1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: This is the Fits In and with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: I was even on a flight yesterday and you could 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: tell there was a flying out of cool and gatterer 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: into Sydney. Last flight into Sydney. Parents at the end 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: of their tether, you know, I know. And there's still 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: over a week to go for some people, a fortnite 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: before the kids go back to school. I did spend 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: a bit of time up north, in particular with my 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: one of my sisters who lives on the Gold Coast, 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: and you're getting to that part of the parenting. She 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: has two little girls, six and three, and then of course 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: my daughter May is nine, and it's getting to that 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: part of the holidays. We kind of got to pull 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: out the big guns to get them to do what 15 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: you want. And at the beginning of the holidays, you're 16 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: quite happy to do that nicely and politely because we're 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: all going to have a really good holiday, aren't we go. 18 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: And then now it's getting a bit like I said 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: to my poor little niece who's three, who was crying 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: and wanted to be carried, you know, up up the stairs, 21 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: that if she doesn't lose, if she doesn't use her legs, 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: they tend to fall off nice and she should know 23 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: that it's pretty heavy threat. So things start to backfire 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: because you do have to get that. I mean, I 25 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: had an uncle who told me that he didn't have 26 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: a finger because he picked his nose. And it scares 27 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: the Bejesus out of you, and it does as a 28 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: child stick and the certain things you don't do. I 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: want to hear from you this morning, thirteen twenty four 30 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: to ten. If you've got if you've resorted to putting 31 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: the fear of God into your children so they for 32 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: your own control, for your own levels of control, you 33 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: don't want to go to extreme. I know there was 34 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: a family in the US who were charged over something 35 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: where I think remember those videos that were online where 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the parents were scaring the children. I don't know if 37 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: you remember them, but the I think mum and dad 38 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: were either dressing up or jump out of cupboards or 39 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: boxes and then like telling them that something awful was 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: going to happen to them. And then they actually got 41 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: done on some COmON charges and the kids jumping to 42 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: surprise them by jumping into a foster hunt. It's something, 43 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: Oh my god. First thumbs up for twenty twenty four 44 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: even stumbled on the delivery and still got the thumbs off. 45 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: You should have come back last week. You are the cobwebs. 46 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: You are a generous crowd. Everyone's done monster under the bed, 47 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: haven't they? Haven't you fifty would have done, there's a 48 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: monster under the bed. You don't do that out of sleep. 49 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: Oh you can't do that, because they then they never sleep. 50 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: They do sleep. If you don't go to the monster 51 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: will get you. 52 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: That was Jason busy fingers for me, and I had 53 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 2: to tell him to get out of their house. 54 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: Was your bed? But no, no, no. 55 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: The other one is I want to hear from parents 56 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: that ain't twenty four to ten. 57 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 1: Eating vegetables is a big one at the table. 58 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: I mean, what do you tell your kids because you 59 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 2: know you always you know it wasn't the carrots. If 60 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 2: you don't eat your carrots, your hair will go curt 61 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: which is I mean for people with curly hair. I 62 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 2: think every kid grows up going, oh my god, you've 63 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 2: never eaten a carrot in your life? 64 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: That was you, Tommy? When what's so bad about Kurl? 65 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 2: Get the girls? Tommy? 66 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: Thank you? Can I tell you? And I don't condone 67 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: this kind of behavior, and I've and I tried it 68 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: and it didn't. It backfired on me, so I won't 69 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: be doing it again. 70 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: I was. 71 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: I've been up north on holidays with my sister. She 72 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,119 Speaker 1: has two little girls who are younger than my May, 73 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: who is nine. So we've been to dinner for like 74 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: five thirty pizza, you know, and we thought we get 75 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: to bed early, but the sun wasn't down by the 76 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: time we'd finished dinner, so we went for a swim 77 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: on the beach and the kids kind of you know, 78 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: they got they didn't have their bathers on, so they 79 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: got their shorts are wet, the t shirts are wet, 80 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: but they are having a wow of a time. Yeah 81 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: that's an hour. Wow wow wow, great bloke wow. Yeah yeah, 82 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: And so they're splashing around. Then you can't get them 83 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: out of the ocean, and they don't want to come in, 84 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: and you don't want to get wet, so you're kind 85 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: of screaming at them, and there's people around, and so 86 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: you're screaming like my mother did for years. I learned 87 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: from the best, like screaming, but doing it with a smile. 88 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: Don't a bit more smile in your face in the look, 89 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: but you're still screaming. Finally get them to the car 90 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: and now they're complaining that they're cold. So they've stayed 91 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: in too long. It's getting dark and now they're shivering. 92 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: Then they won't get in the car. It's because it's 93 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: getting dark and there's a few cars around. We thought 94 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: we'll just strip off. We don't want to get into 95 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: the rent car that we've we've rented for the holiday, 96 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: so just get get your gear, just get your gear, 97 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: strip off. We're taking shorts off, they're all clinging to 98 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: their body. Take in nickers off, get your t shirts. 99 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: And then it becomes a bit of a joke. I mean, 100 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: Noody Rudy's funny when you're a little it's through. 101 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: Still doing it, not for Tom anymore as well, because 102 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 2: Tom has to do it. 103 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: Can't be two hundred meters near the suit, even withinocular 104 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: so we're so sorry. Tim Kate's mud in the car park. 105 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: I'm nude in the car part now I'm not nude. 106 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrangle my sister and I three nude 107 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: like nine six and three girls having a how of 108 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: a time. But they won't, they won't get in the car, 109 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: so you tell them, and finally my sister wrangles the 110 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: youngest one, Molly, who's in the car seat. But you 111 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: know that really fun thing that they do where they'll 112 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: sit in the car seat, but they go as stiff 113 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: as a boards your car. You're not hot, and you 114 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: look over your shoulder because anyone watching me, this child 115 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: in the car, and out the side of your mouth 116 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: you say, I swear you want I just stay still 117 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: day in the Arnie Kate comes to the rescue, and 118 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: I don't know how I did it, because I've never 119 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: been able to do anything this quickly ever with my phone. 120 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: I had my phone in my hand and I took 121 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: I put the code in so I unlocked it, and 122 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: then I just typed in, Look, I mean, it's crazy. 123 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to blow your mind. Okay, shut up trying 124 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: to build it up. I type in police siren sound 125 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: effects and then then I start playing the song on 126 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: my phone. 127 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 3: I go, the police are coming, girls, the police, And 128 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: then I swear to God, I have three they believe 129 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: they fell for it, three screaming. 130 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: They weren't having a hour of a time anymore. Ay 131 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: did you think of that at the time, or you'd 132 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: done that before. Gosh, when you've been rude, cops rocked up. 133 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 2: Beck thought she was going to get a lap dance. 134 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: Let's go to Kelly and Oakdaln. Why don't you scare 135 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: your kids with kil Hello, good cal My. I hated 136 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: balloons popping. It scared the crap out of me, so 137 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: I threatened my kids with any balloon if it popped, 138 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: penny Wise was coming. Oh no, Pennywise has the balloon. 139 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: My twenty nine year old is still shit scared of 140 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: penny Wise. Thank you, Carly, Hello, op Hi, Hey you 141 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: going guys? How'd you scare the kids? Carly? 142 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: When the ice cream man needs to come around? 143 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Wooky, Yeah, I used to tell them that, 144 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: you know, he was the bad guy that would pick 145 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: them up. It's someone I have heard about that that 146 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: music was meant to mean that they were having to 147 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: get you. Is that right? They've sold out of ice cream. 148 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: But the fact that the bad guy, I mean the 149 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: fact that we even sack you're bad guys going to 150 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: come and get. 151 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 2: Just just to save some coins, because there's nothing worse 152 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: when you are as a parent hearing that noise, knowing 153 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: that you have to fork out five bucks for a 154 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: couple of ice creams for the kids. 155 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: You do have to line in that situation well. 156 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: Downder, Kelly and carlic sits. 157 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: In Whippa with Kate Ritchie is an over podcast great 158 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: shows like this. 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