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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for.

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Speaker 2: The time poor parent who just wants answers.

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Speaker 1: Now. I love the start of a new week, fresh starts,

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Speaker 1: fresh attitudes, The kids are excited for a Monday morning

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Speaker 1: back to school house.

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Speaker 2: Clearly, you did not wake up in our house.

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Speaker 1: Trying to put a positive vibe on things. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is doctor Justin Courson. Here with my wife Munda are

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Speaker 1: six kids, the ever optimistic, constantly positive Mishavy family. All right, Kylie,

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Speaker 1: this time last week. Hello, what what have I done?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I was going to start. Okay, you start.

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Speaker 2: I was going to start today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this this is what it's like, folks, Like, seriously,

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Speaker 1: this is this, This is what I'm with. Just be flexible,

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Speaker 1: just go with it.

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Speaker 2: Last week we asked everybody to share with us their

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Speaker 2: worst parenting advice, and they really came to the party

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Speaker 2: with it, didn't They get us some really just devastating

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Speaker 2: advice that people have given.

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Speaker 1: Pretty disconcerting. That's how it felt, really disconcerting.

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Speaker 2: But I'm really grateful to say that today we have

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Speaker 2: asked everybody to share their best parenting advice and the

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Speaker 2: list looks a lot better.

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Speaker 1: So Adam Grant, who has the podcast Rethinking, regularly asks

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Speaker 1: his guests what the worst advice they've ever received. Is

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Speaker 1: never heard him ask what's the best advice. I think

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Speaker 1: we're one upping the great Adam Grant today.

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Speaker 2: You're hearing it first on Happy Families.

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Speaker 1: I love it. We received some voice memos. Hi.

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Speaker 4: It's Sarah from the Illawarra. The best advice I ever

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Speaker 4: got is from a dear friend whose kids were older

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Speaker 4: than ours, and he said to us, connect with your

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Speaker 4: kids every day in a way that's meaningful for them.

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Speaker 4: And that was the best advice got us through some

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Speaker 4: really tough times and I have a really great relationship

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Speaker 4: with my kids now because of it. Thanks Jonathan, you

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Speaker 3: My name is Haley and I'm from Kerrang. I got

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Speaker 3: this piece of advice from a maternal child health nurse

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Speaker 3: and it's this, be in the moment, whether it's good

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Speaker 3: or whether it's bad. Just be in that moment, in

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Speaker 3: night and you're feeling great, don't look ahead. Just celebrate

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Speaker 3: that moment and enjoy that moment.

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Speaker 2: Rhiannon sheard high emotions equals low in talented. I think

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Speaker 2: I've heard that somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that somewhere before as well. That sounds like

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Speaker 1: something I might have said once or twice.

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Speaker 2: Not only does it apply to my kids, but to

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Speaker 2: myself and my husband as well, And it one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent makes sense. Each time I'm facing a challenging moment

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Speaker 2: with my boys, I remember this, take a breath and

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Speaker 2: wait for the train to make its way through the

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Speaker 2: tunnel before trying to fix anything.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm going to get a big head if

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Speaker 1: we have more comments like that. It's almost like somebody's

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Speaker 1: just teaching my parenting seven ar to me. Some really

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Speaker 1: nice insights though, from Lisa Kay, who said, listen to

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Speaker 1: what you know is true. If your kids be the

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Speaker 1: parent they need, not the parent you want to be,

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Speaker 1: how good is that? Be the parent they need, not

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Speaker 1: the parent you want to be, and understand that this

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Speaker 2: So true. Kimberly said, get to know your child, each

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Speaker 2: of them uniquely individual, Then go with your gut. Knowing

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Speaker 2: each of my children well generally means I know when

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Speaker 2: to let them figure stuff out and when I need

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Speaker 1: So the underlying theme here very much is it's about

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Speaker 1: time with your kids, Like you can't get to know

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Speaker 1: them unless you're spending time with them. That's how relationships

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Speaker 1: are built. T I am, It's all about that connection.

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Speaker 1: Really really nice stuff. I'm going to share the next couple.

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Speaker 1: They both come down to this idea that I talk

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Speaker 1: First one from Vanessa in Sydney. I just love this,

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Speaker 1: Vanessa and Sydney said, are you ready? This might be

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Speaker 1: the best advice I've ever heard. If they're cold, they

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Speaker 1: Samantha said, this is some advice from the author John Hold.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's good, that's really good. I particularly loved the

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Speaker 1: This is my big one, right, I love this.

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Speaker 2: Jessica said, my best advice I give all the time

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, my heart, my heart, my heart.

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Speaker 2: A Lisky said, when they are hardest to love, love

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Speaker 1: Just go back to Jessica for a sec When hugging

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Speaker 2: Lisa said, kid's behavior is rarely what it seems. Anger, disrespect,

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Speaker 1: Jules who's quoting Ross Green. Kids do well if they can.

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Speaker 1: That's from his explosive child. We had Ross on the

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Speaker 1: They're not naughty, manipulative, or intentionally in the challenges. They're

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Speaker 2: Christy shared her advice from La Nost, who said, discipline

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Speaker 1: Nost is sublime, right, so many great things. I have

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Speaker 2: Marie from Suffolk, England said that the way you talk

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Speaker 1: you used to love listening to your parents' conversations when

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate you jumping on. We had hundreds of comments.

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Speaker 1: Once again, I love the way they interact with us

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. We would love more voice memos, by the way,

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Speaker 1: please feel free to send those voice memos through. Sophie said,

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Speaker 2: Adelaide said, for all those noisy, buzzy, loud and obnoxious

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Speaker 1: That's great piring advice that I never knew I needed,

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Speaker 2: She also just ed, hi, did the fancy ice creams

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Speaker 2: in an empty bag of mixed frozen veggies. Your children

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Speaker 1: the other day from a guy who was in one

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Speaker 1: of my parenting presentations. Unfortunately I didn't get his name.

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Speaker 1: My team passed this along, but here's what he said.

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Speaker 1: it in this presentation. He sends me an email. He says,

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Speaker 1: the technique is great by the way. I used it.

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