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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: wants answers.

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Speaker 1: Now it's the school Holidays Doctor Justin Coilson here with Kylie,

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Speaker 1: my wife, mum to our six kids and podcast podcast

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Speaker 1: host co host Extraordinary. I'll get it out eventually. Hey, honey,

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Speaker 1: I had an insights as I was thinking about what

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Speaker 1: we could put it into our podcast feed for today. I'll,

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Speaker 1: by the way, for those of you who are new

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, normally we talk for somewhere around ten

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Speaker 1: or fifteen minutes about making families happier during the school holidays.

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Speaker 1: We're spending time with our family, trying to get some

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Speaker 1: quality time in and so we're keeping this short and

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Speaker 1: sweet and hoping that it helps to make your family

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Speaker 1: thrive and be happier during the holidays as well. And

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Speaker 1: I had this idea. I think that it's useful to

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Speaker 1: remind everybody to just lighten up in the parenting game

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Speaker 1: every now and again. Do you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 1: just be totally chill. If the kids say, hey, can

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Speaker 1: I do this, be like sure, Just just say yes. More,

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Speaker 1: be more relaxed about things, don't worry about it. Like

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Speaker 1: the other day, one of the kids asked for a

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Speaker 1: limp ball. I've got a stash of limp balls. I

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Speaker 1: have them for work purposes.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think this particular box has been used

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Speaker 2: for work at all.

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Speaker 1: Don't tell the tax man. I might have claimed that

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Speaker 1: box of lint chocolates as a grocery item for work

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Speaker 1: for my presentations, but it didn't quite make it to

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Speaker 1: the presentation. That was only one box. I swear it

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Speaker 1: was only the one box of lint chocolates. But we

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Speaker 1: had some limp balls and one of the kids said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: can I have a chocolate please, Dad, and so badly

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Speaker 1: I want to say no, they're mine, and then I thought,

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Speaker 1: oh gosh, just lighten up, so I said, sure, go

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Speaker 1: for your life. Have two? Oh did you now? And

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Speaker 1: Annie she had breakfast? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was like

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Speaker 1: mid morning. But Annie looked at me and she was

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Speaker 1: like really, I'm like, yeah, go for your life. And

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Speaker 1: she was just like it made her day just to

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Speaker 1: lighten up and say sure thing, kiddo, enjoy.

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Speaker 2: A couple of months ago, we watched a movie called Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Yes Day, and the kids just loved it. The kids

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Speaker 2: in the movie made up a rule that had to

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Speaker 2: say yes to whatever they did. And what was really

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Speaker 2: cool about the movie, it was actually a very fun movie,

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Speaker 2: was that the kids weren't you know, they weren't going

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Speaker 2: We're going on this massive expensive holiday, or you know,

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Speaker 2: we've got to spend all of this money. It all

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Speaker 2: came down to just spending time with mom and dad

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Speaker 2: and having a ball, and they did some pretty crazy things.

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Speaker 2: Obviously it's Hollywood, but it was just it was so

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Speaker 2: much fun watching the kids kind of just be able

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Speaker 2: to do things that they wouldn't normally do, and the

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Speaker 2: parents loved it.

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Speaker 1: They actually loved it. I kind of feel like this

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Speaker 1: is a great message for the school holidays. So our

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Speaker 1: challenge for you today is watch Yesterday. It was lots

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Speaker 1: of fun. Okay, what's the movie? Yes, but maybe practice

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Speaker 1: saying yes, lighten up, be a little bit more chill

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Speaker 1: with the kids and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I think we're having dessert for dinner tonight.

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Speaker 1: Dessert for dinner? Can we have dinner for dessert? I

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Speaker 1: feel like I need something sustaining. We'll talk about that. Yes, yes, okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, and then I'll go and have some dinner

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Speaker 1: as well. The Happy Families podcast is produced by Justin

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Speaker 1: Rowland from Bridge Media, with Craig Bruce acting as our

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Speaker 1: executive producer. If you'd like more info about making your

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Speaker 1: family so much happier, not that it's not happy already,

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Speaker 1: but even happier than it is now, you can get

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Speaker 1: all the info you need at happy families dot com

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