February 17, 2025 • 6 mins
The fantastic Maggie Dent joins Jonesy & Amanda to talk about her new show (with our very own Amanda Keller), The Role Of A Lifetime.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jamny.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, I'm thrilled to be host of a new show
on the ABC. It starts to night at eight thirty.
It's called the Role of a Lifetime and it looks
at parenting in a world that has changed so much.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It throws up so many issues that our parents would
never have had to deal with.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We look at online gambling, a body image for boys
and for girls.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well there's Jim Jacked.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Young boys that feel they need to have this new
vision of masculinity.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We look at bullying.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
All of this gets covered under the guidance of author
and parenting guru Maggie Dent, who joins us now, Maggie, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey, Amanda go you Oh you've just cut out, don't
you reckon? We're like bookends.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tell me what you mean by us being bookends, Well, we.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Just s these lovely, wise, funny women that make everyone
realize that no one's nailing this journey. Adolescence has always
been difficult, but that we really can see it through
a lens of compassion and maybe a bit more lightness
and then get the facts and then have another go.
I think I think it's a great blend of sitcom
with a bit of docco with you leading it. Oh,
(01:10):
it's such a good show.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But also, yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's not a we look at the issues, but it's
not a serious yes, hand ringing kind of a show because,
as you say, we optimistically parents can still guide their kids.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Kids want our guidance. It's all going to be okay.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, And I think also what I love about it,
and you would have too, is that sometimes our tweens
and teens know more about stuff than we do because
of that digital world that they exist in. So I
love it that really you know that sometimes like it's
the eleven year old boy who figures out something that
mum and nan haven't worked out about something being fake online.
(01:48):
And I think this is the part of it. We
need to be together. So it's about, yeah, jump on
the couch with your tween orteen. You're going to cry,
you're going to laugh, you're going to feel really cringey,
but you're going to get some really good information about
how to keep them safe on the bumpiest ride there's
ever been that I think is bumpier and harder today because.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
When I was a kid, your parents didn't know anything
about what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Having said that the kind of did they knew, they
knew who.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Your friends were after school, and yeah, basically where you
were now it's all hidden in.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
The face, and they knew that what you would you
didn't have a phone, that you were disappearing down rabbit
holes of being, you know, conditioned by misogynistic content that
nobody knew was only going to tween the teen boys
like that sort of stuff. You it's not your fault.
We didn't We didn't know, but we now know. And
there's been a I did a big survey with collective
shout about the increase in sexual harassment in our schools,
(02:40):
particularly towards female teachers and girls, and it's it's poorn language,
rape threats, disgusting things that never was there. You've always
never learned it. And so how we winding that back?
Because you know, if we didn't have those damn phones
and they weren't watching pornography and listening to that talk,
it wouldn't be happening, because that's not a normal part
(03:01):
of adolescent development. And we want to know how can
we help them be the best version of themselves?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Sometimes and you know what I've noticed.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I just saw this the other day A girl was
walking past in the yoga pants, past a building site,
and I was just on my motorbike at the lights,
and I was going, well, how's this going to go?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And none of the guys said anything.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You know, back in say the seventies or eighties, there
would have been a whole raft of cat calls and stuff.
So are we now internalizing this stuff because on social
media get all the andrew Tates stuff for the young guys,
so they just internalize it and they say it to
the women who are close in.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Their life, but not necessarily to a stranger.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I think it depends on the building site, because I've
seen the opposite. I've seen it even more disgusting. But
I do think there's an increasing awareness. We've got fabulous
people going into our high schools now that are working
with our boys about helping them work out and how
they can become a man that's not only a man
so when he has heart and back and compassion for others,
(04:03):
and that they don't have to follow. I think it's
a bit of each because I think we are becoming
more aware. But I think that's a culture thing. And
there are some building sites with good culture and some
without exactly as there are with humans. I don't believe
in toxic masculinity. I believe we have toxic males and
the same that we need to come to a place
(04:23):
of respect for both genders. And I think they do
a really really powerful episode Amanda, where we look at
the difference for boys and girls on this journey. Hard hitting,
hard to watch, but incredibly important for us all to know,
especially not just mums and dads and teens. It's grandparents,
it's lighthouse figures, it's teachers, it's coaches. So I want
(04:47):
us all on the couch watching it, and the way
they've done it means it's entertaining enough that you actually
do want to watch the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
A couple of interviews I've done about the show recently,
people have asked me, what's one or two big tips
to come away with? Have you got any just off
the top of your head to solve the world's problems?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Maggie, Yeah, oh look, I think we next first one
is that you know this is happening in all homes.
No one's nailing parenting, and adolescents are meant to be
difficult because they're emerging as adults. But the big one
for me is and I think we get that from
the theories, is that there's you know, there's love in
that home. There're two parents battling themselves through with a
(05:26):
tween and a teen, all the issues, but at the
end of the day, there's love. And I'm going to say,
you know that was my last book helped me help
my team. If they haven't got a safe base, if
it's not home and they haven't got one, they're more
at risk of struggling as they go into adulthood. So
it's about us lightning up, just coming home and landing
on love. That's really what what we all need.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's all we need. The Beetles said it, that's all
we need. I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The brand new series starts tonight eight p thirty on ABC,
I View and a b C TV.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Maggie didn't thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Nice to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And if you see Amanda Kella Teller, I said, how La.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, she doesn't answer your calls and she.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Won't answer my calls. I don't know what she's changed, man,
She's gone all ABC.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Thanks Maggie,
Jersey and Amanda Jamny.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, I'm thrilled to be host of a new show
on the ABC. It starts to night at eight thirty.
It's called the Role of a Lifetime and it looks
at parenting in a world that has changed so much.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It throws up so many issues that our parents would
never have had to deal with.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We look at online gambling, a body image for boys
and for girls.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well there's Jim Jacked.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Young boys that feel they need to have this new
vision of masculinity.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We look at bullying.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
All of this gets covered under the guidance of author
and parenting guru Maggie Dent, who joins us now, Maggie, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey, Amanda go you Oh you've just cut out, don't
you reckon? We're like bookends.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tell me what you mean by us being bookends, Well, we.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Just s these lovely, wise, funny women that make everyone
realize that no one's nailing this journey. Adolescence has always
been difficult, but that we really can see it through
a lens of compassion and maybe a bit more lightness
and then get the facts and then have another go.
I think I think it's a great blend of sitcom
with a bit of docco with you leading it. Oh,
(01:10):
it's such a good show.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But also, yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's not a we look at the issues, but it's
not a serious yes, hand ringing kind of a show because,
as you say, we optimistically parents can still guide their kids.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Kids want our guidance. It's all going to be okay.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, And I think also what I love about it,
and you would have too, is that sometimes our tweens
and teens know more about stuff than we do because
of that digital world that they exist in. So I
love it that really you know that sometimes like it's
the eleven year old boy who figures out something that
mum and nan haven't worked out about something being fake online.
(01:48):
And I think this is the part of it. We
need to be together. So it's about, yeah, jump on
the couch with your tween orteen. You're going to cry,
you're going to laugh, you're going to feel really cringey,
but you're going to get some really good information about
how to keep them safe on the bumpiest ride there's
ever been that I think is bumpier and harder today because.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
When I was a kid, your parents didn't know anything
about what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Having said that the kind of did they knew, they
knew who.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Your friends were after school, and yeah, basically where you
were now it's all hidden in.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
The face, and they knew that what you would you
didn't have a phone, that you were disappearing down rabbit
holes of being, you know, conditioned by misogynistic content that
nobody knew was only going to tween the teen boys
like that sort of stuff. You it's not your fault.
We didn't We didn't know, but we now know. And
there's been a I did a big survey with collective
shout about the increase in sexual harassment in our schools,
(02:40):
particularly towards female teachers and girls, and it's it's poorn language,
rape threats, disgusting things that never was there. You've always
never learned it. And so how we winding that back?
Because you know, if we didn't have those damn phones
and they weren't watching pornography and listening to that talk,
it wouldn't be happening, because that's not a normal part
(03:01):
of adolescent development. And we want to know how can
we help them be the best version of themselves?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Sometimes and you know what I've noticed.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I just saw this the other day A girl was
walking past in the yoga pants, past a building site,
and I was just on my motorbike at the lights,
and I was going, well, how's this going to go?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And none of the guys said anything.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You know, back in say the seventies or eighties, there
would have been a whole raft of cat calls and stuff.
So are we now internalizing this stuff because on social
media get all the andrew Tates stuff for the young guys,
so they just internalize it and they say it to
the women who are close in.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Their life, but not necessarily to a stranger.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I think it depends on the building site, because I've
seen the opposite. I've seen it even more disgusting. But
I do think there's an increasing awareness. We've got fabulous
people going into our high schools now that are working
with our boys about helping them work out and how
they can become a man that's not only a man
so when he has heart and back and compassion for others,
(04:03):
and that they don't have to follow. I think it's
a bit of each because I think we are becoming
more aware. But I think that's a culture thing. And
there are some building sites with good culture and some
without exactly as there are with humans. I don't believe
in toxic masculinity. I believe we have toxic males and
the same that we need to come to a place
(04:23):
of respect for both genders. And I think they do
a really really powerful episode Amanda, where we look at
the difference for boys and girls on this journey. Hard hitting,
hard to watch, but incredibly important for us all to know,
especially not just mums and dads and teens. It's grandparents,
it's lighthouse figures, it's teachers, it's coaches. So I want
(04:47):
us all on the couch watching it, and the way
they've done it means it's entertaining enough that you actually
do want to watch the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
A couple of interviews I've done about the show recently,
people have asked me, what's one or two big tips
to come away with? Have you got any just off
the top of your head to solve the world's problems?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Maggie, Yeah, oh look, I think we next first one
is that you know this is happening in all homes.
No one's nailing parenting, and adolescents are meant to be
difficult because they're emerging as adults. But the big one
for me is and I think we get that from
the theories, is that there's you know, there's love in
that home. There're two parents battling themselves through with a
(05:26):
tween and a teen, all the issues, but at the
end of the day, there's love. And I'm going to say,
you know that was my last book helped me help
my team. If they haven't got a safe base, if
it's not home and they haven't got one, they're more
at risk of struggling as they go into adulthood. So
it's about us lightning up, just coming home and landing
on love. That's really what what we all need.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's all we need. The Beetles said it, that's all
we need. I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The brand new series starts tonight eight p thirty on ABC,
I View and a b C TV.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Maggie didn't thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Nice to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And if you see Amanda Kella Teller, I said, how La.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, she doesn't answer your calls and she.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Won't answer my calls. I don't know what she's changed, man,
She's gone all ABC.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Thanks Maggie,
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