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#591 I'll Do Better Tomorrow · 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 wants answers.
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Speaker 2: Now, I spent the time giving her what she wanted,
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Speaker 2: and that meant more to her than having, you know,
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Speaker 2: the fancy precision cardboard box that some awesome mother. Mate.
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Speaker 3: It's beautiful. But what you're really saying is you can
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Speaker 3: get away with mediocrity so long as you do it lovingly. Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show, my mom
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Speaker 1: and dad.
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Speaker 3: Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy
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Speaker 3: Families dot com dot au. I'm here with Kylie, my
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Speaker 3: wife from under our six kids. Shaking your head and
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Speaker 3: smiling at me at the same time, I don't know
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Speaker 3: if you're what is that? What is the There's a
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Speaker 3: big smile there, and there's also like you're frustrated with me.
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Speaker 3: It's Friday, it's the end of the week. We get
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Speaker 3: to look forward to the weekend. I'll do better tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 2: Well, one second you're looking at me like I don't
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Speaker 2: even have a clue what are we going to talk about?
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Speaker 2: And the next thing you just launch into a podcast intro.
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Speaker 3: We're recorded. It's happening. We'll figure it out. I heard
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Speaker 3: a joke the other day that caught my attention made
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Speaker 3: me laugh my absolute head off. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: I should share this one with you or not, but
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Speaker 3: I'm going to anyway. Needed to do a wee at
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Speaker 3: the pool today, so I just did it in the
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Speaker 3: deep end. Lifeguard noticed and blew the whistle so hard
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Speaker 3: that I nearly fell in. How bad is that? Isn't
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Speaker 3: that so bad? It took me a minute.
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Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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Speaker 3: If you missed it, just go back thirty seconds, have
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Speaker 3: another listen. You'll get it.
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Speaker 4: You'll get it. It'll drop. I was waiting for the
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Speaker 4: I was waiting for the laughter. So for those of
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Speaker 4: you who are new to the podcast, thank you so
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Speaker 4: much for listening. We hope that you really enjoy your
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Speaker 4: time with us. Every Friday, we keep it really short,
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Speaker 4: really snapping, and we talk about life lessons in parenting.
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Speaker 4: What's happened this week that we've learned to help us
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Speaker 4: to be better parents. I'll do better tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Often we reflect on the mistakes that we've made, the
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Speaker 3: things that we're not doing so well. Every now and again,
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Speaker 3: we talk about the things that we absolutely nailed so
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Speaker 3: that we can do those again tomorrow and get better
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Speaker 3: and better and better at this stuff. Kylie, who's first today?
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Speaker 3: You're me?
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Speaker 2: Would you like me to go first?
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Speaker 3: That'd be great because I still haven't thought of what
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Speaker 3: I'm going to say.
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Speaker 2: You're so slack?
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Speaker 3: What was your old? Do better tomorrow for this? Well?
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Speaker 2: Because last week was Father's Day, we didn't get to
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Speaker 2: talk about book Week, and so I saved my story
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Speaker 2: up for a couple of weeks. So it's a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks old.
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Speaker 3: For those who are not familiar, I know you want
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Speaker 3: to tell the story, but some people don't know what
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Speaker 3: book week is.
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Speaker 2: So book Week is a celebration of literature. Most schools
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Speaker 2: will often have what they would consider it a book week,
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Speaker 2: and they would highlight different beautiful literature. Children's literature, read
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Speaker 2: it in the classrooms that spend time into the library.
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Speaker 2: The library puts on a big display. They'll often have
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Speaker 2: a book sale and parents can go and spend ridiculous
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Speaker 2: amounts of money on books that you could get cheaper
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Speaker 2: anywhere else as a bit of a fundraiser for the school.
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Speaker 2: But the big highlight for book week for the children
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Speaker 2: is dressing up in their favorite book character.
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Speaker 3: So if you were going to do book Week and
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Speaker 3: you could go to school or to work or live
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Speaker 3: your life dressed up as your favorite character, who would
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Speaker 3: you be.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea the character that comes out. She
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Speaker 2: doesn't even have a name. She's not named in the book.
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Speaker 2: But the book is called I Like Myself.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I love that book. That's that's the book with
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Speaker 3: the big pink cover, and there's this little girl on
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Speaker 3: the front who's saying, I Like Myself. I'm crazy, curly
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Speaker 3: hair urging it here. It is by Karen Beaumont. We'll
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Speaker 3: link to it in the show notes. A fantastic book,
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Speaker 3: especially if you've got little kids. I Like Myself. Oh,
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Speaker 3: and you can also get it as Migusta. Come I's
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Speaker 3: say it's I think that's Spanish. I don't speak Spanish.
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Speaker 3: It could be any language at all, but that's my guess.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I probably go as her.
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Speaker 3: Okay, anyway, back to your book Week story.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm curious who would you go as.
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Speaker 3: I only read nonfiction, so i'd be boring. I'd go
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Speaker 3: as I don't know, like somebody who writes nonfiction books. Well,
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Speaker 3: there are no characters in the books that I read.
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Speaker 3: I just read psychology books.
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Speaker 2: It's so funny you say that because a couple of
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Speaker 2: years ago, we had one of our followers send in
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Speaker 2: a picture of their son, Yes, and he was dressed
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Speaker 2: up as doctor Justin Coulson's.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, how funny is that is book Week? I'm
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Speaker 3: going to go as my mum's favorite author, doctor Justin Coulson.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, she actually, in the explanation, said that her
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Speaker 2: son recognized how different his mum was as a result
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Speaker 2: of the books that she was reading, and he attributed
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Speaker 2: that to you.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how to respond to that, but my
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Speaker 3: heart is full right now. Thank you. I'd forgot I'd
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Speaker 3: completely forgotten that until you mention that. I think that's
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Speaker 3: one of the highlights of my life now that you
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Speaker 3: mention that somebody actually chose to go to book Week
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Speaker 3: as me. Anyway, so kids get dressed up as a
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Speaker 3: favorite character or a favorite author or something from a book,
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Speaker 3: and they head off to school, and we get back
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Speaker 3: into your story because I constantly interrupt you and get
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Speaker 3: in trouble for it.
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Speaker 2: Well, the reality is some mums absolutely love this and
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Speaker 2: thrive on the opportunity to show their creative skills.
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Speaker 3: It's like Halloween before Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Bookweek is the bane of my life. I worked it out.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to work out why I get so
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Speaker 2: worked up about Bookweek, but I actually hate waste stage
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Speaker 2: and the thought of buying a costume or items that
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Speaker 2: can make up a costume can be rather expensive at
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Speaker 2: times or time consuming. And they're gonna wear it once
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Speaker 2: and literally it's going to be seen by their friends
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Speaker 2: at school and that's going to be it. It's all
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Speaker 2: over and done with in a matter of minutes. They
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Speaker 2: walk around the hall once or twice, and the universe
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Speaker 2: their costume's done. And so for me, it just feels
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Speaker 2: like it's just it drives.
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Speaker 3: Me crazy for a really short thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. So I put off preparation for
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Speaker 2: book Week for as long as possible. And it was
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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon and I had picked Emily up and she said, Mum,
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Speaker 2: we've got to go shopping for our costume. Her favorite
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Speaker 2: book is Wings of Fire, so for any parents out
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Speaker 2: there who know Wings of Fire, it is a dragon book.
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Speaker 2: And I was petrified that she was going to ask
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Speaker 2: me to make her a dragon costume, but bless her heart,
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Speaker 2: I overheard her having a conversation with her sister. She said,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go as a scavenger because it's a
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Speaker 2: lot easier for mum to make the costumes.
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Speaker 3: How good is she?
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Speaker 2: She really was. So we went shopping. I had in
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Speaker 2: my mind I knew exactly what we were going to get,
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Speaker 2: but I was also wanting to obviously give her a
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Speaker 2: say in it. And I was a little bit nervous
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Speaker 2: how this was going to go. And as we went along,
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Speaker 2: I showed her bits and pieces and I said, Emily,
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Speaker 2: we need to get some fabric for bandages. I said
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Speaker 2: what color should the bandages be? And she said white.
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Speaker 2: And so I walked past this crisp white fabric and
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Speaker 2: I said white like this and she said no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: it needs to be a little bit dirty. And so
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Speaker 2: I had in my mind that I'd get her some calico.
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Speaker 2: So we walked down and I said, how about this
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Speaker 2: and she looked at it and she said, that's perfect.
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Speaker 2: And it happened time and time again as we had
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Speaker 2: to make all of these decisions, and so at the
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Speaker 2: end of it, I dressed her up and her sister's
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Speaker 2: helped with some makeup because she had to look like
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Speaker 2: all scavengery, and you know, dirty and messy scavengery.
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Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, and she went off to school with a skip
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Speaker 2: and a step, and she was very very excited. We
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Speaker 2: got to school and she started to get nervous because
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Speaker 2: she couldn't see any other kids in costumes, and she
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Speaker 2: wondered whether or not it was actually book week. We
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Speaker 2: got we got into the class, embarrassing. She was very nervous.
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Speaker 3: Pajama day. You go to school in pajamas and it's
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Speaker 3: not pajama day.
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Speaker 5: She was very very nervous.
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Speaker 2: And we walked in and I saw a kid and
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Speaker 2: he was just wearing a flannelette shirt and some jeans,
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Speaker 2: and I said to her, look, I said, your friend's
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Speaker 2: dressed up too. And I'm feeling really good about myself
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Speaker 2: because I've gone to some efforts. She's got bandages and
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Speaker 2: I've ripped a shirt and she looks really good. And
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Speaker 2: this little boy says, Emily, do you want to see
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Speaker 2: my costume? And I'm thinking, ah, what's there to see? Anyway,
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Speaker 2: He's gone behind the teacher's desk and he's pulled out
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Speaker 2: the most amazing I'm talking precision spectacle of a cardboard
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Speaker 2: green tractor. It was amazing and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: my feel good. I'm an awesome mum went out the
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Speaker 2: window in a heartbeat and I went home.
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Speaker 3: She went off and she was happy.
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Speaker 2: And everything was fine. We got home that night and
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Speaker 2: as we were talking, I said to Emily and I
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Speaker 2: asked the kids every year, who is your favorite costume?
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Speaker 2: You know, like what costumes were there? And without missing
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Speaker 2: a beat, she literally turned to me and she said mine,
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Speaker 2: And in that moment just the remembrance for me personally
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Speaker 2: that our kids spell love time. I spent the time
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Speaker 2: giving her what she wanted and that meant more to
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Speaker 2: her than having, you know, the fancy precision cardboard box
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Speaker 2: that some awesome mother mate.
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Speaker 3: That's beautiful. But what you're really saying is you can
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Speaker 3: get away with mediocrity so long as you do it lovingly. Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 3: You know what You've I think that your excuse from
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Speaker 3: not loving book Week. We've we've got six kids, They've
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Speaker 3: all gone through book Week multiple, multiple, multiple times. We're
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Speaker 3: down to our last child, grade two. You've only got
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Speaker 3: another couple of book weeks to go because by the
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Speaker 3: time she's in about grade four, grade five, she's not
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Speaker 3: going to be that enthusiastic about it. So you're nearly there,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: I had a conversation with a single dad who'd gone
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Speaker 2: through it the week earlier, and there had been some
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Speaker 2: miscommunication and he didn't even know book Wik was on.
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Speaker 2: And so we arrived with his grade six child and
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't get out of the car and he said
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Speaker 2: to his son, you know what's going on. He's like,
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Speaker 2: dad's book weak. I don't have a costume, And so
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Speaker 2: they raised home. He's been an hour trying to work
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Speaker 2: out what he was going to do, came up with
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Speaker 2: this great bad guy's costume, got to school literally just
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Speaker 2: as his class finished their round in the parade.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, and he.
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Speaker 2: Thought, oh, I'm an absolute failure. And his son looked
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Speaker 2: at him and he said, Dad, he said, thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for spending the time making my costume. I
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Speaker 2: love you. Same concept. Our kids just want to know
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Speaker 2: that we love them.
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Speaker 3: After the break, we'll find out how doctor Justin Coulson
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Speaker 3: can do better tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: justin what's your I'll do better tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago, one of our children celebrated
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Speaker 3: a birthday. She turned fifteen. She keeps on reminding me,
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Speaker 3: only one year ago until I've got my license. In fact,
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Speaker 3: a couple of days ago she said, Dad, only three
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty whatever day is like, she's literally counting
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Speaker 3: down to she gets her learner's permit so that she
10:41
Speaker 3: can start driving. She's convinced she's going to be the
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Speaker 3: best driver in our family. It was her birthday and
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Speaker 3: she wanted a bicycle. And because of where we now live,
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Speaker 3: we've got lots of flat roads, lots of bike paths,
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Speaker 3: lots of beautiful scenic places to ride near the water,
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Speaker 3: and all that kind of thing, and she's really excited
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Speaker 3: to get this bike. And in my mind, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I literally ride one of the very best bicycles on
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Speaker 3: the planet. That's the bike that I bought for my
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Speaker 3: birthday last year. I saved up for about six years
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Speaker 3: so that I could buy it, and I finally went
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Speaker 3: out and bought that bike last year, and it is
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Speaker 3: I mean, I take my riding really seriously. Anyone who's
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Speaker 3: listened to the podcast for a length of time knows that.
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Speaker 3: You obviously know that because you don't get to wake
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Speaker 3: up in the morning with me, because I'm never home
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Speaker 3: I'm on my bike or on my surfboard. I take
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Speaker 3: those two sports really really seriously. I love them. And
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Speaker 3: so when when our fourteen fifteen year old daughter said
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Speaker 3: I'd like a bike for my birthday, I said, oh, sweetheart,
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Speaker 3: I can help you with that. Let's go to the
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Speaker 3: bike shop. We've got a bike shop down the road
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Speaker 3: that is absolutely brilliant and they sell really good bikes.
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Speaker 3: We've gone in there and they said to Annie, what
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Speaker 3: sort of bike would you like? And she sort of
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Speaker 3: shrugged her shoulders and deferred to me, as she rightly should,
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Speaker 3: because I'm the guy that knows all about the bikes
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Speaker 3: in our family, and I said, well, let's have a
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Speaker 3: conversation about this. What do you want the bike for?
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Speaker 3: And she said, well, I just want to go for rides.
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Speaker 3: I said, well, do you want to rid for fitness
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Speaker 3: or do you want to ride for pleasure like cruising around?
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Speaker 3: And she said, oh, I don't know. She was really
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Speaker 3: uncertain about why she wanted the bike. I said, well,
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Speaker 3: I think that what we should do is get this
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Speaker 3: kind of bike. And so I started looking at all
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Speaker 3: the right bikes and all the bikes. I left that
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Speaker 3: we're going to be fantastic for her within a reasonable budget.
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Speaker 3: But let's just say the bikes that I was looking
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Speaker 3: at were not cheap.
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Speaker 2: When you came home and told me what you were
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Speaker 2: thinking of spending on you, I was kind of like,
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Speaker 2: it's only her fifteen, that's not a massive birthday.
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Speaker 3: And I was a lot of money, and I was like,
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Speaker 3: I know, I don't want to spend that much money.
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Speaker 3: But if we're going to get her.
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Speaker 5: A bike, we need to get in a good bike.
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Speaker 5: We need to get the right bike. It matters because
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Speaker 5: bikes are important. I mean, bikes make life better anyway.
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Speaker 5: So we've gone back a couple of days later because
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Speaker 5: she wasn't convinced that the bike that I.
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Speaker 3: Knew that she needed was the bike that she needed
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Speaker 3: to buy. And when we walked in the second time,
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Speaker 3: the salesperson said, justin, I might just have a chat
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Speaker 3: with Annie about the bike and see where we are,
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Speaker 3: because she'd ridden three different bikes, little test rides along
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Speaker 3: the bike path, and she just wasn't sold on any
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Speaker 3: of them. And so I went and looked at the
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Speaker 3: really fancy bikes and thought, I wonder what I should
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Speaker 3: start saving up for next so that I can buy
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Speaker 3: another one in four or five years. And they came
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Speaker 3: back to me about three or four minutes later and said,
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Speaker 3: we're going to look at that bike over there. They
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Speaker 3: pointed at literally the cheapest bike, the cheapest bike in
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Speaker 3: the store, And part of me sort of went, oh,
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Speaker 3: thank goodness, I'm not gonna have to spend a lot
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Speaker 3: of money, and Kylie's not going to be cranky at me,
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Speaker 3: But the rest of me was going, why would you
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Speaker 3: buy that bike? That's not that's a terrible bike. Who
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Speaker 3: would be interested in a bike like that? Anyway, she
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Speaker 3: went for a ride on it, and then she rode
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Speaker 3: the next two models up from that bike, and at
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Speaker 3: the end of that she's now ridden six or seven
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Speaker 3: bikes in the store. She's ridden everything that she could
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Speaker 3: conceivably ride that's reasonable for what her riding is about.
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Speaker 3: And when I said to her, so, which one would
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Speaker 3: you like for your birthday?
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Speaker 2: This awesome bike over here, yeah, or.
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Speaker 3: The cheap piece of rubbish road And she said, I
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Speaker 3: want the cheap piece of rubbish but we didn't obviously
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Speaker 3: call it that. She said, I want the chrome one
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Speaker 3: or what is it, the bronze one. I want the
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Speaker 3: bronze one. But rode a few minutes ago, and I'm
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Speaker 3: looking at her with incredulity on my face. I'm like,
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Speaker 3: what's the matter with you? It's kind of like when
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Speaker 3: you say to your child, would you like for breakfast
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Speaker 3: at this fancy cafe? Which we've done once in our lives,
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Speaker 3: but I'm never going to forget it. It was just you
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Speaker 3: and I We went out for breakfast at that really
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Speaker 3: fancy place. I think it was called Hardware Society in Melbourne,
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Speaker 3: and I ordered lobster rolls for breakfast. Do you remember that? Yes,
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Speaker 3: never done it before, probably never do it again, But
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Speaker 3: oh my goodness. And you looked at me like, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna have some vegimi toasts or whatever. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't that bad. But there's lobster rolls off her here,
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Speaker 3: and you're gonna choose MUSI, you're gonna have a bottle
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Speaker 3: of porridge, Like, come on, this is amazingness here. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: she chose the musically, the vegemite toast, the porridge, whatever
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Speaker 3: it is, instead of the lobster rolls. She wanted that.
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Speaker 3: And you know what, she hasn't stopped smiling. She loves
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Speaker 3: that little bike. She's got this cruiser with her hands
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Speaker 3: up high, and she's got the big company. She seats
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Speaker 3: stick up a bum and there's no way that she's
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Speaker 3: going to be able to ride more than about twelve
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Speaker 3: kilometers an hour on this thing. But she just I
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Speaker 3: thought on myself, how important is it that we just
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Speaker 3: get out of our kids' way and let them be themselves,
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Speaker 3: Because she's so much happier with that bike than she
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Speaker 3: would have been on the bike that I thought was
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Speaker 3: the best bike for her.
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Speaker 2: You can thank me later.
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Speaker 3: So that's my old do better tomorrow, Listen to your
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Speaker 3: kids and let them figure it out. For themselves and
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Speaker 3: let them pursue the stuff that suits them. She's not
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Speaker 3: a racing bike rider. She's not going to compete. She's
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Speaker 3: not going to go riding up crazy hills to Montvilla
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Speaker 3: Mulaney and do the Tour de France style of riding.
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Speaker 3: That's not her thing. So let her get the thing
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Speaker 3: that's going to bring her joy. And so that's what
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Speaker 3: we've gone for. And it worked, and I kind of
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Speaker 3: feel like I nailed it. But I had to stomp
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Speaker 3: on every impulse that I had as a dad to
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Speaker 3: give her what I thought she needed. And how hard
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Speaker 3: is that? Whether it's meals, whether it's clean rooms or clothing,
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Speaker 3: or which school they should go to, all of those things.
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Speaker 3: We've got our own agenda, And what a difference it
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Speaker 3: makes when we just step back and let them go
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Speaker 3: their own way.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Thanks for sharing.
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Speaker 3: The Family's podcast returns next week with a whole lot
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Speaker 3: next week, we're going to be having a look at
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Speaker 3: some new research that highlights the very best stuff that
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Speaker 3: we can do. If we're living in a tech obsessed house,
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Speaker 3: what can we do to help our children to do
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Speaker 3: well in the age of social media. On Tuesday, we're
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Speaker 3: going to be talking about tweens that are pushing boundaries
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Speaker 3: and getting up to no good. And we've also got
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Speaker 3: a Doctor's Desk episode next week where we talk about
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Speaker 3: All that and a whole lot more on the Happy
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Speaker 3: Families podcast next week. Really hope that you enjoyed today's
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Speaker 3: conversation and that you've been inspired to be a better
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Speaker 3: parent as a result of the big mistakes that Kylie
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