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#537 Holiday Highlight - Dr Amantha Imber · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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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 once answers now Gooday.
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  Speaker 2: This is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy Families
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  Speaker 2: dot com dot Au and the Six Kids. Normally, I'm
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  Speaker 2: here with Kylie, my wife, missus Happy Families as my
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  Speaker 2: parenting podcast co hosts. But it's school holidays in Queensland.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that you're having a great school holiday break
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  Speaker 2: with your kids. Kylie and I will be back from
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  Speaker 2: our holidays with a whole lot of new episodes of
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  Speaker 2: the Happy Families podcast starting again on July the eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: but for now, some highlights from recent Happy Families podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Amantha Imber is the host of the How I Work podcast.
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  Speaker 2: She also has a new book coming out real soon,
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  Speaker 2: and I asked her from I mean, this podcast is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: She's talked to some of the biggest names in the
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  Speaker 2: business when it comes to happiness and wellbeing, productivity, time management,
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  Speaker 2: and just being effective as a human including people like
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  Speaker 2: Adam Grant and Greg McKeon. So I asked Amantha from
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  Speaker 2: all of the interviews that she's done, what would be
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  Speaker 2: on her greatest hits for families to implement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So something a few of my guests have spoken
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  Speaker 1: about is the idea of chronotypes. So this is underpinned
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  Speaker 1: by a huge body of psychological research, and it basically
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  Speaker 1: what a chronotype is is it's where are peaks in
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  Speaker 1: terms of energy and lack of energy over a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hour period. So broadly speaking, there are mourning people
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  Speaker 1: who were laks who you know, upright and early at
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  Speaker 1: five am, there's owls four thirty.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't mind for me, it's four thirty. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying you.
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  Speaker 1: Are a lark, justin and probably deeply irritating to owls,
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  Speaker 1: who are about twenty percent of the population. They do
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  Speaker 1: their best thinking they've got their highest energy at night,
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  Speaker 1: and then everyone else is a middlebird. So follow the
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  Speaker 1: patterns of a lark, so more sprightly in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: just delayed by a couple of hours. And what is
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  Speaker 1: really important for parents to know, particularly parents of teenagers
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  Speaker 1: that feel like they're just fighting against these people that
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  Speaker 1: want to sleep in and not be at school on time,
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  Speaker 1: is that our chronotype is genetically predetermined and it changes
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  Speaker 1: with eight So when we're young, when we're really little people,
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  Speaker 1: we're quite larkish. When we get into our teenage years,
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  Speaker 1: our chronotype shifts and we become like ours, and then
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  Speaker 1: in our twenties and thirties we start to level out
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  Speaker 1: at where unnatural chronotype is. So I think that is
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  Speaker 1: a really helpful thing for parents to be aware of.
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  Speaker 1: This is genetically predetermined, So wherever possible, try not to
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  Speaker 1: fight against where your child is out in terms of
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  Speaker 1: their chronotype phase.
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  Speaker 2: If you like, isn't that a great conversation? Amazing stuff? Tweens,
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  Speaker 2: Teens and Screens is the webinar you need if you're
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  Speaker 2: struggling with screen time at home. Join me is I
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  Speaker 2: unpack the simplest methods to deal with the screen scene
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  Speaker 2: and eliminate the drama without having to ban all devices.
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  Speaker 2: Even in some of the trickiest situations, screens can work
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  Speaker 2: in your family's favor even if you have tweens and teens.
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  Speaker 2: Check out Tweens, Teens and Screens at Happy families dot
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  Speaker 2: com dot A. You really appreciate you listening to the
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  Speaker 2: Happy Families podcast. If you ever find us talking about
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  Speaker 2: something that you would love to have some input on,
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  Speaker 2: you can email us podcasts at Happy families dot com
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  Speaker 2: dot You We especially love it when you send us
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  Speaker 2: voice memos. Open up your telephone, click on the voice
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  Speaker 2: Memos app and just tell us what's on your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Try to keep it to twenty or thirty seconds. The
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  Speaker 2: shorter it can be, the more likely it is that
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  Speaker 2: we can use it on the podcast podcasts. At happy
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  Speaker 2: families dot com dot you send us your voice memos,
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  Speaker 2: We would love to have your voice as part of
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  Speaker 2: the Happy Families podcast, which is produced by Justin Ruhland
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  Speaker 2: from Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer, and
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  Speaker 2: if you'd like more and fo about making your family happier,
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  Speaker 2: visit us at happy families dot com dot A you