STAY AT HOME PARENT: An honest conversation with Ben Telford

Honestly Podcast with Clemmie Telford

Clemmie Telford + Mags Creative

Death, Parenting, Cancer, Gender, Relationships, Faith, Honest, Prison, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Race, Sobriety, Marriage, Honesty, Body Image, Honestly, Money, Society & Culture

4.7 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Honestly we're joined by none other than Ben Telford, the wonderful husband to Clemmie, and father of their 3 children. Clemmie and Ben talk about the reasons for Ben becoming the stay at home parent, what the process was like, and how the family has benefitted from this difficult decision. Ben shares some home truths about being a stay at home father, the wider perceptions of this, and why it works for their family. For the full transcription of the episode please follow honestlypodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Smarty Mobile. Please visit www.smarty.co.uk/honestly for more details. To vote for Honestly to win the Listener’s Choice Awards, please visit: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.
0:09.0	Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.
0:14.8	From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table. Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of Honestly, I'm joined by none other than my husband, Ben Telford.
0:36.1	Turns out locking yourself in a room for an hour with no
0:39.1	distractions to talk about how you parent your children and structure your work life set up
0:44.0	is quite an intense experience. During the episode, we chat about him being a stay-at-home parent,
0:50.4	why it's both the best decision for us, but also the reality of the relentless slog that is being a primary childcare provider.
0:57.2	So let's get stuck in.
0:59.1	The name of the game with this podcast is honesty.
1:02.9	And I like to start with a quick file around. Are you ready?
1:06.1	I am.
1:07.4	Ben is here slightly under duress.
1:09.6	He doesn't really want to be doing this, do you?
1:12.2	Not really, and I'm actually quite nervous about this.
1:15.3	Which is quite funny.
1:16.3	Yeah.
1:16.8	Shall we crack on?
1:18.0	Okay.
1:18.9	On a scale of 1 to 10, how fun are you?
1:22.3	An 8?
1:23.8	I think that you want to say higher than that.
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