Is your kid bored of listening to you talking about the latest podcast you’ve heard?
Do they want their own podcast to listen to?
Do they have problems they need help with?
Well of course they do, don’t we all.
Brought to you by two mothers, who love stories, but can’t bear to just read them aloud to their children, like normal parents, but instead like to spend months recording them, with music and sound effects, in a garden shed and then distributing them for all to hear.
Introducing Shelly & The Can-Do Kids
There will be songs
There will be good chat
There will be magic
There will also be a tortoise (Shelly) with ego-issues guiding the ship
Join Shelly as she seeks to makes kids a 'little bit more can-do'
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Is your kid bored of listening to you talking about the latest podcast you’ve heard?
Do they want their own podcast to listen to?
Do they have problems they need help with?
Well of course they do, don’t we all.
Brought to you by two mothers, who love stories, but can’t bear to just read them aloud to their children, like normal parents, but instead like to spend months recording them, with music and sound effects, in a garden shed and then distributing them for all to hear.
Introducing Shelly & The Can-Do Kids
There will be songs
There will be good chat
There will be magic
There will also be a tortoise (Shelly) with ego-issues guiding the ship
Join Shelly as she seeks to makes kids a 'little bit more can-do'
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trudie is fed up with a capital F! Her brother Edwin is so annoying and so are her parents. She is sure they like him better than her, because he is cute and little and he has just got a staring role in the school play. She feels jealous with a capital J. Shelly appears just in time to cool her hot head down and help her look at her problems from another view. She has experienced jealousy herself and has buckets of advice. Can Trudie learn from her jealously? Can she take those feelings and find something of her own that makes her feel shiny and brilliant? Will she ever find Edwin less annoying? Listen to find out.
Highlights include – a pair of mad drama teachers, a rude poem about a giraffe and some harmonising daffodils.
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Performed and written by Josie & Jemma @shellyandthecandokids
Edited by @benjamincuts
Backing music sourced from the wonderful @artlist.io
Shelly artwork @efabm
With thanks to and in memory of Chris Stuart who wrote our opening number.
*These stories are meant to be light-hearted. We are not child psychologists, so always find qualified sources of information/support for your children.
*All swear words from our unqualified (in everything but showing-off) tortoise beeped!
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