Episodes

  • How to get your children to do stuff

    How to get your children to do stuff
    Oct 3 2024
    This may sound like living in Utopia - getting your children to tidy their rooms, eat vegetables, the list goes on. Christiane Kehoe is a researcher of child behaviour based at the University of Melbourne, and also the co-author of the Tuning in to Toddlers, Tuning in to Kids, and Tuning in to Teens parenting programmes. She shares some parenting strategies and tips to avert friction.
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    19 mins
  • The importance of being honest with kids

    The importance of being honest with kids
    Sep 26 2024
    Educator, speaker, mum and parenting commentator Karen Boyes on the importance of being honest with kids. She is CEO of Spectrum Education, Principal of Spectrum Online Academy and the author of 13 books. She says teachers and parents have a delicate balance of inspiring children, while preparing them for the realities of life. She says telling kids 'learning is fun' and 'high grades will get you ahead in life' is well-meaning but ultimately misleading.
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    22 mins
  • Bullying: preventing and addressing

    Bullying: preventing and addressing
    Sep 19 2024
    Whether your child is being bullied, or your child is being a bully, Dr Karyn Healy has advice. She is an Australian registered psychologist who has worked with schools, parents and children to prevent and address bullying, and resolve conflict. She co-authored a family programme to address school bullying called the Resilience Triple P program. Dr Healy says parents can help children manage conflict.
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    20 mins
  • Play with your food, and don't disguise vegetables

    Play with your food, and don't disguise vegetables
    Sep 12 2024
    When Jennifer Anderson became a mother, she - like many new parents - realised the uphill battle that can be mealtimes. Getting young kids to eat their greens, voluntarily, isn't always straightforward - and advice on how to encourage them is polarising. Do you force them to sit and finish their plate, bribe them with dessert... and at what point, do you just give up on the brussel sprouts? But Ms Anderson, a registered dietician, took that angst, and honed in on a specialty in feeding children and picky eating. She founded Kids Eat in Color - a resource to help families feed their children, from their first bite of solid food right through to elementary-aged nutrition needs.
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    19 mins
  • With so many education apps - how can parents know which ones are good?

    With so many education apps - how can parents know which ones are good?
    Sep 5 2024
    The phrase "there's an app for that" certainly applies in the education space - one estimate puts numbers available on the Apple and Google Play stores at nearly 400,000. But are they any good?
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    18 mins
  • Do sticker charts help or harm?

    Do sticker charts help or harm?
    Aug 28 2024
    The big question for many parents of young children is - how can I get my kids to do what I'm asking them to do?
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    17 mins
  • Parenting: the impact of traditional masculinity on boys

    Parenting: the impact of traditional masculinity on boys
    Aug 22 2024
    New York Times contributor Andrew Reiner writes about traditional roles previously assigned to men and boys affects their lives.
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    20 mins
  • Maggie Dent: Queen of Commonsense Parenting

    Maggie Dent: Queen of Commonsense Parenting
    Aug 15 2024
    Maggie Dent is known as the Queen of Commonsense Parenting. She's a former high school teacher, counsellor, mother of four sons, grandmother of seven, author of numerous books and the host of the ABC podcast Parental as Anything. Her latest book is called Help Me, Help My Teen. And Maggie's coming to Auckland next month for two public sessions: Mothering our Boys and Calming Today's Anxious Kids. Send questions for Maggie to 2101 on text or email ninetonoon@rnz.co.nz
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    27 mins