In August 2017, Chris Yandle wrote a short little note to his grade 8 daughter and slipped it into her backpack.

“Dear Addy, treat everyone like they are the most important person you’ll ever meet. Love Dad.”

She liked the note, so he kept writing them.

“Dear Addy, right is right, even if no one does it. Wrong is wrong even if everyone does it. Right isn’t always going to be popular but it’s better than wrong. Love Dad.”

“Dear Addy, you’re a diamond, dear. No one can break you. Love Dad.”

The notes hit the right note. Four years later Chris realized he had 900 notes – enough for a book. 

Lucky Enough: A Year of a Dad’s Daily Notes of Encouragement and Life Lessons to His Daughter, has now sold globally, it’s being translated into Korean, and it’s sparked a media blaze of coverage throughout the United States on national television and newspapers.

What is it about these notes that make them so relatable for all of us?

 Guest: Chris Yandle, Ph.D.
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The MBTI can be a useful tool for understanding and even raising our children. Just like us they have preferred personality tendencies. Some children fall under the J for Judging. They prefer structure. Others fall under the P for Perceiving. They prefer feelings and emotion.

Overall, most children are balanced but understanding their preferred or initial tendency can help you understand your children a lot.

In this episode Kate continues her conversation with Jan Terkelsen who has used the MBTI to understand work situations, her relationships, and even her children.

Guest: Jan Terkelsen
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Dr Seuss once wrote “You are the youiest you.” It’s a great phrase reinforcing there is no one else completely like you. In our relationships we forget that sometimes. We expect our children and partners to be as excited as us about something or respond just as quickly (or slowly) as we had hoped. 

But they too are the “youiest,” versions of themselves.

For our spousal, parenting, and even friendship relationships to success, we need to embrace how people naturally are.

In this episode Kate talks with Jan Terkelsen. Jan has spent two decades working with leaders and their teams. One tool she uses often is the MBTI. It can offer insight into your personal preferences and help you identify why some relationships are clicking, and others need more work.  

Guest: Jan Terkelsen
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Attention is critical to children in the development of cognitive skills – it’s the development of their ability to process sensory information which leads to better memory, problem solving, and general thinking. It makes sense “Attention” needs to be regarded like vision or hearing.

Attention training has been around for years, but a new method is emerging that’s having success. Digital therapeutics – Licensed professional counselors available more often, accessible from your home (just like a house call).

Over the last five years TALi Health in Australia has been developing technology based on more than a quarter century of behaviour and cognitive science research.

Guest: Dr Mary Beth Brinson, CEO TALi Health
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Every habit you have, good or bad, follows the same three-stage pattern. First, something reminds you have an action you’ve taken before which triggers the habit. Second is the route of the action – you’ve done this before; you can anticipate the reward. And third is the reward itself which create future anticipation. 

With a bad habit that could unfold as you walk by the cupboard, spy a bag of chips, decide to just have a couple but end up eating half the bag. Replace that with a good habit and it may unfold as you see the bag of chips and congratulate yourself they haven’t been opened yet or you haven’t indulged. Bad habits tend to be rewarded more quickly than good ones. 

We are creatures of habit and our family members are too. In this episode Kate talks with Peter Daniels of Lead Australia, a specialist personality and development company.   

Guest Peter Daniels
With 40+ years business and sales experience, Peter is head of Lead Australia, a specialist Personal and Business Development company providing one-on-one and group coaching programs for businesses large and small.
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Persuasion is important in our relationships, particularly with family. If we have no say, we're forced to go along with what others want all the time. And finding a happy blend is always possible if we listen and share.

In this episode Kate talks with Peter Daniels, a natural-born salesman. Peter shares a positive approach to sales that builds relationships.

Guest Peter Daniels
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Bel found her expression through Art Therapy only after a career that began with an interest in film making but then evolved into working with youth in schools and women in children in paediatric and palliative care.

Art Therapy became the perfect tonic for her mixing personal passion with a profession that makes a difference.

Bel finds some to who enroll in her art therapy classes have little confidence in their artistic abilities – but they’re often the ones who need precisely that kind of therapy the most. It’s been missing from their lives. People find reflection, insight, and expression. 

Corporations hire her to provide classes for their teams. And what begin a team building exercises through art, sometimes become powerful experiences that help shape business strategies as people embrace the use of hands-on experience with creative exploration to express things they can’t normally express. Problems are uncovered and solutions found.

Art helps people go beyond the cognitive.

Bel shares her story in this episode hoping it might help you find how your passion and your profession can become one.

Guest: Bel Ryan
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The imaginary door on the imaginary fire truck won’t open.
You cut the toast… wrong.
The cat cheated to win the game.
These are some of the things toddlers have tantrums over. 

Most young children have tantrums and they aren’t an indication your parenting skills are lacking. You can try to prevent them by observing your child’s emotions and helping them reduce stress but when it comes to reacting? Well that’s the trickiest part. 

In this episode Kate talks with Maryann Lomax with some strong ideas on how to prevent and respond to the tantrums our children throw… without throwing our own tantrums.

Guest: Maryann Lomax     
Maryann has a Bachelor of Teaching degree with a major in drama and music. She was the inaugural director of a private school early learning centre in Adelaide, leading that team for 26 years. For 12 years she headed up a multi-disciplinary team at Regency Park Centre in Adelaide. today she also works with children with special rights and adaptations to curriculum.

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We want them to be strong. We want them to succeed, to be self-aware, optimistic and calm under stress. 

We want them to know the difference between they’ve bumped their elbow and when they really need to ask for help.

Teaching our kids to be resilient will help them now and forever as they grow into strong adults, and maybe help their own kids learn resilience some day to succeed in the World

In this episode Kate talks with Maryann Lomax about ways to help our kids learn resilience, and maybe a few ways we can become stronger too.
 
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These are the Five Parenting Styles currently used in Child Psychology today based on the work of Diana Baumrind, and Stanford researchers Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin.
 
The Supporting and Nurturing parent.
The Authoritarian parent.
The Permissive parent.
The Disengaged or Uninvolved parent.
The Overinvolved or “Helicopter” parent. 

These are the five styles identified by child psychologists. Of course, we all think we’re the supporting and nurturing parent… most of the time…
If we’re honest though we know we have weaknesses or weak moments.
How do we detect these behaviours in ourselves and how can we make the adjustments we need to make? 

In this episode Kate talks with an expert in early learning and development about the parenting styles that can be the most helpful for you.
 
Guest: Maryann Lomax     
Maryann has a Bachelor of Teaching degree with a major in drama and music. She was the inaugural director of a private school early learning centre in Adelaide, leading that team for 26 years. For 12 years she headed up a multi-disciplinary team at Regency Park Centre in Adelaide. today she also works with children with special rights and adaptations to curriculum.

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