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by Parents At Work
Parents at Work is a world leading provider of education and coaching services for workplaces, parents, carers and leaders. For over a decade, we have been providing expertise, advocacy and education programs to inform and empower parents, carers and their employers, to successfully balance the ongoing and interdependent demands of career, family and personal wellbeing.We're on a mission to improve the lives of parents and carers by creating family friendly workplaces.We collaborate with employers, policy makers and industry professionals to improve gender equality outcomes at work and at home by;- creating and delivering best practice gender balanced parental leave, return to work programs - supporting and advocating for working families- promoting family-friendly workplaces which support work-life balance and flexible working. We are a membership based organisation, together, working in partnership with progressive employers, we have provided over 100,000 families with ac
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Career v Family Life? Get set for a conflict-free year
How many people start the year wanting to leave their jobs because it doesn’t fit with their home life? Work-life balance is the term of the decade as employees grapple with the ever-increasing demands of work and home life. But as workplaces adapt to the call from career savvy professionals to…
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What is 'Keeping in Touch'?
Before commencing parental leave, it is important to discuss with your manager/supervisor and/or people representative the amount of communication you wish to receive whilst on leave. Keeping in touch with progress and changes in your department and in the company while you are on parental leave...
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What Do I Need to Know About Childcare Preparations?
It's never too early to start thinking about how you will manage your child care arrangements around work once you return from leave. Join Kiri Stejko and Lucy Dahill in this short audio which provides some top practical tips and key considerations to make the preparation easier.
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How Can I Prepare for Parental Leave at Home and at Work?
It's important to plan and prepare for a conversation with your manager about your impending leave; how your working arrangements may need to change in the future and how your work will be performed in your absence. Working together with your manager will ensure a more positive transition. Join...
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What Can I Expect to Feel at Work When Preparing for a Baby?
Keeping healthy and being safe at work is critical for expectant parents. This means you and your manager may need to consider what needs to change or be accommodated as a result of your pregnancy. Whilst many expectant parents can carry on and work in the same capacity as they did previously, it...
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How Do I Manage My Pregnancy at Work?
When you become pregnant, there are responsibilities and obligations both you and your employer must be aware of in order to manage your transition to and from parental leave. Join Emma Walsh, Kiri Stejko and Lucy Dahill in this short audio as they discuss some of the essential requirements you...
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What emotional adjustment is possible on my return to work?
Returning to work after a period of parental leave can be an emotional time for some parents as they worry how they will cope with this major life transition. In this recording, Kiri Stejko, CSO Parents At Work, shares her own experience returning to work after her second child, along with some...
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What is it like transitioning back to work?
The transition back to work after parental leave can be smooth if we take the time to focus on what it is we really want. As Parents At Work CEO Emma Walsh highlights in this short audio, the most important conversation you need to have is with yourself, considering questions like what would make...
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Exploring Flexible Work Options
Join Lucy Dahill as she explores what a flexible work arrangement could look like. Flexible work practices can vary for each individual depending upon the type of work, work pattern available to employees, and the effect flexibility has on the employer. A flexible work arrangement can be…
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Considering Flexibility
A flexible work approach focuses on outcome-driven performance as opposed to attendance-driven performance. It is about you having the opportunity to design and decide how your work will be done and how you will coordinate your schedule with your own needs, the needs of your team and of the wider...
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Getting a Good Night's Sleep
It is important to recognise the link between our day and night and to see that it is part of a ongoing cycle that will impacts on our wellbeing. With the understanding that our day impacts our night and our night, in turn, impacts our day, start by examining your own sleep and waking cycle. Is...
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Flexibility Options for Managers of Parental Leavers (for managers)
There are many ways in which to create flexibility in a role. The arrangement needs to meet both the needs of the employee and the employer. Join Parents At Work, CEO, Emma Walsh to find out more in this short three minute audio.
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Supporting the Return to Work from Parental Leave (for managers)
Join Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh, as she takes managers through what needs to be planned for before your employee returns to work. Becoming a parent is a life changing experience and many employees find that their life needs and career goals shift and change during this time. Planning and...
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Staying in Touch with Employees When On Parental Leave (for managers)
Join Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh, as she takes managers through the importance of staying in touch with your employee during parental leave to ensure a successful return to work. Employees receiving paid parental leave have the option to keep in touch with the workplace. The purpose of the...
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Team Considerations for Employees Taking Parental Leave (for managers)
There are many things for you to consider when you first hear an employee is expecting the arrival of a child. As a manager you need to balance delivery of expectations for the team as well as supporting your employee through significant change. This short audio from Parents At Work CEO, Emma...
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Supporting the Transition to Parental Leave (For managers)
There are many things for you to consider when you first hear an employee is expecting the arrival of a child into their family. As a manager, you need to support your employee’s health and wellbeing and you also need to balance this with the delivery expectations for the team. This short audio...
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8 Minute Meditation
Join complementary health and wellbeing practitioner, Katie Walls for a short 8 minute meditation to reconnect with yourself through the day. This meditation is for everyone and can be done anywhere, providing it is a supportive space to do so. Enjoy as you sink into a greater depth of stillness...
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5 Minute Meditation
Complementary Health and Wellbeing practitioner Katie Walls talks us through a short meditation that can be done anywhere, anytime. Anyone can do this mediation and it's a very simple way to help reduce the feeling of overwhelm and stress in your day.
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Negotiating Flexible Work Arrangements
In this short 3 minute audio, Lucy Dahill offers some useful tips for discussing flexible work arrangements with your manager and what to do if your flexible work requests are denied.
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Designing a Flexible Approach to Work
In this short 2 minute audio, Lucy Dahill takes us through how you can design a flexible approach to work when balancing work and family life.
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How do I balance work and family when I return to work?
Lucy Dahill talks to Founder of Parents At Work, Emma Walsh about the reality of being a working parent in today's world. Emma provides some great and useful tips on how to balance work and family when returning to work after parental leave. What rules and boundaries do you want to set to support...
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How do I best prepare my family for my return to work?
Lucy Dahill talks to executive career coach Kiri Stejko about how to best prepare your family for your return to work after parental leave. Kiri shares why it's important to do some planning before your return, what some of the challenges can be if you don't and some useful things to think…
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How long should I take off?
Lucy Dahill talks to Executive Career Coach Kiri Stejko and Founder of Parents At Work about what to consider when it comes to how long you take parental leave for. Kiri and Emma share the variations of how different people approach their parental leave differently and why that may be supportive...
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Importance of Self-Care in Parenting
It is vital to look after yourself if you want to be able to nurture your relationships, but what does that look like on a practical basis? How do you fit 'you' into an already busy day? In this episode, youth advocate, teen expert, and mother of three teenagers, Lucy Dahill, discusses the...
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Exam Perspectives: Helping Your Teen Deal with Stress
We build our teens up for 13 years to prepare for the HSC or their final exams and then cannot understand why we see such high rates of anxiety. How do we help our teens keep exams in perspective from the start? In this episode youth advocate, teen expert, and mother of three teenagers - Lucy...
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Stay At Home Dads: What’s the Reality? An Interview with Rory Brown
In the 1970 U.S. census, only 6 men in the whole of America identified as a stay-at-home dad, but by 2014 this number had risen to 2 million people. In this latest episode, The Father Hood team interview Rory Brown about his experience with being a stay-at-home dad in today's climate. They ask...
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Relationships: How to Adapt to Changing Relationships
Relationships between parents and teens change considerably in the teen years. The good news is, this is a positive - “it’s supposed to change”. So why does it not feel or sound so great at the time? What does a healthy relationship with your teens look like? Why is it important to support your...
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Family Time In The Early Years- What’s The Deal with Parental Leave?
In this episode of The Father Hood Podcast we're joined by Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work, to talk all things parental leave for fathers. What are you entitled to from the Government? What benefits can your employer offer you? We know that asking for paid parental leave at your workplace can…
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Dad, You’re Not A Man Island: Why Social Connection is so Important
In this episode of The Father Hood Podcast, the team interviews Tom Docking, the founder of Dads Group. They discuss the unexpected ways that being a new dad can affect you, especially your mental health, and how social connection is so important as a form of support for dads. Tom opens up about...
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The Magic of Getting Your Toddler to Co-operate
As working parents we are busier now more than ever. It’s no wonder the morning rush can be hard for you and especially your toddlers, even though you do the same thing every day there are times where your toddler does not want to co-operate. Join Karitane toddler expert Sharlene Vlahos as she...
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The Perils of Judgment and Blame – How to Let Go when You Feel Wronged
Most of us are honest enough to recognise when we are speaking or acting without love – for example when we get angry at the kids when they abandon their chores for the umpteenth time OR get frustrated at a colleague for doing a task without care OR release our tension on a telecom provider (most...
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Assertiveness - The Power of Bringing True Authority to Work and Parenting
Do you feel like you're hiding behind a submissive or aggressive personality – even if it’s ever so slightly? Is it possible to be honest and forthright without retracting or being overbearing. What’s the harm if we don’t and what comes to life when we do? True expression isn’t tarnished with...
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Tips to Help Carers Plan Ahead – with Danielle Robertson
In this podcast, Kiri Stejko from Parents At Work interviews Danielle Robertson from DR Care Solutions about her experience with carers and the importance of planning ahead for the future. With over 2.7 million family and friend carers in Australia it is highly likely that there are people in…
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Back to Work Baby - Catherine Brooks
Back to work baby – #guilt #excitement #overwhelm. How am I going to do this? The weeks and months have whizzed by in a blur and it’s time to go back to work – you’re likely feeling a wave of emotions; sleep deprived, still possibly breastfeeding or about to swap parental leave with your partner...
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Carer of Many: The inspiring story of one ‘burnt-out to thriving’ carer
Sharon Gavioli shares her story of how she turned her caring journey around from one that was draining her physically and mentally to one that is enriching and more productive than ever. Sharon is a mother of 7, is a registered nurse, adult educator, counsellor and manages a team of 17. She also...
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Working Parent Guilt – How to Stop It in Its Tracks
Feeling guilty - most of us would agree - is a useless and wasteful pastime. It doesn’t achieve anything other than making you (or another) feel pretty awful about yourself. Working parents particularly experience this in the childcare years when dropping them off to a childcare centre on their…
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Gaming: How to Support Your Teen with Safe Usage
Have we lost a generation to gaming? How is it changing the brain? How do I encourage my teen to be a discerning gamer? In this podcast youth advocate, teen expert, and mother of three Lucy Dahill explores the prevalence of gaming in the life of teenagers and how parents can support their teens…
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Tantrums- Scary for You and Your Toddler
Toddlers and tantrums seem to go hand in hand and it is part of their normal development, however this does not make it any easier to deal with, especially those shopping centre tantrums. Tantrums can be very scary for you and your toddler so during this podcast parenting educator from Karitane,...
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Breaking the glass ceiling for dads – An interview with Jon Tindale
Breaking the glass ceiling for dads – Jon Tindale’s Daddy Day Care experience on taking Extended Parental Leave What is it really like being a modern dad? Jon Tindale stayed at home with his newborn daughter and decided to write a book about it – Daddy Day Care – in the hope he could inspire…
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Sarah & Peter’s shared parental leave story – Part 3
In Part 3 of the Shared Care Special we hear from Peter and his experience with sharing the parental leave with his wife Sarah to care for their baby girl, Ruby Rose. The couple are continuing to progress through their alternating blocks of leave, with Peter about to start his second block of...
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Family Planning – What is Egg freezing? with Genea
What is egg freezing? (otherwise known as Fertility Preservation) Why do people decide to freeze eggs? What are the things to consider before embarking on this journey? What is medical egg freezing vs social egg freezing? Join Parents At Work Chief Services Officer Kiri Stejko, as she talks to Dr...
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Burnout, perfectionism and ‘doing too much’ – What’s the antidote?
“Perfectionism is simply when we are striving for the impossible – wanting our ‘doing’ to always be ‘perfect’. Seeking perfectionism through what we do is fuelled by seeking acceptance from self and others based on our actions (our doing).” Behavioural specialist, Tanya Curtis describes...
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Food as Medicine – what does your body actually need?
Food as medicine - what does your body actually need? There are many opinions about what constitutes a good diet. There are also new superfoods on the market just about every other week. This can be confusing (and expensive!) for the health conscious person who simply wants to feel healthy and...
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Little Toddler – Big Emotions! – Toddler Clinic Podcast Episode 2
There is no such thing as “good’ or “bad” emotion - it’s just an emotion. Toddlers are ruled by their emotions and as parents it’s easy for us to get swept up in their emotional world. During this podcast Sharlene discusses teaching your toddler about emotions and most importantly how to manage...
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New Dad Definitions – What’s Changing? Why is it Changing? – Father Hood Podcast Episode 4
In the latest The Father Hood Podcast we talk with Donte Palmer, who describes himself as a husband, a father of three boys, and dad advocate. Donte began the movement #squatforchange after he posted a photo showing the difficulty of changing his child without a changing station, a common thing…
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Supporting Your Child’s Transition To Care
This recording is an interview of a conversation between Emma Walsh CEO of Parents At Work and Sharlene Vhalos Education Director of Karitane. They discuss the important aspects of how to get your child ready for the transition into a new type of childcare arrangement. This can be a stressful and...
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Cyber Safety: Parenting in a Digital Age – with Yasmin London
Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness about online safety and encourages everyone to work “Together For a Better Internet”. In this Podcast we talk to Yasmin London, Executive Director of Australia’s leading cyber safety education organisation, ySafe Social Media & Cyber Safety Experts.…
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Boundaries for Teen Independence
They want to grow up, we want to keep them safe, how do we find a balance? In this Teen Clinic Podcast, youth advocate, teen expert and mother of three Lucy Dahill answers your questions about how to set fair, manageable boundaries. Lucy says as a parent, being “consistent, predictable and...
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Life as a Gay Dad: with Ashley Scott
"It takes a village to raise a family and if you don’t feel accepted by that village, it’s a lonely place" - Ashley Scott In this episode of The Father Hood podcast the team talks to Ashley Scott about his personal experience with being a gay dad and his interaction with other LGBTQI+ families...
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Teaching Your Teen Necessary Life Skills
Are there skills we could and should be sharing with our teens that would ensure they felt more equipped to deal with what was in front of them? In this episode youth advocate, teen expert and mother of three teenagers – Lucy Dahill – looks at some of the key skills to share with your teen in…
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Parents at Work is a world leading provider of education and coaching services for workplaces, parents, carers and leaders. For over a decade, we have been providing expertise, advocacy and education programs to inform and empower parents, carers and their employers, to successfully balance the ongoing and interdependent demands of career, family and personal wellbeing.We're on a mission to improve the lives of parents and carers by creating family friendly workplaces.We collaborate with employers, policy makers and industry professionals to improve gender equality outcomes at work and at home by;- creating and delivering best practice gender balanced parental leave, return to work programs - supporting and advocating for working families- promoting family-friendly workplaces which support work-life balance and flexible working. We are a membership based organisation, together, working in partnership with progressive employers, we have provided over 100,000 families with ac
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