Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / #478 Holiday Edition - Mem Fox
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- 0:03Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families Podcast.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just
- 0:09Speaker 2: once answers now Gooday?
- 0:11Speaker 3: This doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy Families dot
- 0:13Speaker 3: com dot you, thank you so much for joining me
- 0:15Speaker 3: on this holiday edition of the Happy Families Podcast.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Kylie and I making the most of our.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Time together with the kids, try to work out this
- 0:21Speaker 3: move as we get closer and closer to being on
- 0:23Speaker 3: the coast and creating that awesome life that.
- 0:25Speaker 1: We've been working on for so long.
- 0:27Speaker 3: But during this time on the podcast, we're revisiting some
- 0:30Speaker 3: of our favorite interview moments from the last couple of years.
- 0:32Speaker 3: And today it's a conversation I had with Mem Fox.
- 0:36Speaker 3: This was episode one hundred and twenty four of the podcast.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Mem is one of Australia's, if not one of the world's,
- 0:41Speaker 3: most celebrated children's authors, and I asked Mem, if you
- 0:46Speaker 3: could spend an hour with your daughter, what age would
- 0:50Speaker 3: you pick if you could be with her at any
- 0:52Speaker 3: age for that hour.
- 0:54Speaker 2: I pick now. I mean I'd pick now. The older
- 0:59Speaker 2: she is, the you know, the more of a parent
- 1:02Speaker 2: that she becomes, She's just loved. I would just like
- 1:08Speaker 2: her as she is as she is. I would not
- 1:10Speaker 2: like her at seventeen.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Now.
- 1:12Speaker 4: I don't know too many parents that would ask for
- 1:14Speaker 4: a seventeen year old again, no matter how good life
- 1:17Speaker 4: has been them and how glad you are to be
- 1:19Speaker 4: in the moment, what are you most looking forward to
- 1:22Speaker 4: is either as a mum or as a grandma.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I'm hope. I'm seventy four, and I've got a very
- 1:29Speaker 2: bad asthma, a very bad athmetics. So I'm very very
- 1:33Speaker 2: frightened of the coronavirus, right terrified of it. But my
- 1:36Speaker 2: great hope is that I live long enough to see
- 1:40Speaker 2: what my grandson wants to do in life. You know,
- 1:44Speaker 2: there are so many choices that kids have now, you
- 1:48Speaker 2: know whatever, I just want to know which way he goes.
- 1:52Speaker 2: It's because it's fascinating to see what the choices are.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Maybe my daughter was a politician for eight years, she
- 1:58Speaker 2: was a journalist of seven years. He's been a teacher
- 2:01Speaker 2: on and after, she's a teacher again. It's just fascinating
- 2:04Speaker 2: to watch people of development and their interests, and you know,
- 2:09Speaker 2: I just want to be there. I just want to
- 2:11Speaker 2: live long enough for that beautiful and I hope, I
- 2:15Speaker 2: hope I will I hope I will.
- 2:18Speaker 3: My last question for you, mem is this, if you
- 2:20Speaker 3: could go back to Mempox as a young mum, probably
- 2:23Speaker 3: having one of those tough moments with maybe that seventeen
- 2:26Speaker 3: year old or maybe with a two year old, and
- 2:28Speaker 3: you're going to such little experience as a parent, what
- 2:31Speaker 3: advice would you give yourself.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Oh, look, let it rips your block. Just lose it,
- 2:42Speaker 2: get over it, but lose it. You know, there are
- 2:45Speaker 2: two experiences in my life with my daughter that neither
- 2:49Speaker 2: of us has ever forgotten, and we often bring it
- 2:51Speaker 2: up in a sort of joking way. I hope it's joking.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Where she had a mug with Chloe written on it, okay,
- 2:58Speaker 2: and it was precious I get had been made specifically
- 3:01Speaker 2: for her, and in a fit at absolute rage about
- 3:04Speaker 2: something I've got no idea what it was, I threw
- 3:06Speaker 2: it on the kitchen floor and it smashed. And although
- 3:14Speaker 2: that was terrible, it was absolutely tragic and it was
- 3:16Speaker 2: completely wrong with me. I'm not saying it was right
- 3:19Speaker 2: at all. You know, the explosion of rage, it was
- 3:22Speaker 2: over and I was devastated, and you know that we
- 3:25Speaker 2: made it up. But you can't hold it in all
- 3:27Speaker 2: the time. You've got to be real. You have to
- 3:30Speaker 2: be in a marriage. You've got to be real. You've
- 3:31Speaker 2: got to see how you feel otherwise it, you know,
- 3:34Speaker 2: makes you what inside. You just have to have these
- 3:38Speaker 2: well raazing you know, rowse and then but then get
- 3:42Speaker 2: over it. The forgiveness has got to be fast.
- 3:46Speaker 3: You can hear the rest of my conversation with mem
- 3:48Speaker 3: Fox on episode one hundred and twenty four of the podcast.
- 3:51Speaker 3: It was a great chat. I'd love for you to
- 3:53Speaker 3: go back and have listened to it. Enjoy the download,
- 3:55Speaker 3: Enjoy the listen. Some really nice ideas come out of
- 3:57Speaker 3: that discussion. The Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin
- 4:00Speaker 3: Ruland from Bridge Media.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Craig Bruce.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Thank you for being our executive producer and if you'd
- 4:05Speaker 3: like more info, check out Happy Families dot com dot U.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I want a quick reminder tomorrow the Bringing Up Boys Summit.
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