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Speaker 1: Hello, this is The Happy Family's podcast. It's Friday and

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Speaker 1: we feel good about that. Hopefully you do as well.

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Speaker 1: The weekend's just around the corner, and every Friday on

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Speaker 1: the Happy Families Podcast we reflect on the week that was,

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Speaker 1: what worked, didn't It's called all to do about it?

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow we try to figure out how we can be

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Speaker 1: more intentional and I don't know, just figure out this

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Speaker 1: parenting thing. What's working, what's not and why and how

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Speaker 1: do we do more of the stuff that works. Today

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Speaker 1: a win for me as I figured out how to

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Speaker 1: have conversations with my kids when they don't really want

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Speaker 1: to talk at all. Plus, Kylie has had an insight

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Speaker 1: in terms of why we spend all this money on

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Speaker 1: extra curricular activities when it looks like the kids aren't

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Speaker 1: enjoying it. Nothing's happening. Stay with us. Hello and welcome

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Speaker 1: to The Happy Families Podcast. Real Parenting Solutions every single

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Speaker 1: day on Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast, where Justin and

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Speaker 1: Kylie Colson. Normally a whole lot of housekeepings, Kylie, but

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Speaker 1: today there's none. There's literally none. We're at the end

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Speaker 1: of the month, last day of October and there's nothing

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Speaker 1: to get excited about. Our old do better tomorrow. So

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Speaker 1: it's straight over to you. What is your big aha,

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Speaker 1: your insight, your whoopsie? What have we got?

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Speaker 2: Samily has only had a few extracurricular activities booked in

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Speaker 2: this year, and one of them has been music lessons.

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Speaker 2: We found a teacher who happens to live in our street,

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Speaker 2: which makes this amazingly convenient.

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Speaker 1: No more rushing to get into the car her up. We'

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Speaker 1: going to be late. It's just up you go, and

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Speaker 2: It's great, amazing. But what is extra special about her teacher, Dan,

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Speaker 2: is that he has just this incredible way to work

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Speaker 2: you know, intensive practice. He actually has a studio setup

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Speaker 2: and they will move from the drums to the guitar

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Speaker 1: Before you talk about wherever you go to go here.

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Speaker 1: This has been a source of frustration for me because,

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Speaker 1: as somebody who learned music the traditional way, sitting in

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Speaker 1: and learning the structure of chords and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: I find it really frustrating that Emily can't read music.

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Speaker 1: And yet everything that I know from scientific research, especially

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Speaker 1: David Epstein's book Range, is that the more kids just

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Speaker 1: play around with a whole lot of stuff, the more

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Speaker 1: to a nice broad understanding of everything, like range, breadth.

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Speaker 1: It gives them depth over time. And she's only eleven

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Speaker 1: right now. We just care about her enjoying it. Nevertheless, Well,

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Speaker 1: I really.

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Speaker 2: The parent who's paying the bills, and you're wanting to

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Speaker 1: See grade eight.

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Speaker 2: I want G eight piano. Come on, you want to

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Speaker 2: see that this is a good investment.

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Speaker 2: And so we've definitely had conversations out had the last

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Speaker 1: I might just add it was an electric drum kit,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, But she doesn't play it very often.

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Speaker 2: And when we started lessons Dan actually said to her,

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Speaker 2: just want to learn the drums, And he said, what

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Speaker 2: And then she would come home and she'd be like, mum,

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Speaker 1: And then and your fingering is all wrong, like this

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Speaker 2: Anyway, long story short. A couple of days ago, Dan

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Speaker 1: I just it's pretty fun when you've got this. Childhood

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Speaker 1: And then you get a video and she's jamming with

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Speaker 2: Road, and I think for me, just going through that

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Speaker 1: the kids aren't following the quote unquite traditional pathway. What

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Speaker 1: waxing lyrical about our daughter's drumming.

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Speaker 2: No, I just watched all of the girls. They've done

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Speaker 2: I said, I needed one of the guitars really strung.

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Speaker 2: that afternoon our eldest daughter showed up. It was her

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Speaker 2: And she was so excited that not only could she

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Speaker 2: And I said, you can take it home, that's one

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Speaker 1: But she was pumped. Yeah, so old do better tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Is the takeout messages, the investment of time for your

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Speaker 2: children to explore. It's not actually about an outcome. It's

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Speaker 1: Love it.

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Speaker 2: It's so important because you have no idea where you're

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Speaker 1: Brilliant. Hey, after the break, I nailed it. I nailed

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Speaker 1: it with a child who did not want to talk

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Speaker 1: make their families HAPPI erup, Kylie Miyol. Do Better Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: is a really simple one. In my book Relationship Rules,

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Speaker 1: I've got all these conversation starters. Part one is about

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Speaker 1: how we're supposed to talk, things like put your device down,

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Speaker 1: So on Sunday, I had to drive like two and

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Speaker 1: I was very excited about it. A couple of kids

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Speaker 1: really be willing to elaborate. Oh, we had such fun.

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Speaker 1: the and it's a book of your life, and you

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Speaker 1: get up to today, do you keep reading to find

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Speaker 1: And really just so many fun questions. We got to

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Speaker 1: some of the values questions and they're like, not boring,

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Speaker 1: keep going. They just want to do all the fun ones.

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Speaker 1: But Kylie, two and a half hours passed in an instant,

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Speaker 1: the recalcitrant, reluctant, unwilling, moody, gripey, fifteen year old ended

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