ALLY LANGDON - 'I'VE EVOLVED AS A PARENT'

Raising the next generation certainly has its perks — but there's also a long list of challenges that come with it.

- ALLY LANGDON, Celia Whitley

For mum-of-two Allison Langdon, hosting Parental Guidance has helped make her the best mother she can be, but also one who is quite different from who she was before she started presenting the Channel Nine series, which returns for its third season this week.

Once again, Ally and her co-host, expert Dr Justin Coulson, are joined by different sets of parents from across Australia to discuss the issues they face in today’s modern world. Ally, 46, tells us that her time on the show has helped mould the way she brings up son Mack, eight, and daughter Scout, six —her children with husband Michael Willesee Jr., 55. She says the discussions from the show, and meeting the range of mums and dads with different parenting styles, got her and Mike thinking about how they wanted to parent.

“What the show did, particularly in the first season, was make a lot of people think, ‘I’ve never really thought about my parenting style,” Ally tells