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EPISODE · Feb 14, 2026 · 36 MIN

John Cowan: Stress is making you a bad parent

from The Weekend Collective · host Newstalk ZB

Many parents will be starting to feel the exhaustion from getting back into school and extracurriculars.  We often go into the new year with high expectations of ourselves - like completely homemade school lunches, no takeout, keeping on top of house work - but quickly realise there was a reason we weren't accomplishing all that last year.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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