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Speaker 1: It's a Happy Families podcast with doctor Justin Kilson where

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Speaker 1: Luke and Susie parents of three little boys, and this

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Speaker 1: is the podcast for those of us who are time

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Speaker 1: for parents, but just one answers. Now.

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Speaker 2: It's no secret that Australia has been named one of

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Speaker 2: the most obese countries in the world, which is you know,

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Speaker 2: little people like us keep talking about it's a little

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Speaker 2: wonder in a country where we are quite fortunate we

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Speaker 2: have access to all of this food and goodness. We

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Speaker 2: also have access to the outdoors, but we don't use

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Speaker 2: it and our kids aren't using it. To talk about

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Speaker 2: this with us, doctor Justin Coilson from Happy Families dot

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Speaker 2: com dot au. Time to change because when I was

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Speaker 2: a kid, we spent all our time outdoors and now

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Speaker 2: the Internet's arrived.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got we've got screen ages, haven't we. We've

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Speaker 3: got kids that are are streaming instead of dreaming at

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Speaker 3: night time and then they're sitting in front of screens.

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Speaker 3: I mean, research is telling us really clearly that kids

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Speaker 3: are spending way too much time in front of screens.

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Speaker 3: And I came across a study, Suzie that was done

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Speaker 3: in Canada looking at something like what was it thirty

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Speaker 3: seven thirty eight countries and Australian children in terms of

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Speaker 3: their overall physical activity. Australian children get a D minus

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Speaker 3: D minus as in ABCD.

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Speaker 2: Getting a D minus for anything would have horrified me

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Speaker 2: when I was a student. We're talking about the importance

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Speaker 2: It's a Happy Family's podcast with doctor Justin Coulson and

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Speaker 2: we're talking about getting outdoors today after a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a study showed that Australia gets a D minus

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Speaker 2: when it comes to our outdoor time with kids.

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Speaker 1: What is it uniquely about Australa Because the incident's gone

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Speaker 1: everywhere and screens have gone everywhere. Why have we sort

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Speaker 1: of adapted so much from being the outdoor play kids

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Speaker 1: to the screen kids.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a few. There's the issue of active play.

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Speaker 3: It seems that when it comes to Australia, we are

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Speaker 3: all the way down, all the way down the list.

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Speaker 3: We just don't do a lot of active play.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are probably listen to

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Speaker 3: have ain't going. Yeah, we do, but as a general

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Speaker 3: rule we don't. Another big one is that we don't

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Speaker 3: do active transportation. You know, I remember when we used

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Speaker 3: to walk to school or ride our bikes to school.

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Speaker 3: We've got so many studies now to show that that's

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Speaker 3: just not happening anymore. The research also tells us that

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Speaker 3: in terms of ossie kids, we get a D minus

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Speaker 3: because of all the sedentary behaviors that we have that

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Speaker 3: as we sit on our backsides when we stare at screens,

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Speaker 3: we don't do too bad. With family and peers and

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Speaker 3: getting out in about we got a C plus there.

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Speaker 3: Our school environment's okay as well. But you know, one

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Speaker 3: of the things that should be in our favor and

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Speaker 3: you already touched on it, Suzzy, is our community and

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Speaker 3: our environment is designed to be outside. I mean, we're

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Speaker 3: in such a great country for it, but we just

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Speaker 3: we don't make you of it. And one one big

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Speaker 3: issue at least in the report that I came across,

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Speaker 3: indicated that government, government initiatives and government strategies and government

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Speaker 3: investments may be part of what's letting this down. You know,

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Speaker 3: we're not we're not involved in the organized sport as

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Speaker 3: public spaces. In this report, we basically got to fail.

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Speaker 3: Compared to the countries like Switzerland and Denmark and Norway

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Speaker 3: We're just we're just not making the grade.

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Speaker 1: It's such an interesting thing. We know that we've just

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Speaker 1: moved house because the house we're in we didn't have

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Speaker 1: and we found that we saw difference when we went

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Speaker 1: get them outside because it's better for the way they

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Speaker 3: I've just done the same thing, and unfortunately in Australia

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Speaker 3: we're going the other way, particularly out of major cities.

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Speaker 3: There's more and more and more of a push to

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Speaker 3: get people into high identity housing. Look, that's not necessarily

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Speaker 3: the be all and end, although, because you've got a

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Speaker 3: lot of the European countries where there's very high identity

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Speaker 3: housing and you've got people with two and three and

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Speaker 3: four kids living in apartments. But again in those places,

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Speaker 3: they'll usually have a high level of green space, they'll

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Speaker 3: have fabulous bike cards, they encourage people to be outside,

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Speaker 3: and they really do with their lives outside. The apartment

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting thing to think about, and I

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Speaker 2: guess if we're conscious of it, we can do something

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Speaker 2: differently as far as in engaging our children different to

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Speaker 2: to model that.

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Speaker 3: That's the big one, Susi. I was going to say,

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Speaker 3: if you're looking for a couple of tips for how

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Speaker 3: to get your kids active, the number one thing is

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Speaker 3: to be an example yourself. The number two things is

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Speaker 3: to make sure that they get enough to sleep, and

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Speaker 3: the number three thing is to get them off their

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Speaker 3: have lots of physical activity and you have a whole

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Speaker 3: unbalanced life.

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Speaker 1: Getting them off their screens and getting them to have

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Speaker 1: enough sleep sounds really easy. Yeah, two out of three

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Speaker 1: ain't bad, right, Justin Doctor Justin Culson from Happy families

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Speaker 3: Time, great talking. Thanks Thanks Susi for.

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