Future Smart Parent
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Future Smart Parent podcast provides resources for parents and kids who want to be ready for all the ways in which the future is going to be different from today.We will explore this future together, bringing insights from top futurists, resources from smart people working on making our lives better, and most importantly, stories of parents who are parenting a little differently, yet very much intentionally, for a changing world. These stories, insights and resources are all there to provide you with the tools needed to parent in the 2020s, and beyond.
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Episodes
Raising Greatness: Nurturing Potential in Your Children
January 09, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this week’s episode, Jude chats with Buhle Dlamini, author of Unleashing Your Greatness. They chat about how to raise greatness and nurturing potential in our kids. Buhle Dlamini discusses his concept of unleashing your true potential, your greatness and specifically how this can impact our parenting. We all possess untapped potential, and this is your guide to help your kids harness their potential to the fullest. Buhle breaks down the process of unleashing your greatness into five ess...
Why Connection Matters So Much! With Mandy Herold
December 07, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBEpisode Summary: Mandy is passionate about supporting parents, teachers and schools on their journey to develop safe, connected and problem solving environments for children to thrive. Academics aren’t enough! We need to equip ourselves with tools to teach children missing skills through Social Emotional Learning. In this episode, Mandy and Jude discuss what social emotional learning actually means, and how we need to shift our mentality, as parents and teachers, to connection over corr...
Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens
October 25, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBEpisode Summary: In this episode, Jude talks with Naomi Holdt, author, mom and child psychologist, all about her new book Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens. This book is so important and we encourage you to read it - if nothing else it will remind you, as a parent, that you are not alone. Bounce will help you tackle this messy and beautiful journey of life and parenting in a very human way. Bounce: How to Raise Resilient Kids and Teens is an easy-to-read, effective guide that ...
Jobs of the Future: Prompt Engineers
August 30, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBThis week Jude chats with Graeme Codrington, global futurist and co-founder of the Future Smart Parent Club. Graeme specialises in the future of work and in this episode, we specifically talk about a job of the future. We discuss prompt engineering and how it might be a career path for our kids in the future. Prompt engineering does mean we should teach our kids how to use AI, how to think differently about technology and give them the opportunities to play with this technology themselves. ...
Unleashing EdTech: Transforming STEAM Education with Cheryl Williams
August 08, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBToday, I’m thrilled to talk with Cheryl Williams, an exceptional STEAM Based Learning Educator. With a teaching journey that began in 2000, Cheryl has gained invaluable experiences in various grades and leadership roles - however, her true passion lies in the Edtech world, where she has been wholeheartedly dedicated for the past decade. Cheryl's days are immersed in the world of technology, exploring innovative approaches like the Internet of Things, Computers, iPads, Robots, and Coding t...
EFT Tapping for Kids and Parents
June 21, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBToday I got to speak with Rebekah Clark from Happy Marlo. Happy Marlo is an organization dedicated to helping children build skills for dealing with their emotions and being empowered to find their calm space. While these tools and resources are designed specifically for 3 to 11 year olds, the holistic approaches to emotional well-being can, and should, also apply to the parents, guardians and carers of these children. Some of us parents also need to learn some emotional regulation skills ...
3 Tech Habits for Families to develop to keep everyone safer and saner online
April 19, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBToday we’re talking about tech habits - specifically tech habits for families because I don’t know about you, but I find it incredibly difficult to break some of my own bad tech habits. Yes, I'm also acutely aware of the saying that goes 'More is caught than taught' and so I'm acutely aware that I need to try a little harder! For example, I know I sleep so much better when I read a physical book before going to bed, but too many nights I’m on my phone right before bed. Even as parents ...
Helping Our Kids Through Transitions
March 29, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBZanele has built her profile as one of Africa’s brightest organisational change & learning influencers. She’s known to her clients as 'The UnLearning Lady', and is a global leading voice on using key unlearning principles to help companies build cultures that support change & transformation. She’s worked with companies such as Visa, Coca-Cola, The South African Reserve Bank, Deloitte & Discovery. In this episode, Jude and Zanele talk about how to help our kids manage transitions. Dealing wi...
Sextortion and how to protect our kids online
March 16, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSextortion might sound like the name of a really bad movie, but in fact it’s a lot more serious than that and it’s affecting all of our kids online. Essentially “sextortion” is a crime, classified as cyber extortion under the South African cyber laws, and occurs when predators blackmail our children into sending them sexual or nude pictures and videos. This is obviously child pornography, which is a criminal offence, and these predators need to be caught. This might be scary, but as paren...
The Good Gap Year Guide with Melanie Williams
February 24, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBToday I spoke with Melanie Williams, who is a psychometrist and careers expert. She used to teach high school English and Life Orientation and now works with high school students on looking beyond high school and preparing for life in the real world. In this episode, we discuss: The benefits of school leavers taking a gap year Is a gap year for everyone? Who should take a gap year? Melanie is the author of The Good Gap Year Guide and she breaks down what makes a successful gap year, a...
The Changing Gender Landscape
November 15, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this episode, I chatted with Christy Herselman from The Chat. We spoke about the changing gender landscape, and what this means for both our children, and for us parents as we all try to navigate and understand this phenomenon that's unfolding so quickly. We spoke about the massive rise in transgender and nonbinary teens, and touched on how the world got here. I think what I loved the most from this conversation is the way Christy helps us parents think about this topic. She doesn’t ...
The Changing Gender Landscape
November 15, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this episode, I chatted with Christy Herselman from The Chat. We spoke about the changing gender landscape, and what this means for both our children, and for us parents as we all try to navigate and understand this phenomenon that's unfolding so quickly. We spoke about the massive rise in transgender and nonbinary teens, and touched on how the world got here. I think what I loved the most from this conversation is the way Christy helps us parents think about this topic. She doesn’t ...
Understanding neuro-development and the 21st century child
July 22, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBEpisode Summary: Today I spoke with Dr Beulah van der Westhuizen, who is a specialist in neuro-development, education and the founder of EduExcellence. In this episode, we discussed the education system, and where traditional schooling stems from and how it functions. The institutionalisation of schooling first appeared during the Industrial Revolution, when children needed to be somewhere while their parents were working in factories. School became a place to train children for their fut...
Emotion Ocean - Whats the big deal about EQ?
May 02, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn today’s episode I spoke with Naomi Holdt, who is an educational psychologist, speaker, author and a mom. We spoke about many different things regarding EQ, including what it really means to develop emotional intelligence in our kids, the importance of EQ over IQ and how to truly value our children’s emotions. Emotions are so important in our lives! They inform so much about who we are and how we interact with others. And so it’s vitally important that we, as parents, are actively engagin...
Diversity in Schools - a conversation for white parents
April 08, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBIn today’s episode, I talked with my colleagues, and fathers themselves, Buhle Dlamini, global speaker and expert on why Diversity and Inclusion are essential in business, and Graeme Codrington, an expert on the Future of Work and author of the book “Future Proof Your Child” For this episode, we turned the focus away from business and onto our children. We discussed the importance of diversity and inclusion in schools and our education system. Learning about diversity, and having it visib...
MoneyWise Kids with Donna McCallum
March 10, 2022 19:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn this episode, I speak with Donna McCallum, aka the Fairy Godmother, who teaches us about money and magic, and how as parents, perhaps we have some mindsets to shift that we haven't realised yet! Donna is running a workshop on March 17th with Meike Lovemore, called MoneyWise Kids, which will walk parents through good money habits that they can teach their children, including practical tools to implement immediately so that your kids are delighted to learn about money. We also spoke abou...
How to raise entrepreneurial kids and why it's important for them
February 27, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBEpisode Summary: We talk about reframing entrepreneurship and the skills that are most valuable to instill in our children. Some of these skills include self-awareness, confidence, resilience, learning that it’s okay to fail (something some parents could also learn!) as well as, innovation, independence, and critical problem-solving! Without these ‘soft’ skills it becomes almost impossible for us to empower our children to become successful entrepreneurs. We need to break away from the c...
Innovation and Adventure in Learning - join the learning revolution with LearnLife
January 06, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBDiscover a way of learning, backed by science and research, that is learner-centred and focuses on self-determined, purpose-inspired and personal learning. In this episode I speak with Bryan Gibson, who is the Research and Design Lead for the learning innovation elements at Learnlife. Learnlife is leading the education revolution aiming to empower learners, educators, and governments worldwide to take on a fresh approach to learning. Today we chatted about what learning can look like in t...
Raising Mindful Kids - with Paul Bushell
December 13, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode I spoke with Paul Bushell, who is a psychologist, author and regular commentator on meaningful living, as well as parenting and career development in a constantly changing world. He has written a book called Raising Kids which was brilliant! And his new book Raising Mindful Kids focuses on mindfulness practices that you can bring into your family’s connection time. We also speak about how it’s important to be patient and non-judgemental in your mindfulness practice. Mindful...
Keeping families safe and sane online
November 30, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBJude Foulston is joined by Josh Ramsay from Be in Touch - a digital wellness consultancy and they discuss how families, parents, teachers, and schools can improve their digital interaction and capitalize on the limitless potential of the online world in a safe and productive manner using principles and tools to improve our digital life together. Josh highlights some common and obvious problems where parents hand over devices without limit causing detrimental long-term harm to our kids eve...
Skills for the Future of Work
November 15, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB“But more than half of all the people I know in their 30’s, their 40’s, their 50’s, half of all the parents are not doing what they formally studied to do.” This week Jude Foulston and Graeme Codrington discuss the future of skills at work. Challenging parents and teachers to a paradigm shift in their young learner’s educational journey apart from the traditional, narrow path to a university academic career and toward practical, usable and a range of skills relevant to every organization f...
Innovating traditional education systems in South Africa
August 07, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBWelcome to episode 8 where I chat with Kim Day about the work that the school she teachers at is doing, and has been doing for decades, to provide a child-centered holistic system of education - and why adapting our current educational system is so critical, as well as totally doable, for the 21st Century. We chat about how we can make education relevant for the 21st century, about how we let children craft their own learning pathway, and no, we're not talking about homeschooling here, we'r...
Helping our kids, and ourselves, to recover from trauma with Naomi Holdt
July 21, 2021 21:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBIn this episode we chat with educational psychologist, speaker and author Naomi Holdt about how we can help our children, and ourselves, to recover from trauma. This episode is especially relevant for families who have experienced trauma in KZN this month and who are struggling to settle back into life after the unrest we experienced throughout the province. Full show notes over at www.futuresmartparent.com Graeme is a Dad to 3 daughters, co-author of Future Proof your Child for the 202...
How schools can best prepare learners for their journey after school - with Graeme Codrington
July 07, 2021 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode, I ask Graeme Codrington what he thinks schools should be doing to best prepare learners for their journey after school. What I love about my conversations with Graeme is how he helps us reframe the way we think about things... helping us see things from different perspectives, and more often than not, a new way of thinking that pushes our boundaries, enabling us to think bigger... Full show notes over at www.futuresmartparent.com Graeme is a Dad to 3 daughters, co-auth...
Talking about unschooling and self directed learning - with Tamryn Sherriffs
June 23, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, I talk with unschooling Mom, Tamryn Sherriffs about what unschooling and self-directed learning is, and why (and how) we've both decided to take this approach for educating our kids. Tamryn is the creator of the ‘differently community, podcast and school’ teaching people around the world to live on their own terms using outsourcing, automation, and passive income. Resources mentioned: Scream free parenting book Free gift for Future Smart Parent listeners: The 8-step con...
Talking about unschooling and self directed learning - with Tamryn Sherriffs
June 23, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, I talk with unschooling Mom, Tamryn Sherriffs about what unschooling and self-directed learning is, and why (and how) we've both decided to take this approach for educating our kids. Tamryn is the creator of the ‘differently community, podcast and school’ teaching people around the world to live on their own terms using outsourcing, automation, and passive income. Resources mentioned: Scream free parenting book Free gift for Future Smart Parent listeners: The 8-step con...
Helping your kids embrace change - with Keith Coats
June 09, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBDo you ever think about the number of transitions we go through in a lifetime, and how learning how to be more comfortable with change is actually a skill that can be developed and learnt as we keep adapting in these disruptive times. And then if you think we, as parents, need to be comfortable with change, consider your kids and of the exponential amount of change that they will go through, in comparison to our own lives. In this episode we speak with Keith Coats on why he believes bec...
How to open doors for your kids to help them succeed in the future - with Graeme Codrington
June 01, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBI invited Graeme Codrington back today as there were some questions I wanted to ask him last week that we just didn’t get to. So in today’s episode, we chat about how Graeme thinks parenting is different now as we prepare our kids for the future and how this shows up in his life as he parents his 3 daughters. As Graeme says during the interview - we are the first generation of parents who know for sure that we don’t know what the future will be like for our kids and that means we have to app...
An introduction to Future Proofing your kids with Graeme Codrington
May 25, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this first full episode, we chat with futurist, author, and expert in the future of work Graeme Codrington. We chat about what we hope this podcast will do for parents, we start to chat about what future-proofing our kids looks like, without overwhelming us as parents and Graeme gives us some practical ideas on how we can approach parenting as Future Smart Parents. FUTURE SMART PARENT FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresmartparent FUTURE SMART PARENT INSTAGRAM: https:...
Welcome to the Future Smart Parent Podcast
May 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 minute - 923 KBI’m Jude Foulston, an introverted mom trying my best to raise kids who are happy & confident, kids who embrace all that makes them unique, while preparing them for an exciting future that looks really, nothing like the world we grew up in. I believe there’s a whole set of skills that our kids aren’t being taught which will be critical for them to develop in order to thrive in the future and I believe it’s up to us, as parents, to help them develop these skills. The Future Smart Parent p...
1. Introducing the host behind Future Smart Parent
May 19, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.66 MBThe Future Smart Parent podcast explores stories of parents who are parenting a little differently, yet intentionally, for a changing world. This first episode shares some of our plans and goals for the Future Smart Parent podcast and introduces you to your host, Jude Foulston - an introverted mom trying her best to raise kids who are happy & confident, kids who embrace all that makes them unique, while preparing them for an exciting future that looks really, nothing like the world we grew...