The School Debate
Secret Mum Club with Sophiena
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Soph and Emma help a listener weigh up the pros and cons of sending their little one to a tiny rural school (with a class dog!) versus a bigger local school with more resources. Plus, colostrum collection tips and a touching letter that reminds them just how lucky we are to lead the lives we do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is The Secret Mum Club. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Safina and I'm Emma. |
| 0:07.4 | And welcome to your Thursday's episode. |
| 0:09.3 | Where we get to squeeze in all the extra bits and bobs from the week. |
| 0:12.0 | I love that you wink me before I even get there. |
| 0:14.7 | All your comments, thoughts, questions and fun stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Keep you going through the weekend. |
| 0:18.9 | Shall we jump on in? |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah. Fun stories. Keep you going through the weekend. Shall we jump on in? We need to announce something just really quickly before we get into our correspondence, Conner. |
| 0:31.3 | What is it? |
| 0:31.8 | It's officially your last day. |
| 0:33.1 | I know here. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm leaving. |
| 0:34.4 | Goodbye. |
| 0:34.6 | This is the official announcement. |
| 0:36.6 | This is a. |
| 0:37.2 | See ya. Just letting you all know, this will be my last show. No, it was I'm leaving. Goodbye. This is the official announcement. This is, see ya! |
| 1:12.4 | Just letting you all know, this will be my last show. Oh, I miss my last show on absolute today. Literally, I've come straight from there. We'd like to thank you for your service. Yeah. You've been fantastic. Chris will really miss you. Willie? Because I don't listen to you on the radio. Yeah, he does. It was really surprises me when my friends message me and they like reference something they've just heard on the radio and I go, oh, people are actually listening. Yeah. Chris messages me. Like today's been messaging me like, oh, well this morning before we listened in the car, he was like, oh, I wonder if Emma's commuting today. Wonder how she's going to get on. And I was like it's actually weird. Why are you asking me? I'm so invested. So invested in your life. And then he was like, no, she's on her last day today. Yeah. Yeah. So he gave me the lowdown. I'm not a radio gal. No, I know. I had to tell Stefan to listen because he wouldn't normally be listening. And I was like, you better, you better bloody get me on in the morning. I have a bloody lesson. On the school run, but the kids don't give it shit. |
| 1:30.1 | So they know that it me on in the morning. Can't a bloody listen? On the school run, but the kids don't give it. |
| 1:29.3 | Shit. |
| 1:30.1 | So they know that it's you in their car? |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah, but they're not like, oh my God, mommy's voices on the radio. They'll just be like, per Spideon. Like, they don't care. Nursery rhymes. They really don't care. |
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