The Kids are All Right!

In today’s show we speak once more with Climate Activist and one of the presenters of ‘The Covid Alarm Clock’ podcast, Ellen Hegarty about how we can use what we have learned during the COVID crisis to help us fight against climate change!

And one of the most important things we have learned is to trust science and to listen to the scientists!

Science helped us to understand COVID and the scientists used this to guide us on the actions we needed to take in order to protect each other and keep infections as low as possible. When we listened to the science, infections stayed low and when we didn’t, they rapidly increased.

AND the science has also given us the vaccines which will ultimately end the pandemic, protect us all into the future and make sure we never have to go into the dreaded Lockdowns again!

Science gave meaning to the unpleasant actions we had to take. No one liked having to stay away from people, miss school or not be able to do the things they loved doing, but when the scientists explained the WHY behind these actions, then we could understand why it was so important to follow their advice and the whole world did what we had to do!

So she explains to Buster and Buddy that now we must listen to what the climate scientists are telling us and take the actions that we need to, to slow down climate change.

And now that we’ve seen how the whole world can really work together, there is great hope that we can work together once more to combat climate change!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Ellen Hegarty

Ellen Hegarty is a veterinary surgeon, a mother of three and a climate ambassador with An Taisce.

Originally from a farm in West Cork, she now lives with her family in Dublin. Ellen’s strong passion for the

natural world and concern with how climate change and biodiversity loss will impact both it and future generations of humanity, has led her to pursue a Masters in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society in DCU.

Ellen co-presents the podcast ‘The Covid Alarm Clock’ with Darragh Wynne as they chat about how we can use our experience of COVID as a wake up call to take real action on climate change.

The podcast can be found on

https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-covid-alarm-clock/ (https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-covid-alarm-clock/) or by searching for the Covid Alarm Clock wherever you get your podcasts

Follow us on: instagram.com/covidalarmclock

Twitter.com/covidalarmclock

Facebook.com/covidalarmclock @covidalarmclock

EPISODE 21: HOW COVID HELPS US FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE!In today’s show we speak with Climate Activist and one of the presenters of ‘The Covid Alarm Clock’ podcast, Ellen Hegarty about how we can use what we have learned during the Covid crisis to help us fight against climate change!

She chats with us about how while Coronavirus has been a difficult experience in lots of ways, there have also been loads really important lessons we have learned that will now help us in our attempts to combat climate change.

She explains to Buster and Buddy that global warming is like how when we get a temperature, we get sick and we don’t feel or behave like we normally do when we’re feeling well. And that global warming is like the world is sick and has a temperature, which like us, makes its’ climate change and behave differently too!

During the Covid crisis not only did we all realised just how important nature is to our health and well-being but we saw the true power of what working together on a world scale can achieve, proving that leaders and countries can indeed come together to fight against a common problem. Fantastic!

And while many of the changes we had to make during Coronavirus weren’t nice, we've seen how we've been able to make big changes in our lives when it is needed which gives great hope that we can make the changes needed to combat climate change!

GUEST OF THE DAYEllen Hegarty is a veterinary surgeon, a mother of three and a climate ambassador with An Taisce.

Originally from a farm in West Cork, she now lives with her family in Dublin. Ellen’s strong passion for the natural world and concern with how climate change and biodiversity loss will impact both it and future generations of humanity, has led her to pursue a Masters in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society in DCU.

Tá Gaeilge aici.

Ellen co-presents the podcast ‘The Covid Alarm Clock’ with Darragh Wynne as they chat about how we can use our experience of COVID as a wake up call to take real action on climate change.

The podcast can be found on

https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-covid-alarm-clock/ (https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-covid-alarm-clock/) or

by searching for the Covid Alarm Clock wherever you get your podcasts

Follow us on: instagram.com/covidalarmclock

Twitter.com/covidalarmclock

Facebook.com/covidalarmclock @covidalarmclock

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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Today's show is really exciting because we’re kicking off our Summer Project!

This summer we are looking into HOW we can help look after our planet…so join us as we discover, learn and have loads of fun along the way!

Buster and Buddy take part in the first week of the 'I Don't Believe It!' Quiz where Michelle challenges their knowledge on all things nature and environment....AND for the very first time, we speak with one of our kid listeners as they also challenge Buster and Buddy in Part 2 of the 'I Don't Believe It!' Quiz!

Over the summer, we will speak with vet and climate activist Ellen Hegarty who presents the climate change podcast 'The Covid Alarm Clock'. She explains about what global warming is, and how exactly it makes climate change worse. She tells us how Covid has shown us ALL the amazing things we can do and achieve when we really work together..!!...and how this gives us amazing hope that we CAN work together and fight against climate change!

And later in the summer we'll be chatting with an amazing teenager who Flossie Donnelly who has set up a charity to educate people on Plastic Pollution and the damage it is doing to our marine environment. Her charity, 'Flossie and the Beach Cleaners' not only talks about plastic pollution, but fights against it by organising beach cleans around the country to remove these harmful plastics from our beaches! She is one amazing teenager!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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In today’s show we have another of our Mind Your Head! shows where we speak with well-known personalities and people with amazing stories to tell about what they do to mind their heads; you know….Mind their Mental Health!

This time we chat with Irish sports broadcaster Jacqui Hurley who presents the sports bulletin on the daily RTÉ News as well as hosting Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio ONE.

She talks to us about how her passion for sport started growing up as a young kid in Australia as her whole family were sports mad and all played lots of different sports in the great Australian weather! But once back in Ireland in her teens, this love of sport continues and in particular she exceled in basketball and camogie….sports she still plays and competes in to this day as a Mum to two young kids!

She talks about how lucky she feels getting to watch and talk about sport as her job too, that she knows she is lucky to be ‘living the dream!’

We hear about her brilliant book ‘Girls Play Too’ which tells the story of X the many incredible sportswomen past and present that maybe we don’t know as much about as we should…and she tells us that she thinks it really important that young girls these days have these incredible role models to look up to and be inspired by – as she tells Buster and Buddy; “Fairy tales can start in your very own back garden if you have a dream and train hard enough!”

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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Facebook: @thekidsareallrightpodcast

And if you enjoy our podcast please give us a review on Podchaser using the link below. These reviews mean so much, Thanks!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Jacqui Hurley

Jacqui Hurley is one of Ireland’s leading sports broadcasters. She is the co-presenter of Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio ONE and presents the sports news on RTÉ television Six One News each day. She is also a regular anchor on RTÉ’s soccer coverage on television.

She has played at the highest level in the sport of basketball as a member of the Irish basketball team and currently manages the Irish under-16 women’s basketball team. She also played to the highest level in camogie as a member of the Cork camogie team.

In 2009 she became the first ever female anchor of Sunday Sport and continues to break the mould releasing her first book ‘Girls Play Too’ in 2020, the first ever compendium of stories for children about our best contemporary sportswomen.

With a fairytale touch, it tells the stories of 25 of Ireland’s leading sportswomen who have proved that being a girl is not a barrier to sporting success and encourages kids to believe that you can achieve is you try your best and never give up on your dreams.

In today’s show we speak with an expert in Bullying, Sinéad McKee who works with Childline and the ISPCC.

Buster and Buddy learn what bullying behaviour is….AND what it Isn’t! Sinéad explains how important for everyone to understand the difference as sometimes even adults get confused as to what bullying really is!

She explains HOW you can work out if behaviour you’re experiencing really is bullying…or if in fact it’s something else entirely.Phew!

She gives some really great tips about what you can and should do if you are being bullied and to stop this behaviour once and for all….because no one deserves to be bullied.

With her years of experience working with young people who bully, she explains to Buster and Buddy that people who bully are not as powerful and brave as they might seem on the outside. She has found that their bullying behaviour is usually because they feel sad about a part of their life and aren’t really that happy in themselves….and many may in fact be lacking in confidence.

But she tells that there is help available for every child in Ireland, whether they are the young person doing the bullying, or the one being bullied. As Sinéad says, EVERYONE has the right to get support!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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Facebook: @thekidsareallrightpodcast

And if you enjoy our podcast please give us a review on Podchaser using the link below. These reviews mean so much, Thanks!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Sinéad McKee – Childline Community Engagement Manager

Sinéad McKee completed a Bachelor of Social Science Degree in University College Cork and then went onto complete her Master’s in social work at University College Dublin. Before joining the ISPCC in 2008, Sinéad gained experience in the disability section, Child Protection and also in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Sinéad’s initial role within the ISPCC was as a Childline Therapeutic Support Worker. As a CTSS worker, Sinéad worked from a resilience model to provide children, young people and families with therapeutic support during difficult or traumatic times in their lives.

Sinéad had professional training in Mediation and completed further training in Non-Violent Resistance.

She then went on to become more involved in the ISPCC;s Advocacy Department and for two years held the position as National Anti-Bullying Co-Coordinator. Sinéad is currently the Childline Community Engagement Manager – Children’s Lead. Sinéad’s focus is to support and empower schools and communities to help nurture the resilience of children and young people.

For more information and resources check out http://www.childline.ie/ (www.childline.ie) or http://www.ispcc.ie/ (www.ispcc.ie)

Childline can be reached at any time of the day or night

by chatting online at Childline.ie or

calling 1800 66 66 66 or texting to 50101.

In today’s show we speak with science consultant and writer Dr Naomi Lavelle about the science of sleep and how we can use this to get a fantastic good nights’ sleep!

Dr Naomi tells us how sleep is important not just to rest our bodies, but to actually keep us well and healthy in our minds AND our bodies.

Buster and Buddy learn that when we sleep, our brain doesn’t go to sleep, it is in fact busy doing lots of jobs, like organising what we have learned that day and Also cleaning the toxins from our mind and body..Wow!

She explains how light and dark are so important to help us have a great night’s sleep and Buster and Buddy learn about our Circadian Rhythm, our natural body clock which tells us when to feel awake and when to feel sleep, which is so important in helping us drift off easily to the land of nod….Zzzzzzz!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Dr Naomi Lavelle

Dr Naomi is a science writer and consultant and she particularly loves creating content for children, from TV shows to radio, to live workshops.

With a background in biochemistry she has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has worked in the Medical Diagnostic Industry and lectured at third level – however she believes that her biggest educators are the children she’s worked with!

Her passion is working with children, from 2 to 20 years because they all have one thing in common…curiosity! Her motto is “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself!”

This passion for science and kids led to Dr. How’s Science Wows; from hands-on visits to writing, workshop design and consultancy. Some highlights have included working with outreach programmes, writing and consulting for children’s tv and collaborating with some international projects; but there is still always a buzz to getting around a table with a group of children and seeing what science has to offer today.

Website: www.sciencewows.ie

In today’s show we speak with psychotherapist and family counsellor Gillian Fagan about how she brings mindful moments into her life in lots of little ways throughout the day. Many people get confused about what Mindfulness actually means; it can sound complicated and a tricky concept to understand, but it’s actually quite simple.

So in this episode we learn just how simple it really is and what it can mean day-to-day in your normal, everyday life!

Gillian explains that it’s not time travelling; looking into the future and worrying about what may happen, or back into the past and going over what did happen, it’s all about living in the present, in the right here and right now. It’s taking a moment to really be aware of what is happening both inside of you as well as what’s going on around you.

She explains how she was introduced to Mindfulness by a teacher in secondary school and how it was and still is to this day really important in her life in helping her deal with her ‘racing head’ and to keep her feeling happy and well.

She talks about some really simple ways to bring easy mindful moments into the ordinary things that you do every day and teaches Buster and Buddy how simply using your 5 senses, your sense of taste, smell, sight, hearing and touch can be a really great way to start!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Gillian Fagan

Gillian Fagan is a counsellor, psychotherapist and trainer who works with teens, adults, couples and families. She founded 2 mental health companies, AcoraTherapy and Under The Rainbow, and is an emotional health consultant for workplaces.

Gillian started meditating when she was 12 years old and many years later is still at it! Not only that she is a specialist on the science behind relaxation and teaches people how to reduce stress, manage anxiety and be happier.

Being passionate about normalising mental fitness, Gillian loves helping people empower themselves so that they can be their true selves, equipped with the resources to cope better when things get tough.

Gillian is a keynote speaker and trainer on topics such as resilience, uncertainty, stress, coping strategies and the importance of inclusion. She believes that our minds are like our muscles, we need to keep working out so we can have good mental fitness!

Websites:

http://acora.ie/ (http://acora.ie/)

https://www.undertherainbow.ie/ (https://www.undertherainbow.ie/)

So today’s show is another of our ‘Mind Your Head!’ shows which is all about minding your head …you know, minding your Mental health!

Our guests, our Mental Health Ambassadors come from different walks of life and all have positive messages about health and happiness to share as they tell us what they do to feel well and happy!

Actor Johnny Ward talks about how running and meditation became important activities for him during the Covid Lockdowns and how he really enjoyed getting back to teaching drama to kids.

He talks about how important writing down your thoughts, feelings and emotions is and how much it has helped his drama students express themselves particularly during Covid times.

He talks about why he just loves doing Panto so much….and sets Buster and Buddy a fun acting challenge to see who can make themselves sound the most ‘Evil’….Mwahahahaha!!!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Actor Johnny Ward

Johnny Ward is an award winning actor from Dublin and has built up a very impressive résumé.

After his showstopping performance , he returned in the summer of 2019, to play the lead role of "Gino Wildes" in 'Copperface Jacks The Musical' by Paul Howard, produced by Verdant Productions at The Olympia Theatre to high acclaim.

Johnny is very well known for his performances in RTE's 'Love Hate' where he starred as "Pauley" and in RTE's 'Fair City' as "Ciaran Holloway" for which he won a GOSS.IE award for Best Actor.

In 2019 Johnny made the Grand Finals of RTE's 'Dancing With The Stars' alongside his pro dance partner Emily Barker.

In 2015, Johnny lived in South Africa where he worked alongside Ron Howard and Pierre Morel playing the male lead “Broud” in Fox TV’s 'The Clan Of The Cave Bear'.

He Played “Vinny” in the RTE comedy 'The Centre' and was in the Kirsten

Sheridan film 'Doll House', where he starred as the male lead "Eanna". In 2011 Johnny toured Ireland and U.K. as Ray Dooley in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”. Johnny also had the male lead in the short film, “Two Hearts” which swept the boards, winning best short film festivals throughout Europe.

In August 2010, he had a leading role in the feature film “This Must

Be the Place” where he starred alongside Oscar Winner, Sean Penn.

Other notable Film and TV credits include: ‘Danny’ in “The Best of Times”;

‘George’ in “Fear” (Disney’s Incredible Stories), ‘Bastien’ in “The Sock

Monster” (Disney’s Incredible Stories), ‘Billy O’Brien’ in “Stone”, ‘Paul’ in A

“Man of Few Words”. “Delphine”, “Boy from Mercury”, “Custer’s Last Stand

Up” (BBC/RTE) and “The Informant”. He played the part of ‘David Flood’ in a

film about the “Stardust” tragedy (RTE), ‘Marcus’ in “Prosperity” (RTE) and

‘Diarmuid’ in the award winning short “An Creatur”.

In today’s show we talk with primary school teacher Áine Murray who has written a book called ‘The Pain in the Chest’ to help kids understand and manage their worries.

With a background in psychology, Áine believes it’s really important to understand that talking about your mental health doesn’t mean that something is wrong. Our mental health, how we feel in our head, changes all the time; sometimes it’s great and we feel really positive and then sometimes it’s more negative and we feel not so great.

But when we learn it is constantly changing, we know that if we are feeling anxious or down, that it won’t last forever and there are lots of things we can do to help ourselves.

The girl who features in her book has lots of worries as she grows up, but at the end of the book she decides to talk to her Mom about her anxiety and then we learn that when we start to talk, our worries start to walk…and we feel better!

Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Áine Murray

Áine is a young Primary School Teacher and Children’s Book Author from Navan, Meath. She is currently teaching 4th class in Ashboune ETNS – and loves it!

As well as teaching, Áine has an Undergraduate Degree in Psychology. She is passionate about her teaching and has a particular interest in young mental health, which can be seen in her new picture book. It is called “The Pain the Chest” and it tackles the issue of anxiety through rhyme and beautiful illustrations. The book reaches all primary school ages from 4-12years, and is an excellent resource for teachers and parents to start the conversation about mental health with their young person.

It introduces the language of anxiety, allows for reflection on what anxiety might look like, and normalises talking about our feelings in a child friendly way. It is engaging, inclusive and most of all, important.

Áine believes it is important to learn about your own Mental Health from a young age, and she really loved chatting to Buddy and Buster all about it!

GET THE BOOK:

The book can be bought online at TheBookmark.ie, Choicepublishing.ie or Antoniasbookstore.ie

And you can follow the Instagram account @the_pain_in_the_chest for more updates!

In today’s show we speak with Dr Mary O’Kane lecturer in Psychology and Education about how to beat the back to school nerves!

She explains how it is completely normal to have mixed emotions about going back to school after time off, both excitement AND

nerves.

She gives Buster and Buddy loads of advice on how to keep the nerves in check by focusing on what you DO know and like about school and she gives lots of really handy tools and techniques to use to focus and calm their minds…

...As well as explaining how the fear part of our brains is trying so hard to protect us, that sometimes when we experience change, it makes a mistake and sees this as danger….So we need to know how to tell it that everything is OKAY!

Listen to the show to hear what Mary teaches us, as well as lots of other fun stuff, like …and kids telling us their favourite jokes in Tickle Your Funny Bone!

And remember to Stay Healthy, Stay Happy and Stay Well!

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Michelle and her team have a collective 50years experience working with kids as teachers, entertainers and parents!

Thanks to Zapsplat, Audio Jingle and Alexander Korotkoff for the sound effects and music.

Check out our social media to see more about the team, our guests, the topics we talk about, our competitions AND how to send us in your stories, jokes, comments or ideas for the podcast!

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GUEST OF THE DAY

Dr Mary O’Kane

Dr Mary O’Kane is a Lecturer in Psychology, Early Childhood Studies and Education.

Mary started working in the media in 2015 with a Monthly Parenting Slot on the Anton Savage Show on Today FM. She continued working with Anton and his team for two years answering parent queries and giving advice on how to support children’s social and emotional development. She continues to work with Today FM, now on the Alison Curtis Weekend Morning Show.

Mary is also a regular contributor on Ireland AM discussing a broad range of parenting and childhood issues while responding to viewers parenting questions.

Website: https://www.drmaryokane.ie/ (https://www.drmaryokane.ie/)

MINI MINDFULNESS MOMENT

Louise Shanagher

Louise Shanagher is a children’s therapist, mindfulness teacher and trainer.

Louise has a BA and MSc in Psychology and further qualifications in Play Therapy and Mindfulness.

She is the creator of the “Creative Mindfulness Kids” method and has trained hundreds of people to be children’s mindfulness teachers.

She is the author of six books: The "Mindfully Me" series, Ireland’s first series of mindfulness books for children and the “Kindfully Me” series and the co-author of Ireland's first mindfulness curriculum the "Mindful Heart" curriculum.

Louise is passionate about promoting positive mental health for children and young people. She believes that all children should get the opportunity to learn how to practice mindfulness and self-compassion and believes that these practices will help children lead happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

Website: https://www.louiseshanagher.com/ (https://www.louiseshanagher.com/)