Sneak peek into tonight's webinar 

• We Need to Talk About Parent Wellbeing
• Mental health vs mental illness
• How screens affect mental health
• Brains aren't designed to optimise our wellbeing
• Doing hard things
• What we can do to feel good

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Justin & Kylie reflect on their week and determine what they can do better next time

• Happy birthday to Justin's Dad!
• Kylie's going away
• Justin's spending time with the kids
• The power of intention
• Kylie meets her eldest daughter's new friends
• The village 
• Building connections
• We Need to Talk About Parent Wellbeing
• Free webinar - Teenage Dirtbag

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*Content warning. Topics discussed are not intended for children*

• Online roulette: the popular chat sites that are drawing in children and horrifying parents
• The dark side of Omegle 
• Parental Guidance episode 1, season 2
• Knowledge is power
• Be engaged
• Develop processes together

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• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Dr Lisa Damour
• Shame vs guilt
• Criticism 
• Social awareness
• Teens & friends
• Cold & hot reasoning
• Perspective
• The ladder of life
• Lisa answers some rapid fire questions
• The reality of girls & boys maturing at different rates

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Justin and Kylie respond to a listener question about emotional volcanoes

• Name it to tame it
• Emotional regulation
• High emotions - low intelligence
• Tunnel vision/rigid thinking
• Seen, heard & valued

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Should we be allowing our kids to drink non alcoholic drinks?

• Justin tries his first non-alcoholic beer
• What to know before giving your teen non-alcoholic beer or wine
• Providing Alcohol for Underage Youth: What Messages Should We Be Sending Parents?
• An acquired taste
• The Mediterranean Effect
• Parental endorsement of consumption

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Justin & Kylie reflect on their week and determine what they can do better next time

• Internet safety
• Unsolicited Instagram messages
• Rotten Tomatoes
• A conversation about calories

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Discussing criticisms of Gentle Parenting

• Permissiveness 
• The emotional toll on parents
• Building emotional intelligence
• Building an expansive emotional vocabulary
• Empathy for the child vs other people around them
• Supporting our child's autonomy
• Needs supportive parenting

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Are we taking emotion coaching too far?

• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Dr Lisa Damour
• Emotion coaching
• Start with empathy
• Shielding children from emotions
• Internal board of directors
• Trauma
• Regulating emotions
• Good coping brings relief and does no harm
• Dosing
• The value in kids experiencing pain

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Justin and Kylie respond to a listener question about learning to parent after a childhood with a parent who was mentally unwell

• Justin reads some 5 star reviews from their listeners
• Focusing on our strengths
• Individual differences
• Single parenthood
• Absent parents
• The importance of relationships outside of the home

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