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

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Speaker 1: time poor parent who just wants answers.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm trying to think of how I'm going to

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Speaker 2: create space to find joy.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to leave the bedroom.

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Speaker 1: May and now here's the stars of our show, my

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Speaker 3: Can you give me your very best Santa Claus. I'd

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Speaker 3: love to hear a ho ho ho. I know that

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Speaker 3: depending on which Christmas movie you watch, they say that

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Speaker 3: Santa doesn't say ho ho ho, But can you can?

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Speaker 3: I just hear a ho ho ho from you?

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Speaker 2: Ho ho ho.

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Speaker 3: That was the most un Christmas y ho ho that

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Speaker 3: Wow. I didn't know you had that in you. Missus.

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Speaker 3: Happy Families. We're going to call you Santa, put a

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Speaker 3: white beard on you and maybe the spirit of Christmas.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm one of his best helpers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you are too, at least in now

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Speaker 3: ask Today. This is doctor Justin Colson, the founder of

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Speaker 3: Happy Families dot com, dot you, and the parenting expert

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Speaker 3: on Channel nine's Parental Guidance Here with Kylie, my wife,

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Speaker 3: mum to our six Kids, and podcast co host Extra There.

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Speaker 3: It's Christmas, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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Speaker 3: in the Southern Hemisphere. That means it's getting hot and

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Speaker 3: this year, Kylie, we've kind of not lived up to

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Speaker 3: what we typically do in the lead up to Christmas.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember a Christmas where I have been so unprepared.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I think that's a good word for it.

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Speaker 3: We're not ready.

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Speaker 2: We are not We've obviously acknowledged the tree has only

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Speaker 3: Have you done any Christmas shopping yet?

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Speaker 2: I have started, but normally I'm a shop through the year,

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Speaker 3: The kids have found the Christmas gift draws and cupboards too,

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Speaker 2: Really just have to do, Oh, I've got to get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon. COVID's got to have something to do

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Speaker 3: anyone who works, not even for themselves, just anyone who

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Speaker 3: would ask what are you doing to prep for Christmas?

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Speaker 3: What planning goes into your Christmas and how's it all

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Speaker 3: one of our Happy Families, Premium members Lisa, who said

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Speaker 2: Right But the acknowledgment of being organized and prepping beforehand

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Speaker 3: And Lisa actually sounded pretty pretty relaxed, and Jess does too,

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Speaker 5: working with checklists and planners wherever I can to keep

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Speaker 3: Joy, Yeah, go for the walk, quiet time.

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Speaker 2: I just that's where I am right now. I'm not

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Speaker 3: You're not going to leave the bedroom. May maybe Christmas

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Speaker 3: conditionings are Christmas is my responsibility this year. I've just

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Speaker 3: missus happy families. Fair call, fair call. Okay, let's have

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Speaker 3: a quick chat with Larissa and find out her Christmas

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Speaker 6: In our family, my husband and I will talk about

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Speaker 6: So that's the biggest thing we've done, is just start early.

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Speaker 2: I love Laris's little tip about sharing the cognitive load

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Speaker 2: when it comes to gift to giving, Honey, do you

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Speaker 2: hear they talk about it together? Isn't that an interesting concept?

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Speaker 3: I always find it so exciting to find out what

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Speaker 2: a hard time. But we actually do talk about some of.

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Speaker 3: It, not all of it. Oh you're health You know what, Kylie.

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Speaker 3: We are a team. You make the money, I spend it.

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Speaker 2: So help find the car park and I'll go to

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Speaker 2: It's the Happy Families podcast, the podcast for the time

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Speaker 3: I'm taking a leaf out of Memes book for this Christmas.

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Speaker 3: We're going to call it the low Key Christmas. This

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you don't know what I've got you for you.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say for your birthday. You don't

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Speaker 3: Yeh see you've got You've got to do a bit

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Speaker 3: happy families that you're cooking. I'll cook, but I want

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Speaker 3: So when I think about all of the prep and

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Speaker 2: How many sleeps we're like ten sleeps away from Christmas?

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Speaker 3: it's Delegate, Delegate, Delegate, that's right, plan plan, plan, get

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Speaker 3: Is there anything that you want to add in terms

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Speaker 2: It's literally just tapping into what's most important and right

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Speaker 2: now it's just you and me and our little family,

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Speaker 2: and that's what Christmas is about this year. And secondly,

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