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.

Sophie from Drift Sleep joins Anna to talk about sleep concerns we may have for our tamariki, and how we can best support them.

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.

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.

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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.

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!

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!

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!

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!