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#902 Our Top 5 Episodes of 2023 · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast.
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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just
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Speaker 2: once answers.
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Speaker 3: Now, it's been a really big year on the Happy
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Speaker 3: Families podcast. As we move towards a conclusion for the year,
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Speaker 3: we thought that it might be interesting to have a
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Speaker 3: look at our biggest podcast of the year, Kylie. Number
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Speaker 3: of downloads this year approximately, did I tell you four million?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Actually it's higher. Wow, We're not for four point five
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Speaker 3: million downloads for the year. That's why we're celebrating, I
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Speaker 3: think so. I mean, if you do the maths on that,
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Speaker 3: let's say it's close en up to five million, five
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Speaker 3: million across fifty weeks. It's one hundred thousand downloads a week.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot of downloads. We're talking about lots and
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Speaker 3: lots of people listening to the podcast, which means we're
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Speaker 3: adding value to people's lives. Today, we wanted to talk
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Speaker 3: to you about the most value adding podcasts we've done
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Speaker 3: all year. That is the podcast that you listen to
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Speaker 3: the most because obviously they made the biggest impact, the
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Speaker 3: biggest difference, the biggest change in your family. So we're
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Speaker 3: going to count down five four three two one our
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Speaker 3: fifth most listened to podcast this year.
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Speaker 2: Was number seven hundred and six was a review of
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Speaker 2: gentle Parenting. You had a conversation with doctor Mona Dellahook.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about what gentle parenting is. She actually
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Speaker 3: doesn't like the term gentle parenting. It's not very well defined,
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Speaker 3: so she calls it responsive parenting. And I really liked
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Speaker 3: what she said here.
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Speaker 1: When certain people heard the word gentle parenting. And it's
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Speaker 1: not just my book. There's been quite a few books
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Speaker 1: in the last you know, five or so years on
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Speaker 1: this kind of new way of parenting as opposed to
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Speaker 1: maybe what we would think about as traditional parenting. Right,
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Speaker 1: so we might think of traditional parenting as more authoritarian,
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Speaker 1: and that would include maybe the parents as the ultimate experts,
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Speaker 1: and it might include punishments or rewards, but it would
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Speaker 1: kind of focus on behaviors, on surface behaviors, and parents
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Speaker 1: kind of judging behaviors is good or bad and then
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Speaker 1: having a certain response to those behaviors. And so the
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Speaker 1: word gentle parenting really doesn't describe a certain parenting style.
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Speaker 1: I think it's more of a catch all phrase for
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Speaker 1: this new type of parenting. And as you know, coming
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Speaker 1: out of the positive psychology movement in the nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: positive parenting has come on board, and that is, I
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Speaker 1: think a reaction that parents have to maybe the way
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Speaker 1: they were raised or their grandparents were raised right, which
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Speaker 1: wasn't very steeped in a knowledge of child development and
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Speaker 1: emotional literacy and all that good stuff. One article that
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Speaker 1: was written about gentle parenting said something like, so are
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Speaker 1: these gentle parents never saying no? And are these gentle
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Speaker 1: parents letting their kids throw rocks at cars as they
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Speaker 1: drive by? You know? And there is I think this
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Speaker 1: this conception that gentle parenting is parenting that is coddling
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Speaker 1: or never or doesn't have any sort of boundaries, and
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Speaker 1: that's really not the case. But people I think who
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Speaker 1: are concerned that parenting approaches don't have a level of
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Speaker 1: boundaries and parents as the guide and as the authority,
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Speaker 1: mistake that word. So it's not coddling in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: And the research that I'm particularly interested in and wrote
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Speaker 1: my book about is actually i sub a topic of
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Speaker 1: gentle parenting, which is responsive parenting that's linked in the
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Speaker 1: literature to a lot of great things, a lot of
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Speaker 1: great pieces of development, especially resilience.
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Speaker 2: You also touched on the math of gentle parenting taking
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Speaker 2: more time than normal parenting.
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Speaker 1: This doesn't necessarily take longer once you get into the
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Speaker 1: hang of it. It actually helps children develop more cooperation.
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Speaker 1: So while it sounds like labor intensive in the beginning,
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Speaker 1: the main thing is our mind shift. Because when a
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Speaker 1: child sees a soft look on your face when they're
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Speaker 1: refusing to put their shoes and socks on, and they
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Speaker 1: see you go from saying hurry up, we gotta go
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Speaker 1: out the door where you're gonna be late to school,
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Speaker 1: to oh, sweetheart, these getting these shoes and socks on,
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Speaker 1: and then now we got to we're rushing so fast,
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Speaker 1: mommy or daddy. I'm being really really rough right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm really kind of yelling and I'm upset. You know what,
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Speaker 1: Let's slow things down for a second and then look
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Speaker 1: at them with care and concern. It's amazing how that
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Speaker 1: emotional contagion of calmness helps children calm. So it's not
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily take more time, but I think it also
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Speaker 1: takes a mind shift.
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Speaker 3: That was episodes seven hundred and six, a review of
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Speaker 3: gentle Parenting with doctor Mona Dellahook and the fifth most
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Speaker 3: listened to podcast episode of our entire year, Our number four.
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Speaker 2: Was all about family a goal setting.
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Speaker 3: Who would have thought goal setting was that cool that
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Speaker 3: everybody wanted to listen to podcast episodes About that, we shared.
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Speaker 2: Some personal insights into our girls and their idea of
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Speaker 2: setting goals to start running and increase their fitness at
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Speaker 2: the start of the year.
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Speaker 3: It started, well, I've got to say we didn't follow
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Speaker 3: up as well as we probably should have, and well,
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Speaker 3: the best way to set goals is to start from
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Speaker 3: the bottom up, and I want to share a clip
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Speaker 3: from that in just a sec. There's also going to
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Speaker 3: be follow up, and we didn't talk much about follow
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Speaker 3: up because well, we didn't do a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of follow up.
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Speaker 3: But we are seeing progress and I'm excited to use
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Speaker 3: what we talked about in episode six seventy three about
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Speaker 3: film goal setting to recalibrate for twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: His what we had to say about.
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Speaker 3: This family goals start best bottom up, and I think
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Speaker 3: the best way to get a bottom up conversation going
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Speaker 3: about goals is to sit down with the kids and
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Speaker 3: have one of those family meetings. We've talked about it
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Speaker 3: so many times on the podcast. We ask three questions
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Speaker 3: what's going great, what's not going so well? What should
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Speaker 3: we focus on? And just by asking those three questions,
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Speaker 3: you're basically saying to the kids, all right, we're doing
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of stuff really well, handful of things
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Speaker 3: that we can improve on. If we were to improve
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Speaker 3: on one or two of those things, what would they be.
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Speaker 3: And that's essentially where we've come to with our kids'
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Speaker 3: fitness goals. They've decided that health and fitness needs to
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Speaker 3: be a higher priority. I asked them what they wanted
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Speaker 3: in terms of their goals. They want to be able
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Speaker 3: to run five k's in less than thirty minutes, and
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Speaker 3: so now we're creating a system around that to get
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Speaker 3: to that goal.
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Speaker 4: And that's pretty much it.
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Speaker 3: Kylie, what else would you add to a conversation about
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Speaker 3: how to set family goals other than saying, hey, kids,
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Speaker 3: what do you think? And then how do we set
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Speaker 3: up a system around that?
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Speaker 2: I think one of the most important things when it
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Speaker 2: comes to goal setting is there needs to be accountability.
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Speaker 2: There needs to be check in points or else where.
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Speaker 2: Just having a conversation about something that we'd like to
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Speaker 2: see happen, but that there isn't any intention set on
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Speaker 2: how we can record progress, how we can actually acknowledge progress.
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Speaker 2: And without the recognition of progress, it's really hard for
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Speaker 2: motivation to stay high and for our desires to continue
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Speaker 2: to improve. The podcast that comes in at number three
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Speaker 2: was six hundred and seventy four and it was all
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Speaker 2: about the power of habits.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were talking about the twenty mile March,
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Speaker 3: the habit that you can create every day that will
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Speaker 3: help to make you a better parent.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, when you say it, it seems like it's too easy.
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Speaker 2: It actually seems like it's too easy, and therefore it's
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Speaker 2: not going to work.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like writing a book. Though. If I
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Speaker 3: get up every day and I write a certain number
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Speaker 3: of words, within a couple of months, the book is written.
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Speaker 3: I've got to do all the research, I've got to
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Speaker 3: do all the planning, but just writing those words every
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Speaker 3: day and suddenly you've written a book, an entire book
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Speaker 3: that you've written.
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Speaker 4: It's phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: How that works. Parenting's the same. It's just that the
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Speaker 3: metrics aren't quite as obvious. Like you can't get up
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Speaker 3: and run five k's every day and say, all right,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to be a good parent because I ran
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Speaker 3: my five k's, but that five K run metaphorically is
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Speaker 3: when the kids are angry, I don't shout, or when
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Speaker 3: I need to.
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Speaker 4: Talk to my children, I walk into.
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Speaker 3: The room and I meet their eyes, or I mean,
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Speaker 3: pick your thing, whatever it is that you want to change,
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Speaker 3: It's about getting it right today, but also tomorrow and
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Speaker 3: also the day after, and getting it right every single
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Speaker 3: flipping day for twenty years until they finally are adults
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Speaker 3: and you've gotten to write consistently. Is that ongoing investment,
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Speaker 3: creating the habit. That's how we make our families function.
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Speaker 3: That's how we become better parents. I really really like
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Speaker 3: that episode. I think there's so much there as families
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Speaker 3: try to get things together and make things work.
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Speaker 2: Number two, We're getting close. Number two was all about
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Speaker 2: managing fatigue.
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Speaker 4: It's the podcast every parent needs, because every parent it's
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Speaker 4: just so I mean, I'm tired. It's the end of
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Speaker 4: the year.
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Speaker 2: I'm always going to say, how do you feel like
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Speaker 2: we've done managing the fatigue this year?
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Speaker 4: Reasonably?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 4: Reasonably? Well, Look, there was something that you said.
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Speaker 3: You were talking about you and your friends talking about
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Speaker 3: how your exhaustion was at an all time high.
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Speaker 2: You know, I've been having conversations with lots of people
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Speaker 2: about this lately because I am feeling exhausted. I feel
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Speaker 2: like I've hit rock bottom in a way that I've
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Speaker 2: never hit before. I can hear it in your voice,
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Speaker 2: and there's just this acknowledgment that you know, we have
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Speaker 2: been through some of the hardest couple of years, not
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Speaker 2: collectively as a human race, dealing with just so much
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Speaker 2: uncertainty and stress and anxiety around you know, COVID and
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Speaker 2: jobs and you know whether or not there's enough food
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Speaker 2: on the shelves at the shops. There's just been so
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Speaker 2: much to deal.
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Speaker 3: With, and now we're dealing with the economic insecurity of
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Speaker 3: interest rate hikes and so.
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Speaker 2: On, and all of that insecurity and instability has taken
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Speaker 2: a physical and mental toll on everybody.
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Speaker 3: So I reckon, though, Kylie, that we were tired before COVID,
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Speaker 3: Like I think part of the condition.
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Speaker 2: As a parent specifically, I mean, I think tiredness is
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Speaker 2: across the board everybody. Everybody experiences it to some level.
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Speaker 2: But as a parent, I think that you know, you
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Speaker 2: sign up for a lifetime.
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Speaker 3: So do you remember when we had little kids? Do
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Speaker 3: you remember how how tiring. It was when we had
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Speaker 3: kids that were like one and two and three.
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Speaker 2: I was so exhausted that I would often wake up
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Speaker 2: at about one o'clock in the morning, still on the ground,
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Speaker 2: after having tried to pad off a child and wondering
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Speaker 2: why you hadn't come and woken me up to take
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Speaker 2: me to bed because you had fallen asleep in bed
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Speaker 2: waiting for.
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Speaker 3: Me, or patting another child off in another room or
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Speaker 3: something like that. I mean, you were so tired when
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Speaker 3: you were pregnant with our second child. We had like
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Speaker 3: a two and a half year old pregnant with our
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Speaker 3: second one, and we were at a Billy Joel concert
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Speaker 3: Brisbane and attainment center, like in two thousand and I
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Speaker 3: guess two thousand and one, two thousand and two, and.
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Speaker 4: You fell asleep, fell asleep in a rock concert. That's
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Speaker 4: so exhaustion is.
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Speaker 3: But so how do we manage fatigue as a parent?
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Speaker 3: How do we get the balance right? Before we share
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Speaker 3: some solutions, I want to share one quick metaphor that
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Speaker 3: I found really useful, and that is the metaphor of
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Speaker 3: a tightrope walker. So I don't think that a tightrope
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Speaker 3: walker is ever what you might call perfectly balanced. Instead,
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Speaker 3: they were in a process of constantly balancing, always adjusting,
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Speaker 3: moving a bit to the left, a little bit to
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Speaker 3: the right as they move make their way across the tightrope,
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Speaker 3: and the eye energy on the end of.
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Speaker 4: The word tells us it's active.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a process. It's something that we have to
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Speaker 3: be continually doing. I think that's why it's exhausting trying
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Speaker 3: to get this balance right. It's never quite right, but
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Speaker 3: we're always in the process of balancing.
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Speaker 2: I just love that metaphor because when I think about,
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Speaker 2: you know, family life in general, whether it's dealing with
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Speaker 2: fatigue or you know, kind of dealing with children's behavior
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Speaker 2: challenges or eating, whatever it is, it's constantly changing. Just
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Speaker 2: when you think you've got the mix right, just when
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Speaker 2: you feel like you're spot on, everything's going right, which
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Speaker 2: is that whole balance right, You're on the tightrope and
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Speaker 2: you feel like, oh, I've got.
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Speaker 4: This, I've got Oh no, I don't. Well, I sway
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Speaker 4: to the other side every now.
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Speaker 3: And again, I'm feeling balanced, and then one of the
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Speaker 3: kids will come and say, Dad.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And there's just there's so many moving.
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Speaker 4: Parts and we talked about three pillars of managing fatigue.
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Speaker 2: Solution number one it was getting more sleep.
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Speaker 4: We're doing okay with that, but it's.
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Speaker 2: Just well, I did fall asleep before you putting the
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Speaker 2: kids to bed last night.
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Speaker 3: Actually had and rescue you because I fell asleep and
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Speaker 3: discovered when I woke up thinking my bed doesn't feel right.
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Speaker 4: You were in bed with one of the kids.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that counts as getting more sleep
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Speaker 2: when you actually fall asleep in the middle of doing something.
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Speaker 3: Solution number two was improving diet. Hey, we're making this
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Speaker 3: progress there. Hopefully twenty twenty four will be good for that. Well,
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Speaker 3: you're looking at me, funny. I haven't eaten any rubbish
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Speaker 3: food like I'm fully off processed sugary snack treat sort
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Speaker 3: of stuff except on day starting with their sweet on
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Speaker 3: day starting with this.
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Speaker 4: Only, and I think I'm doing really well with that.
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Speaker 2: I think you are too.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: And number three was a tension management.
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Speaker 4: It was a great podcast episode.
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Speaker 3: We're not going to talk about any more of that
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Speaker 3: right now because we need to get to number one,
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Speaker 3: but if you want to check it out, our second
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Speaker 3: most listened to podcasts of the year, Managing Fatigue, episode
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Speaker 3: number six hundred and seventy nine.
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Speaker 4: Kylie, let's do it number one, number one.
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Speaker 2: What do you think it is?
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Speaker 4: Well, I know what it is because I put this together.
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Speaker 4: You're so funny. You're so funny.
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Speaker 3: I love that you asked me that that's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was all about diffusing explosive children.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, great conversation. In fact, it was a two parter,
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Speaker 3: but the second part, I guess didn't quite make it
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Speaker 3: in the top five.
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Speaker 4: It was still in the top ten. But I had
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Speaker 4: a chat with the.
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Speaker 3: Author of a book called The Explosive Child, Dr Ross Green.
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Speaker 2: He is just a that's a title that's going to
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Speaker 2: get people wanting to read.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great title of a book, but it's also
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Speaker 3: a really, really great book. And he and we have
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Speaker 3: different ways of expressing the same thing. And some people
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Speaker 3: they really love what I do. Some people they really
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Speaker 3: love what Ross does. But he's just such a lovely guy.
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Speaker 3: We talked about how his parents we need to keep
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Speaker 3: our emotions in chair so that we can help our
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Speaker 3: children in a useful way.
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Speaker 5: Emotion regulation is huge. Life is full of anxieties and
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Speaker 5: frustrations and sadness. These are all good emotions because they
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Speaker 5: can prepare tell us into action, says the research. But
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Speaker 5: the other thing the research says is that if we
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Speaker 5: feel those emotions too strongly, they can shut us down
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Speaker 5: and make it harder for us to think. So those
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Speaker 5: are the global skills. The research has identified literally hundreds
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Speaker 5: of skills frequently found lacking in kids with social, emotional,
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Speaker 5: and behavioral challenges. Why do I say kids do all
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Speaker 5: if they can, Because if you have those skills, you're
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Speaker 5: probably doing pretty well, and if you don't, you'd very
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Speaker 5: much like to be doing well, but something's getting in
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Speaker 5: your way.
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Speaker 2: This interview was really helpful, and I have found as
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Speaker 2: I've tried to I'm going to say, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: use the word master, I'm not even close to being there,
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Speaker 2: but recognizing just how powerful it is to keep my
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Speaker 2: emotion in checks as I'm trying to deal with children's
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Speaker 2: big emotions has played a huge part in some of
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Speaker 2: our most successful moments as parents. This year, we.
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Speaker 3: Also talked about ways that we can work with a
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Speaker 3: child that struggles with psychological flexibility.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if that is a skill that can
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Speaker 5: be taught through direct instruction, though I know many people try.
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Speaker 5: I think it is a skill that is taught more
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Speaker 5: through a process, and the process that we use to
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Speaker 5: enhance that skill is problem solving, solving problems collaboratively. So
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Speaker 5: let me just rewind the tape a second. The kids
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Speaker 5: who we're thinking about right now don't look bad all
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Speaker 5: the time. They only look bad some of the time.
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Speaker 5: When do they look bad when expectations are being placed
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Speaker 5: upon them that they're having difficulty meeting. That could be
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Speaker 5: anything from difficulty turning off the xbox to come in
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Speaker 5: for dinner, to difficulty getting out of bed by seven
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Speaker 5: am to go to school, to difficulty eating what mom
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Speaker 5: or dad has made for dinner. Those are all expectations.
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Speaker 5: If a kid is having difficulty meeting and expectation, we
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Speaker 5: have a problem that needs to be solved. We call
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Speaker 5: those unsolved problems. And as you know, but maybe some
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Speaker 5: of your listeners don't, the collaborative and proactive solutions model
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Speaker 5: articulates a very systematic way of solving problems collaboratively and
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Speaker 5: proactively with kids. So the good news is that once
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Speaker 5: a problem is solved, it doesn't cause concerning behavior anymore.
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Speaker 5: That's good both the problem is solved and the concerning
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Speaker 5: behavior has subsided. Both very good things, but the process
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Speaker 5: of solving problems with kids collaboratively and outside the heat
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Speaker 5: of the moment proactively also gives kids practice at models
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Speaker 5: for them and enhances the very skills that they're lacking.
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Speaker 5: So now to your question. In the case of flexibility adaptive,
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Speaker 5: Let's say we've got a kid who's a very concrete, literal,
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Speaker 5: black and white, rigid thinker. They've already got the solution
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Speaker 5: of that problem, right, but we don't want to hear
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Speaker 5: about their solution yet. We want to hear what's making
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Speaker 5: it hard for them to meet the expectation. First, it
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Speaker 5: would sound like this, I've noticed you've been having difficulty
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Speaker 5: brushing your teeth before going to bed at night. What's up.
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Speaker 5: That's the beginning of the first of the three steps
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Speaker 5: that are involved in solving a problem collaboratively. Let's say
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Speaker 5: this very rigid kid then says, oh, no, no, no, I'm
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Speaker 5: in trouble brushing my teeth before I go to bed
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Speaker 5: at night. I've got my way of doing it, and
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Speaker 5: that's my way of doing it. That's not any typical response, right.
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Speaker 5: The parent would then say, yes, but I'm interested in
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Speaker 5: knowing what's hard for you about meeting that expectation. Now
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Speaker 5: we're on a different subject. Now we're not on the
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Speaker 5: kid's solution. Now we've rewound the tape a little bit.
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Speaker 5: It back to what's making it hard for them. In
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Speaker 5: the second step, the adult is entering their concern into
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Speaker 5: consideration why we think it's important that the expectation be met.
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Speaker 5: In the third step, we're putting our heads together and
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Speaker 5: collaborating on a solution, but one that addresses the concerns
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Speaker 5: of both parties. So what happened in that process for
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Speaker 5: that kid number one? They felt heard this is not
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Speaker 5: my solution versus your solution. It's let's hear your concerns.
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Speaker 5: Let's hear what's getting in your way. Then I'm going
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Speaker 5: to tell you my concerns. So we're listening to each other,
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Speaker 5: we're modeling, we're practicing, listening, empathizing, taking another person's perspective.
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Speaker 5: And then when we get to that third step and
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Speaker 5: we discover that the kid's original solution and the adult's
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Speaker 5: original solution could not conceivably address the concern of both parties,
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Speaker 5: and that we need a different solution, Well, the kid
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Speaker 5: has just gotten one rep in the skill of flexibility, adaptability,
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Speaker 5: also one rep on problem solving, one rep on frustration tolerance.
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Speaker 5: And if we did this proactively instead of the heat
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Speaker 5: of the moment, probably some skills that are going to
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Speaker 5: help them regulate their emotions down the road if we
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Speaker 5: get them good enough at this. So in answer to
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Speaker 5: your question, I told you it was going to take
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Speaker 5: a while. How do you teach skills when you're implementing
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Speaker 5: collaborative and practice solutions by solving problems collaboratively and proactively,
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Speaker 5: just by engaging kids in that process, we model practice
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Speaker 5: and enhance those skills. I should mention one other thing.
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Speaker 5: It's not just the kid who's getting practice at those skills.
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Speaker 2: This was such a fantastic episode and I can see
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Speaker 2: alright it was.
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Speaker 4: Number one, Yeah, number seven, twenty one.
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