A Podcast by Lynne Jackson

Growing Up Here

Around the world, communities are raising children with something that's harder to name than any policy or program.

This podcast goes looking for what that is.

Season 1 — In Production
8 Episodes · 2026
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Lynne Jackson — host of Growing Up Here
Lynne Jackson Host & Creator
The Investigation

What do these communities know about raising children that we've stopped asking?

Something is shifting in how children are growing up — and we feel it more than we can explain it. This podcast is an attempt to understand what's changing, and what has always mattered.

Across the world, in communities that rarely make the headlines, children are growing up surrounded, known and held. Not because of any program or policy — but because of something older than both. Growing Up Here goes looking for what that is.

Season 1 builds the frame: eight conversations with researchers, clinicians, anthropologists, economists and policy makers who have spent careers circling this question from different directions. They don't all use the same language. But something keeps showing up — across cultures, across centuries, across disciplines.

Season 2 goes into the field. One episode, one community, one story at a time.

S1
Now in Production

The Belonging Question

Eight conversations. Eight ways of looking at the same question.

Season 1 brings together eight world-leading experts — each from a different discipline — to examine what children need, what has changed, and what keeps showing up in the evidence across cultures and centuries. A clinician, an anthropologist, an economist, a policy maker. Different lenses. One recurring theme.
01
Paediatrics
The Paediatrician
What's changed over a career. What children who are okay have in common.
02
Child Psychiatry
The Child Psychiatrist
What's arriving in the clinic. What's shifted in twenty years.
03
Epidemiology
The Epidemiologist
The global data. The paradox of wealthy countries and poor outcomes.
04
Anthropology
The Anthropologist
How recent the nuclear family is. What children were built for. The long view.
05
Policy
The Policy Maker
Why evidence doesn't move funding. What policy can — and can't — reach.
06
Education
The Educator
Twenty-five years in the same regional setting. What they've watched disappear.
07
Indigenous Knowledge
The Knowledge Holder
What was always known. What colonisation cost children. What remains.
08
Economics
The Economist
The Heckman equation. The cost of getting it wrong. The value of community.
Clinical Partner
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Dr Philip Tam FRANZCP

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist · Cert. Child Psychiatry · RANZCP Fellow

Dr Tam is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists with a Certificate in Child Psychiatry. He is the clinical co-developer of the R.O.O. Wellbeing Program and a central voice in the Growing Up Here conversation — bringing the clinical reality of what is changing in children's mental health, and what the evidence points toward.

Your Host
Lynne Jackson

Lynne Jackson

Founder, Tradie Roo & Co™ · Host & Creator

Lynne Jackson is the founder of Tradie Roo & Co™ — an Australian children's IP company whose R.O.O. Wellbeing Program is clinically co-developed with child psychiatrist Dr Philip Tam FRANZCP. The program is delivered in schools across Australia, and has been piloted in inclusive classrooms internationally.

She has spent years at the intersection of child development, education, and community — and Growing Up Here is her attempt to sit with a question she keeps coming back to: what do the communities that raise children well actually understand, and what can the rest of us learn from them?

She asks good questions. She lets people talk.

Expert Invitations

Want to be part of this conversation?

I'm inviting a small number of researchers, clinicians and practitioners to contribute to Season 1. If your work touches this question — from any angle, in any part of the world — I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

Get in touch