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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Am I A Bad Mom? Podcast?
Speaker 1: Am I A Bad Mum?
Speaker 2: Last week? Last week of school.
Speaker 3: For you finally, although I feel like there's a very
Speaker 3: few parents that are in the same public system that
Speaker 3: are going, how are we still doing? Like another week
Speaker 3: of school? I've got one child that wants to go
Speaker 3: to school, and I've got one child that does not
Speaker 3: want to go to school. Also, it came to me
Speaker 3: this morning, she goes, I think I'm done for the year.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, see, the thing is you're not.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Katie.
Speaker 3: Last week with the graduation everything wrapped up.
Speaker 2: It was huge with Gracie graduating, was that her last.
Speaker 3: Day last week, Thursday morning was like the final assembly
Speaker 3: for the whole school, the announcement of the new captains,
Speaker 3: and then the big send off with the what's it
Speaker 3: called coat of arms where you like, all do the
Speaker 3: they run through the arms of everyone all the way
Speaker 3: through the whole entire school.
Speaker 1: And they did that all on Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: Did you cry?
Speaker 1: I didn't cry. I still haven't cried.
Speaker 3: I took her for a uniform fitting for the new
Speaker 3: school and I still haven't cried.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's wrong with me?
Speaker 2: So she's not at school today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's going to school today as well.
Speaker 2: But that makes no sense. Yeah, so they do the
Speaker 2: whole big send off. Yeah, okay, great, see Monday.
Speaker 3: What Gracie being Gracey? Yeah, I want to go to school,
Speaker 3: I want to hang out with my friends. Because she
Speaker 3: knows that she's just going to basically excuse my French
Speaker 3: fuck around for the whole week.
Speaker 1: She's not going to be doing anything. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: week just to hang out with your friends. Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's also a week of free childcare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean I saw people dropping off
Speaker 1: so early.
Speaker 3: This morning at and you're thinking, God, you're really trying
Speaker 3: to rake in the.
Speaker 1: Last seconds of this childcare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're really trying to squeeze every bit out of it.
Speaker 1: Poor kids. Am I a bad mum for really just
Speaker 1: not caring?
Speaker 3: I think this adds to why I'm feeling like, really
Speaker 3: non emotional about, I know, the whole year.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I think it is? Because I
Speaker 2: think you're being faced with quite a bit of attitude
Speaker 2: at the moment and pushback. So I think when kids
Speaker 2: are assholes, you lose the emotion. Yes, it's an emotional
Speaker 2: thing finishing primary school. But if she's being an asshole,
Speaker 2: you're not going to feel sad about it.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not sad about it.
Speaker 3: I have to admit, like last week, probably when I
Speaker 3: got to Sunday of the week, I got to Sunday
Speaker 3: and I felt like I had been on probably like
Speaker 3: a three week bender. I sort of just got to
Speaker 3: Sunday and my whole world sort of like imploded and
Speaker 3: sort of I just collapsed and was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: thank god.
Speaker 1: We made it.
Speaker 3: Because it's just been such a big finish to the year.
Speaker 3: I feel like we say this on a podcast every year,
Speaker 3: the last few weeks is insane. This year has been
Speaker 3: double that because we've had graduation, we've had final assemblies,
Speaker 3: we've had everything you can think of, all in the
Speaker 3: last week, Christmas Caroline Dancers. Still, we've had all of
Speaker 3: the goods thrown into this last week. On top of that,
Speaker 3: uniform fittings and just like the constant thing. But I
Speaker 3: think I've got to the point where I might have
Speaker 3: emptied my bucket so much that now I'm just at
Speaker 3: the other part of like it's the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I have got no fucks to give.
Speaker 2: Now, did you go on a three week bender?
Speaker 3: No, I should have. I think I would have handled
Speaker 3: it a bit better. I got to that point and
Speaker 3: I was sort of questioned, you know. We left the
Speaker 3: uniform fitting and Sam messaged me and goes, how did
Speaker 3: you go?
Speaker 1: Did you get all emotional?
Speaker 2: What did you say? Well, the bank's empty.
Speaker 3: I just like wrote back and was like, I don't
Speaker 3: know what's wrong with me. No, I didn't cry. I
Speaker 3: didn't find it emotional at all. We got in, we
Speaker 3: did it, We argued, and we left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. If it wasn't arguing, Like, if
Speaker 2: it was all like sweetness and light and you know, lovely,
Speaker 2: you might have been like, oh, look at her.
Speaker 1: I didn't. Yeah, I didn't feel any of that, Katie.
Speaker 3: We argued about like the uniform, because clearly I designed
Speaker 3: the uniform or in the school, so it was my fault.
Speaker 3: And then the other thing was we stood at the
Speaker 3: front counter and the lady brought out the school bag,
Speaker 3: the school's school bag, yep, and she's like, it's got laptop,
Speaker 3: this and da da da, and this is how we
Speaker 3: end it's got a warranty of the whole time that
Speaker 3: they're at school.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, that's great.
Speaker 3: She stood, they're facing the lady. And also we went
Speaker 3: with like one of her friends and her mum, and
Speaker 3: so in front of all of us, and she stood
Speaker 3: there and she goes, absolutely not, I am not wearing that.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a Nike bag that I'm getting for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I looked around. I was like, sorry.
Speaker 3: She goes, I'm not wearing that. She said, I'll wear
Speaker 3: the Nike one that I'm getting for Christmas. I said, well,
Speaker 3: that's weird because you won't be coming here.
Speaker 1: She just looked at me.
Speaker 3: I said, you're not going to go to the school
Speaker 3: if you don't wear the school bag. The whole thing
Speaker 3: is like the principle of this, which is we're paying
Speaker 3: all of this money for all of these uniforms.
Speaker 1: Just use the school bag. Yeah, it's not going to
Speaker 1: make a difference.
Speaker 3: And keep your Nike bag for weekends and school activities
Speaker 3: and when you need it for your uniforms for like
Speaker 3: the sports days and all of that stuff. Because on
Speaker 3: top of this, I've also got to organize her a
Speaker 3: dance bag to take to school because she's in the
Speaker 3: dance program, which is another whole uniform. Yeah, mate, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have enough bags. It doesn't matter which bag it is.
Speaker 3: But for me, I was like, no, this is the
Speaker 3: principle of it.
Speaker 2: So my girls argued about the school bag too, and
Speaker 2: so at their school it is compulsory they have to
Speaker 2: have the school bag. So there's a bag that they
Speaker 2: have to take to school, and then there's like a
Speaker 2: satchel which they have to use during the school day
Speaker 2: to carry their books and stuff from class. So the
Speaker 2: idea is they take their big bag to school, they
Speaker 2: put it in their locker, and then they take out
Speaker 2: their satchel and then they just put like what they
Speaker 2: need for the first couple of periods, and then they
Speaker 2: go back to the locker and they swap them over
Speaker 2: and all the rest of it. Now, the girls refused
Speaker 2: to get this satchel. Absolutely, no one uses it. It's ugly.
Speaker 2: Like just had a real problem with it. I'm fine,
Speaker 2: that's fine, I'm not going to carry a body. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars each, it's going to be really inconvenient
Speaker 2: you have to carry. They did. They had to carry
Speaker 2: their books to each period in their arms because they
Speaker 2: were so adamant that they weren't going to use this satchel?
Speaker 1: How long is it still?
Speaker 2: To this day, I have not bought that satchel. Yeah,
Speaker 2: carrying it in their hands must be really fucking annoying.
Speaker 2: But that social suicide. I'm like, really social suicide, that's
Speaker 2: what they tell me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, if Gracie even thought to say that, it probably
Speaker 3: would have come out of her mouth.
Speaker 1: But it was like the full pushback.
Speaker 3: An argument delivered from her after You've just stood there
Speaker 3: and nearly for X amount of dollars worth of uniforms
Speaker 3: and then still stands there and does that, and.
Speaker 1: I go, mate.
Speaker 2: I had a conversation with the uniform lady because the
Speaker 2: girls needed new uniforms this year, and I knew it
Speaker 2: was going to be a battle because no, we don't
Speaker 2: want the dress that length. It needs to be shorter.
Speaker 2: Well know, it needs to be what the school allows.
Speaker 2: And so I got the lady on side first. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get some pushback here. Can you please
Speaker 2: be the one that says you know what? So, because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to be the back guy
Speaker 2: all the time, like the argument is always going to
Speaker 2: be with me, So I'm like, can you just step
Speaker 2: up and tell me what the rules are and there
Speaker 2: will have to just go by that.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 2: So there was pushback on the length of the dress,
Speaker 2: and the lady stood there. She went, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: It needs to be there. That's the rules, that's where
Speaker 2: it needs to be. And I could just see the
Speaker 2: girls like hating his but not saying anything. They weren't
Speaker 2: going to be rude to her. They are only going
Speaker 2: to be rude to me the length of the dress.
Speaker 2: And then they wear like bike pants underneath, and so
Speaker 2: it was the length of those and they put them
Speaker 2: on and they like laughed, like thinking, there is no
Speaker 2: way we're wearing them like this. So they pulled them
Speaker 2: right up like so they made them really short, and
Speaker 2: the lady walked over and yanked them down. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I went, no, that's how they need to be.
Speaker 1: And they were just like they're like, oh no, we're
Speaker 1: not wearing that.
Speaker 3: Gracie genuinely got in the change room and the skirt
Speaker 3: is like just past knees and given they're grade seven, like,
Speaker 3: you got so much growing to do. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, she was like, oh, that's fine because I
Speaker 3: know exactly what to do.
Speaker 1: You just roll it up.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've all rolled our skits.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. I was like, not even worried about my
Speaker 1: skirt length.
Speaker 2: I remember Rach wearing my school shoes to school, the
Speaker 2: ones that I was allowed to wear, and taking platforms,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, in my back and changing them at.
Speaker 1: School at school. Yeah, how come we weren't getting pulled
Speaker 1: up at school?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: I thought that was where I was.
Speaker 2: I probably was.
Speaker 1: I remember, must have spent some time in detention.
Speaker 2: Yes, principle screaming at me from down the corridor. Katie Matten,
Speaker 2: get into that and wash that makeup off.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I was so straightforward as a kid. I have to
Speaker 3: like say though, it was pretty funny. And Grace's little
Speaker 3: friend Ev she goes, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 3: When I'm on the oval and I want to do
Speaker 3: a cartwheel? People are just going to see my nickers, Like,
Speaker 3: out of everything going through your head right now? That
Speaker 3: is all that matters When I do a cartwheel during
Speaker 3: lunch break?
Speaker 1: What's going to happen? I was like, I looked at
Speaker 1: her and said, baby, just put on bike pants. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Oh she's like walking off.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, it's hilarious where their
Speaker 3: little brains go. Yeah, cartwheels at lunchtime.
Speaker 2: So how much did it set you back a lot
Speaker 2: of money for all this uniform? It's like hundreds, Yeah, seven,
Speaker 2: it's so expensive.
Speaker 1: Seven before Christmas?
Speaker 2: Why I bought the school shoes so big that first
Speaker 2: year they lasted free, didn't.
Speaker 3: Even that's not even with the shoes, that's not even
Speaker 3: with the book pack.
Speaker 1: Clearly, I actually am just.
Speaker 2: Do what I suggested with the shoes, by the massive,
Speaker 2: big clown shoes.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what shoes I've got to get
Speaker 3: her actually, now that we start, just big ones, big
Speaker 3: floppy