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Being Real Parents

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Being Real Parents - 18 Mar 2025( 0:25:51)       
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The Real Parents team aim to support parents to find their confidence and have more fun parenting.
Published: 18/03/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Supporting Dads: How Kidz Need Dadz is Strengthening Father-Child Relationships with Craig McGuigan( 0:25:55)       
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Craig McGuigan from Kidz Need Dadz joins us to discuss the challenges fathers face, the impact of father involvement, and navigating co-parenting and family court. Learn how the organisation supports dads through advocacy, resources, and practical advice. Whether you're a dad, co-parent, or work with families, this episode offers insights, real stories, and actionable steps to help fathers stay connected with their kids. Tune in now!
Published: 4/03/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Foetal alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) with Karena Findlay( 0:22:22)       
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Anna and Kate are joined by Karena Findlay from Succeed Differently. They talk about all things Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) - how it occurs, what to look for and what we can do as parents and teachers to support tamariki affected by FASD.
Published: 18/02/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - The benefits and opportunities of everyday activities for our tamariki with Keryn O'Neill from Brainwave Trust( 0:23:55)       
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Kate meets with Keryn O'Neill from Brainwave Trust to discuss the benefits and opportunities of everyday activities for our tamariki. We deep dive into how everyday activities support our tamariki communication and relationships with us.
Published: 4/02/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Kids and Sleep!( 0:26:48)       
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Sophie from Drift Sleep joins Anna to talk about sleep concerns we may have for our tamariki, and how we can best support them.
Published: 21/01/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Finding our way through the school holidays( 0:22:52)       
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Kate and Juliet talk about managing the Christmas school holidays - the tricky bits, the good bits and some strategies and tools they find helpful to find away through it all.
Published: 24/12/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Worrying sexualised behaviour (children)( 0:25:58)       
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Lyn and Aroha from Stop Services join Anna again to talk through what can be considered worrying sexualised behaviour. How to prevent this, what to do if this is occurring and great tips to support us getting this as right as we can in our parenting in order that our kids know what's okay, what's not and can come to us when things are confusing.
Published: 10/12/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Stop Services( 0:26:57)       
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Stop Services is an organisation that works towards the goal of a world free from sexual harm. In this episode Lyn and Aroha join Anna to kōrero children's 'ordinary' or 'typical sexualised behaviour and the things we can do to support our tamariki to come to us with their questions, open up about their worries and stop the silence which actively plays a role in sexualised harm. It's an important topic and comes with a warning that this may be challenging content for some listeners.
Published: 26/11/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Kids and friendships - building and being great friends( 0:26:9)       
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Megan from Talk Together joins Anna to kōrero how we and teachers can support kids to build and develop the coolest friendships. Super important in terms of our kid's overall happiness, so an important topic!
Published: 12/11/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Stress and our children( 0:29:47)       
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Brainwave Trust joins Anna to discuss how we can support our children with stress - you'll learn about what's good about stress and what's not good at all!
Published: 25/10/2024 3:24:09 p.m.
Being Real Parents - What really supports our kids to be smart?( 0:26:20)       
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Join Kate and Anna who discuss why we have some kind of fixation for our kids to be smart and how this can actually get in the way of their learning. They'll also offer the best tips on how to support learning, without tiger-parenting out on them!
Published: 15/10/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - The Wiggles join us to talk parenting( 0:26:18)       
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Simon and Lachy from The Wiggles join Anna and reveal some great moments from their own parenting, and tips that can support us all. This is a fun episode, not to be missed!
Published: 30/09/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
Being Real Parents - New Mumming and all it brings with Anna and Kate( 0:23:50)       
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Kate talks about being a new mum again and introducing a new sibling, the challenges of new mumming, as well as all the things she's loved… the newborn snuggles, the walks with a sleeping baby in a pram, the cute moments
Published: 17/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Parenting at Your best( 0:22:6)       
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Kate (and pēpi Asher) are in the studio with Juliet this week to talk about strengths-based parenting - what it is, how it works and possibly in action while Kate parents live on air!
Published: 3/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Organising your finances with Carolyn from ASB ( 0:27:18)       
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Anna chats to community banker, Carolyn from ASB about budgeting, saving and managing money to stay in control of it, and even good about it!
Published: 23/07/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - After school activities - getting the balance right( 0:25:58)       
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Anna is joined by Juliet from her team to talk about what are the best after school activities, how many, how much and what to do if your kids want to do all the things - or we have some super high expectations!
Published: 9/07/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - NZ author Rebekah Lipp joins Anna to talk emotional literacy( 0:27:59)       
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The Real Parents team aim to support parents to find their confidence and have more fun parenting. Wildling Books have become a household name in NZ creating amazing books like Aroha's Way, How Do I Feel and Let It Go amongst many others. Anna and Bex talk all things emotional literacy and why it makes a massive difference for children in managing their emotions.
Published: 25/06/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - A new website for parents - Listening to Families( 0:26:38)       
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Anna talks to Bruce Penny from Listening to Families and about this new website that answers the questions many parents have about their children, the health system and loads more.
Published: 11/06/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Parental burnout - what is is and what to do about it( 0:26:48)       
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Anna talks to Child and Family Psychologist, Dr Cara Swit from the University of Canterbury. They discuss the very important topic of parental burnout.
Published: 28/05/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Being Real Parents - The brilliance of play. Anna is joined by Louise van Tongeren, a play advocate from the Christchurch City Council ( 0:27:31)       
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Join Anna and Louise to talk the absolute essential-ness of play for our kids and how we can incorporate it into our everyday worlds more easily.
Published: 14/05/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Supporting our kids to be great sportspeople with Primary Sport Canterbury( 0:24:52)       
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The Real Parents team aim to support parents to find their confidence and have more fun parenting. Anna and Michael from Primary Sport Canterbury discuss why balance is better when it comes to sport. How much is too much sport? And what' the big deal if our children are super sporty? Managing over over-competitiveness, and how parents can best support their kids to stick with sport and be great sports people.
Published: 30/04/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Talking winter sport and supporting our kids( 0:25:34)       
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The Real Parents team aim to support parents to find their confidence and have more fun parenting. Anna is joined by Michael Wilson from Primary Sports Canterbury where they discuss how we support our kids with winter sports - what if our kids don’t want to participate in sport? What if we haven’t had the greatest experience with sport? And if we're thinking about engaging with winter sport for the first time, how might we support our kids over the holidays?
Published: 16/04/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Being Real Parents - Cupcakes and Yoga - the balance of parenting teens( 0:26:25)       
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Erica Viedma (yoga instructor and mindfulness coach) joins Anna to talk about all they've learned while facilitating a new programme for parents of teens called Cupcakes and Yoga. It was created to support parents adopt some self-care into their worlds, knowing that parenting teens actually impacts our wellbeing.
Published: 2/04/2024 11:00:00 a.m.