Parenting: Philippa Perry
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The author and psychotherapist Philippa Perry talks to Jane about her latest publication ‘The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read’ and answers listeners' questions about how to parent well and give children a healthy start – while not being too hard on yourself.
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Our Parenting Podcast, this is the woman's our parenting podcast this week featuring the psychotherapist |
| 0:46.2 | and author Philippa Perry who's written a book called The Book You Wish Your Parents |
| 0:50.8 | Had Read. |
| 0:52.4 | We basically said to you, ask us anything or ask |
| 0:54.8 | Philipp or anything because you wouldn't want my parenting advice, trust me, and |
| 0:57.6 | Philippa will tell us exactly what she thinks you ought to do as a responsible decent and loving parent. |
| 1:05.3 | So here's our conversation and then we'll catch up with some of your thoughts at the end of it and |
| 1:08.6 | there'll be more from Philippa too. |
| 1:10.6 | Philippa has a daughter and I asked her how old she was? 26. Right okay so you know |
| 1:15.8 | everything everything it's all fine. I don't know everything as I found out when I |
| 1:20.5 | was babysitting this Sunday and... |
| 1:23.0 | What happened then? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, put it this... |
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