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#777 3 Words You Need to Say More · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for.
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  Speaker 2: The time poor parent who just wants answers.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't care if you get c's and d's
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  Speaker 3: and e's and f's for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I do. I want you to have great life,
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  Speaker 3: but your value as a person isn't related to grades.
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  Speaker 3: My feelings for you are unconditioned. I love you no
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  Speaker 3: matter what, regardless of the grades.
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  Speaker 1: Again and now here's the stars of our show, my
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  Speaker 1: mum and dad. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: This is talked to Justin Coilson, the founder of Happy
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  Speaker 3: Families dot com, dot you and the author of the
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  Speaker 3: brand new book The Parenting Revolution.
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  Speaker 2: Did you just go down into your deep voice?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I just I just put on my This is the
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  Speaker 3: I'm being very serious, this is my I was once
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  Speaker 3: a presenter, and I still know how to stay state
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  Speaker 3: stage voice. I just try to say I still know
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  Speaker 3: how to say stuff, and I couldn't the RN.
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  Speaker 1: I still know how to stay soft. I clearly don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to say some stuff, like how to say
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  Speaker 1: we are making a mess of this, but we're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep on going, because sometimes life is like that.
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  Speaker 1: You make a mess and you just keep on going
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  Speaker 1: see what I did there? Did you like that? Come on,
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  Speaker 1: give me some give me some acknowledgment that I was.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to one of the podcasts the other day in
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  Speaker 2: the car with the kids, right and at the end
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  Speaker 2: of it, I thought, wow, I actually sounded like the
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  Speaker 2: expert in that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I get so many people. In fact, who
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  Speaker 1: was I talking to just the other day, I gave
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  Speaker 1: we used to have a business manager and somebody who
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  Speaker 1: helped us with our Happy Family's strategy for how we
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  Speaker 1: can reach more people and make a bigger impact in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Stacy.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to Stacy the other day and she said,
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  Speaker 3: I love listening to the podcast, but no offense. I
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  Speaker 3: just think Kylie's great. Come on, this is the doctor
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  Speaker 3: Justin Colson's Happy Families podcast, and everyone loves Kylie and
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  Speaker 3: I can live with it because I have to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was just going to say, I said to
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  Speaker 2: the kids, I think I sounded pretty good there. I
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  Speaker 2: sounded like I know what I'm talking about. And our
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  Speaker 2: fifteen year old piped up and she said, Mum, I
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  Speaker 2: think that was the best podcast I've heard. You spoke
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  Speaker 2: more in that podcast than I think you've ever spoken before.
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  Speaker 2: The thirteen year old pipes up in the background and
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  Speaker 2: she said, yeah, I still think Dad took over. Oh gosh,
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  Speaker 2: you get it from all sides, states I do every man.
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  Speaker 1: I try so hard.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, come on, let's go all right.
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  Speaker 1: So every Friday we call this episode I'll do better tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: This is where we reflect it. We reflect on the
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  Speaker 1: week that was and our parenting and how we're going.
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  Speaker 1: Are we doing it right, are we're doing it wrong?
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  Speaker 1: How can we be better? And Kylie, lately, I've been
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  Speaker 1: sharing a whole lot of wins. I feel like I've
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  Speaker 1: been really really dialed in, and I'm going to share
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  Speaker 1: another win this week because going to roll, Well, do
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  Speaker 1: you know why I've written this book? And all I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing all day every day is talking Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I always talk about parenting, but it's like it's ramped
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  Speaker 1: up to times ten at the moment. I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: so much media, so many interviews, so many podcasts, and
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  Speaker 1: we've got the TV show starting Parental Guidance Channel nine
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  Speaker 1: and nine now on Monday night. And all I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: is talking about pairenting at a whole new level. It's NonStop,
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  Speaker 1: and it's making me better. Like it's reminding me constantly
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  Speaker 1: of all the stuff that I'm supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: So we've noticed this actually pretty much every time you
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  Speaker 2: have released a book. There's this revived energy that comes
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  Speaker 2: around as a result of you being completely immersed in
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  Speaker 2: everything you're doing. And I'm not talking about you specifically
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  Speaker 2: as a couple. The more you are doing this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: the more your game elevates, and it allows me to
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  Speaker 2: elevate as well, because I want to be better. We've
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  Speaker 2: had this BMX factor. We talk about this idea of
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  Speaker 2: wanting to be better people whenever we're around each other,
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  Speaker 2: and when one of us lifts our game, it actually
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  Speaker 2: just encourages the other one to meet them where they are.
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  Speaker 1: So Kylie for our older better tomorrow would go first,
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  Speaker 1: so the kids think that you get to talk a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot more.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go first. Not because of that, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that if you've got a great story. Mine's more of
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  Speaker 2: an aha moment that I had while I read your book.
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  Speaker 1: You're reading my book.
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading your book. I haven't got all the way
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  Speaker 2: through it yet.
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  Speaker 1: You're pretty dumb close. I have seen it. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the book mark progressing through the pages, and I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I told you you just needed to be patient.
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  Speaker 2: I just needed the headspace to be able to nut
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  Speaker 2: down and actually give it the time and the energy
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  Speaker 2: that it required.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got a question before you tell the story
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  Speaker 3: the Aha moment, I've caught it the parenting revolution, because
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  Speaker 3: I really truly believe that what I'm talking about is revolutionary.
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  Speaker 3: Like I shared the presentation that goes with the book
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  Speaker 3: at the Resilient Kids conference a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 3: in Brisbane, and Karen Young from Hey Sigmund, wonderful psychologist,
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  Speaker 3: brilliant lady, incredible thinker. She said that what I had
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  Speaker 3: to say about parenting in the book and what I
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  Speaker 3: said on stage was revolutionary, or she said, I connected
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  Speaker 3: so many dots for her, and she's an experienced psychologist's
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  Speaker 3: been doing this for like twenty plus years. Would you
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  Speaker 3: say that you've had Aha moments?
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think it's too big a word to
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  Speaker 1: say that this will revolutionize your parenting.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a little bit tricky for me to be
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  Speaker 2: objective with your books because we talk so much about
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that you actually write about.
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  Speaker 1: Is it different to read it though, rather than hearing
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  Speaker 1: me banging on about it all the time at home
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  Speaker 1: or does it just sound like you're reading me banging
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  Speaker 1: on about something.
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  Speaker 2: No, For the most part, it's just like it's just
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  Speaker 2: like I'm having another conversation with you. What I love.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to do this with the.
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  Speaker 1: Book club oh review, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You've got me talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Save it for the book club review then, because that's
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  Speaker 3: coming up in just a couple of weeks on the podcast,
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  Speaker 3: and I really want to hear what you've got to
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  Speaker 3: say in the right context.
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  Speaker 1: So I asked the question that was my fault. Share
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  Speaker 1: the aha that you've had as you're reading the book.
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  Speaker 2: So you talk about need supportive parenting and what that
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  Speaker 2: actually looks like, and how for our kids to fully thrive,
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  Speaker 2: they need to have a sense of relatedness, their relationships
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  Speaker 2: need to be intact connection that they need to have
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  Speaker 2: a sense of competence. And there's such a fine line
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  Speaker 2: between something that's too easy and something that's too hard,
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  Speaker 2: finding that beautiful safe space where there's enough challenge but
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  Speaker 2: they can see that if they just work at this
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  Speaker 2: a little bit longer, they'll actually achieve and not and
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  Speaker 2: then a sense of autonomy then need to be able
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  Speaker 2: to control their environment. And so as I was reading
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  Speaker 2: that and I was just I was thinking about I
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  Speaker 2: guess the way I was raised and the way we're
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  Speaker 2: striving to raise our kids, I just I had this
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  Speaker 2: massive aha moment. I grew up in a pretty controlling home,
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  Speaker 2: and as a result, I didn't feel like my parents
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  Speaker 2: related to me, and therefore I felt really out on
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  Speaker 2: the limb.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the whole you don't understand me, And
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  Speaker 1: the reason kids say that is because they feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're quashing their autonomy.
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  Speaker 2: Wally, I actually did know wholeheartedly that what my parents
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  Speaker 2: were trying to teach me was good. It was good
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  Speaker 2: for me, and it was just good. It was wholesome,
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  Speaker 2: it was true, it was right. But because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel like I had the autonomy to make my own choices,
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  Speaker 2: there was no other place for me to go than
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  Speaker 2: to choose wrong. Rebellion literally, because for me to choose
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  Speaker 2: right didn't feel like it was my choice. It felt
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  Speaker 2: like every step of the way, I was being forced
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  Speaker 2: to make the right decision, even though in my heart
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was the right decision, but I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to prove that I was capable of making my own decisions,
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  Speaker 2: and so the only decision left for me to make
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  Speaker 2: was the wrong one.
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  Speaker 1: And you were a pretty good kid. You didn't make
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  Speaker 1: too many wrong decisions.
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  Speaker 2: No, But sitting there in that space, as I read
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  Speaker 2: that and recognized that, and knowing that my parents were
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  Speaker 2: between the very best job they could to teach me right,
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  Speaker 2: and they did, and I knew it just made me
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  Speaker 2: think about the times where my kids are playing up
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  Speaker 2: and they're making decisions that I wish they wouldn't and
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  Speaker 2: recognizing that in that space, is that the only choice
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  Speaker 2: they see available to them because I haven't allowed them
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  Speaker 2: the autonomy to pick a different choice.
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  Speaker 1: There's some pretty deep stuff there. You really need to
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  Speaker 1: read the book to get into the nitty gritty of
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  Speaker 1: what Kylie's getting at. But that's what I want this
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  Speaker 1: book to do. I wanted to provide those aha moments,
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  Speaker 1: those insights, and just to emphasize this doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: we should just let the kids do whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually about how we engage with them on the
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  Speaker 1: decisions that they're making.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I love, as we've tried
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  Speaker 2: to pairent our kids helping them to feel like we
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  Speaker 2: actually get where they're at and what they're going through
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  Speaker 2: and we see the struggle. And I feel like that
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  Speaker 2: was probably out of those three things, that was the
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  Speaker 2: thing that I struggle with the most. I didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like my parents got me. They didn't understand what it
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  Speaker 2: was like to live my life. They just saw the
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  Speaker 2: right path to go, and I had to go down
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  Speaker 2: that road without recognizing just how challenging it was to
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  Speaker 2: be on that path.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that mean for a parent who's listened
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  Speaker 1: to this, that hasn't read the Parenting Revolution and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: won't What does this really mean in terms of that
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  Speaker 1: four year old or that nine year old or that
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old that is in the living room and
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  Speaker 1: is surly, or ornery and uncooperative and has all that attitude.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that we try really hard to
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  Speaker 2: do in our home is to let our kids know
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  Speaker 2: that we see them, and so by acknowledging what we're
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  Speaker 2: actually seeing. I remember once I tried, in the early days,
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  Speaker 2: when I was learning all of this and it was
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  Speaker 2: all very new to me. I remember saying to one
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  Speaker 2: of our kids who was acting up, you're really angry
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, and they looked at me and they said,
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  Speaker 2: I am not angry, and they listed all of the
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  Speaker 2: emotions that they were except for anger. It was not
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  Speaker 2: in there. I did not understand what they were going through.
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  Speaker 2: But being able to articulate what I'm actually seeing allows
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  Speaker 2: my kids to recognize that I actually see them, and
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  Speaker 2: then once we've acknowledged that that's what they're feeling, asking
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  Speaker 2: them or how I can help them, how I can
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  Speaker 2: support them in it allows them to feel like they
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  Speaker 2: actually get a say in how we work through this,
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to me just coming in with a bulldozer
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  Speaker 2: because I want to be the helpful parent and fix
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  Speaker 2: it for them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I really appreciate sharing that, and I'm so glad
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  Speaker 1: that the book is creating a few aha moments since
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  Speaker 1: we've had so many conversations about it already.
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  Speaker 2: What's your role do about it tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: So it mine's a series of three, but I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to keep them all short because they're all actually the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. So you've heard me say so many times
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  Speaker 3: on the podcast and in my presentations that the three
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  Speaker 3: most important words we can say to our children are
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  Speaker 3: not I love you, although that's what every parent thinks
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  Speaker 3: that they're supposed to say the three most important words
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  Speaker 3: are no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: You can only say no matter what. If you've said
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  Speaker 2: those first three words.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, But those three words become the most important
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  Speaker 3: in the context of hearing I love you first, and
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  Speaker 3: they are so important. So something that I emphasize all
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  Speaker 3: the time is love that is conditional is not love.
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  Speaker 3: So if you say to your child, well, I love
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  Speaker 3: you so much, when you do that, your child here
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  Speaker 3: is so you don't love me, then, so I don't
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  Speaker 3: have unconditional love. My love is conditional upon my behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Or you'll only love me if I keep doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll only love me when. And that unconditionality is
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  Speaker 3: one of the sources of great anxiety and sadness and
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  Speaker 3: challenge for our children.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the challenging thing is I can't speak
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  Speaker 2: for all parents, but I think that it's not actually
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  Speaker 2: a question of our love. It's our ability to show
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  Speaker 2: that love when we're hurting based on the choices that
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  Speaker 2: our kids make. When my kids make decisions that are
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  Speaker 2: different from the ones I want to make, I hurt
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  Speaker 2: because I worry, because I'm fearful of what the outcomes
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  Speaker 2: might be. It's not that my love changes, but that's
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  Speaker 2: what the kids see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, over the last week, I've had interactions with three
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  Speaker 3: of our four children who are at home where things
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  Speaker 3: have been really tough for them at one moment or another.
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  Speaker 3: We've got our nineteen year old daughter who's going through
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  Speaker 3: an enormous study slash career questioning time. She's left university,
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  Speaker 3: she's applying for jobs, she's thinking about going back to school,
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  Speaker 3: doing all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: It's a teenage life crisis.
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  Speaker 1: And it's wonderful. Initially I thought, oh gosh, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a child who's dropping out of university. This is the
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  Speaker 1: end of the world. And then I thought, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Great experience that she's had for the last six months,
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  Speaker 1: I think you might.
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  Speaker 2: Have had a parenting expert tell you that that might be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that we did a podcast about this
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  Speaker 3: while ago, but really really valuable in terms of learning.
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  Speaker 1: But here she is.
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  Speaker 3: She's having a really hard time the same time, she's
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  Speaker 3: crashed my car and she's up for thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 3: and everything in her life just feels heavy and hard
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  Speaker 3: right now for her. And it was a really, really
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  Speaker 3: special moment for me to go over to her and say,
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  Speaker 3: you having a tough time, there's this happening, and there's
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  Speaker 3: that happening. It's that whole I see you, I hear you,
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  Speaker 3: I value you kind of thing that you were talking
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  Speaker 3: about with your old do better tomorrow. And as we
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  Speaker 3: talked it over, I gave her a hug and I said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't care how many jobs you try out over
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  Speaker 3: the next little while. I don't care whether you sign
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  Speaker 3: up for apprenticeships or university courses or tafe or if
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  Speaker 3: you just go and whatever it is that you want
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  Speaker 3: to do. So long as you're looking for and working
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  Speaker 3: towards something that's meaningful and fulfillment, that's the main thing
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  Speaker 3: for me. But you need to know something, and that
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  Speaker 3: is that, regardless of what you choose, I love you
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  Speaker 3: no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: And looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Her face as I had that conversation with her, I
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  Speaker 3: was just so special. And the way that she communicated
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  Speaker 3: with me and continues to communicate with me because she
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  Speaker 3: knows that I love her no matter what, is just
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  Speaker 3: It's delicious as a parent to have that experience. Second,
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  Speaker 3: one one of our kids is really struggling with her
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  Speaker 3: weight at the moment. She has some really significant body
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  Speaker 3: image issues, and she's terribly concerned about the way she
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  Speaker 3: is perceived physically. One of her sisters said something cutting,
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  Speaker 3: something really unkind to her, and I heard it. I
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  Speaker 3: saw this daughter run away. I walked after her slowly,
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  Speaker 3: and when I found her, I sat beside her and
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  Speaker 3: I commented, when you hear things like that from your
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  Speaker 3: sisters who are supposed to love you no matter.
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  Speaker 1: What, it just it's crushing, isn't it. And I gave
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  Speaker 1: her a big hug. And then I pretty much had
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  Speaker 1: the same conversation. I don't care how many custard tarts
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  Speaker 1: you eat. I don't care how many ice creams you eat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many push ups you can do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about anything when it comes to how
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  Speaker 1: you look, so long as you know that I love you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. And again she just burst into tears
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  Speaker 1: and put her head on my shoulder and cried. And
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  Speaker 1: then it was like she could get up and get
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  Speaker 1: on things because she had that unconditionality. She knew it.
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  Speaker 1: And then one of our other kids, who deals with
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of anxiety, she was struggling with some
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  Speaker 1: misunderstandings about something that I had said to her. She
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  Speaker 1: got an AM minus on an exam and she hadn't
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  Speaker 1: even been at school to study and learn the material
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  Speaker 1: because we'd been on that family holiday a few weeks back.
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  Speaker 1: She got an A minus. She was so excited when
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  Speaker 1: she told me. I just jokingly said a minus. I
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  Speaker 1: would have thought you'd get better than that. And I chuckled,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought she caught all the body language. She
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  Speaker 1: saw my face.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that she knew that I was kidding, and
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  Speaker 3: I said, you must be really happy, and I walked
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  Speaker 3: away or something like that. But whatever it was, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't respond to her with enough enthusiasm, and she missed
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  Speaker 3: all of the insinuated messages, all the body language messages
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  Speaker 3: that I thought I was sending loud and clear. And
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  Speaker 3: she had two or three nights where she didn't sleep
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  Speaker 3: because she was stressed.
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  Speaker 1: About how in the world she was going to get
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  Speaker 1: her grades up to a level that Dad could be
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  Speaker 1: proud of her. And when I went into her on
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  Speaker 1: that morning, when you said to me, justin, this is
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  Speaker 1: on you, and you explained a little bit, and I
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  Speaker 1: went and asked her more, and she told me, she said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sleeping because I can't get my grades high enough,
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  Speaker 1: and I just can't do enough, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how I can make you proud. And I had the
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  Speaker 1: same conversation with her. I don't care if you get
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  Speaker 1: c's and d's and e's and f's for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your life. I mean, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to have a great life, but your
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  Speaker 3: value as a person isn't related to your grades. My
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  Speaker 3: feelings for you are unconditional. I love you no matter.
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  Speaker 1: What, regardless of the grades you get, regardless of anything.
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  Speaker 1: You're my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: And it was almost like I had that conversation with her,
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  Speaker 3: and she got up and got on with life, and
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  Speaker 3: she became a different kid almost straight away. My old
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  Speaker 3: do Better Tomorrow is just the power of unconditional love
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  Speaker 3: and the way that it draws our children to us.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the things that you were talking about
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: in your old do Better Tomorrow. It's perfect combination of concepts.
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  Speaker 3: Had you, as a daughter, felt that your parents had
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  Speaker 3: you unconditionally, loved you completely and unconditionally, my guess is
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  Speaker 3: that you wouldn't have felt the need to push back. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: you would have felt drawn to them. You would have
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  Speaker 3: known that you could go to them with anything, that
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  Speaker 3: they would understand anything that you had to say to them,
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  Speaker 3: and that you could work things out with them, you
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  Speaker 3: could problem solve and get things progressing.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what. They're my three favorite words. There are
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  Speaker 1: three of the most.
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  Speaker 3: Important words that anybody can ever hear, and that's my
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I'll do better Tomorrow. If a parent is struggling right
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: now as they listen to this conversation, struggling with their
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: relationship with their children, be warned you might fail.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to get this right. We've been practicing for
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a long time. But those kids knowing, no matter what happens,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: no matter how angry they are, no matter what horrible
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: things they do, that we've got them, no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: it's just such a powerful, powerful thing to make families flourish.
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  Speaker 1: So Kylie, I'm so glad you shared your ideas. That's mine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do Better Tomorrow will return next Friday at the
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  Speaker 3: end of our first week of season two of Parential Guidance.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot wait for this TV show? Please join us on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night, Channel nine seven point thirty or catch up
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  Speaker 1: on the nine now app Parental Guidance Season two just
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  Speaker 1: around the corner, And of course, The Happy Family's Podcast
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  Speaker 1: to be back on Monday. Oh you know what. On Monday,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a.
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  Speaker 3: Chat with the executive producer of the show, and you,
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  Speaker 3: Kylie are in the hot seat asking all the questions.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait for that. The Happy Family's Podcast is produced
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  Speaker 1: by Justin Rowland from Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: executive producer. Have a great weekend and for more and
• 18:32
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