Welcome to This Glorious Mess Little Kids. A twice-weekly look at parenting as it really is - confusing, exhausting, inspiring, funny, and full of surprises. So many surprises!

How can we better raise our boys? How do we deal with their physical demands, their tantrums, their energy? 

In the first episode of our two-part special, we're investigating the gendered differences and similarities when it comes to raising our little ones. And for this first episode, we're focusing on our boys! 

We're unpacking our own subconscious bias when it comes to gender, nature vs nurture, how we can exercise sensitivity, why roughhousing might actually be helpful and how to tame the inevitable tantrum. 

Plus, we have a listener dilemma from a mum who's having trouble sleep settling her little one. 

LINKS

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CREDITS

Host: Leigh Campbell & Tegan Natoli

Guest: Alex Emms, Parenting Coach at Kids Flourish

Producers: Mikayla Floriano

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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.