Abby Bridgeman (@theearlydaysnewzealand), y'all. She has quickly become one of my favourite people, and I am really grateful to this podcast for introducing me to her.

She wears so many hats: nurse, mum, neurodivergent, parenting educator, total badass, and we get into most of them on the pod!

I could yap on for a long time about how much I appreciate and value her education and her friendship, but I think it's pretty evident in the episode. I am so grateful to her for her vulnerability and trusting me to share her story on this platform. She really goes there and that is what makes this podcast good. I can only share as much as the guest shares. And Abby shared.

If you're a parent looking for some evidence-based, practical, actually helpful, easy to understand, calm down your anxieties, parenting education, Abby is ya gal.

I talk about it in the episode, but a heads up that in a month's time there will a month break from posting podcast episodes as the first season is 20 episodes. When I return for season 2, I will be posting episodes fortnightly. Just looking ahead to going back to full time work, I'm having to shift things to make it alllll a little bit workable. Hopefully eventually I will be able to go down to part time employment and part time with the podcast and return to weekly posting, but that's still a while away! I hope you all understand that I'm doing this to avoid burnout and make sure that I can keep posting on a consistent schedule.

While you're here, why not do all the things?! Follow, like, subscribe, rate, review, share. Or maybe do just ONE of the things? The stats show me that lots of people who listen to the pod aren't actually subscribed, which, wild! So go ahead and save yourself having to search for the pod, and just click subscribe.

Follow WDYPLT on social media!:

• Instagram
• TikTok

AND, if you wanna hear the secret sixth question I have asked Abby this week, you can subscribe to the substack (there is a free subscription, or a paid subscription! LESS THAN A CUP OF COFFEE!!!!! And monthly meltdown is due to come out in the next week, so a great time to get in there!):

• Substack

If you have a story you reckon would be interesting to hear on the pod, flick me an email at whydoyouparentlikethatpodcast@gmail.com

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Haaaaaayyyyyooooo!

Welcome back for another week! I'm so glad you're here!

You have found this podcast while I am in the depths of norovirus and coming to you live from my bed. Everything hurts, chills, shakes, fever, headache. It's a whole thing. Which is WHY you will hear a weird automated intro from me this week. It's my words, but I truly did not have the strength to get out of bed and get my microphone to record the introduction. So, THIS was my solution. I got a bit silly with it sorry, I'm blaming sickness delirium.

The episode this week is with Ben Boyce, which, what the actual heck?! Ben is someone I have grown up watching on TV and now listen to on the Hits breakfast show, and the fact that he was willing to take the time out to talk to me about parenting is just testament to what a cool guy he is. Ben and his wife Amanda have two teenage daughters, Sienna and Indie, but you're probably already familiar because Ben, Sienna and Indie are going all sorts of viral across the internet with their comedy content! Ben and Sienna also have a podcast called "When I Grow Up" which you can listen to here!

While you're here, why not do all the things?! Follow, like, subscribe, rate, review, share. Or maybe do just ONE of the things? The stats show me that lots of people who listen to the pod aren't actually subscribed, which, wild! So go ahead and save yourself having to search for the pod, and just click subscribe.

Follow WDYPLT on social media!:

• Instagram
• TikTok

AND, if you wanna hear the secret sixth question I have asked Ben this week, you can subscribe to the substack (there is a free subscription, or a paid subscription! And last week I just made everything free bc I felt like it, so it's always worth subscribing to see what this CRAZY GAL will do!):

• Substack

If you have a story you reckon would be interesting to hear on the pod, flick me an email at whydoyouparentlikethatpodcast@gmail.com

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It's episode 2 of our bonus EXPERT episodes! If you don't know what these are, listeners from the WDYPLT community have the opportunity to submit questions to parenting-adjacent experts for them to be answered. This week Shrenika has 5 questions that she answers from listeners in the WDYPLT community, and she answers them beautifully!

If you want to find Shrenika this is her website and this is her instagram! If you're thinking about getting some first aid knowledge, Shrenika is your gal! As I say in the episode, I have done a session with her and found it so totally helpful.

Our next expert episode is with Caylin from Pepi and Parent about all things baby/toddler/child sleep! If you have a question you'd like to ask her the submission form is here

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