Why we should all strive to be half-arse parents
Ah being a parent, full of love and wonder, while simultaneously being exhausting and stressful. But we are creating all that stress ourselves? Today’s guest says we need to let all that pressure to be perfect go, and just go back to basics. Dr Susie O’Brien is a journalist and columnist with a PhD in Education, and she has a new book out, The Secret of Half-Arsed Parenting – Raising kids with half the guilt and twice the joy. She joins us to (hopefully!) share some of those secrets…
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