Today Anna chats with Megan, a Speech Language Therapist and director of Talk Together. The discuss the things we can do to support our kid's communication and Megan gives top tips too! They also talk about when we might want to seek some support with our kid's communication - and to trust our parenting instincts!

Today Anna talks with psychologist Julie Burgess-Manning about saying no to our kids and why this is hard, but we really have to. In fact, is supports our kids to be resilient!

Andrea is back with Anna talking all things feeding babies and the kinds of support we need sometimes. Fresh talk about new babies with these 2 mums.

Anna and Kate answer the many questions they get about the Real Parents coaching service they offer. It's one of their most popular services and gets great feedback from the parents they work with.

The Real Parents team aim to support parents to find their confidence and have more fun parenting.

Today Anna and Kate are joined by Andrea Solzer whose daughter has received a recent diagnosis of autism. We talk about that journey with Andrea - the good, the challenging and what's helped along the way.

Today Anna talks to Erica Viedma from Mindfulness in Schools Ōtautahi and Mindfuli. Erica works with kids supporting them to understand and practice mindfulness techniques. This is the low down on why and how we can also bring mindfulness home - literally!

In Common is an initiative supporting us to be inclusive of others whose cultures are different to our own. Sometimes we can find it tricky to reach out and start a kōrero and actively look for our in-commons, and worry that our kids won't invite others into their games and fun because of differences. But actually our kids are pretty cool, and only want to be friends with everyone! Holly and Kate talk all this through, and more.

This week Kate and Anna talk about how we often look to support our kid's big emotions but don't look too closely at our own! Or we feel really guilty and ashamed at the times (or all the times) we lose our cool, but feel paralysed to do anything about it, or think it's unfixable. Well, here's the podcast you need to reflect and address what might be going on, and the good news is that it's guilt-free, as Anna and Kate disclose their less than perfect moments too!

Felicity is an educator and currently studying towards her PhD with a special focus on supporting literacy. She's also part of the Real Parents team. Today she and Anna chat about how we can provide our kids with the best start at school, and all the important things we can do to support this.