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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the.

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Speaker 1: Time poor parent who just once answers now every now.

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Speaker 1: On the podcast, we get to spend some time with

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Speaker 1: a very special guest, somebody who is renowned, respected and

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Speaker 1: has so much wisdom to share with us. This stops

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Speaker 1: justin Colson. By the way, I'm the founder of Happy

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Speaker 1: Families dot com dot you and the host of the

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Speaker 1: Happy Families Podcast and the parenting expert on Parental Guidance

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Speaker 1: Channel nind's TV show All about Parenting. We start filming

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Speaker 1: season two real soon. Can't wait to tell you more

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Speaker 1: about that. A little while ago, in episode three hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty four of the Happy Families Podcast, I had

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Speaker 1: a chat with one of Australia's best known parenting authors,

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Speaker 1: speakers and thinkers. You might have heard of him. You

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Speaker 1: probably have. His name is Steve Bidolf. Steve Bidolf and

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Speaker 1: I had a great chat about one of his most

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Speaker 1: recent gifts to the world, a brand new book called

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Speaker 1: Fully Human. And as we chatted, I asked Steve, what's

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Speaker 1: the single overarching thing that matters most for parents?

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Speaker 2: Yes, if I could write it on the sky, you know,

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Speaker 2: get one of those plans to ride it on the sky.

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Speaker 2: It would be that hurry is the enemy of love,

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Speaker 2: and it's become my motto. It's on the top of

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Speaker 2: my website. It's because when we hurry, of course we

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Speaker 2: love our children and we love our partners. But if

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Speaker 2: we're rushing, we never quite connect. And it's only by

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Speaker 2: slowing down that we really are with each other. It

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Speaker 2: takes time to find your kids when they come home

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Speaker 2: from school, and husband and wife to find each other

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Speaker 2: get attuned again. And so you know, hurrying is the

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Speaker 2: madness of the modern world and it destroys love. And

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Speaker 2: so please, if you possibly can slow it down? Does

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Speaker 2: that make sense? Kylie?

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Speaker 1: And justin Steve Bitoff episode three hundred and twenty four

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Speaker 1: is where you can go to hear the entire conversation.

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Speaker 1: What a great tip, what a great idea, What an

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Speaker 1: important reminder for us as parents. Just when you think

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Speaker 1: you've got this parenting gig nailed, your child hits some

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Speaker 1: new milestone that leaves you figuratively banging your head against

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Speaker 1: the wall. You wonder, where's the instruction manual? Your growth guide?

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Speaker 1: Is that instruction manual a webinar outlining basic milestones so

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Speaker 1: you know where your child's at, where they're going and

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Speaker 1: what you can expect. Get insights, reassurance and support from

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Speaker 1: your Growth Guide, available online at Happy families dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au. It's the Happy Family's podcast, the podcast for

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Speaker 1: the time poor parent who just wants answers now. I

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Speaker 1: hope you're enjoying our holiday style podcast, keeping it nice, short, snappy,

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Speaker 1: and giving you the very best bits from our very

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Speaker 1: best interviews. I can't wait to tell you about the

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Speaker 1: rest of this week. We're going to be speaking with

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Speaker 1: Maggie Dent on Wednesday, talking about her book, Raising Boys

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Speaker 1: and whether the culture is unkind to young boys. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: a chat with one of Australia's most recognized child and

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Speaker 1: adolescent psychologists. His name is Andrew Fuller. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be talking about fee and how we can respond to

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Speaker 1: our kids feelings in helpful ways. And one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite researchers on the entire planet, a guy called Ethan Cross.

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Speaker 1: Professor Ethan Cross is at the University of Michigan and

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Speaker 1: he does some extraordinarily important work on how we can

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Speaker 1: manage our own big emotions so that we can be

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Speaker 1: better parents. I can't wait for you to hear Thursday's

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Speaker 1: episode It's All coming up. On the Happy Families podcast tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Fuller talking about the feelings. Can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: you there. Thanks so much to Justin Ruland from Bridge Media,

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Speaker 1: our producer, and Craig Bruce, our executive producer. For more

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Speaker 1: and fo about making your family happier, please visit us

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Speaker 1: at happy families dot com, dot a