We're back after a year off from podcasting to talk about Olivia's first day in big school (who cried, who didn't, did we remember to pick her up on time...) and Thomas' first day in preschool (the child who repeatedly eats dirt is apparently smart...

We did a semi-Parent Trap and split the kids up. One with the mother, one with the father - a weekend of peace and bliss and fun and memories. The ladies went off for a night in a hotel while the boys basically reverted to caveman norm and lounged about...

This week we have a chat about prepping for school as best we can with the crazy lack of proper guidelines. Also Derek gets insanely excited about the fact that the kids are going back to creche for a few days each week - something about being able to...

We're back after a Covid (Karen) Hiatus - not that we had it, just that when you aren't doing anything you don't have a lot to talk about. This week we talk about meeting our parents for the first time in months and the prep for school. There is also a...

In the middle of Covid we said goodbye to Montessori. When we left the creche back on 12 March, over three months ago, we assumed we would all be back and life would be normal again within a few weeks. Fast forward, a more severe lockdown, restrictions...

George Floyd, he had a name. We need to talk to our children about racism.

Covid-19 ruining your holiday plans, have no fear Parenting Pobal is here. We run through some suggestions for a holistay (patent pending) and also touch briefly on the topic of how all this working from home has warped the kids' tiny little minds. 

Another week, another episode. This week we talk about a few topics because Derek couldn't come up with a single one that worked. We touch on Karen's anxiety about working from home with a messy house. There is the sad tale of how we handled telling...

This week we talk about consent and how it is never too early to start teaching kids about having control over what is happening to their bodies. There is also a brief spell talking about how Karen got abused by the Christians on Instagram. Plus the...

This week we talk about how life has changed and how the different pressures mean different things for different families. And also sticklebacks. Obviously 

We are still in lockdown, Derek is going cra-cra, we talk about what is happening with the kids and how their eating habits have changed. Pray for Karen, she is having to put up with Derek

Going into week four of lockdown and working from home with kids

We're back, with episode 1, season 2, of the least popular parenting podcast online. We were going to avoid it, but we decided to go with an episode on how we are doing the whole work from home thing with two kids that demand all your attention at the...

Our first visual podcast - to mark a year of podcasing

Blame the title on Derek, but here we are, podcasting in a strange time. We focus on the positives and tips for working from home with young children

This week we talk about how kids mimic what they see, both good and bad.

47 episodes in and sure who knew we'd still have things to waffle on about. In this week's episode we talk about some stuff you can do with the kids when the weather or illness means you can't leave the house. Little tricks on how to survive Cabin Fever with two little humans that have the attention span of a gnat and the patience of a ... gnat (look, they can't all be winners).

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We talk about Thomas' second birthday, Derek gives out about Karen putting too much pressure on herself for said birthday. There is even a random seqway into the classic novel 1984.

In this episode we talk about the big milestone of Karen being seven weeks off her post-natal depression meds. We also discuss how neither post-natal depressions presented with the same symptoms.There is also random stuff from Derek...

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