Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families – Details, episodes & analysis

It's National Child Protection Week!

Today's conversation is with author, publisher, mother, and educator Janeen Sanders, a strong public advocate for children’s safety, education, and empowerment.

Jayneen joins Dr Justin to speak on the importance of teaching consent and body safety to children of all ages and how parents can do this in age-appropriate ways. This is an essential skill for every parent: to keep our children safe from sexual abuse and sexual predators.

In this episode:

• Statistics
• The younger a child, the more vulnerable and at-risk they are
• Online grooming
• #926 Who Tops the List of Child Sexual Abusers?
• Using correct anatomical names
• Teaching body boundary and consent
• Grandparents and hugging
• Creating a safety network for your child

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Jayneen Sander's resources:

• Body Safety Red Flags by Jayneen Sanders
• My Body! What I Say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders
• Body Safety and Consent VALUE BUNDLE by Jayneen Sanders
• My Body Safety Rules - FREE POSTER
• Head to the Educate 2 Empower website for more books, lesson plans, posters, and other resources for parents and teachers.

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Related links:

• Sex, Consent, & Staying Safe [Webinar]
• #226 More Than Consent Education with Melinda Tankard Reist

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Robert asks, What can you do when your teenager won’t go to school? Throw in the complexity of neurodivergence, and this becomes a tough situation!

Plus, a question from Sian about managing the inconsistency between a reward/token system at school and what is going on at home. Can two very different structures coexist and work for your child?

In this episode:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

• Emotion-Based School Avoidance

• Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) or Persistent Desire for Autonomy

• Conflict around gaming

• Connection vs control
• Explore, explain, empower
• Emotional valence (the extent to which an emotion is pleasant or unpleasant, ranging from negative to positive)
• Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation
• Building structure in the home

Related links:

• School Refusal
• Screens And Our Boys
• Punishment, Reward, and Other Disciplinary Mistakes
• #720 What are the Psychological Needs of Our Kids?

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Today, I had an insightful interview with Dany Elachi, founder of The Heads Up Alliance, examining the No Phones policy that every school in the country should be implementing—the benefits, the evidence, and the challenges. Dany shares how community is the solution to an issue that so many parents feel they are facing alone—how to say "not yet" to a smartphone and/or social media.

In this episode:

• Forming alliances with other families
• Keeping teens off social media
• Creating a consistent phone-free environment in Australian schools
• Empirical vs anecdotal evidence
• Behavioural challenges in schools
• Mental health, bullying, academic outcomes
• Catholic and Independent Schools
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
•  Dr Michael Carr-Gregg: “A no brainer from the university of bleeding obvious”
• THE HEADS UP ALLIANCE | Instagram, Facebook Linktree

Related Links:

• Unplug Childhood
• #980 The Anxious Generation With Jonathan Haidt
• Pixel Perfect [Webinar]

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Digital influences, demographic shifts, and information overload: we explore the evolution of parenting from GenX through to Millennial parents. 

In this episode:

• Digital infusion
• Information overload
• Parents under pressure
• Changing dynamics of family life
• Screen-based childhoods 
• Present and engaged parents

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Dr Justin Coulson addressing autonomy in children and how to encourage them to live expansively

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Dr Justin Coulson on Anxiety.

How do we recognise it in our children, and what do we do?

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Dr Justin Coulson discusses the blanket ban for VIC state primary schools on mobile devices and why this is in the best interests of the kids.

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Dr Justin Coulson discusses the response to the 60 Minutes story “Won’t Stop, Can’t Stop” (2nd September 2018), about teenagers addicted to computers, and gives practical advice on how to handle your tech-addicted child or teen.

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Dr Justin Coulson and Julie Inman Grant: E-Safety Commissioner, discussing how to handle your children being exposed to inappropriate content and teaching them to react appropriately.

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Dr Justin Coulson on setting boundaries, getting teenagers to “do as they are told”, and the 3 E’s of effective discipline.

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