234: Dr Angharad on helping your kids cope with anger, anxiety, and divorce

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our guest for this episode is the awesome Dr Angharad Rudkin, a child psychologist for over 20 years. She has lots of advice about helping kids with their emotions, and explains why we shouldn't feel guilty if we let parenting standards slip during the pandemic. Phew.

We talk about Anghard's brilliant new book, Split Survival Kit: 10 Steps for Coping With Your Parents' Separation. She co-wrote it with children's author Ruth Fitzgerald and it's out now.

Angharad answers lots of important questions like how honest you should be with your kids about the reasons behind your divorce, and how long you should wait to introduce them to a new partner. She shares a practical technique to help children cope with their anger, and Helen reveals her top tip for telling your kids about your separation. Spoiler: it involves Skittles.

Do follow Angharad on Instagram @dr_rudkin, and check out her other books, What's My Child Thinking?, What's My Teenager Thinking?, and Find Your Girl Squad.

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0:00.0	Hey Ellie, do you like money and women?
0:02.0	Hell yeah, I love money and women.
0:05.0	Me too, but what sucks is that in the UK there is a gender investment gap of 1.65 trillion pounds,
0:12.4	many women on average are poor of the men with less in their pensions, savings and investments.
0:18.4	That is crazy man, we all need to talk about this.
0:21.9	I know right, can you believe that on average women have less than half the levels of savings
0:26.6	and investments than men?
0:28.4	Outrageous, somebody needs to do something about this.
0:32.5	Well my friend, we are in luck because there is a fabulous podcast called Money Matters
0:37.4	by those brilliant people at AJ Bell.
0:40.1	It has all the news, information and inspiring interviews you need to take control of your
0:45.1	financial future.
0:47.0	Ah brilliant, thank you AJ Bell, finally somebody is doing something about this.
0:52.9	Too right, and they also offer a range of educational material including in-person events
0:58.4	articles and a fast-growing social presence.
1:01.4	Well this sounds awesome, where can people find them?
1:04.5	Well Ellie, just go to AJ Bell Money Matters.co.uk and listen to the AJ Bell Money Matters
1:11.3	podcast which is helping women to feel good investing.
1:14.8	I'm going right now, try to stop me, you can't, no go on, I've gone, I've left, I'm back, bye.
1:20.1	Hello scumbags, this is the Scummy Mummy's podcast with your hosts, Ellie Gibson and Helen
1:33.9	Thorne.
1:36.9	Hello and welcome to the Scummy Mummy's podcast, it's me Helen Thorne and it's me, and it is
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