Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about what you are going to

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Speaker 3: No, No, I have a lot more than that. And

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Speaker 3: if you want your kids to listen to you, this

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Speaker 3: is definitely going to be a webinar to tune into

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Speaker 3: and be part of. Let me just make one point

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Speaker 2: it's just rustle the plastic of any lollibag, and you

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Speaker 3: Our kids can listen. Listening is not the problem. The

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Speaker 3: real question is why do our children not follow our instructions.

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Speaker 3: That's what the webinar is really about. Because your kids

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Speaker 3: do that very often, Kylie, of course. But if I

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Speaker 2: Sometimes because I've got my own agenda, I've got my

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And sometimes laying on the couch and flicking through

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Speaker 3: They don't like being told what to do. They're hyper

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Speaker 3: the way that we've asked them like, there's all these reasons,

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Speaker 4: It feels like we're just set up to.

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Speaker 2: Fat yeah yeah, yeah, but there with that massive list

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Speaker 1: But there are things we can do enough to break.

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Speaker 3: Let's explore some of those as a sort of a

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Speaker 3: taster for what tonight's webinars all about. Get curious, not furious,

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

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Speaker 2: poor parent who just wants answers.

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Speaker 2: Now, like I said, I know you've got a big

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Speaker 2: one list that you're dying to share, and you're going

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Speaker 2: to share that tonight. Sure, but I'm wondering, can you

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Speaker 4: And I think you're not going to fix it now.

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