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The Parent Hood
Half the time, being responsible for a young person can feel intuitive, but the rest is a mind field of worrying about their health and happiness. The Parent Hood, with Marina Fogle and Dr Chiara Hunt provides some simple answers to all those complex questions. Music: www.bensound.com Host...
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After a devastating diagnosis, Georgina Lucas and her husband made the agonizing decision to turn off their three week old son, Grey's, life support m...
The Secret Weapon for getting your baby sleeping through the night
Marina chats to paediatrician Dr Golly about how its actually Dads who are the most effective at settling babies and the benefits of this for all the...
Common childhood illnesses
We know children get sick but it seems a huge responsibility to know what it is and when you need more help. Marina talks to Dr Chiara Hunt about comm...
Supporting your shy child
Are shy children less fun, is being shy a bad thing? Author, mentor and shyness campaigner Nadia Finer thinks not, that rather, if navigated in the ri...
Postnatal Depletion
The miracle of conception and childbirth comes at a price - and it's the mother who pays this. It's a mistake to think of pregnancy as just three trim...
How long should I breastfeed for?
Is there a magic amount of time that will deliver the most benefit to your child? The simple answer is no, but the question centres around the actual...
Bedwetting
Crippled by the shame, children who wet the bed often miss out on social activities like sleepovers and school trips. But what can you do about it? Ma...
Parental Gender Disappointment
It's common to care what sex your baby is - it is after all the first thing people ask. But what if you're really desperate for one sex and you're get...
Keeping your child safe in summer
Summer means long holidays, lots of time spent outside, learning new skills and having adventures…but also it's a time when accidents go up. Marina ta...
Understanding our hormones
Ever baffled by your moods, or by the fact that some days the most simple of tasks are seemingly impossible? Amy Thomson, founder of the Moody App bel...
Optimising sleep: understanding the science of sleep for children and adults
The quest for sleep is something all parents obsess about - the combination of getting enough sleep themselves to encouraging their children to sleep....
Deciphering your teenager
We're told that our teenagers become difficult and selfish in order to break away from their parents. But is this actually the case? Marina talks to P...
Travel Tips
Holidays are the stuff of dreams…until children come along when they turn into the stuff of nightmares. But does travelling with children need to a ni...
How to support your child through exams
We want our children to do well in life and often this starts with doing well in exams. While it’s up to the teachers to make sure they know what they...
How to manage pain and needle fear in children
Even though we know it's for the best, taking our children to the doctor to have a needle stuck inside them as they (understandably) protest is agony...
Body image for boys as well as girls
Raising girls who are truly positive about their bodies regardless of their shape has long been recognised as a pillar of good modern parenting but of...
Bully proofing your children
We live in a world in which bullying exists, and as much as we'd like to, we can't protect our children from witnessing or being a part of this. But m...
The importance of Role Models in your child's life
Do you remember admiring someone as a child, looking up to them and being persuaded that you could be like that too? Having role models in our lives,...
Nailing Postnatal Recovery
We're all so focussed on having our babies, that we often fail to focus on the after, particularly the recovery of the mother. Marina talks to Lyndon...
Understanding Dyslexia
Is having dyslexia a bad thing? Campaigner and entrepreneur, Kate Griggs thinks not. In an age of computers and AI, Kate believes that the creativity...
The art of having difficult conversations with your children
In anxious times, we often feel like we don't want to burden our children with the bad news that frightens us. But not talking about difficult things...
How to be a Step Mum
"No-one dreams of being a step mum," says Katie Harrison, "but 2 million of us are." Frustrated by the lack of support, honesty and help when it came...
Menopause
We're often so consumed with general life in our 40's that we're not thinking about the next stage. Bizarrely, while we're prepared for puberty, we're...
Contraception
Parents often focus so much time on getting pregnant, that they forget to think about contraception after they've given birth. A topic shrouded in myt...
Early Pregnancy with Miss Emma Kirk
Early pregnancy can be a stressful and worrying time, especially when you're not ready to share the news. Marina talks to Obstetrician and Gynaecologi...
Is it terrible to swear in front of your children?
We swear we'll never do it, and then we do. But it is really a parenting fail? Marina speaks to scientist, author and swearing expert, Emma Byrne to f...
How sex changes for parents
Talking about sex is a conversation many find difficult, but it's even rarer once you become a parent. Marina talks to sex and intimacy coach Irene Fe...
Changing the narrative of divorce; from failure to change
Divorce is often referred to as the failure of a marriage, but have you failed if you get divorced? Samantha Woodham, divorce lawyer and founder of Th...
Flexible Working
They say everything changes when you become a parent, and one of those things is your relationship to work. Suddenly you cannot give your all to a car...
The Science of Learning
Edward Watson, retired Army Major and Bradley Busch, Psychologist, and authors of new book 'The Science of Learning: 77 Studies That Every Parent Need...
The Power of Questions with Molly Oldfield
QI Elf, mother of two, author and host of the podcast 'Everything Under The Sun' aimed at children to ask weird, wonderful and insightful questions, M...
The Things That Help With Grief
"The level of loss is the level of love" says Julia Samuel, Marina's guest on this episode, explaining how you cannot gauge how much grief a person wi...
What Science can teach us about our children
Science is helpful in discovering medicine, innovation and keeping us safe, but can it help us understand our children better? Scientist and mother Dr...
Birth Trauma
Giving birth is often magical, a moment you'll cherish for your whole life. But what about when it isn't magical, what about when you're worried about...
Twins
Finding our you're expecting not just one baby, but two can be daunting and the fear can often overpower the excitement. Author and twin-mum Alison Pe...
Consent
Following the launch of Everyone's Invited, a website that initiated stories of the shocking behaviour of sexual misconduct in schools and universitie...
Changing the narrative of motherhood
Have you ever felt guilty that you're not cherishing motherhood as much as you should? Journalist and author, Eliane Glaser believes that the false na...
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
We're often too embarrassed to talk about the state of our vaginas and put up with discomfort, incontinence and indignity because of stigma. Marina ta...
Encouraging our children to be brave in a post pandemic world
Living through a pandemic, losing freedoms and being locked inside has been difficult. For many children this time represents a lot of what they can r...
How encourage environmental awareness in our children
Many children are passionate about the need to look after our planet. But do their actions reflect this zeal or do they still never turn the lights of...