{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/b7115f87-6138-44f7-ae32-8a7d066ce4f4/6a87270bc71d02aaba5521ad?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"'The Only Way Is Essex Has Nothing on My Class' | Mr P (Lee Parkinson) on Raising Triplets, School Readiness Myths & Why Boredom Is a Gift","description":"<p>This week Kelsey Parker sits down with Lee Parkinson MBE. Teacher, three-time Sunday Times bestselling author and one half of Two Mr Ps in a Podcast for a chat about school readiness, raising triplets and why we've all been worrying about the wrong things.</p><p><br></p><p>Lee gets real about becoming a stepdad at 21, the scan where the nurse went silent before revealing it was triplets, and the \"bath, bottle, bed\" routine that got all three sleeping through by six months.</p><p><br></p><p>Then it goes deeper: why 63% of children aren't ready for school, how scrapping Sure Start centres left a hole nobody filled, and why the little things like doing up their own shoes &amp; putting on a coat actually matter far more than reading or counting before day one.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus the lighter stuff: the ex-pupil who bought him a pint 15 years on, getting his MBE (\"the world's worst kept secret\"), and the show-and-tell Tupperware box that accidentally exposed an affair.</p><p><br></p><p>Grab a cuppa and get comfy.</p><p><br></p><p>A Create Podcast</p>","author_name":"Create"}