In this episode, host Nadia Rossi speaks with Pippin Girl @pippin.girl founder, Emma Tabacaru, @emma_tabacaru about the messages girls receive that link worth to appearance. They discuss how parents can support their daughters’ body positivity and help them to grow up feeling confident, worthy and proud of who they are.

In this episode, host Nadia Rossi talks with returning guest Gen Muir, a social worker, parent educator, founder of Connected Parenting and mum of four. Gen brings her professional insight and lived experience to this conversation and shares practical, reassuring ways to understand children's big feelings during times of change, like when a new baby joins the family.

In this episode, special guest host, Emerging Minds’ Senior Cultural Development Officer, Rosie Schellen, welcomes proud Aboriginal woman Sheryl Batchelor to talk about nurturing your baby’s brain development and the everyday moments of connection that help your child to feel secure.

In this episode host Nadia Rossi talks with parent of two, Nicki, about her experience of parenting with a mental illness. Nicki shares how she navigates parenting, how she communicates with her children when feeling low, and when and how she reaches out for support.

In this episode, host Alicia Ranford welcomes back parent educator and mum of four, Gen Muir, to unpack why sibling rivalry can feel so intense for parents and what’s often going on for children when they argue.

In this episode, host Nadia Rossi talks with Social worker Chantelle Towers. Together they explore what it means to be a social worker and discuss the different ways they support children and families.

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This is the first episode in a two-part series in which host Nadia Rossi speaks with Nicki, a parent of two young people with chronic health conditions. Nicki shares her family’s experience of supporting her son after his Type 1 diabetes diagnosis and the ways chronic illness can affect a child’s daily life, relationships, school and mental health.

This episode is the second in a two-part series where host Nadia Rossi continues her conversation with Amber Brock Fabel (Founder, SA Youth Forum) and Dr Ben Lohmeyer (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University). In this conversation, Amber and Ben continue to share the findings from their co-designed study on loneliness in young people and its relationship to bullying.

In this episode, host Nadia Rossi talks with Amber Brock-Fabel (Founder, SA Youth Forum) and Dr Ben Lohmeyer (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University) about the findings from their co-designed study on loneliness and its relationship with young people’s experiences of bullying and overall wellbeing. They talk about the rise of loneliness amongst young people in Australia, the importance of creating safe spaces for young people and how parents may better understand what their children might be facing at school—and ways to support them.