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#662 It's the Most Busiest Time of the Year · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: It's their Happy Family's Podcast. Okay, Kylie, So technically we're
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  Speaker 1: on holidays, but we're trying to keep the podcast going
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  Speaker 1: through the break. We've got some great content for summer,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to keep it really short, really tight.
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  Speaker 1: This is the busiest week of the year. We've got Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: It's this week. It's this Sunday Christmas. Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: Before we dive into three secrets to getting through the
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  Speaker 1: busiest week of the year, you found something on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and we kind of just have it. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: have a listen to this for any for any parent
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  Speaker 1: of a teenager or someone who's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: parent of a teenager one day, just bear this in
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  Speaker 1: mind and say this to them when they're giving you
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  Speaker 1: some attitude.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to the teenagers right now who
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  Speaker 2: get annoyed with their mom. I'm got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time when you loved her so much,
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  Speaker 2: you were so obsessed with your mom that you would
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  Speaker 2: beg to watch her poop. That's right. You would sit
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  Speaker 2: outside her door, banging and crying to be let in.
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  Speaker 2: And if she gave up and opened that door to
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  Speaker 2: let you in.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you tried to do.
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  Speaker 2: You tried to sit on her lap like some kind
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  Speaker 2: of sick go stalker weirdo. Okay, so the next time
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  Speaker 2: you start looking at your mom feeling too good for her,
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  Speaker 2: she's getting on your nerves, remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, so good. So that is Anna dot lind
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  Speaker 1: dot Thomas. Anna dot lind dot Thomas. We found her
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram. She's also on TikTok and she's pretty down funny.
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  Speaker 1: She says some funny stuff. Anyway, busiest week of the yekli.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get down to it because people are busy and
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to listen too much comedy on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: They can find themselves. I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: How do we keep calm, how do we hold together?
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  Speaker 1: How do we make everything work when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: getting through a week like this? Instead of me giving
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  Speaker 1: the advice today, this is your specialty, because this week
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  Speaker 1: I kind of well. I take the kids surfing, I
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  Speaker 1: take them to the beach, I hang out and watch
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  Speaker 1: movies with them. You're the one that's doing all the
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  Speaker 1: hard work. So what's your advice.
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  Speaker 3: I've just got three bits of advice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Number one, hit us with it.
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  Speaker 3: Be intentional. You need to plan. If you've got four
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  Speaker 3: days leading up to Christmas, what do those four days
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  Speaker 3: look like. You don't have to have every minute taken
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  Speaker 3: into account, but you need to know what are the
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  Speaker 3: most important things you need to get done.
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  Speaker 1: So it's saying it to do lists.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, so just make sure the important things
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  Speaker 3: are done, because we can so easily get sidetracked with
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  Speaker 3: all of the trivial stuff and then come Christmas Day
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  Speaker 3: we're flustered because none of the stuff that was important
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  Speaker 3: got done in the leader.
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  Speaker 1: But that's also part of the reason that I'm on
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  Speaker 1: my list. I've actually got a list of all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I've had to chase up. But on my
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  Speaker 1: list every day is play with the kids. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to get to Christmas Day and
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh my goodness, we're halfway through the holidays
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  Speaker 1: already and I haven't even spent any time with the kids.
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  Speaker 1: So put that on my list as well. What's your
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  Speaker 1: second idea? Rather than being intentional, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Say no all. It's so easy again to just say
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  Speaker 3: yes to everything because you don't want to miss out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want the kids to have the excitement of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, going to all the Christmas parties and being
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  Speaker 3: with their friends. But if it doesn't fit in with
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  Speaker 3: the family plan, then you just need to say no.
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  Speaker 1: So what have you said no to?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've sitting known to a couple of things, have
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  Speaker 3: we Yeah, we had a community don't even know. We
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  Speaker 3: had a community Christmas party which we.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, which it just didn't fit in yep, yep
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  Speaker 1: for the school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there's also the church one that we didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to as well because it didn't fit. We just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: make it happen. You know what I've been doing. I've
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  Speaker 1: been getting text messages, emails and phone calls from media
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  Speaker 1: outlets saying we need you on the radio? Can you
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  Speaker 1: do an interview for us? Can you? And I've been
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  Speaker 1: saying I'm not taking any interviews across summer. I'm with
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  Speaker 1: my family. In fact, I've tried not to answer the
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  Speaker 1: phone at all, but every now and again I've answered
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  Speaker 1: it and then I've had to say no to them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, if you didn't answer the phone, we might
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  Speaker 3: not have known that our daughter was sitting on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: Which is why I've got to answer the phone, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have to answer the phone. What's your
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  Speaker 1: third one? Other than you've got be intentional say though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, after the last few weeks that we've had and
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  Speaker 3: the situations we've found ourselves in, it might look and
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's out of place, but it actually fits
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  Speaker 3: in beautifully. It's people matter. Things don't right, and when
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  Speaker 3: we think about Christmas, we get so caught up often
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  Speaker 3: in all of this stuff. But the reality is what
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  Speaker 3: matters most is the people in your life and that
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  Speaker 3: they know that they're loved and time with them is
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  Speaker 3: so much more beneficial and strengthening to the family unit
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  Speaker 3: than any gift.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great reminder, And if the kids are giving attitude,
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  Speaker 1: just remind me, just remind them when you were young
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  Speaker 1: you love me so much? Used to what I'll watch people, poopeople,
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  Speaker 1: let's discuss. The Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin
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  Speaker 1: Roland for Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great week as we move into Christmas, and
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  Speaker 1: we will talk to you again tomorrow.