Sep 15, 2026 · 41 min · 14 segments
**Some conversations with our kids are easy. And then there are the ones we desperately want to get right… but aren't always quite sure how to start.** This week on Dr Julie's Coffee Chats, my friend…
Today we are going to be talking about the importance of having a safe person for your kids, and I cannot take credit for this because this has come from Anna.
[laughs]
And it has made a huge difference, uh, to me, and particularly as I now have a near-14-year-old, which is absolutely still terrifying to me.
Oh.
Explain, and where did this come from, and...
So hilariously, I had this entire intro planned in my head, like yesterday, and now it's gone.
[laughs]
'Cause that's what happens in my brain.
But, so this had kind of thought, come actually from as a child, like I, I'm one of four.
I, I was the, the good kid.
I wasn't the one that needed a lot of watching.
However, um, my younger sister did need a wee bit more.
But actually what really struck me that my parents did is that it was always, it was always a safe place.
So like even when my sister had boyfriends quite young or wanted to be doing things, it was always a, "You can always come to us." P- uh, my parents are a doctor and a nurse.
There were always condoms available and things like that.
Yeah.
It was always made a, "It's okay.
We don't want you to do things unsafe, but if you're going to, this is the stuff."
Here.
Yeah.
And then, so I also work in, I do woman's health, but I work in abortion care and sexual health as well.
And so [laughs] I've worked all over the country.
There's pretty much no situation that I haven't seen now.
And there's a lot of young people that it really strikes me they just...
Today we are going to be talking about the importance of having a safe person for your kids, and I cannot take credit for this because this has come from Anna.
[laughs]
And it has made a huge difference, uh, to me, and particularly as I now have a near-14-year-old, which is absolutely still terrifying to me.
Oh.
Explain, and where did this come from, and...
So hilariously, I had this entire intro planned in my head, like yesterday, and now it's gone.
[laughs]
'Cause that's what happens in my brain.
But, so this had kind of thought, come actually from as a child, like I, I'm one of four.
I, I was the, the good kid.
I wasn't the one that needed a lot of watching.
However, um, my younger sister did need a wee bit more.
But actually what really struck me that my parents did is that it was always, it was always a safe place.
So like even when my sister had boyfriends quite young or wanted to be doing things, it was always a, "You can always come to us." P- uh, my parents are a doctor and a nurse.
There were always condoms available and things like that.
Yeah.
It was always made a, "It's okay.
We don't want you to do things unsafe, but if you're going to, this is the stuff."
Here.
Yeah.
And then, so I also work in, I do woman's health, but I work in abortion care and sexual health as well.
And so [laughs] I've worked all over the country.
There's pretty much no situation that I haven't seen now.
And there's a lot of young people that it really strikes me they just...
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