# What Really Happened When I Met the Roblox CEO

An episode of [Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1082244480), 1 Mar 2026, 18 min.

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I’ve publicly called Roblox a “pedophile hellscape.” Then the CEO invited me to meet. Thirty minutes. One room. No media. No spin. In this episode, I take you inside the meeting with David Baszucki, co-founder and CEO of Roblox — and share exactly what was said, what got uncomfortable, and why I left unconvinced that kids are truly safe. If your child plays Roblox, you need to hear this. KEY POINTS • Why Roblox says it’s designed for the “absentee parent” • The moment the temperature shifted in the room • Ongoing lawsuits and serious safety concerns • Why engagement and growth may still outrank child safety • The uncomfortable truth about parental responsibility • Five clear steps every parent should take today QUOTE OF THE EPISODE “I don’t care what people say. I care what people do. And right now, you’re not protecting our kids.” RESOURCES • Roblox is a Paedophile Hellscape \[Article\] • 5 Ways to Stay Safe Online • Parental controls and Roblox specific controls (esafety.org.au) • The Screen Smart Series \[Webinar Series\] ACTION STEPS FOR PARENTS • Talk daily – Ask what they’re seeing, who they’re chatting to, and whether anything felt weird or unsafe. • Turn on parental controls – They’re imperfect, but better than nothing. Check them regularly. • Play with your child – Learn the platform. See what they see. • Set clear boundaries – No devices in bedrooms. No screens during family time. • Trust your gut – You don’t need permission to say no. How you say it matters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Happy Families podcast. Start of
[0:07] Speaker 1: another week, and today it's a big one. It's an
[0:09] Speaker 1: absolute cracker. In fact, Roadblocks is a pedophile healthscape. That's
[0:13] Speaker 1: what I said on Parnal Guidance when we discussed the
[0:15] Speaker 1: platform on National TV last year, and it caused a stir.
[0:19] Speaker 1: As you know if you've been listening to the podcast
[0:21] Speaker 1: for a while, I've been agitating against Roadblocks and a
[0:23] Speaker 1: bunch of other big tech platforms for years. I'm an
[0:25] Speaker 1: equal opportunity aggressor. If you're big tech, I pretty much
[0:29] Speaker 1: don't like you because you're exploitative and you're not looking
[0:31] Speaker 1: after the kids anyway. Roadblocks poor Parnal controls anyone gaining
[0:35] Speaker 1: access to kids content that's extreme in violence and astonishingly sexual.
[0:40] Speaker 1: Then there's the bullying, the allegations of sexual exploitation, the traffic,
[0:43] Speaker 1: and a range of other I'm going to call them
[0:45] Speaker 1: extreme concerns that make me absolutely anti Roadblocks, even if
[0:48] Speaker 1: you are monitoring your child on the platform. So I
[0:51] Speaker 1: was surprised to receive a call from Roadblocks last week.
[0:55] Speaker 1: It was an invitation a one on one meeting with
[0:58] Speaker 1: CEO and co founder of Roadblocks, David Bazouki. Today we
[1:03] Speaker 1: unpack what happened in that meeting on the Happy Families podcast.
[1:07] Speaker 1: I think you're going to be very interested in how
[1:09] Speaker 1: it all went down. Stay with us.
[1:12] Speaker 2: It's a platform millions of kids use every day. No
[1:18] Speaker 2: Roadblocks is a massive online universe with seemingly endless numbers
[1:23] Speaker 2: of mini.
[1:23] Speaker 1: This morning, Florida's Attorney General is issuing criminal subpoenas against
[1:27] Speaker 1: rule Blocks, the popular online gaming company, citing alleged abuse
[1:31] Speaker 1: of children by online predators.
[1:33] Speaker 3: Wherever kids are, predators will be so kids like being.
[1:38] Speaker 4: A twenty seven year old man's facing almost six hundred
[1:42] Speaker 4: chargers accused of creating fake profiles to groom children online
[1:47] Speaker 4: across multiple social media and gaming platforms, including Roadblocks.
[1:51] Speaker 1: Coday, Welcome to the Happy Families podcast, where you get
[1:53] Speaker 1: real parenting solutions every single day. It's Australia's most downloaded
[1:57] Speaker 1: parenting podcast and we have got the the spill today
[2:01] Speaker 1: Coylie and missus Haavy Families joins me for a conversation
[2:04] Speaker 1: about what went down in the very informal meeting room
[2:08] Speaker 1: at south Bank's Emporium Hotel, South Brisbane last week when
[2:13] Speaker 1: I sat down with co founder CEO of Roadblocks, David Bazouki, Kylie,
[2:18] Speaker 1: what would you ask the CEO of Roadblocks? If you've
[2:20] Speaker 1: got to have a one on one just you and
[2:22] Speaker 1: the CEO.
[2:23] Speaker 3: You're asking the wrong person. I'm not interested in meeting them.
[2:28] Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of days to think about it.
[2:29] Speaker 1: But once I got the invite, I thought what I
[2:33] Speaker 1: actually say here?
[2:34] Speaker 2: Like?
[2:34] Speaker 1: Do I tell him what I really think? Why are
[2:35] Speaker 1: they invited me? It was a pretty interesting get together.
[2:38] Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.
[2:39] Speaker 3: Well. I actually had forgot that big mic drop moment
[2:43] Speaker 3: from parental guidance, and.
[2:46] Speaker 1: It was big.
[2:46] Speaker 3: Yeah. I wouldn't have gone on miss, that's for sure.
[2:49] Speaker 1: The most popular online gaming platform for young children is
[2:54] Speaker 1: a pedophile healthcape.
[2:56] Speaker 2: No way, what is it?
[2:58] Speaker 1: This is a place where tens of millions of children are,
[3:04] Speaker 1: and when there are that many children there, there will
[3:06] Speaker 1: be people who have motivations for those children that are
[3:10] Speaker 1: not consistent with what our motivations are as parents, Which
[3:13] Speaker 1: means that if parents are willing to allow their children
[3:16] Speaker 1: into that space, they have to be across what the
[3:20] Speaker 1: game is. Yeah, and don't let them play in their bedrooms.
[3:24] Speaker 1: So let's just set the stage here, there were some
[3:28] Speaker 1: informal rules. I was told that I was allowed to
[3:30] Speaker 1: make some basic notes and jut some stuff down, but
[3:32] Speaker 1: no quotes allowed. I've skirted that real a little bit,
[3:37] Speaker 1: just with a couple of words, but basically no quotes allowed.
[3:40] Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to tell anybody that who was in
[3:42] Speaker 1: the country until he had left the country because they
[3:44] Speaker 1: didn't want to be inundated with media interview requests. And
[3:46] Speaker 1: who knows what else might have happened. And I was
[3:48] Speaker 1: told I had thirty minutes. So to put this into context,
[3:51] Speaker 1: David Bazooki is a busy guy, and he doesn't need
[3:54] Speaker 1: to be talking to people like me. He's worth. He's
[3:56] Speaker 1: worth at least five billion dollars. I don't know about you,
[3:59] Speaker 1: but that's more than I'm worth.
[4:02] Speaker 3: That's really five billion dollars, and he's put done two
[4:06] Speaker 3: a percentage my net worth as percentage of his.
[4:11] Speaker 1: I don't think that we've even got a number that small.
[4:14] Speaker 1: And he was here to meet with some very high
[4:15] Speaker 1: powered people, including people in the political landscape. That's as
[4:19] Speaker 1: much as I know. Getting time with him though, and
[4:21] Speaker 1: his chief of civility and his head technical safety guy.
[4:25] Speaker 1: I need to say at the outset, it was a
[4:27] Speaker 1: generous offer and it was a legitimately big deal.
[4:32] Speaker 3: I watched you over the days leading up to this,
[4:35] Speaker 3: and there was this kind of internal battle in me
[4:40] Speaker 3: whether you really wanted to go and spend time with him,
[4:43] Speaker 3: knowing for well that there were so many other things
[4:45] Speaker 3: you could be doing with.
[4:47] Speaker 1: Your time much more productive.
[4:50] Speaker 3: But also recognizing this is kind of for once in
[4:52] Speaker 3: a lifetime opportunity to sit in front of somebody and
[4:55] Speaker 3: actually have the platform to articulate to the powers that
[5:01] Speaker 3: be the concerns of parents around.
[5:04] Speaker 1: I say once in a lifetime, But at the end
[5:06] Speaker 1: of this podcast we may find out that it really was.
[5:08] Speaker 1: There may never be another limitation again. But You're right,
[5:12] Speaker 1: there was a tension, And I'll tell you why the
[5:14] Speaker 1: tension was there, because I actually don't want to meet
[5:16] Speaker 1: David Buzuki. I'm not interested in meeting big tech founders,
[5:19] Speaker 1: not that I don't want to have my opinions of
[5:21] Speaker 1: them shattered. I already know who they're going to be
[5:23] Speaker 1: and what they're going to be like, right, I mean,
[5:25] Speaker 1: if you are the CEO of a tech firm whose
[5:27] Speaker 1: business model harms children at scale globally, I'm not really
[5:33] Speaker 1: that interested in what your vision is for how the
[5:34] Speaker 1: platform is going to change the world or give parents
[5:36] Speaker 1: the secure knowledge that it really is safe. And I
[5:39] Speaker 1: also know what to expect. If you are the CEO
[5:41] Speaker 1: of a listed company on the biggest stock exchange in
[5:46] Speaker 1: the world, and your company is worth billions of dollars,
[5:50] Speaker 1: you are going to be a charismatic and intelligent and
[5:52] Speaker 1: well spoken person who knows how to show up for
[5:55] Speaker 1: people like me when I'm in the room and I
[5:57] Speaker 1: have the opportunity to ask questions, so I expect to
[6:00] Speaker 1: somebody who was going to be considered and respectful and knowledgeable.
[6:03] Speaker 1: And I was right on all accounts, but obviously I
[6:05] Speaker 1: had this tension there. As you've rightly pointed out.
[6:08] Speaker 3: I'm really interested in the chief of civility's role.
[6:11] Speaker 1: I know, but that's really the role. I am the
[6:14] Speaker 1: chief of civility. I'm here to make sure that people
[6:16] Speaker 1: are civil on roadblocks. I'd fire somebody who was a
[6:19] Speaker 1: chief of civility if the in civil, uncivil non civil
[6:22] Speaker 1: behavior that happens on roadblocks was happening under.
[6:25] Speaker 3: My watch, So that they are in charge of civility
[6:29] Speaker 3: on the platform, right, I thought they were in charge
[6:32] Speaker 3: of the civility of the.
[6:33] Speaker 1: Conversations that these you're the best. No no, no civility
[6:41] Speaker 1: for Roadblocks.
[6:42] Speaker 3: She was there to mass such the conversation when it
[6:44] Speaker 3: got a bit too heated.
[6:45] Speaker 1: Well it did. But here's the thing. The other reason
[6:48] Speaker 1: that I had some tension around the conversation was because
[6:50] Speaker 1: I also knew that nothing that I said was going
[6:52] Speaker 1: to meaningfully impact how Roadblocks operates. But they came to me.
[6:57] Speaker 1: I didn't go to them. I didn't know that he
[6:58] Speaker 1: was going to be in the country. They came to
[6:59] Speaker 1: me and they said, we really want to hear what's
[7:01] Speaker 1: happening on the ground. We want to know what parents
[7:03] Speaker 1: are worried about, and we want to know what we
[7:05] Speaker 1: can do to help. Literally, one of the people in
[7:09] Speaker 1: the room asked me, what can we do to help
[7:11] Speaker 1: parents and to educate parents.
[7:14] Speaker 3: The critic in me wants to suggest that this was
[7:16] Speaker 3: a bit of a PR stunt, and yet, yeah, it
[7:21] Speaker 3: wasn't because it's not going anywhere, right, there's no publicity
[7:25] Speaker 3: about this meeting.
[7:26] Speaker 1: That's right.
[7:27] Speaker 3: They're not going to be sharing anything their end.
[7:29] Speaker 1: But they don't need to, because when you bring people
[7:33] Speaker 1: like me into the room. It's like saying, hey, why
[7:36] Speaker 1: don't we sit down and just have a drink. Let's
[7:37] Speaker 1: have a chat about things. Because when you get to
[7:39] Speaker 1: see how reasonable everybody is, and you get to see
[7:41] Speaker 1: them face to face, it does soften hards, it does
[7:45] Speaker 1: soften attitudes.
[7:46] Speaker 3: It's a nice guy.
[7:48] Speaker 1: He's not just a nice guy. He's a delightful guy.
[7:50] Speaker 1: He's charming, he's likable. I will say he's defensive because
[7:54] Speaker 1: when I brought a couple of things up, and I did,
[7:56] Speaker 1: really I could have been a lot more forthright, but
[7:58] Speaker 1: I certainly didn't hold back. Tammy Bummick, who is the
[8:02] Speaker 1: VP of civility, that is the role VP of civility.
[8:05] Speaker 1: She was, as you said, the one who smoothed things over.
[8:07] Speaker 1: I've also got to highlight Matt Kaufman, the head of safety. Reassuring,
[8:12] Speaker 1: very reassuring and technical. I mean, I walked out and well,
[8:16] Speaker 1: I'll tell you about take homes in a sec. Here's
[8:19] Speaker 1: what I just have to say. I'm going to call
[8:21] Speaker 1: him Dave because that's what he told me to call him, Dave,
[8:23] Speaker 1: not David Dave Pazuki. Dave started off with a little
[8:26] Speaker 1: bit of a lecture about where it Roadblocks was like,
[8:28] Speaker 1: I didn't know the platform. So I helped him to
[8:31] Speaker 1: know that I didn't know it, and then we moved on,
[8:33] Speaker 1: and then he said, just one thing that I want
[8:35] Speaker 1: to highlight. He said, I know the platform is not perfect,
[8:38] Speaker 1: and we're working on that, but we've got all these
[8:40] Speaker 1: recent safety improvements. I jumped in and said they're not adequate,
[8:43] Speaker 1: and I told him why. And then he said, and
[8:46] Speaker 1: this is the only thing that I'm quoting from the
[8:48] Speaker 1: whole conversation, he said that their safety focus is too
[8:52] Speaker 1: and I quote designed for the absentee parent. Roadblocks is
[8:56] Speaker 1: being designed for the absentee parent. In other words, that
[8:59] Speaker 1: is designing it in such a way that children can
[9:02] Speaker 1: play it unsupervised because they know that many parents are
[9:04] Speaker 1: not supervising their children on the platform.
[9:07] Speaker 3: So here in line is the actual problem. It's not
[9:10] Speaker 3: that a platform exists, it's that so many of our
[9:14] Speaker 3: children are actually on the platform unsupervised.
[9:17] Speaker 1: I'm going to argue against that the platform is problematic.
[9:22] Speaker 3: Of course it is, and it shouldn't be. It's not
[9:25] Speaker 3: their role to parent my child.
[9:27] Speaker 1: No, but it is their role if they're providing a
[9:29] Speaker 1: product for children, to make sure that it's safe for children.
[9:32] Speaker 3: Not a product for children.
[9:33] Speaker 1: Well, it absolutely is. I mean, they have one hundred
[9:35] Speaker 1: and fifty million daily users.
[9:39] Speaker 3: But it is not a product that has been designed
[9:41] Speaker 3: for children.
[9:42] Speaker 1: No, it actually has more than forty million of those
[9:46] Speaker 1: sometimes as many as sixty to seventy million users per
[9:49] Speaker 1: day are under the age of fourteen.
[9:51] Speaker 3: You're misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to
[9:54] Speaker 3: say that this has not been designed with the best
[9:57] Speaker 3: interests of children in mind.
[10:00] Speaker 1: But it is a children's platform and it has been
[10:02] Speaker 1: designed as one. It's just that it's been hijacked. And
[10:04] Speaker 1: because we talked about this last week section two hundred
[10:06] Speaker 1: and thirty of the United States Law Code, whatever it is.
[10:10] Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer. They are not responsible for what
[10:13] Speaker 1: happens on the platform because the users are responsible for it.
[10:16] Speaker 1: But of course there are all sorts of challenges around that.
[10:19] Speaker 1: But again, I just want to come back to this
[10:20] Speaker 1: idea that if they're designing fro an absentee parent, they're failing.
[10:24] Speaker 1: They're failing dramatically, They're failing absolutely, and they wanted to
[10:27] Speaker 1: talk about that failure, and they wanted to talk about
[10:28] Speaker 1: how they can improve things. So after the break, I
[10:31] Speaker 1: want to share with you what I said that changed
[10:33] Speaker 1: the temperature in the room. Stay with us, We're back.
[10:45] Speaker 1: This is The Happy Family's podcast my meeting with David
[10:47] Speaker 1: Bozuki and a couple of his key staff members one
[10:49] Speaker 1: on one thirty minutes in Brisbane last week. I'm allowed
[10:51] Speaker 1: to talk about it now that he's gone back to
[10:52] Speaker 1: the United States, no doubt. I don't know. I'm speculating,
[10:55] Speaker 1: but I presume that somebody worth five billion dollars is
[10:57] Speaker 1: probably flying on their own plan. I don't think that
[10:59] Speaker 1: he jumped on a local aeroplane. He's jumped on the
[11:02] Speaker 1: plane and gone home. Kylie. I said something that really
[11:06] Speaker 1: changed the temperature in the room. He talked about how
[11:08] Speaker 1: Roadblocks is being held to a higher standard than other
[11:12] Speaker 1: platforms because it's such a big platform. And I said,
[11:16] Speaker 1: absolutely and appropriately, and your standards are too low. You're
[11:19] Speaker 1: saying it's being held to a higher standard. It's not
[11:20] Speaker 1: high enough, and your standards too low. And then I
[11:23] Speaker 1: raised the approximate one hundred and fifteen lawsuits that are
[11:25] Speaker 1: currently in the courts against Roadblocks because their standards are
[11:28] Speaker 1: not high enough. And I've pointed out that there's a
[11:30] Speaker 1: Brisbane man in court this month facing five hundred and
[11:33] Speaker 1: twenty nine charges, many of which are related to his
[11:37] Speaker 1: alleged sexually exploitive conduct on roadblocks. And that's when it
[11:43] Speaker 1: got really awkward, and Dave jumped in and was very,
[11:46] Speaker 1: very defensive. He said, well, we can't know it's on roadblocks.
[11:48] Speaker 1: We haven't seen the police forensic report. We can't say
[11:50] Speaker 1: anything about that. We need to be very careful here,
[11:52] Speaker 1: although everything that I've read about it indicates that the
[11:55] Speaker 1: police forensic report has indicated that that's where it happened.
[11:58] Speaker 1: And that's when things were sort of smoothed over by
[12:01] Speaker 1: Tammy and by Matt who offered that reassurance about their
[12:03] Speaker 1: continual and ongoing safety improvements. But Honey, I couldn't shake
[12:08] Speaker 1: this for this feeling this You talked about the tension
[12:13] Speaker 1: that I felt. This platform, like so many others, probably
[12:16] Speaker 1: most of the others, will continue to prioritize engagement and growth,
[12:22] Speaker 1: that is, children's addiction and their compulsive use, even when
[12:27] Speaker 1: it costs them over safety. And if new safety policies
[12:31] Speaker 1: and protocols genuinely risk reducing user numbers, I don't think
[12:37] Speaker 1: they'll implement them. In spite of the fact that they
[12:39] Speaker 1: looked into my eyes and told me how much they care,
[12:42] Speaker 1: and I really believe it, Like they are sincere people,
[12:44] Speaker 1: and they are smart people, and they already know this stuff.
[12:48] Speaker 1: But if they know this stuff, why aren't they doing it?
[12:50] Speaker 1: And this is the whole thing, right Like people say, oh,
[12:52] Speaker 1: but they said this, and they said that, And my
[12:54] Speaker 1: whole thing is, I don't care what people say. I
[12:55] Speaker 1: call what people do. And right now, you're not doing it.
[12:58] Speaker 1: You're not doing it, You're not protecting our kids.
[13:01] Speaker 3: That's my frustration, I guess at the core of this though,
[13:04] Speaker 3: they're not the first people to be found in this position,
[13:07] Speaker 3: and they won't be the last. No, we are going
[13:10] Speaker 3: to constantly be pushing against the grain when we stand
[13:15] Speaker 3: up and hold people accountable for their poor behavior or
[13:20] Speaker 3: conduct in relation to our children's safety.
[13:24] Speaker 1: Yeah, Kylie, when I left that meeting, they probably looked
[13:26] Speaker 1: at each other and thought, oh, my goodness, we've got
[13:29] Speaker 1: better things to do with our time than sit down
[13:30] Speaker 1: and talk to this guy. But for whatever reason, they
[13:32] Speaker 1: chose me, they wanted me in the room, they wanted
[13:34] Speaker 1: to have the conversation. And I still stand by the
[13:37] Speaker 1: fact that number one. I really believe they're sincere people.
[13:40] Speaker 1: They are very, very smart people, and it was a
[13:43] Speaker 1: privilege to receive the invitation. It was good for my ego,
[13:46] Speaker 1: I thought, very important, right, Like, how many people get
[13:48] Speaker 1: to get an invitation like that with such limited time
[13:51] Speaker 1: while he's here, so great for my ego. There's my
[13:54] Speaker 1: big head. Scratch my ear in another suburb if you
[13:56] Speaker 1: need to, because my head's gotten that big. But more
[13:59] Speaker 1: than that, as you've said, saying yes was not about
[14:03] Speaker 1: my ego. I said yes because parents deserve to know
[14:05] Speaker 1: what these platforms are doing and what they're not doing
[14:07] Speaker 1: to protect kids. I said yes because transparency matters. I
[14:11] Speaker 1: said yes because I felt compelled to be there to
[14:13] Speaker 1: say uncomfortable things directly to the people in charge, even
[14:17] Speaker 1: if it doesn't change anything, at least in the short term.
[14:20] Speaker 1: So that's kind of that's what happened.
[14:23] Speaker 3: So this is a podcast where we actually promise solutions.
[14:26] Speaker 3: We've got lots and lots of talking and you've shared
[14:29] Speaker 3: a lot about this experience. But what does this actually
[14:33] Speaker 3: mean for parents? How can we help parents if they
[14:36] Speaker 3: have children who are already on the platform.
[14:38] Speaker 1: And yeah, the toothplace out of the tube.
[14:40] Speaker 3: They're kind of feeling like it's too late, it's all
[14:42] Speaker 3: doom and gloom.
[14:43] Speaker 1: It happened a couple of weeks ago. I was at
[14:44] Speaker 1: a presentation. I mentioned something about roadblocks, and a parent
[14:47] Speaker 1: put up the hand and they're like, well, now, I
[14:49] Speaker 1: just feel like a bad parent because you've told me
[14:50] Speaker 1: that it's a terrible place for my kids. And I
[14:52] Speaker 1: let my kids plan all the time, so and I
[14:54] Speaker 1: don't want to make parents feel awful about things. This
[14:56] Speaker 1: is not the purpose of why I say what I say.
[14:59] Speaker 1: It's try to be genuinely trying to be helpful. My
[15:03] Speaker 1: top five tips, and I can rattle them off really
[15:05] Speaker 1: fast because I'm always going through this. Number One, You've
[15:07] Speaker 1: got to talk to you kids about what they're experiencing online.
[15:09] Speaker 1: You need to know what they're doing, who they're talking to,
[15:12] Speaker 1: Ask them if anything weird happen, ask them if anyone's
[15:14] Speaker 1: been mean to them or to their friends. Just ask
[15:16] Speaker 1: them what they're witnessing and seeing. That's the first one
[15:19] Speaker 1: second thing. Parental controls are important. Don't rely on them
[15:24] Speaker 1: because they are inadequate, but they are better than nothing.
[15:27] Speaker 1: You've just got to make sure you jump in and
[15:29] Speaker 1: check those settings regularly, so if your kids are on
[15:30] Speaker 1: these platforms, just jump in and check the parenal controls.
[15:33] Speaker 1: The third thing I'd say is use the platform with
[15:36] Speaker 1: your kids. Play with your children, and it won't take
[15:37] Speaker 1: you very long to learn. They're pretty simple platforms to use,
[15:40] Speaker 1: and once you see what the kids are doing, you're
[15:43] Speaker 1: going to have much more constructive conversations. You might even
[15:45] Speaker 1: enjoy it and see the benefits that can come from it.
[15:48] Speaker 1: And you can keep your kids safer. Limits and boundaries,
[15:52] Speaker 1: so no phones and screens and bedrooms and bathrooms or
[15:55] Speaker 1: during family time or at the table. And lastly, trust
[15:59] Speaker 1: your instincts, like as a parent, if something feels off
[16:02] Speaker 1: about your child or about the platform, then there's a
[16:05] Speaker 1: good chance it is. And I say this to parents
[16:08] Speaker 1: consistently at my parent nights when I'm giving talks around
[16:10] Speaker 1: the country. You don't need my permission to say no.
[16:15] Speaker 1: You can say no without checking in with the parenting
[16:17] Speaker 1: expert first. It's acceptable, it's allwable. You can say no,
[16:20] Speaker 1: but remember that how you say it is just as
[16:22] Speaker 1: important as that you say it.
[16:24] Speaker 3: I think the struggle that I have as a parent
[16:28] Speaker 3: is backing myself up. Yeah, you know, you have these
[16:31] Speaker 3: you have these impressions, you have these feelings, and you
[16:33] Speaker 3: kind of think, but I'm going so counter to what
[16:36] Speaker 3: everybody else is doing, and it's really nice and reassuring
[16:41] Speaker 3: to have somebody else go. Yeah.
[16:43] Speaker 1: But so that was my meeting with the CEO of Roadblocks,
[16:47] Speaker 1: David Bozouki, and a couple of his key stuff on
[16:50] Speaker 1: my website, on happy Families dot com, DOTU and also
[16:53] Speaker 1: on Facebook. I've shared eleven priorities that I think Roadblocks
[16:57] Speaker 1: should have to keep kids safe. I got through a
[16:59] Speaker 1: few of those items in the meeting, but eleven was
[17:01] Speaker 1: too many. We only had thirty minutes, and there was
[17:03] Speaker 1: a lot of other stuff that came up as well.
[17:05] Speaker 1: But if Ropeblocks or any other platforms actually do want
[17:08] Speaker 1: to work with me constructively rather than having a thirty
[17:11] Speaker 1: minute one on one which has that sense of can
[17:14] Speaker 1: we just be buddies and Quim be nice to each
[17:16] Speaker 1: other and understand each other a bit better, I'm really
[17:18] Speaker 1: interested in showing up for meetings that are constructive and productive,
[17:22] Speaker 1: and I would love to be invited again. But not
[17:26] Speaker 1: holding my breath. If you'd like to see more information
[17:29] Speaker 1: about what happened in that meeting. Check out Happy families
[17:31] Speaker 1: dot com dot you'll go to the Facebook page doctor
[17:33] Speaker 1: Justin Colson's Happy Families. The Happy Families Podcast is produced
[17:36] Speaker 1: by Justin Rulon from Bridge Media. Mim Hammond's provides our
[17:39] Speaker 1: additional admin and other support. Tomorrow on the pod, we
[17:42] Speaker 1: get stuck into a conversation about dishonors kids. We're going
[17:45] Speaker 1: to talk about homework this week, adolescence, personality changes. So
[17:48] Speaker 1: much more to come all this week on the Happy
[17:50] Speaker 1: Families Podcast. If you're enjoying the pod, please like it,
[17:53] Speaker 1: share it, rate it, review it, and help others to
[17:56] Speaker 1: find out about it so that they can make their
[17:58] Speaker 1: families happier as well.

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