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S2E19: Your Child's Body, Your Child's Choice with Lauren French from Body Safety Australia
S2E19: Your Child's Body, Your Child's Choice with Lauren French from Body Safety Australia

TRIGGER WARNING: This podcast episode contains references to child sexual and physical abuse, grooming and predatory behaviour. If this episode triggers anything for you please reach out to a loved one who will listen or contact Lifeline 13 11 14 for support. We see you, we hear you, we believe you.
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Wondering how to teach your children about consent? Want to know how to empower your kids to be the boss of their own body? In this episode, Lauren French from Body Safety Australia helps us answer these incredibly important questions.

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ParentingLindsey BowlesWildlings Forest SchoolConsent, choice, education, prevention, abuseComment
S2E15: How to Get Your Partner Onboard with Scotty Farrell
S2E15: How to Get Your Partner Onboard with Scotty Farrell

Today is going to be a little more personal than usual. In fact, I think I can feel a little vulnerability hangover coming on already because today, we’re chatting with my husband, an ex Primary School, Special Education and Behaviour Management Teacher, co-founder of, online triathlon and endurance racing coaching business, T:Zero Multisport and homeschooling father, the myth, the legend, Scotty Farrell. Scotty is here to answer one of our FAQs about home/un schooling- how to get your partner onboard.

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Parenting, homeschoolingLindsey BowlesWildlings Forest Schoolnature, adventure, connection, father, fathers and son, male perspective, fatherhood, Unschooling, homeschoolComment
S2E14: Survival, Paternal Connection and Adventures with Rick J Peterson
S2E14: Survival, Paternal Connection and Adventures with Rick J Peterson

In this episode we are talking with my beautiful friend, an ex SAS soldier, gum leaf whistler, fire starter, survival skills expert and all around good bloke, Rick Petersen. We find out what Rick has been up to since he got back from the desert, his top tips for survival, what he never leaves home without and why he is on a mission to bring fathers and sons together outdoors. Let's hear from the man behind the beard.

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Parenting, NatureLindsey BowlesWildlings Forest Schoolnature, adventure, survival, connection to country, connection, father, son, fathers and sonComment
S2E12: Wildschooling with the Wilder Child Creator Nicolette Sowder
S2E12: Wildschooling with the Wilder Child Creator Nicolette Sowder

In this episode, we’re talking to Nicolette Sowder, founder of the global nature play movement, Wilder Child, about Wildschooling, creating an online nature connection movement and running a business. Prepared to be so inspired, this girl is golden.

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Pedagogy, Parenting, Nature, homeschoolingLindsey BowlesWildlings Forest Schoolconnection, connection to country, culture, wildschooling, nature, nature play, nature pedagogy, USAComment
S2 E9: Maternal Ambivalence with Dr. Margo Lowy
S2 E9: Maternal Ambivalence with Dr. Margo Lowy

If someone asks you about your role as a mother, you may be quick to say it is the most rewarding experience of your life right? But is it? Do you always feel that way? Motherhood brings us to the depth of all our emotions. Mothers have many varying and contradictory feelings that are not talked about publicly. As well as experiencing love, most experience fleeting feelings of hate. These difficult feelings actually strengthen and fuel a mother's love for their child. Today we explore the idea of maternal ambivalence with Dr. Margo Lowy.

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S2 E8 How to Talk to Your Kids about Sex with Tasha Lawton of Talk Revolution
S2 E8 How to Talk to Your Kids about Sex with Tasha Lawton of Talk Revolution

In this episode, we chat with our incredible friend Tasha Lawton, founder of Talk Revolution, about how to talk to you children about sex. If you're not sure when to start talking to your children about sex, or how to talk to them or what to say, then make sure you give this episode a listen because Tash is about to answer every one of your questions you have about these difficult conversations. Let's breakdown the stigma's around one of life's great pleasures and hear from Tash.

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S2 E1: Failure, Farts and Finding Self-Worth with Maggie Dent
S2 E1: Failure, Farts and Finding Self-Worth with Maggie Dent

In this episode, we are thrilled to be chatting with one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors and experts, the perfectly named, Queen of Common sense, Maggie Dent. We chat about getting kids off screens, the importance of failing, and self worth and how to support boys in their big emotions and the importance of a well-timed fart.

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ParentingLindsey BowlesWildlings Forest SchoolMaggie Dent, Parenting, Resilience, FailureComment