As soon as Sean Szeps realised he was gay, he gave up his dreams of becoming a parent. What followed was a long and painful journey to remembering and realising his dream. Sean talks about his obsession with mums of all colours, the obstacles he and husband Josh faced on the road to parenthood, and why he's the best dad to a little girl.

LINK:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/not-like-other-dads-sean-szeps/book/9780733342691.html  

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For several years now Gen Muir has been giving Feed Play Love the benefit of their practical and compassionate advice on parenting. In our final week we've brought back one of our favourties- enjoy!

"Attention seeking" in children gets a bad rap. Whether they're acting out, being clingy, or loud, this sort of behaviour is often dismissed frustrating and something to ignore. 

But this attention seeking is just one of the ways kids try and seek connection with their parents and understanding this can help build better habits and stronger bonds. 

Featured in this episode: Gen Muir, educator at Connected Parenting https://www.connectedparenting.com.au/ 

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We're often talking and thinking about how to help our girls achieve equality, but what about our boys? Are we raising them to have equal ability to express emotions, to embody different ideas of masculinity... to be themselves?

Kasey Edwards and Dr Christopher Scanlon are the authors of Bringing up Boys Who Like Themselves...  and they’ve looked deeply into the things that are holding our boys back. They talk about how we can all take steps today to help raise our boys to be healthy men.

LINKS: https://www.booktopia.com.au/bringing-up-boys-who-like-themselves-kasey-edwards/book/9780143778738.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4NujBhC5ARIsAF4Iv6etVrGOBKsqm-6jS8kQzkrz8yiIaripZImChFo3r1hx8Tdk0aDt3ykaAoX-EALw_wcB 

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Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone in life was easy to get along with?  The truth is that no woman is an island, and so we often need to have relationships with people who are... difficult. Dr Rebecca Ray is the author of Difficult People – which is the ultimate guide for those of us struggling to manage these people in our lives. 

LINK: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761261664/ 

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One of our favourite parenting experts - Maggie Dent has always managed to step into a room and help parents feel at ease. To feel seen and heard. Her words always hit the right note with empathy, practical advice and understanding. We start our final week with this awesome episode from the archives, where Maggie explains how we can best communicate with our sons.

LINKS: https://www.maggiedent.com/ 

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One guest has been a consistent voice of reason across the years it's Sarah Hunstead from CPR kids. In the episode from our archives she helps to answer one of the biggest questions parents of small children ask: 'when do I keep my child home from daycare?

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https://www.cprkids.com.au/ 

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As Feed Play Love comes to an end we're repeating some of our favourite interviews from the archive. Enjoy!

Professor Hannah Dahlen is a midwife, lecturer, international researcher and speaker. She believes that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". From her early life in Yemen, witnessing and aiding women in labour, to training in London (where her mum was one of the midwives later depicted in the BBC series Call the Midwife), Hannah explains how her passion for midwifery and women's rights in birthing came to be.

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As Feed Play Love rolls to a close after 8 years of production, we're bringing back some of our favourite interviews - enjoy!

Discipline can mean different things to different people. To that cranky man in the supermarket - it's a short cuff around the ear. To your partner it might be 'time out' or a stern talking to. But psychologist Vanessa Lapointe says that discipline is about punishment, and that it's possible to apply the principles of discipline without yelling at or hurting our kids. Vanessa has written a book called Discipline without DamageShe takes us through her philosophy and how it works.not.

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Parents today try so hard to get it right, but we often feel we’re doing it all wrong. 

And that, on top of the physical nature of parenting, is exhausting. 

Dr Justin Coulson is a parenting educator and the author of The Parenting Revolution, A guide to raising resilient kids and he has some ideas on how we can get it right, without so much heart ache. 

LINKS: https://www.happyfamilies.com.au/shop/product/the-parenting-revolution  

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Rachael Coopes is best known as a Play School presenter and author. But did you know she was also once a clown in Paris? Rachael recently released her latest book Paris For Beginners an account of her adventure to a clown school in Paris in her late 20s. To write the book she went back to Paris, her first non-work solo trip without her son in ten years. Rachael talks about what it's like to revisit such a significant place of her pre-child life, and why we all need to escape the everyday stress of parenting once in a while.

LINKS:
https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/paris-for-beginners/ 

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