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Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families Dr Justin Coulson
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4.9 • 133 Ratings
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The Happy families podcast with Dr. Justin Coulson is designed for the time poor parent who just wants answers now. Every day Justin and his wife Kylie provide practical tips and a common sense approach to parenting that Mums and Dads all over the world are connecting with. Justin and Kylie have 6 daughters and they regularly share their experiences of managing a busy household filled with lots of challenges and plenty of happiness. For real and practicable advice from people who understand and appreciate the challenges of a time poor parent, listen to Justin and Kylie and help make your family happier.
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#985 Responding to Gendered Violence With Richard Ryan
How can parents ensure their children grow up to be respectful, kind, and considerate towards others?
This conversation with author and academic Richard Ryan examines the typical backgrounds of perpetrators of violence and aggression and gives practical advice to parents so they can meet their child's basic psychological needs of relatedness, autonomy, and competency.
In this episode:
Self Determination Theory
Gendered violence
Basic Psychological Needs
Modelling values and behaviour
Objectification and sexualisation of women in the media
Reducing exposure to and setting limits on media use
Resilience
Links:
Helping Our Boys Grow Into Men – Happy Families
How to Prevent your Child Becoming A #metoo (and Prevent your Child from Creating One) – Happy Families
4 P’s to Prevent Peer Pressure in your Teens – Happy Families
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#984 City vs Country
Does a particular school really make for a “better” education? And how can parents prepare their children for the death of a much-loved grandparent?
In this episode:
City vs country schools
Resources, results and reputation
Fun, fit and philosophy
Upheaval for families when moving
Developing new friendships and relationships
Stability and security
Grief and loss
Preoperational thinking, object permanence, abstraction
Developmentally appropriate language
The sacredness of life and death
Links:
Moving? How to Help your Child Settle Into A New School – Happy Families
Developmental Milestones [Introduction] – Happy Families
How To Talk To Your Children About Death – Happy Families
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#983 Man or Bear?
Content warning: not for young ears.
“If you had to be in the forest with a man or a bear, which would you choose?”. How do we get to the point where we can answer without hesitation “a man!”?
In this episode:
Violence against women
Parents stepping up
Teaching morality
The 'No More' rallies
Influence of explicit pornography on young men
Links:
Quote by Saint Augustine: “Right is right even if no one is doing it...”
The five demands of the No More national rallies (womensagenda.com.au)
Helping Our Boys Grow Into Men – Happy Families
How to Prevent your Child Becoming A #metoo (and Prevent your Child from Creating One) – Happy Families
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#982 Judgement & Criticism Are Out!
Judgement & criticism, punishing, provoking, and trying to “fix” a child—none of these are a parent’s job. They only serve to drive a wedge in relationships. Our job is to love our children. To set limits and have expectations—yes!—but to do so kindly.
In this episode:
Shifting the paradigm
Compassion and empathy
Emotions go up, intelligence goes down
The problem with judgement
Why kindness is the answer
Links:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R Covey
I don’t need Fixing! I need Guiding and Loving – Happy Families
Why Our Kids Need Us to Set Limits – Happy Families
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#981 Am I The Only One Not Interested in Intimacy?
If you are struggling to "keep the spark alive" with your loved one, you're not alone. Exhaustion, screen addiction, lack of time, resentment - all these issues (and more!) can lead to zero interest in nurturing intimacy. Today we share some surprising secrets to sustaining a strong sexual connection!
In this episode:
Reasons for having zero interest in intimacy
Connection and friendship
Prioritising sex
Slowing things down
Female pleasure
Book recommendations
Links:
Nurturing Intimacy: Secrets to Sustaining Strong Sexual Connection – Happy Families
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski | The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
She Comes First by Ian Kerner | The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
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#980 The Anxious Generation With Jonathan Haidt
Justin shares four big ideas based on Jonathan Haidt's new book in the hope that it generates some constructive conversations with your kids at home:
The key to building a resilient child,
Getting comfy with our children experiencing a healthy level of discomfort in life,
The impact of social media on the brain development of teens, and
Looking at problematic use of or addiction to social media.
In this episode:
Healthy/unhealthy childhood stressors
Supportive parenting vs "tough love" or over-protective parenting
Resilience
Anxiety
The cycle of incompetence
Anti-fragility
Impact of social media on teenage brain development
Social media addiction / problematic use
Links:
After Babel | Jon Haidt | Substack
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Honestly with Bari Weiss: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to Fix It
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My sister, Julie, introduced me to this amazing podcast a couple years ago. I wish I’d had this information 20 Years earlier! I’m currently a mom of 6 who is also studying Marriage and the Family at Uni… and can attest to the fact that this podcast is academically backed by so much research. It’s presented so succinctly… the “Cliff Notes” for the “Time poor parent”. So good!!!
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Parenting is so hard, and everything I’ve ever heard from this lovely couple has been golden! They are real people who do real things and they share the good and the not-so-good. They make parenting feel so doable! Plus, their accents are just fun to listen to. Listen and you won’t regret it!
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