Scotland & New Zealand: Elephants In The Room Podcast with Kate Deeming
Kate & Penny discuss the many concerning similarities between our countries, where ideology is replacing learning and the family is being undermined
Let Kids Be Kids Founder Penny Marie was invited onto The Pink Elephant Podcast with Kate Deeming. Kate, born in Philadelphia USA, now lives in Glasgow Scotland.
The Pink Elephant…
Is aptly named because we need to talk about the elephant in the room. Urgently. Kate brings together courageous conversations about our children, childhood, culture and healthy communities. She is a long-time advocate for our children and aims to make sense of the madness. And so, on finding Let Kids Be Kids, she saw that we had a lot in common.
Kate also works with the Scottish Union for Education (Substack, X, Facebook) which ‘aims to improve Scottish schools as places of learning rather than sites of activism’.
The podcast
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International conversations
There are no coincidences. We’re seeing a lockstep, a plan, in what’s happening in our kid’s lives… and how it’s being done, throughout many countries in the West. Total strangers from all corners are digging around to make sense of why radical ideologies that are now proven to be exacerbating the wellbeing of our children, are still being pushed in health, education, and media.
And all have similar stories. We’re all coming to similar conclusions. This is no accident.. it’s because we’re uncovering deep dark truths.
Then what?
It feels like it’s time to start seriously talking about solutions. Who gets invited to that table? People in positions of influence? People from the agencies that are causing this situation? People who are funding it, or gaining financially from the harm to our children? Media who refuse to tell the other side of the story? Parents? The people seeing the fallout of harm? Who?
At Let Kids Be Kids, we focus on informing and empowering parents
If you’re new to Let Kids Be Kids and want to know more about us, check out our first Substack, from Oct 2023. It includes the speech Penny gave at her children’s school board, it’s mentioned in this podcast.
We see that the more parents who realise what’s knocking at their door (if not already inside their homes) that is causing distress with our children, the more we can have the courageous conversations …And the more we see that there isn’t much at all that the state is directing or offering, that’s helping families protect their own children right now.
It seems that rather a lot is being done to undermine parent authority.
Kate and Penny chat about this at some length, including some stats in both countries on how many children are so at risk that ‘state intervention’ is the better option, and how this compares to the blanket actions placed upon entire student populations.
We chat about our recent nationwide Roadshow:
And Elisabeth Cave’s discoveries and explanations of the ‘identity pyramid’, adapted from Dr Steven Stosny’s work on Psychology Today.
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