Parenting and Parents: Navigating parenting with different financial realities within families (Same family, different privileges)

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Esther Rubin a Registered Counsellor about exploring the challenges that arise when children or adults within the same extended family grow up with different financial privileges and parenting approaches, Unpacking how parents can navigate these differences, manage comp…

Parenting and Parents: Parenting children with a big age gap

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Athi Nkomo an HPCSA-registered Counselling Psychologist in private practice exploring the joys and challenges of raising children with a significant age gap, how parents can meet very different developmental and emotional needs, avoid favouritism, manage sibling relatio…

Parenting and Parents: Why are Grade 1s failing ? (What should parents be aware of?)

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Alison Scott  the Executive Head of Bellavista School  unpacking why some Grade 1 learners  are struggling or failing, what could be contributing to it, and what can parents do to help their children get the support they need.    Thank you for listening to a 702 After…

Parenting and Parents: Unpacking the practical realities of navigating South Africa’s child maintenance system Part 2

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Lesley Blake the Founder of Blake Attorneys highlighting the importance of understanding maintenance as a child's right and a shared parental responsibility, encouraging  parents to seek formal maintenance orders, keep financial records, understand how contributions are…

Parenting and Parents: Unpacking the practical realities of navigating South Africa’s child maintenance system.  

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Lesley Blake the Founder of Blake Attorneys unpacking the practical realities of navigating South Africa’s child maintenance system, the impact that delayed or unpaid maintenance has on children and how the process can be made easier for parents to understand and engage…

Parenting and Parents: Platonic co-parenting (A new family structure or a legal minefield?)

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Shani van Niekerk the Head of Family Law at Adams & Adams unpacking how more people are exploring family structures that don't necessarily follow the traditional path of marriage, romantic partnership and then children. Platonic co-parenting involves two people choosing…

Parenting and Parents: Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) in Adults-could you be missing the signs?  (Growth Awareness Month )

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Kelly du Plessis  the  CEO of Rare Diseases South Africa and Sara Norcross the General Manager of Novo Nordisk South Africa about Growth Hormone Deficiency, or GHD,  which can affect adults too. And unlike in children, where delayed growth may be a more obvious sign, th…

Parenting and Parents: Is your child’s growth normal- Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) (Growth Awareness Month )

Relebogile Mabotja speaks to Kelly du Plessis  the CEO of Rare Diseases South Africa and Sara Norcross the General Manager of Novo Nordisk South Africa about marking Growth Awareness Month this September, looking at what GHD(Growth Hormone Deficiency ) actually is, who is at risk, what the warning …

Parenting and Parents: Parents that have been re-unified with their children after adoption or abandonment

Relebogile Mabotja is in conversation with Sue Krawitz, founder and director of Impilo, to explore what happens after the reunion, how parents and children navigate reconnecting, healing, rebuilding trust, and finding their new normal together. Broadcaster veteran Relebogile Mabotja brings a fresh…

Parenting and Parents: What students should consider before choosing a degree

Kgomotso Modise, standing in for Relebogile Mabotja, speaks to Carlyn Perils, a lecturer at The South African College of Applied Psychology, to explore what makes a qualification genuinely future-ready, from practical workplace experience and problem-solving to communication, adaptability, emotiona…