Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / The Surprising TV Moment That Sparked a Conversation About Literacy [Parental Guidance Ep. 3]
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- 0:06Speaker 1: Okay. Today on the Happy Families podcast, Real Parenting Solutions
- 0:09Speaker 1: Every Day. This is Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast, where
- 0:12Speaker 1: Justin and Kylie Calson we are discussing what I think
- 0:14Speaker 1: is the big moment some of the most compelling TV
- 0:17Speaker 1: that you'll ever see. Monday Night on Parental Guidance, we
- 0:21Speaker 1: were blown away by what happened in the last twenty
- 0:23Speaker 1: minutes of the show and we really need to spend
- 0:25Speaker 1: some time chatting about what I think most of Australia
- 0:29Speaker 1: saw and we're just astonished by. So let's do a
- 0:33Speaker 1: quick reset and just get you up to date on
- 0:35Speaker 1: Parental Guidance. This week we focused on the topic of
- 0:38Speaker 1: body image. Where we're talking about body image. We're talking
- 0:41Speaker 1: about healthy eating, regular exercise and having a positive view
- 0:47Speaker 1: of your body.
- 0:48Speaker 2: This is complicated. Eat well, but you know, not obsessively,
- 0:52Speaker 2: exercise but don't go too hard. But how do we
- 0:56Speaker 2: actually parent for this?
- 0:58Speaker 1: Let's reintroduce those focused parents so you know who we're
- 1:01Speaker 1: talking about. First up, our authoritative parents, Elvie and Sean.
- 1:05Speaker 3: As authoritative parents, we don't really give our children too
- 1:09Speaker 3: much choice.
- 1:10Speaker 4: To be good in piano, you do need a lot
- 1:13Speaker 4: of practicing. Elvis says the rules in the family.
- 1:16Speaker 5: You only have turned him in this that okay.
- 1:19Speaker 4: The girls and I.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Are they Nick and Sophia the positivity parents.
- 1:24Speaker 5: As positivity parents, we build up our children's self esteem
- 1:27Speaker 5: every single day by doing positive affirmations.
- 1:30Speaker 6: I can't hear you got to tell her out?
- 1:31Speaker 1: I am stop before?
- 1:33Speaker 4: Yes? Yes?
- 1:36Speaker 1: Who are Amanda Hassan? Hardware parents.
- 1:39Speaker 3: As hardware parents, there's no easy way out.
- 1:41Speaker 5: We don't leave anyone behind. We all go do things together.
- 1:45Speaker 4: Yes, we actually choose to parent our children.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Josh and Cassie Life school parents.
- 1:51Speaker 6: As a family of seven. We live in our truck
- 1:54Speaker 6: and caravan traveling around Australia.
- 1:57Speaker 4: We've been traveling for like three years. We haven't been
- 2:00Speaker 4: to school for four years. We just choose life schooling.
- 2:03Speaker 5: To a better way to learn.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Well, the very last challenge of the night was for
- 2:06Speaker 1: the Life school parents.
- 2:09Speaker 2: We're playing the compliment game and there's one more family
- 2:12Speaker 2: left to see. Let's see how our Love school parents went.
- 2:17Speaker 6: Give your parents five compliments each.
- 2:20Speaker 4: Let's go as.
- 2:22Speaker 7: Live school parents.
- 2:23Speaker 3: We think a good compliment is one that comes from
- 2:25Speaker 3: the heart.
- 2:26Speaker 4: And it's honest.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Okay, so I need to explain what unfolded because it's
- 2:30Speaker 1: quite visual. You had to see it if you listen
- 2:32Speaker 1: to the podcast and you haven't seen the show, maybe
- 2:34Speaker 1: because you're overseas or you just haven't caught up yet
- 2:37Speaker 1: on the nine and now app here's what's going on
- 2:39Speaker 1: with the compliment game. The kids are describing their parents.
- 2:43Speaker 1: They're saying things like pretty, nice skin, nice hair, awesome, fun,
- 2:49Speaker 1: But it was really a parent that they had trouble spelling,
- 2:52Speaker 1: like fun was spelled with an M crossed out and
- 2:55Speaker 1: then the letter and pretty was pri y and so
- 2:58Speaker 1: on were beautiful.
- 3:01Speaker 2: There was a bit of a spelling issue.
- 3:05Speaker 6: Yeah, that was It was a funny one because the
- 3:07Speaker 6: spelling and the writing and the reading.
- 3:09Speaker 5: A few of them struggled at do they know how
- 3:11Speaker 5: to read and write?
- 3:14Speaker 6: Yeah, they read and write in their own ways. It's
- 3:17Speaker 6: not like we sit down and give them pen and
- 3:19Speaker 6: paper lessons.
- 3:21Speaker 1: What we've seen is they might need a bit more
- 3:24Speaker 1: help with that.
- 3:26Speaker 2: We have a high school teacher in the room, Amanda.
- 3:29Speaker 4: I just talking from my perspective. I just thought it
- 3:31Speaker 4: was lacking, like a lot for their age, the youngest
- 3:35Speaker 4: being seven, Like you should be able to spell and
- 3:37Speaker 4: read really well, really well well for those words. Yeah,
- 3:40Speaker 4: they were quite easy words. Yeah. I would be giving
- 3:43Speaker 4: them a lot more lessons and reading and writing. They
- 3:46Speaker 4: need it.
- 3:46Speaker 1: A comment from one of the parents pretty well summed
- 3:49Speaker 1: up the general feeling in the room.
- 3:50Speaker 5: I would be beside myself to be quite honest, whether
- 3:56Speaker 5: or not you believe that you're limiting their opportunities for
- 4:00Speaker 5: careers later. Like you said, well, if they want to
- 4:01Speaker 5: be a doctor, they can be a doctor. Realistically, I
- 4:06Speaker 5: don't see that happening if they can't read.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Are you worried about where the boys are at with
- 4:14Speaker 2: their reading and writing? I'm not worried at all, because
- 4:16Speaker 2: they can read and write, but we didn't see that
- 4:20Speaker 2: there and they were they It's like fun.
- 4:25Speaker 6: If you look at most people on social media, they
- 4:27Speaker 6: can't spell or use grammar as well.
- 4:30Speaker 2: And if you're not worried about it, at what point
- 4:33Speaker 2: do you become worried.
- 4:35Speaker 3: One of the challenges is them having a good relationship
- 4:39Speaker 3: with reading and writing and that sort of thing. We
- 4:42Speaker 3: don't want to come on too strong and too heavy
- 4:45Speaker 3: for them to be fully resistive to taking you.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Josh, I need to jump in. You're not alarmed. Everybody
- 4:53Speaker 1: in the room is alarmed, and I'm alarmed. They've got
- 4:58Speaker 1: such limited capacity to read, and they are not just behind,
- 5:02Speaker 1: there's several years behind. How much do you read to them?
- 5:09Speaker 6: To be honest, it varies.
- 5:10Speaker 1: How much do they read to you?
- 5:12Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, probably not enough.
- 5:14Speaker 1: To know things like, based on what we've just heard,
- 5:17Speaker 1: they don't read to you at all. Yeah, okay, Kylie,
- 5:20Speaker 1: let's talk about this. The importance of reading, something that
- 5:23Speaker 1: we've talked about endlessly on the podcast, something that we
- 5:25Speaker 1: make a really big deal about. Reading is the gateway
- 5:29Speaker 1: to learning.
- 5:30Speaker 7: I shared this a few times now, but I don't
- 5:33Speaker 7: actually remember being read to as a child, and reading
- 5:37Speaker 7: didn't come easy to me. It wasn't until I was
- 5:39Speaker 7: in my mid teens that I actually started to pick
- 5:41Speaker 7: up a book because I wanted to, and then I
- 5:46Speaker 7: became quite an avid reader.
- 5:48Speaker 1: I love reading, But you thought I was weird because
- 5:51Speaker 1: I read nonfiction and you really liked fiction. And it
- 5:54Speaker 1: wasn't until I started to introduce you to some of
- 5:56Speaker 1: the incredible nonfiction that's out there that you started to
- 5:59Speaker 1: see that that was really exciting. As well. Readers are leaders,
- 6:02Speaker 1: and leaders are readers. Recent research that I stumbled across
- 6:06Speaker 1: indicates that I can't remember what percentage of kids it is,
- 6:09Speaker 1: something like half of Australian children. There's not even ten
- 6:12Speaker 1: books in the family home. I have family members who
- 6:16Speaker 1: literally don't have books in their home. Full step into story.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Zero books that's in my own family just blows me away.
- 6:24Speaker 1: How screens have proliferated and taken over our children's imaginations
- 6:30Speaker 1: and our families' lives.
- 6:32Speaker 7: And just the other day, you actually told me we
- 6:34Speaker 7: need more bookshelves.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. We've installed one, two, three, four, five,
- 6:39Speaker 1: maybe six bookshelves, and I'm saying we need more. We've
- 6:43Speaker 1: got too many books and I don't want to get
- 6:44Speaker 1: rid of them. Like we keep on culling our books
- 6:46Speaker 1: and just keeping the ones that I most besotted by,
- 6:49Speaker 1: and we just we love them. So reading is critical.
- 6:53Speaker 1: We have consistently made sure that we read to our
- 6:55Speaker 1: children daily, our children see us reading daily ourselves. And
- 7:00Speaker 1: while we don't read to our children so much anymore
- 7:02Speaker 1: because our youngest is eleven and she just wants to
- 7:05Speaker 1: read on her own, Like I'll consistently say can I
- 7:06Speaker 1: please read to you? And she won't let me because
- 7:08Speaker 1: she's completely absorbed in her own books, and she's reading
- 7:11Speaker 1: really big books. It's just so important that kids are
- 7:15Speaker 1: being read too, that they're reading to us, and that
- 7:18Speaker 1: they're seeing us read.
- 7:21Speaker 7: But I think what else is really important is that
- 7:23Speaker 7: there are books available to them. So little Indie, our
- 7:28Speaker 7: grand baby, she's almost two, she knows where the book
- 7:31Speaker 7: cupboard is, and when she comes to Lolly's house, she
- 7:34Speaker 7: literally goes to that cupboard, pulls out her books, and
- 7:37Speaker 7: she will bring them to me and ask to be
- 7:39Speaker 7: read too, but she'll often if she doesn't want my time.
- 7:45Speaker 7: She is actually really happy to pull them out, and
- 7:47Speaker 7: she will sit and flip the pages. Is she reading, No,
- 7:51Speaker 7: she's not, but she's becoming acquainted with books. She's looking
- 7:54Speaker 7: at the pictures. She's being enthralled and engaged in a
- 7:59Speaker 7: story all of its own, without having to know the words.
- 8:03Speaker 1: So we've done several podcasts over the last couple of
- 8:05Speaker 1: years about how to get your kids to love reading,
- 8:08Speaker 1: and we will link to those in the show notes.
- 8:10Speaker 1: They're so worth the listen. We've really put a lot
- 8:12Speaker 1: of time and effort into that, and I can't overstate
- 8:15Speaker 1: how much it matters that children fall in love with reading.
- 8:18Speaker 1: This matters so much. But as a result of what occurred,
- 8:23Speaker 1: there was a fairly I think really not fairly. There
- 8:27Speaker 1: was one of the most important conversations that I've ever
- 8:29Speaker 1: had on the TV between Josh and Cassie, the Life
- 8:32Speaker 1: School parents and me and I want to talk about
- 8:36Speaker 1: the conversation that I had with them offset.
- 8:38Speaker 6: Next justin, could you mind if we went outside and
- 8:53Speaker 6: had a bit of a chat.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Let's go okay, so you can hear the tension. You
- 8:57Speaker 1: can feel that the Life School parents and that children
- 8:59Speaker 1: had the challenge of the Compliments game. During the course
- 9:01Speaker 1: of the game, it became very clear that their children
- 9:04Speaker 1: were struggling with basic spelling. Now this podcast episode today
- 9:07Speaker 1: is not about them, and it's not about their kids,
- 9:11Speaker 1: but there was a lot of confronting feedback from the
- 9:13Speaker 1: other parents that was leveled at the Life School parents,
- 9:16Speaker 1: and so they asked if we could have a separate
- 9:18Speaker 1: conversation off set.
- 9:19Speaker 6: I feel that I just need to explain something that
- 9:22Speaker 6: wasn't able to be explained in the room around what.
- 9:26Speaker 7: Has happened to us in the past.
- 9:29Speaker 6: I unfortunately used my ego to allow one of our
- 9:34Speaker 6: kids to go to school at the age of four
- 9:36Speaker 6: because I had a prep a year one, a year two,
- 9:38Speaker 6: and a year three.
- 9:39Speaker 4: It's a lot.
- 9:40Speaker 1: I thought that that would create.
- 9:41Speaker 6: A bond, but it didn't. And what we have now
- 9:44Speaker 6: is an extremely resistant child to sitting down and reading
- 9:48Speaker 6: and writing. You know, he's not comfortable with holding a
- 9:51Speaker 6: pen and paper.
- 9:54Speaker 3: Like okay, yeah, I just don't know how to. I
- 9:59Speaker 3: just want to to come out.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Right, even if it's not right, it's okay.
- 10:06Speaker 3: He flatly refuses, you know, like when your dad's dragging
- 10:10Speaker 3: you forcefully to the car when you would probably rather
- 10:15Speaker 3: die than.
- 10:16Speaker 4: Go to where you're going.
- 10:18Speaker 3: I'm fearful to what that message tells my son. Literacy
- 10:23Speaker 3: is very important.
- 10:25Speaker 1: But if we kill his spirit because he has to
- 10:28Speaker 1: be at.
- 10:29Speaker 3: A benchmark because he is this age, then have we
- 10:32Speaker 3: just taken a gift out of the world.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Callie that conversation, I think it was just so important
- 10:38Speaker 1: to bring context into it, but also to make sure
- 10:41Speaker 1: that instruction was clear and that Josh and Cassey knew
- 10:43Speaker 1: what their children needed, regardless of the traumatic and challenging
- 10:47Speaker 1: experiences that had previously. It's just so important. But what
- 10:50Speaker 1: I want to do is stop talking about them now
- 10:52Speaker 1: and just talk about the broader question when your child
- 10:55Speaker 1: struggles with learning, when your child doesn't want to go
- 10:57Speaker 1: to school, what do you do? How do you help?
- 11:00Speaker 1: And what are the solutions? That's where we need to
- 11:02Speaker 1: spend our time. Now. We've been there. We've had children
- 11:12Speaker 1: who have refused to go to school, We've chosen to homeschool.
- 11:16Speaker 1: We've dealt with bullying, We've dealt with some mental health challenges,
- 11:19Speaker 1: we've dealt with neurodivergence. All of these things have been
- 11:23Speaker 1: a part of our family and our story. So we
- 11:26Speaker 1: have a huge amount of empathy not just for our
- 11:28Speaker 1: life school parents who have described their experience, but also
- 11:31Speaker 1: for anyone else who's listened to pot and going but
- 11:33Speaker 1: you don't get it, I promise you we do. We've
- 11:36Speaker 1: encountered all of those challenges and more. It's been extremely
- 11:40Speaker 1: hard raising six kids, not all of whom have been
- 11:42Speaker 1: excited to go to school every day. In fact, many
- 11:45Speaker 1: who have just dug their heels in an absolutely out
- 11:48Speaker 1: and out refused. It's been quite the journey for me.
- 11:52Speaker 7: The biggest take homes as we've gone through this process
- 11:56Speaker 7: time and time again for very different reasons with each
- 11:59Speaker 7: child is number one, recognizing that we can't do it alone.
- 12:05Speaker 7: We can't do it alone, and we're not supposed to
- 12:07Speaker 7: do it alone. And surrounding ourselves with the appropriate support,
- 12:12Speaker 7: whether that be professional or otherwise. Finding the right people
- 12:17Speaker 7: to put in your kid's corner and your corner to
- 12:21Speaker 7: help you navigate challenges is imperative if we're going to
- 12:24Speaker 7: get through this. I think the second one for me
- 12:28Speaker 7: is an acknowledgment that there is no quick fix, right yep.
- 12:33Speaker 7: As a parent, no one likes seeing their child struggle
- 12:36Speaker 7: at all.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Hardest think of being a parent is watching you can suffer.
- 12:39Speaker 7: And just sitting here thinking about the struggles gets me
- 12:41Speaker 7: a bit teary because it's so hard watching them and
- 12:45Speaker 7: knowing that they're in pain or they're hurting. But the
- 12:49Speaker 7: one thing we need to remember it is no matter what,
- 12:53Speaker 7: they need to know that we love them.
- 12:55Speaker 1: It just we're on the scene.
- 12:58Speaker 7: It has to be at the forefront of every conversation
- 13:01Speaker 7: we have with our children. No matter how hard this is,
- 13:04Speaker 7: no matter how much you're frustrated with me because we're
- 13:08Speaker 7: doing X, Y and Z or whatever it is, I
- 13:11Speaker 7: need you to know we just love you. We love you,
- 13:14Speaker 7: and we here for you and we want to support you,
- 13:16Speaker 7: and we're going to do everything we can, and then
- 13:19Speaker 7: we take every conceivable possible step we can to show
- 13:23Speaker 7: them that we're on their side.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Yeah, the reality is not every kid fits at school schools.
- 13:31Speaker 1: There are some schools who do a really great job
- 13:33Speaker 1: of catering for children who have diverse and additional and
- 13:37Speaker 1: challenging needs. There are some schools that are just remarkable,
- 13:40Speaker 1: but they are unusual. The standard cookie cutter approach to
- 13:44Speaker 1: schooling doesn't suit every child. And our world is busier
- 13:49Speaker 1: and more fraught, and more stressed and more just overwhelming
- 13:52Speaker 1: than it's ever been. Bullying is rife. Australia is the
- 13:55Speaker 1: second most bullied nation on the planet. The US beats
- 13:58Speaker 1: us out there, but are being bullied at insane levels
- 14:02Speaker 1: both online and offline. In fact, if it's happening online,
- 14:05Speaker 1: you can bet your boots that it's happening offline. And
- 14:08Speaker 1: children just it's really hard. So, in addition to what
- 14:12Speaker 1: you've said, and I really appreciate the way that you've
- 14:13Speaker 1: said it and the things that you've said, a couple
- 14:16Speaker 1: of other things to look at. Number One, you've got
- 14:18Speaker 1: to work with the school to the extent that you
- 14:20Speaker 1: can we've just written a letter to the school about
- 14:23Speaker 1: one of our kids who's having a rough time. We've
- 14:25Speaker 1: only got two kods a school, so I'm probably giving
- 14:27Speaker 1: away a little bit too much there, But we've just
- 14:28Speaker 1: said to the school we are dealing with some really
- 14:31Speaker 1: big challenges here and we want to work with you.
- 14:34Speaker 1: We want to be by your side, we want to
- 14:36Speaker 1: be collaborating as much as possible to work through this
- 14:40Speaker 1: specific issue. And that approach generally works better than yelling
- 14:44Speaker 1: at somebody in the school office and saying you people
- 14:46Speaker 1: don't understand you're not doing anything. So that's the first thing.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Work with the school. But every now and again you're
- 14:51Speaker 1: going to find that no matter how much you work
- 14:52Speaker 1: with the school, you just won't get the outcome you need.
- 14:55Speaker 1: At which point I think that it's worth looking around
- 14:57Speaker 1: at other schooling options. It might be a school up
- 14:59Speaker 1: the street or down the road. It might be an
- 15:01Speaker 1: alternative kind of school. It could be distance education, it
- 15:04Speaker 1: could be homeschool. There are an enormous a variety of
- 15:09Speaker 1: options that are out there, and then it just comes
- 15:11Speaker 1: down to what you can manage, whether it's budget or
- 15:13Speaker 1: whether it's time, whether you're working, whether you can take
- 15:16Speaker 1: time off. We have found with homeschooling that having an
- 15:19Speaker 1: outside tutor has been essential to help our children stay
- 15:24Speaker 1: motivated and to do things that you and I can't
- 15:26Speaker 1: do or that the kids won't do. With us, looking
- 15:28Speaker 1: at alternatives and being open minded about it becomes imperative.
- 15:31Speaker 7: One of the things you've talked about so many times
- 15:34Speaker 7: is the acknowledgment that avoidance isn't the answer.
- 15:37Speaker 3: No.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Avoidance reinforces anxiety, and.
- 15:39Speaker 7: So it's really important that while ever we're dealing with struggles,
- 15:45Speaker 7: that we don't take what seems like the easier road
- 15:49Speaker 7: by avoiding the challenges, because we're actually just creating a
- 15:53Speaker 7: bigger problem. We're pushing that problem down the road.
- 15:56Speaker 1: If avoidance reinforces anxiety, though, what overcomes anxiety is action.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Action is the key. So if your children are struggling,
- 16:03Speaker 1: there has to be some form of action, having them
- 16:05Speaker 1: involved in extra curricular activities, having them having a third
- 16:09Speaker 1: space where they do have good relationships, or they do
- 16:11Speaker 1: have a level of competence, or they do have a
- 16:12Speaker 1: sense of choice about what they're doing. I would always
- 16:15Speaker 1: say minimize screens. I would always be saying get them
- 16:18Speaker 1: reading back to the first half of this conversation. But
- 16:21Speaker 1: these are the things that our children need. The last
- 16:24Speaker 1: thing that I want to highlight and really sort of
- 16:26Speaker 1: zero win on as we talk about what the solutions
- 16:29Speaker 1: are when our children are struggling with learning is finding
- 16:34Speaker 1: something that they are motivated to learn. Finding just find
- 16:38Speaker 1: something that they enjoy. Because what you tend to find
- 16:43Speaker 1: is that when a child goes into a space where
- 16:45Speaker 1: they have decent relationships, where they feel reasonably competent, and
- 16:49Speaker 1: they know that they're making progress, and they have a
- 16:51Speaker 1: sense of choice over their actions and activities, you find
- 16:54Speaker 1: that their motivation is really really deep and profoundly powerful.
- 17:00Speaker 1: They're just so motivated. And the reason for the higher
- 17:03Speaker 1: levels of motivation because those basic psychological needs are being supported.
- 17:07Speaker 1: So child doesn't want to learn, child struggling to do stuff,
- 17:10Speaker 1: find something that they do love to learn, and you'll
- 17:14Speaker 1: find that motivation will appear really quickly. Motivation actually follows
- 17:18Speaker 1: competence rather than competence following motivation, which is what people
- 17:23Speaker 1: often think happens. So much more we could talk about it.
- 17:26Speaker 1: I mean, it was compelling TV. Really it was compelling
- 17:29Speaker 1: because there was a lot of motion, but it was
- 17:31Speaker 1: compelling because it matters. It really matters, And I can't
- 17:34Speaker 1: thank Josh and Cassie enough and all the parents on
- 17:37Speaker 1: the show for being willing to put themselves out there.
- 17:40Speaker 1: I get pretty upset when people get on to social
- 17:42Speaker 1: media and start making judgmental comments. That's not helpful. These
- 17:45Speaker 1: are families who are doing a great job as a
- 17:47Speaker 1: general rule, and when you look at how their kids
- 17:49Speaker 1: did in every single change. We've got one episode to
- 17:53Speaker 1: go on Monday night, but their kids absolutely nail it.
- 17:56Speaker 1: They're a great family doing really good stuff.
- 17:58Speaker 7: They're so involved, hands on.
- 18:00Speaker 1: They're really really good. Yes, yeah, and so it's just
- 18:04Speaker 1: I think that it's really important a reminder when you
- 18:06Speaker 1: jump onto social media and say things, just be aware
- 18:10Speaker 1: there are real people on the other side of this,
- 18:12Speaker 1: and they're brave, they're courageous, and they've done what they've
- 18:14Speaker 1: done so that we can have conversations like this. It
- 18:17Speaker 1: really matters. Anyway, We hope that you've gotten a lot
- 18:19Speaker 1: out of today's conversation. We didn't do I'd do better
- 18:22Speaker 1: tomorrow this week because we just felt like that was
- 18:24Speaker 1: what we needed at end the week on and talk
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- 18:41Speaker 1: Parental Guidance Episode four is back Monday night on nine
- 18:45Speaker 1: and nine now from seven thirty next time.
- 18:48Speaker 2: In the last of our special events series.
- 18:51Speaker 1: We have an incredible mental illness challenge in this country.
- 18:55Speaker 2: It's the invisible crisis crippling the nation. She screamed from
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- 19:04Speaker 1: Don't help me.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Tonight's focus parents will be back in the hot seat.
- 19:10Speaker 3: My children call me the most mean momed in the world.
- 19:14Speaker 2: How do our parents respond when mental health takes center stage?
- 19:19Speaker 3: Boys are naturally nurturing, they.
- 19:22Speaker 6: Can be stereotyping, can put a lot of pressure on men.
- 19:25Speaker 2: And then the panel decides a parents with the best
- 19:29Speaker 2: parental guidance when it comes to building good mental health
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