Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between

Our lovely listener Jacqueline messaged us with the topic of only children as a podcast idea and here we are!  We talked about:  One and done – why more families are choosing to have just one child or more than one child.  Only child stats from Canada - https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20230110-only-child-or-siblings-one-and-done   Becks and Rich initially just wanting on...

We talked about:  Davina’s background and how she came to write her book (details below)  Davina’s own interest in allergies and her award-winning baking background!  Whether we are seeing an increase in allergies in both adults and children and why this is.  Parental anxieties around allergies and how to help with this.  How it's important that children learn to advocate...

We talked about:  Whether we remember having any nightmares or night terrors (Becks had quite the pre-sleep routine!)  Claire’s dreams (poor James!!)  The differences between nightmare and night terrors and what happens  Why someone might have a night terror and why you shouldn’t wake them up  Nightmares (what these look like and when they happen) and vivid dreams (Claire’...

**In this episode we discuss suicide and depression - if these are tricky subjects for you then please do look after yourself and maybe skip today's episode or listen when you feel ready.**  This episode with Laura is very emotional and insightful one, with moments of humour - we hope you enjoy it. We spoke with Laura about: Her situation now as a single mum with 2 children, sharing their car...

This episode is for parents and carers who are thinking about starting weaning. We talked about:  When you should start weaning and the guidelines for this.  What weaning is.  The signs to look for to know if your baby is ready to start weaning.  The fact that sleep changes and that this is more likely to be a 4 month sleep regression than that they are hungry and need to be we...

We started by speaking to Louise all about her background including extensive experience in E-Commerce and the moment GoHenry came to be (she blames her kids who clicked rather alot on iPod downloads!)!   We also talked about:  GoHenry’s founding aim to increase confidence to use and understand money in what was an increasingly cashless environment.  What GoHenry is and how it...

We chatted about:  What spending quality time with your children means (Becks googled it!)   The fact that it doesn’t need to be endless amounts of time and that quality not quantity is what counts.  How quality time is different for everyone, but that in the main though it is 1:1 interaction and communication, no phones or devices, just being focussed on each other.  How quali...

Elizabeth joined us from San Francisco – she is founder of Stereotype Kids which was set up because her Boy / Girl twins didn’t want to be restricted to wearing their own clothes and wanted to wear each others.  We chatted about:  Why Elizabeth feels it’s important to challenge traditional views on boys and girls clothing and to allow the children to dress for joy rather than what they ‘...

Safia told us all about her company The Mum Hub which she founded in Lockdown, her family and what else she has done and is doing in her career. We also discussed:  Time management for parents and the common things parents experience for example feeling they are having to be in too many places at once!  Having a to do list / a priority list and putting things on paper. E.g. what are the...

In the week leading of Halloween you might find that your little ones are feeling more scared than usual. But regardless of this, children can be scared of lots of things and this is the subject of this episode! We chatted about: Halloween and how we never really ‘did’ Halloween when we were little and how much it has ramped up in recent years.  What we were scared of when we were little (wel...

Molly is founder of The Body Happy Organisation and author of ‘ Every Body ’ and ‘ Body Happy Kids ’     We spoke to Molly about:  Her background as a journalist and why she decided to focus on researching and promoting Body Confidence for children (and adults).  Diet culture around children and becoming aware of all the things they are watching and absorbing all the time....

We met Josephine at The International Women’s Podcast Awards when she was nominated for her podcast ‘ Gloriously unready ’ and we were nominated for ours 😉.  Josephine was mum to 3 boys – quite the challenge (her words!). However, two of her children told her (completely independently and within a few months of each other) that they were transgender. One of Josephine’s daughte...

Are you a hugger? Becks is, Claire isn’t (she just doesn’t feel the need all the time!)!    We spoke about:  Our own experiences with hugging and showing affection.  How to approach situations with children and hugging – should it be an expectation that your child hugs people?  If not, what should you do?  Having conversations with people about the fact your chil...

This episode was so much fun!  Vern joined us from Carifit, the original baby wearing fitness programme. Cari stands for Cardio and resistance intervals and when he started the classes for new mums Vern used to wear the babies while the parents worked out - he had a light bulb moment that parents could wear their own babies to work out and it went from there!  We talked about:  How...

July going into August is a month of birthdays and celebrations for us – starting with our business birthday at the end of July, Becks’s dog Olive’s birthday on 1st August (!), then Becks and her twins (all on the same day!), Claire’s birthday exactly a week after and then Becks’s husband at the end of August! So, we thought that this was the ideal time to look at birthdays, presents, parties and...

Co-parenting mentor Sarah joined us from Australia for the podcast! She specialises in supporting (mainly) women and their children when relationships break down.  We talked about:  The importance of putting children first, but how difficult it is when your co-parent isn't on the same page as you in terms of their approach.  How Sarah started working in the field having had her own...

Janine is mum of 2 children, who are now 10 and 12.  She runs her own business helping coaches and consultants with their marketing and sales.  We spoke to Janine about:  Whether there is such a thing as a natural born parent and Janine’s feelings on this.  The stress of getting children out of the house - mum guilt and shouting at children!  How taking an online parenting...

Founder of Onle Networking (an online business network) Kelly West, talked to us about her daughter Kennedy (16) who has global development delay (she has a cognitive age of 2-3) as well as about her business which she founded 5 years ago with her husband and her older daughter.   We discussed:   How they love people which is why the business was founded (Ke...

Rebecca started her business when her children were quite young (the youngest was starting school) and she wanted to ‘find her thing’.  We chatted about:  Rebecca's background – she set up an outsourcing agency ‘Get Ahead’ in 2010 working with companies to provide Virtual Assistants (VAs).   Having an open mind and a confidence to see where things go and how setting up a busine...

Cate is a Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley and spoke to us about what’s involved when parents divorce.   We covered:  The 3 strands to a divorce – the divorce itself, the finances, the children.  No fault divorce and what it is / what it means.  What happens when courts get involved in terms of making an order about how the children spend their time between parents and...

Laura was born and raised in Southern California and has been in London since 2021.  She is the daughter of an Occupational Therapist (OT) and now runs a private practice – Kid Kind Collective and works with children as a Paediatric OT.  We spoke about:  What an OT actually does (Becks had no idea!) and why they do what they do in terms of outcomes for the children.  How OTs he...

This is a topic close to Becks’s heart as she starts to prepare for both of her children leaving home for university. One of Becks’s friends asked us to record this episode – so here you are!  We spoke about:  How it’s a different milestone to going to childcare / school for the first time.  The social media phenomenon of making the most of ‘18 summers with your children’...wha...

Please note that Meriel was a surrogate in the US and rules in each country are very different – to find out more about surrogacy rules in the UK you can find them here and more information on surrogacy in the UK here .   Meriel is a three times surrogate from the United States. She was blessed to help two families achieve the dream of completing their families through surrogacy. She currentl...

We spoke to Hayley and Becky from Paths to Parent Hub. We first came across Paths to Parent Hub when we listened to their podcast following a recommendation from a friend.  We started with Hayley and Becky sharing their own stories with us. Hayley is a donor conceived person herself and is also a parent of twins through sperm donation. Becky was diagnosed with early menopause at 28 – she and...

Lee is Becks’s ‘Boxing trainer’ - (well kind of 😉!) and a personal trainer (to real boxers!). He is also a stay-at-home dad looking after his little girl Beaux which started when she was 3 months old.  We talked to Lee about:  As a couple how Lee and his wife came to the decision that Lee would be the main carer and how he felt about it.  The reaction from friends and family to Lee...