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Speaker 1: Hello, It's the Happy Families Podcast Friday edition if you're

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Speaker 1: new to the pot. Every Friday, we talk about the

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Speaker 1: things that have worked or haven't worked in our families

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Speaker 1: that we can do better tomorrow and maybe help you

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Speaker 1: to do better tomorrow. I had the most amazing conversation

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Speaker 1: with the kids on Sunday. We engage in explicit teaching

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Speaker 1: of values and principles that we want our kids to understand.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, I just had the coolest experience with the kids.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to tell you about what that was, why

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Speaker 1: it worked, and what they thought. Plus, Kylie is just

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Speaker 1: right into this kinesiology stuff. The research evidence suggests that

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Speaker 1: it doesn't actually work, and yet we keep paying for

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Speaker 1: it because we're finding that it works incredibly for our

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Speaker 1: kids in our family. Why when the evidence says it doesn't,

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Speaker 1: would we say it does? Today? We answer those questions

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Speaker 1: and more. It's I'll do better tomorrow right after this,

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Speaker 1: stay with us. Hello, Welcome to the Happy Families Podcast.

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Speaker 1: We get real parenting solutions every single day. This is

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Speaker 1: Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast okay, around the country for

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Speaker 1: most areas, not all, but most states and territories. School

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Speaker 1: has gone back. Hopefully you've survived the week. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to tell you about our kids and their school experience,

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Speaker 1: but we've got a daughter in year eleven who said

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Speaker 1: it was fine, and we're home schooling our youngest, so

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Speaker 1: we've really got nothing to tell you about school this week.

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Speaker 1: But we've got a whole lot of other stuff for you. Gee,

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Speaker 1: I hope it's been good for you, Kylie. You're up

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Speaker 1: first today, kinesiology. I've been opened up front about the

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Speaker 1: fact that we spend a lot of money on a

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Speaker 1: but you keep on going.

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Speaker 2: And you've also asked me that maybe we might stretch

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not go so often anyway. You've been to

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Speaker 1: the kinesiologists with a couple of the kids just recently,

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Speaker 1: and your I'll do better tomorrow explains exactly why I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to keep on paying for something that doesn't work

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. I was talking with a friend recently. Her

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Speaker 2: this is gold. She said, in in traditional psychology based,

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Speaker 2: you know, talk therapy, you will take your child along

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Speaker 1: Because the client therapist's relationship is sacrosanct and what happens

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Speaker 2: And as a parent, I then wait to hear the

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Speaker 1: So there's like this third party. They get to talk

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Speaker 2: Kind of like a fly on the wall that they

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Speaker 1: Wrong analogy like you're the pop plant that makes the

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Speaker 1: So my general position on this is the research evidence

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Speaker 2: Your teenage girl's book Misconnection the subtitle why your teenage

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Speaker 2: Just this whole experience for me has just been this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would add it doesn't have to be a

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Speaker 1: I gave it a go a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, up next, unbeliever, that's what you are up next.

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Speaker 1: The conversation that I had with the kids on Sunday

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Speaker 1: really do work. Find out more in just to say

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Speaker 1: podcast where you get real parenting solutions every single day, Sunday,

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Speaker 1: every Sunday. We've talked about this a lot. We have

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Speaker 1: don't know booking for a kinesiologists.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I've got a good one if you need one.

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend everyone. The Happy Families podcast is

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Speaker 1: produced by Justin Roland from Bridge Media. Mimhammonds provides all

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