audio | Sharon Witt is a Melbourne Author of Teenage self help books

  CHOOSING THE RIGHT SCHOOL: SHARON WITT   DJ1: Kids are alright with the child whisperer. SHARON WITT: Good morning guys. DJ2: Good morning child whisperer. SHARON WITT: How are you? Hello. We are talking this morning about where to for highschool. DJ2: Yes. But why? It’s only half way through the year. SHARON WITT: I know, I know. And it would seem like a very strange topic to talk about this morning. But most schools now are firming up their numbers for next year for highschool. So, you know, this is the time where we actually, you don’t need to make those choices were well and surely before now, but most schools are finalizing. You need to let, you know, give schools a term’s notice. So if your school that goes to year twelve you have to let them know by the end of this term. Whether, they are,…

CHEAP THRILLSHARON WITT: SHARON WITT   DJ1:  Yey, Sharon Witt good morning. SHARON WITT: Good morning you lovely people. Hey, how are you? DJ2:  Good. SHARON WITT: Hey, great topic today. DJ1:  Yes. SHARON WITT: I found this little article in the, in the paper on the weekend and it was basically saying that children enjoy the simple pleasures of going to the park or  building a cubby house just as much as they enjoy an expensive day out in an amusement parks. DJ2:  Interesting. SHARON WITT: According to a new survey, so this was in the UK about youngters between the age of 5 and 11 where asked to rank their favorite holiday activity according to how fun it was, how happy it made them and how memorable it was. Do you wanna know the top three? DJ1:  Yeah, yeah, yeah. SHARON WITT: Playing in the garden or park…

  SHARON WITT TALKS ABOUT ‘CRUSHES!’     DJ1: Sharon Witt’s here. Kids are always alright and the Kid whispering segment. Good morning Sharon. SHARON WITT: Good morning guys. Happy Monday. DJ1: Happy Monday. DJ2: Happy Monday. SHARON WITT: Kids are back at school, kids are alright. DJ2: Now, Sharon and I were talking on Facebook last night Ken about what we could talk about today. And, we decided it was just gonna be Keith Urban. SHARON WITT: We couldn’t think of anything else. DJ1: Keith Urban of The Voice. DJ2: We thought, let’s just talk about Keith and how lovely he is. But I think we’re probably not allowed to, so. DJ1: No. SHARON WITT: No, we can’t just talk about Keith and how wonderful and encouraging he is. DJ2: And how he’s baby to everybody. SHARON WITT: Yeah. But we can talk about crushes. We can talk about…

HOLIDAY FUN WITH SHARON WITT   DJ1: Sharon Witt, our Kid Whisperer in the studio. Yes, Sharon. SHARON WITT:  Good morning. Happy Christmas Eve everybody. DJ2: So exciting. SHARON WITT:  I love it. DJ1: ‘Tis the show before Christmas and all for the studio. SHARON WITT:  And, it’s only about 42 more sleeps ‘till the kids go back to school. DJ1: Wow. SHARON WITT:  It’s not that long. DJ2: Wow, you’ve started counting. SHARON WITT:  Yes. DJ1: Wow it is. Look, and like you say, it’s 42 more sleep. That’s a lot of fun to be head. SHARON WITT:  Well, that’s if they’ve got six weeks, some have got a little bit longer. But, yes, there’s lots to do and I think some parents are probably leading up to Christmas is quite busy but you know, probably after a few days, the next few days they’ll be like “now, what…

SHARON WITT – STUDY STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS   DJ1: Sharon Witt’s here with our parenting advice. She’s the kid whisperer. Sharon, good morning. SHARON WITT:  Good morning guys. How are we? DJ2: Okay. SHARON WITT:  We’re on a home stretch a few more weeks and school will be finish for the year. DJ1: I know. DJ2: Yes. DJ1: School will be out. SHARON WITT:  It will. But there was report in the news this morning that some kids are getting really stressed before Naplan testing which happens, you know, in grade three. Grade three, five, sevens and nines, but some children, I mean it happens during the year, it’s over now. But some kids were stressed, vomiting, even hiding at their tables. DJ2: No. SHARON WITT:  So, nice leading to, looking at exams, study tips, because many of our students are going to be. How do your twelve exams, their…

SHARON WITT: HOW TO JUGGLE   DJ1: Time for our kiddie whisperer Sharon Witt to join us. What I love Sharon SHARON WITT:  Yes. DJ1: Is you got on our Facebook page and went coming out our parenting expert Sharon Witt joins us and it was posted by you. SHARON WITT:  Oh no. DJ1: That’s it, Sharon Witt says I’m coming out next. SHARON WITT:  I know. DJ1: Love it. SHARON WITT:  I just wanted to get some parents’ ideas of what they thought about this topic. As parents, let me, I’m talking about moms in particular this morning, but dads you can still listen into, we’re not taking you out. As moms, we are chefs, cleaner, child care worker, fashion consultant, chauffer, problem solver, mediator, counselor, employee, teacher, first-aid officer and a mom. DJ2: And we have to go out and purchase all those hats and make them look…

SHARON WITT TALKS BULLYING DJ: I’m being joined by the lovely Sharon Witt, our very own child whisperer. You may know her from Ken and Lucy Show early in the morning, she joins them very frequently, and joining me now in the studio to talk about bullying. Thank you for coming in Sharon. SHARON WITT:  Thanks Jess, great to be here and such an important topic. DJ1: It is so important and it’s something that gets overruled really easy, but for those not quite sure, can you define bullying for us? SHARON WITT: Yeah absolutely. Look, bullying is, the important point to make here is that it is a repeated thing. So, if someone just said something nasty to someone, quite often in society we just wanna say “ah, that’s bullying”. But it is actually repeated abuse. It could be both verbal, physical and of course, non-verbal including text messages,…

SLEEPY, BOSSY KIDS DJ1: Sharon Witt in the studio. Good morning Sharon. SHARON WITT: Good morning. How are you guys? DJ1: Very well. DJ2: Very, very well. Hey, Sharon. SHARON WITT: Yes? DJ2: Often when we chat here, we have a lot of people SMS-ing in questions. We don’t know where to get to them. But I wanna be able to get to them today. So if you have a question for Sharon call light FM. Romy has already SMS because he heard us mention we’re gonna be chatting to you.  And so we thought why not just launch into this. I know you’re not prepared but I know you are such a professional. You’ll have the answers. DJ1: You’ll get there. DJ2: Romy in the SMS said can you ask Sharon how do you deal with a very well balanced six year-old that has suddenly become very bossy with…

  WHAT WILL I BE WHEN I GROW UP?   DJ1: Morning Sharon. SHARON WITT: Top of the morning to you. How are you guys? DJ2: The balance of the day to you. SHARON WITT: Thank you. DJ2: We love this. DJ1: This stuff feels weird to say, but any way, the balance of the day to you. SHARON WITT: Top of the morning to you. DJ2: Which one of you is my English accent? DJ1: You’ve got an interesting study that came out. SHARON WITT: I do. DJ1: Is it yesterday? SHARON WITT: It came out on Saturday actually. It’s from the UK and they surveyed over 11,000 seven year olds to find out what their top career aspirations. So, my question to you first is, what, do you remember when you were seven, seven or eight, what you wanted to do for a job, what you thought would…