Why Do You Parent Like That?
Why Do You Parent Like That?
Podcast Description
Why Do You Parent Like That is a parenting podcast with one set of questions and one million ways to parent. Join host (and ya new bestie!) Abbey Harrison as she interviews a new parent each week and asks them the same five questions. The goal is to hear how wildly different answers to the same questions are depending on who is answering them. As a parent it's easy to feel like everyone is parenting the same way except for you, we're here to show you that that's not true! This pod is all about celebrating and learning from alllll kinds of parenting. We are stoked to have you here!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of varied parenting styles, personal experiences, and overcoming challenges. Episodes cover topics such as releasing expectations, trusting instincts in parenting, and navigating surprise pregnancies, with guests sharing their unique journeys and insights.

Oh, HEY! Welcome to the Dumb Smart Mums podcast. The podcast where your hosts, Abbey and Charlotte, take you through everything and anything on the minds of contemporary mothers today. Equal parts silly and dumb, smart and insightful, but always evidence-based, accessible, and FUN. Each fortnight we’ll don our respective social worker and academia caps, and cover different topics from momfluencers to feminist theory. We’ll take you along as we figure out the answers around why motherhood is both the greatest and (sometimes) the worst thing we have ever experienced.
Hej hej! Welcome back, honey bees! We talk for quite a bit about bts of social media at the beginning of this episode, so scrub through to around 20 minutes if you aren't interested.
Dr Kells Robertson puts on her Dr hat (it's a really silly one) to teach us about feminism and the main feminist theories that we need to know. She teaches us how feminism has been weaponised by women against each other and THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WANTS US TO DO!!!! Charlotte is a clever cookie, and Abbey is along for the ride.
Dr Peti Kenrick was the incredible lecturer who I took the Indigenous Research Methodologies paper with, and it is one of the best papers I have ever done in my life. If you ever get a chance to study under her, take the opportunity.
Drop us your favourite feminist theory in the comments 🤪🤪
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