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Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between

Decibelle Creative

Join us (Becks and Claire) for a new episode every fortnight, for accessible, light-hearted and well researched advice and guidance on the various ways we can tackle the ups and downs of life with children (and have a bit of a giggle along the way!) Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, TA or childcare worker, or just looking to gain a better understanding of the world through a child’s eyes, we have 25 years of childcare experience to share with you. Listen for judgement free reassurance and support

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All Episodes

59:46

Post-natal Depression with Laura Canty, author of...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2025/02/19

**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 care with her ex-husband.What happened when Laura became pregnant with Arthur, the birth (by c-section) and coming

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45:55

Getting ready for weaning!

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2025/02/05

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 weaned.What to start children on (baby rice is not necessarily the right answer!) and the different methods that can be followed to

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41:24

Teaching children about money! With Louise Hill,...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2025/01/22

We started by speaking toLouise 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 works.How GoHenry helps with financial education with their ‘money missions’ on the AppWhere the name GoHenry came from (such a

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33:52

How to spend quality time with your kids!

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2025/01/08

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 quality timedoesn't have to be something specific like a board game, it can be just doing something with your children and chatting with

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43:32

Gender, Clothing and individuality with Elizabeth...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/11/27

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 ‘should’ be wearing’.Friends and family reactions to the children wearing clothes that they didn’t think they should

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46:56

Too much to do? Here’s how to cope... with Safia...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/11/13

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 top 3 things that I have to focus on? Planning and not feeling like you have to ‘do it all’. Lowering expectations of

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41:36

I’m scared!

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/10/30

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 (well mainly Becks!).How every child is individual in terms of what they are / aren’t scared of – some children will

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01:00:50

Love the skin you are in – with Molly Forbes

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/10/16

Molly isfounder 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.Teaching children to value, respect and give dignity to everyone regardless of what they look like.Body diversity, discrimination and poor body

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01:03:33

Raising Transgender Teens with Josephine Hughes

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/10/02

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 childrentold her(completely independently and within a few months of each other) that they were transgender. One of Josephine’s daughters has now been on hormones for about 8 years (she is now, at the time of recording, 30) and the other daughter for about 3 years

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36:09

Hugging and showing affection

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/09/18

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 child can say no they don’t want a hug and when to do it.Kissing little ones and reasons we don’t kiss newborn babies (or you could kiss their

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01:05:19

Baby wearing, fitness and more! With Vern Hill, Carifit

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/09/04

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 from small beginnings the Carifit classes grew and then the baby carrier was born. (Shout out to Hannah Lowry who was one of

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42:33

Birthdays!

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/08/21

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 everything that goes along with it!We spoke about:Why birthdays are Becks’s very favourite thing! Baby’s

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41:27

Co-Parenting - With Sarah Kamoto, Unshakeable...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/08/07

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 traumatic personal experience and being a co-parent herself.How Sarah coaches parents to regain their confidence and ‘step

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39:23

Natural Born Parents? With Janine Coombes

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/07/24

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 course when the children were around 2 and 4 changed things for Janine.‘Feeling maternal’ - the expectation that everything should come

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45:49

Global Development Delay with Kelly West

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/07/10

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 acognitiveage of 2-3) as well as about her business which she founded 5 years ago with her husband and herolderdaughter.We discussed:How they love people which is why the business was founded (Kelly met her husband at networking!)All about Kennedy the signs the family first saw in her and the challenges the family had and still face especially

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36:06

Setting up and running a small business (with...

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/06/26

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 – sheset 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 business feels like nurturing another child!Balancing having a family and young children when setting up a business and how Rebecca

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53:32

Family Law and Divorce - with Cate Maguire

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/06/12

Cate is a Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley and spoke to us aboutwhat’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 whether there is any flexibility.Particular patterns of how to share the care of childrenthat Cate would recommend to parents.How long the

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37:48

What is Occupational Therapy? With Laura Ruzzano

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/05/29

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 help people be adaptive with how they get to the end goal.All about sensory processing – what this means and how an OT can help as a

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36:59

Empty Nesting

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/05/15

This is a topic close to Becks’sheart 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’...what we think!The feelings and emotions that you have and the stages that you go through when your child/ren leave home.How Claire

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45:30

Being a Surrogate, with Meriel Bernal

Newborn to Teen and Everything in Between ·

2024/05/01

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 currently works for an agency as a surrogacy journey coordinator, where she is passionate about helping to create

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