Parenting Unpacked

Welcome back folks! Today's episode hits on something a little bit different than our usual parenting content, but between Siobhan and Kristyn, their propensity towards anxiety and their psych degrees, chatting all about the nervous and how to hack it seems right on brand. Yes, our audio quality is trash right now. Promise we are working on it. We're still learning the ropes and we want to keep showing up for you, despite the chaos that is learning to podcast. New mics are on the way. Thanks for hanging in there with us! Email us at [email protected] to suggest a topic you want to know more about or a guest you want us to interview! Stay sane!

Welcome back to parenting unpacked. This week we cover everything around moving houses with small children including the science behind it. You know who we are. Everything we do has usually got us doing a quick google scholar search or trying to figure out the theoretical underpinnings or certain approaches over others. Yes, thinking this hard about life simple decisions is exhausting, but that's why we're here, exhausted, so that you don't have to be.  Enjoy and see you next week! 

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! This week we do Kristyn's favourite thing which is talk about contentious topics with no filter while marvelling at Siobhan's well balanced and level headed answers. Kristyn's... not so much, but she's learning so we'll take it. We hit all those chaotic, guilt inducing, social media viral, judgemental parent topics that you've probably always been curious about the science behind. I hope you enjoy and feel a little less guilty, a little more confident in your parenting decisions and get a giggle somewhere along the way. Catch you in the next one! 

Well, as per usual, Kristyn speaks before she thinks through things too thoroughly (to be fair... I get excited about things I'm passionate about and don't always evaluate every single implication of such things). Recently Kristyn made all her content free and kept banging on about how she doesn't believe parenting should be paywalled, completely ignoring the fact that her co-host, Siobhan Kennedy-Costantini, charges for her evidence based parenting resources. Tune in to listen to the awkward (yet, honestly not at all awkward) conversation Kristyn and Siobhan dive into as they talk about how they navigate different pay structures in the parent education space, how on earth they ended up in the social media space despite spending the majority of their careers in academia and more. We hope you love this episode and the chattier style we're moved into lately. Catch you next Tuesday for your next listen! 

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! Today's episode is a little bit of a hot mess because we were just enjoying catching up and let our conversation take us wherever it wanted. It took us to chatting all about daycare drops and how our littles went from crying at every drop to not giving a f*#$ about even saying goodbye, which is a beautiful bittersweet thing. This is a quick episode today, so I hope you enjoy the lighter content! 

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! This week we're talking about the different schemas of play. The content was a little dry so we spiced it up with some accidental TikTok drama which had interesting ramifications for Kristyn and her content creation (but at the same time not really). 

Siobhan is currently doing a series on schemas of play over on instagram so jump over there to check it out. ALSO Siobhan has a fact pack on Play (as well as Breastfeeding and Starting Solids) which is chock full of evidence based information to help you make informed parenting choices and she has given podcast listeners a massive 50% discount. So run, don't walk, to scienceminded.org and use discount code PARENTINGUNPACKED

This podcast is also sponsored by Page & Pine, a family owned Aussie business that brings you wooden toys and personalised decor. Use code PARENTINGUNPACKED for 20% the entire store now! 

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! We're tackling a topic that is the source of infinite mum guilt, screen time. We're talking all things cocomelon and whether it's addictive, what harm befalls your child by letting them watch TV and whether children can actually learn anything from what they watch. 

We hope you enjoy this weeks episode! 

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! This week we're celebrating the start of the Australian school year by covering a topic many parents are faced with: after school restraint collapse. We cover what after school restraint collapse is, what causes it, how to navigate it in the moment, how to reduce the frequency of it and how to connect with your children through it all. This episode is for parents of every child from toddlerhood to the teenage years.

Welcome back to parenting unpacked! This week we're digging into one of the fundamental theories around raising children. Attachment! Attachment theory, attachment parenting, circle of security, secure attachment, insecure attachment. We hit that many buzz words in this episodes because this is one of our longest episodes to date and we still didn't cover everything we could have. Listen in as we talk about what the leading scientific thought is on attachment theory and how to help foster a secure attachment with your child. And while you're at it, I hope it takes a load of your shoulders and assures you that you are already doing all the things you need to do to create a secure attachment. You've got a lucky kid so be kind and compassionate to yourself and that will permeate the attachment relationship with your child.   

For more information on attachment, head to our favourite source for all things attachment: Circle of security 

Welcome back to Parenting Unpacked! This week we interviewed Candace St John. Candace St. John is a mom of one and a public health practitioner who studies the effects of equity, social determinants of health, & adverse childhood experiences and trauma on lifetime health. Upon having a baby in June 2020, she was taken aback by the unsubstantiated evidence behind most mainstream parenting ideals. She took to social media to bust myths & support parents to make the best informed choices for their children to thrive. Candace strives to weave in her public health expertise for advocacy and educational purposes, and is excited to work 1:1 with families.  

We talked with Candace about the role of public health in parenting, the lack of evidence based information prolific in the health care sector as well as normative parenting resources. We also talked through biologically normal infant sleep, bedsharing and ACEs (adverse childhood events).   

You can find Candace at her website, instagram and TikTok.   

Links to things we discussed this episode:  

https://numberstory.org 

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html