Emma Gannon
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s something a little bit different on this week’s show. Giovanna’s guest is the bestselling author Emma Gannon, who is child-free by choice.
Emma opens up to Gi about her personal decision not to have children and the importance of finding supportive child-free friendships. They also talk about how choosing not to have kids doesn’t mean having to grow apart from your friends who do, plus the societal pressure put on women to experience motherhood.
You can read more from Emma over on The Hyphen
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Kumon, the UK and Ireland's largest supplementary education provider. |
| 0:07.0 | Kumman are offering free registration between the 1st of May to the 30th of June, 2024, where families new to Kumon can register for free on |
| 0:15.8 | the Kumon Maths and English study programs. |
| 0:18.7 | If you're a long time listener, you will know that I love Kumon. |
| 0:21.7 | The Kumon study programs are for children of all ages and abilities, |
| 0:26.0 | with Kumon instructors that instruct guide and support children to learn for themselves. |
| 0:30.6 | Each child will complete an assessment with the instructor that allows them to carefully understand each child's current ability and they'll set some personalised daily study individually tailored to that child. |
| 0:41.0 | So whether your little one would benefit from being more challenged than the school |
| 0:44.0 | curriculum allows or if they need to build up the foundations necessary to improve their confidence |
| 0:48.3 | and ability in English and maths. Kumon is a fantastic choice to help them build the self-confidence and mindset they need to thrive at school. |
| 0:56.0 | And now with Kumon Connect, your children can study and complete worksheets digitally on their tablet. |
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| 1:09.0 | To register for free, text Kumon to 6077 for the UK or 51777 for Ireland and book your free assessment today. |
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