The Breakfast Club

Saif and Zah

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Warm radio help for toddler years.

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The Breakfast Club turns breakfast-radio warmth toward everyday family pressure points, especially toddler stages that can overwhelm a household. Recent episodes center on Jo from Malaak Mama & Baby Care, with careful advice on tantrums, meltdowns, and toilet training.

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About The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a Pearl FM family show with a warm breakfast-show rhythm and a strong practical streak. Its recent episodes gather around toddler milestones that can test an entire household. Tantrums get treated as more than noise. Meltdowns become moments where children are still learning feelings, limits, negotiation, and acceptable behavior. The show’s most useful passages are often very concrete. Jo from Malaak Mama & Baby Care explains how adults can lower their voice, redirect attention, choose battles, and stay flexible when the stakes are small. A mismatched outfit is allowed to stay mismatched. A child who is overwhelmed is met with calm before correction. The discussions also acknowledge the adult side of the problem. Parents can become angry, tired, and embarrassed, especially in public or during long days at home. The answer offered here is not perfection. It is taking a breath, making sure the child is safe, stepping away briefly, and returning with a steadier head. The potty-training episodes are equally grounded. Jo talks through gradual introductions to the toilet and potty, first-thing-in-the-morning attempts, bath-time routines, sink taps, praise, and the value of not rushing children before they are ready. Zaza’s anecdotes add a domestic, slightly funny texture, from least-favorite milestones to a child copying the running-water trick back at a parent. Saif and Zaza keep the show inside a breezy breakfast format. The guidance stays clear and kind. It is especially useful for families with toddlers, plus nannies and grandparents involved in daily care. The Breakfast Club works because it makes hard family moments feel manageable without pretending they are easy.

Made for: Parents, nannies, grandparents, and family caregivers dealing with toddlers, toilet training, tantrums, and long days at home. It especially suits listeners who want calm, practical advice in a friendly breakfast-show format.

What sets it apart: The show blends light Pearl FM banter with specific guidance, turning familiar parenting stress into small next steps. Zaza’s family anecdotes keep the advice grounded rather than abstract.

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Pearl FM’s breakfast show team chat to interesting people from around the world, helping kids and parents in the UAE learn, grow and live positive lives

toddler tantrumsemotional meltdownspotty trainingparental frustrationcalm communicationsetting limitshome routinespraise

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Potty Training with Jo Holt (Part 2)Apr 15, 2020

A calm, practical toilet-training follow-up with steady routines and a memorable running-tap moment.

Potty training gets a useful follow-up as The Breakfast Club brings back Jo from Malak Mama and Baby Care. Saif and Zaza keep the focus on stage-two habits: trying the toilet at likely points in the day, using calm language, washing hands, and turning on a running tap to help…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Tantrums management with Jo from Malaak Mama & Baby Care

    Apr 30, 2020·11m
  2. 2

    Temper Tantrums and Meltdowns with Jo from Malaak

    Apr 22, 2020·10m
  3. 3

    Potty Training with Jo Holt (Part 2)

    Malak Mama and Baby Care consultant Jo returns to The Breakfast Club with host Zaza for part two of a toilet-training series, covering incentive systems and how to take training pants outside the house.

    Apr 15, 2020·20m·1 clip
  4. 4

    Potty Training with Jo Holt (Part 1)

    Apr 13, 2020·12m