Did you hear the one about the kids who were allowed to write on the toilet wall? And no, we don’t mean toddler scribbles! 

In our Season 1 finale episode, Jenny and Dayna unpack the stand-out stories, curly questions and honest reflections from our nine guest episodes to bring you a snackable selection of parenting ideas, expert advice and inspiration. 

A huge thank you for tuning into the first season of Parents We’ve Met. We’ve loved receiving your feedback, reviews and ratings and look forward to bringing you more chats, laughs and special guests in 2024. 

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

The final guest for Season 1 is one of our very own: the much-loved media personality, Parenting Place pou tangata and father-to-three Pio Terei.

Pull out the tissues as this kōrero is full of tears – the happy ones and the sad ones! Pio shares openly about his journey with grief after the loss of his youngest son Teina and offers some self-care advice for others living with grief.

He also chats with Jenny and Dayna about his simple but beautiful upbringing, his love of creating connections through kai (food) and kōrero (conversation), and the importance of instilling in our kids’ a deep sense of belonging and unconditional love.

Buckle up for a chat peppered with parenting tips and wisdom, and of course, Pio’s signature wit.

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Now if you wear clothes this episode is totally for you! This week, Jenny and Dayna are joined by the wonderful personal stylist, image consultant and mum-to-two, Heather Hale. 

Heather shares honestly about the magic of being a mum, but also the unexpected hard stuff she’s navigated including post-natal depression, letting go of ideals and grieving expectations. 

If you think your parenting wardrobe could do with a refresh, Heather also shares some great, practical styling advice for mums and dads, including tips on what we should be retiring from our wardrobes in order to feel like our best, parental selves. 

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

This week, Jenny and Dayna are hanging out with a top bloke and legend of a dad, Sean Brown. Sean’s the chippie that has put Dayna’s home back together after various floods and burst pipes, but you may also recognize him as the fix-it, make-it-better builder extraordinaire from the TV show, Sort Your Life Out NZ. 

Sean inspires Dayna and Jenny with the sense of fun and playfulness he brings to his dadding role, and in this gorgeous episode, we hear more about how he strives to be a ‘present’ dad and create a fun homelife for his girls – while also acknowledging that he won’t get this parenting gig right all the time. 

Jenny and Dayna take the opportunity to pick the brain of someone who, through his TV role, has witnessed households drowning in clutter and ‘stuff’ – and has come to the rescue with a bunch of great hacks for home storage and harmonious family spaces. 

We also chat about the beauty of simple parenting and the power that Sean has found in sharing the journey of dadding with other blokes like himself.  

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

Co-star of the popular reality TV show, The Casketeers and māmā to SIX, Kaiora Tipene joins Jenny and Dayna for a beautiful kōrero on motherhood, whānau and a topic that’s a little bit taboo in some families: death. 

Through her humble stories and reflections, Kaiora shares about her own upbringing, how she honours her Māori heritage in her work and whānau, and the value she places on ‘I love yous’ and a fearless expression of feelings. 

Jenny and Dayna take the opportunity to seek Kaiora’s advice on grieving well, supporting our kids when facing the death of someone they love, and giving ourselves the grace to ‘re-do’ the moments of parenting that we might not get right the first time around. 

Thanks Kaiora for bringing your gorgeous, gentle self (and your youngest pēpē) to this kōrero! 

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

Jenny and Dayna are joined by another awesome dad guest this week! Some of you might remember Ido Drent as Daniel Potts from New Zealand's favourite soap opera, Shortland Street, or more recently from his roles on The Gulf and Offspring. In recent years, Ido has shelved his acting work to spend more time focusing on the tough but wonderful job of parenting alongside his wife Mandy – the chief memory maker of the family. 

As you'll hear in this episode, Ido approaches the season that his young family is in right now with a lot of emotional intelligence and some great frameworks, and Jenny and Dayna love delving into that more with him.  

Ido chats about setting family values, creating super cool childhood memories for his kids – and the paradigm shifts that parenting has brought to his life. He also talks sleepless nights, picky eating, letting go of ideals and stepping whole-heartedly into this magical but endlessly messy parenting gig!  

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

Jenny and Dayna sit down with sex and relationship therapist, Jo Robertson, for a glorious chat on all things ‘motherhood’, including surviving deep-sea sailing adventures and navigating the sexual culture and pornography landscape that our kids are growing up in. 

We learn about who Jo is as a mum of three boys, how she encourages curiosity and risk-taking in her household, and how growing up in a home where no topics were off the table has helped to shape the woman she is today. 

Jenny and Dayna also take the opportunity to grab some tips from a ‘sex-pert’ on how to approach the birds and the bees talk with our kids, and how to ensure that what our tamariki are encountering online is suitable for their age and maturity. 

On a mum level, we also take some inspiration from Jo on how to keep a hand in things that bring us joy! 

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE. 

Award-winning radio host and super proud dad Ben Boyce sits down with Jenny and Dayna to share some glorious tales from his parenting journey.  

Ben’s been making people laugh for years; he's one of the creative forces behind the hit comedy series, Jono and Ben, and he's the co-host on The Hits Breakfast show. We reckon he might have been the King of Dad jokes and pranks before he became a dad himself! 

In this episode, we hear what it’s like for Ben raising daughters in today’s landscape, the challenge of distractions when you’re a busy parent, and how he deals with seeing his girls navigate disappointments of their own. 

Jenny also shares some useful tips on how to communicate where we’re at with our kids, how to say sorry well when we stuff up, and why often it’s the simple moments of connection we have with our kids that trump everything else. 

Parents We’ve Met is brought to you by Parenting Place – a charity with a heart for New Zealand families. You can find more free parenting advice and articles HERE.