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Speaker 3: This is doctor Justin Coulson, the author of six books

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Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of posts on Facebook lately

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Speaker 1: Which is kind of weird.

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Speaker 3: We've put six children into school, two of them have

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Speaker 2: Our first day for you know, very very first day

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Speaker 3: It's a really big day, but you know, once you

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Speaker 3: But you've you've got all the experience, because while I've

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Speaker 1: Can we talk about some of your tips to.

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Speaker 3: Help mums and dads get their kids organized for school?

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Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't have thought this would be my first tip,

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Speaker 3: And by the uniform and the school bag. Hey, we've

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Speaker 3: got a bunch of other tips though that you've been

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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 now, And we are

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Speaker 2: talking today about some tips to help everybody with that

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Speaker 1: Okay, what of the tips that have we got?

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Speaker 1: Set out the night before, and put the labels in them.

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Speaker 3: Because by the end of winter you'll have lost at

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Speaker 3: You know those those Bento lunch boxes that cost about

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Speaker 1: Put a label on it.

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Speaker 2: No, come on, I'll put your lunch in a paper

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 2: I brought everyone a set with different sized containers in it,

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Speaker 2: And it has made all of the difference. The kids

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Speaker 3: you've got to enroll the kids. There's labels, there's uniforms,

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Speaker 4: The last one I would talk about is just appointments.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned it at the beginning. You know, haircuts, get

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Speaker 2: But a couple that people may not be thinking about.

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Speaker 2: Take them to the dentist, make sure everything's right there,

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Speaker 3: And you might find that your children are complaining about

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