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Professor Steve Peters and Amanda Owen

Chris chats to psychiatrist Professor Steve Peters about controlling your inner chimp and Amanda Owen explains how free-range parenting works for her and her nine children.

Professor Steve Peters tells Chris about his new books; My Hidden Chimp and The Silent Guides, discussing how to control yours and your child's inner chimps. Amanda Owen tells Chris all about her hands-off free-range parenting method and how she looks after her nine children on their sheep farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Plus Chris encourages listeners to share their biggest secrets, Vassos speaks to cyclist Alex Dowsett about his new campaign to encourage children with hemophilia to take up sport and we Pause For Thought with Senior Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 27 Nov 2018 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    AKA... What A Life!

  • Take That

    Out Of Our Heads

    • Odyssey.
    • Polydor.

  • Queen

    Bohemian Rhapsody

    • Greatest Hits I II & III (The Platinum Collection).
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    The Life Of Riley

    • Sense - The Lightning Seeds.
    • Virgin.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Phil Collins

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Dolly Parton & Sia

    Here I Am

    • Dumplin' O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Dolly Records.

  • Westlife

    Flying Without Wings

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Wake Up Little Susie

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Rick Astley

    She Makes Me

    • Beautiful Life.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.

  • Niall Horan

    On The Loose

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.

  • Tom Odell

    Piano Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Monkees

    (Theme From) The Monkees

    • The Monkees - The Collection.
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • Ryan Paris

    Dolce Vita

    • The Holiday CD - Various Artists.
    • CBS.

  • Gwen Guthrie

    Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Bow Wow Wow

    Go Wild In The Country

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.

  • Muse

    Pressure

    • Simulation Theory.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Warren Zevon

    Werewolves Of London

    • Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Steely Dan

    Reelin' In The Years

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Cliff Richard

    Reborn

    • Rise Up.
    • Rhino.

  • The Housemartins

    Me And The Farmer

    • The People Who Grinned Themselves....
    • Go! Discs.

  • Girls Aloud

    Can't Speak French

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Harvey Belovski, rabbi at Golders Green United Synagogue:

Ìý

This time last week, I was at the Dead Sea with my son Shmuel Yosef, who’s 13.Ìý We floated in the salty water, kicked and splashed each other and he challenged me to a race, which to his annoyance, I won, probably because I’m much heavier than him.

Ìý

It was one day of a marvellous week away for just the two of us, something my wife or I have managed to do for each of our children around the time they arrive at Jewish adulthood, 12 for our daughters and 13 for our sons.Ìý Shmuel Yosef hit 13 about six months ago, but this was the first opportunity to get a week away with him since his birthday, given that he has to go to school and last week there was a late half-term break.

Ìý

Having now completed five of these trips, it would be hard to imagine a more worthwhile and developmental experience for a young adult, or, for that matter, me.Ìý The touring was wonderful, but the opportunity to spend extended quality time with just one child, showering him with love and attention and getting to know him properly, was incredible.Ìý I know that my older children remember details from those one-on-one trips years later.Ìý

Ìý

We live very busy lives and it’s hard to be present all the time.Ìý My wife is superb at juggling her many commitments while being miraculously and constantly available for the children.Ìý But I’m less good at it, and I expect that they notice.Ìý I believe children need time, not things.

Ìý

The former First Lady Barbara Bush died earlier this year.Ìý Child development was close to her heart and she founded a foundation for family literacy.Ìý She captured just what I’ve been feeling:

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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.

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The wise rabbis of old understood that spending time with children is what really matters.Ìý They said that an adult who invests time in enabling a child to become a functional, happy adult, should really be considered his or her parent.Ìý It’s an amazing feeling to have spent at least a week being just that – a parent.

Ìý

Broadcast

  • Tue 27 Nov 2018 06:30
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