Buckle in, cos this is a goodie! Sophie Moskowitz joins Abbey for a brilliant conversation about her parenting journey and the isolation of parenting during COVID being the experience that sparked the idea of her business Imperfect Parents NZ.

Sophie has been a nanny, an ECE teacher, a parent, and is now an antenatal facilitator and parenting group facilitator, so parenting is her thing. Her wealth of knowledge and wisdom will leave you yelling "YES, AMEN" (like Abbey does a few times throughout the pod).

I could talk with Sophie for hours, and have plans to get her back on the pod to answer some listener questions, but, for now, enjoy this episode!

If you're interested to find out more about Sophie and Imperfect Parents NZ, follow @imperfectparents.nz on social media or check out their website https://www.imperfectparents.co.nz/

The biggest thank you to Bear & Moo for sponsoring this episode! They're having a monster moving sale right now, so if you are needing to grab some baby/kid essentials, now is the time to get some massive savings! Use WDYPLT10 at checkout for a 10% discount on non-sale items.

Resources mentioned in this podcast are:

- The Good Sex Podcast

- The Upbringing Podcast

- Cassidy Skelton's TikTok video about baby sleep

- Emily Writes (@emilywritesnz)

- Brene Brown's book The Gift of Imperfection

If you have a story that you think would be awesome to share on this pod, flick me an email at whydoyouparentlikethatpodcast@gmail.com with an overview of your parenting journey.

LOVE YOU! (say it back)

This week the Aotearoa baby naming queen taking TikTok by storm Sonya Prior (@thebbnamer) is here! I forced Sonya to be my friend after finding her content because I knew we were birds of a feather, and I was totally right.

Sonya generously shared so much of her parenting story with me this week, including surprise pregnancies, her non-perfect births, not letting your childhood affect the childhood you create for your kids, finding the fun in everything, and how to not panic about the world maybe being on fire?

I understand why she is the darling of the baby naming world because she is someone I could talk to for hours and not get bored.

Please go and send her some love for her vulnerability, honesty, generosity, and crack up-ness in this episode. You'll find her @thebbnamer across socials.

A huge thank you to Bear and Moo for sponsoring this episode! I'd be totally lost without you guys. Use code WDYPLT10 at checkout for a 10% discount code.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Brene Brown's Family Gap Plan

PhD Mama NZ (@phdmamanz) Charlotte Bruce Kells' instagram post about Chappell Roan

Testing, testing.. is this thing on...?!

Wow, here we are! A brand new parenting pod! A huge thank you to my gal pal Jessie Peters for bringing her insight and experience to the inaugural episode of WDYPLT. We got to chat about so many different aspects of parenting, including myth busting a bunch of lies we get told as new parents!

Resources mentioned in this pod:

- Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy

- The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

Thank you to our episode sponsor Bennie & the Jets! Use code WDYPLT10 at checkout to get a 10% discount on any non-sale items. https://www.bennieandthejets.co.nz/

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If you have a story you'd like to share on the pod, flick me an email with an overview of your journey to:

whydoyouparentlikethatpodcast@gmail.com