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Offspring is a brutally honest show that examines parenting through complex lenses lenses such as reluctance, fear, guilt, and depression. Each week the show will tackle a different topic in a different way using stories and music to create a space for anyone interested in vulnerable discussions around balancing family life and mental health.
Host, Bevan Morgan, is a proud father of a one-year-old daughter Ava. However, as someone who has battled mental health issues most of his life, he has found parenting to be an endeavour filled with confronting emotions and fears, often seen as impolite to talk about.
Offspring was formed from a desire to connect with other people who have their own fears and anxieties around family life, so that we all feel a little less isolated and a little more understood.
Host, Bevan Morgan, is a proud father of a one-year-old daughter Ava. However, as someone who has battled mental health issues most of his life, he has found parenting to be an endeavour filled with confronting emotions and fears, often seen as impolite to talk about.
Offspring was formed from a desire to connect with other people who have their own fears and anxieties around family life, so that we all feel a little less isolated and a little more understood.
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This series has predominantly focused on the anxieties of a parenting journey. But parenting isn’t all about anxiety and fear. There are lots of little moments that make you feel a new kind of love you didn’t know you could. For this final episode of the series, love is the focus. This is ten things I love about my daughter and I love about being her Dad.
Pascal's Wager
Ethically, is it OK to bring kids into the world without being able to ask them first? For some, this kind of question is horrifying and ghoulish. But for others it's a natural line of interrogation. Either way, it's an uncomfortable question with some stark implications.
This episode discusses this and other more existential ideas that some of us wrestle with when we choose to have children - particularly as climate change begins to impact us all.
Generally, guilt is a good thing. The way it makes us feel so awful ensures that we want to avoid it at all costs. But what happens if guilt comes to dictate most of your parenting? This episode discusses four different scenarios, all completely coloured by overwhelming and obstructive feelings of guilt.
There are few things worse than having a sick infant. Amidst the feelings of stress, exhaustion, and sadness, there is a newfound fear that’s unlike anything ever experienced before. This episode looks at how destructive and challenging this fear can be.
Podcast produced and first broadcast at Free FM 89.0 - a platform for direct involvement in the media. Hamilton Kirikiriroa, NZ
Sobriety can be challenging in any environment. But it can be particularly so when confronting all the new stresses that accompany parenthood. This episode looks at the fragility of sobriety, and why its precarious nature can be so terrifying.
Podcast produced and first broadcast at Free FM 89.0 - a platform for direct involvement in the media. Hamilton Kirikiriroa, NZ
Have you ever found yourself feeling bored by the mundane parts of parenting? And have you ever felt guilty about feeling bored? Same here. Boredom is inevitable in parenting, but it’s impolite to discuss. This episode looks at the complex relationship between resenting the boredom of parenting, while knowing you should probably be treasuring it.
Podcast produced and first broadcast at Free FM 89.0 - a platform for direct involvement in the media. Hamilton Kirikiriroa, NZ
The process of giving birth can be brutal and traumatic, while somehow also being inspiring and full of love. This episode recounts the complicated birth of our daughter. It is the story of 34 long hours that encompassed two people feeling every possible emotion human beings can feel.
Despite ongoing battles for progress, gender inequality is still a significant issue in Aotearoa. Episode 3 (Blue and Pink) discusses the pre-natal anxieties that can arise when you find out you’re bringing a girl into a man’s world, while also touching on the evolution of how we perceive gender identities.
Miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies can be traumatic, yet people have often reacted to news of these events with apathy. This episode recounts the story of a miscarriage scare and uses the recollection as a platform to discuss the topic in more depth, while challenging common attitudes people often hold towards miscarriages.
The Fear looks at the journey of becoming a parent after living for years with a mindset of overwhelming fear and pessimism. We question how someone could find themselves starting in such a bad place and then examine the ongoing impacts the overwhelming fear had on the path to parenthood.
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