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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode about I a Bad Mom
Speaker 2: podcast or on Instagram? Two Am I a bad mum?
Speaker 2: You always look at me at the start of the episode, like,
Speaker 2: what's she gonna say?
Speaker 1: Where's she going with this?
Speaker 3: I had such a bad mom morning this morning. This
Speaker 3: morning's chaos was purely because of me. My alarm went
Speaker 3: off at the gym at four point thirty rough right, yeah.
Speaker 1: And it window it's so cold right now.
Speaker 3: And I flicked what I thought was my gym alarm
Speaker 3: off because I set two of them, so the first
Speaker 3: one goes off automatically. I pressed stop, and then in
Speaker 3: my head, I thought I picked my phone up and
Speaker 3: turned off my four point thirty five alarm, which is
Speaker 3: my second one, but I didn't. I turned off my
Speaker 3: third alarm, which is like the six fifteen, enough time
Speaker 3: to get up and get ready and then get Gracie
Speaker 3: off to school and all of that stuff. But obviously
Speaker 3: I was asleep and I just flicked off the six fifteen,
Speaker 3: and then the second gym one obviously went but I
Speaker 3: didn't sort of half even work that out, so I'd
Speaker 3: pressed stop on that one obviously, and then nothing went
Speaker 3: off at six point fifteen, So then I don't know,
Speaker 3: by chance my body's like woken me up. It's six
Speaker 3: twenty five. I have to have Gracie out of the
Speaker 3: door in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh to get planned to get up at four thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like I planned to get up at
Speaker 3: four thirty and then and then four thirty five my
Speaker 3: alarm went off again. I'd obviously just press stop on that,
Speaker 3: but then I'd picked my phone up thinking that I'd
Speaker 3: turned off my gym alarm when it was and it
Speaker 3: was my get up.
Speaker 1: You have to go alarm.
Speaker 3: I don't tend to be like this all year, but
Speaker 3: as soon as I get into winter, I'm a fucking
Speaker 3: hot mess.
Speaker 1: I hate being old mans. I hate yeah, cold mess.
Speaker 1: I hate being cold.
Speaker 3: This morning, twenty minutes in order to get her a
Speaker 3: even out of bed, be dressed and operating, and then
Speaker 3: in that same time get myself dressed and operating, do
Speaker 3: little lunch boxes for her, and then also get her
Speaker 3: cereal in a takeaway bowl so she can eat in
Speaker 3: the time frame in the car.
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, crazy, twenty minute. Let me get so twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: So when I think about my girls, eighteen minutes of
Speaker 2: that is get out of bed, Get out of bed,
Speaker 2: get out of bed exactly, and then you've got like,
Speaker 2: hurry up, choose in hand, breakfast in hand.
Speaker 3: At one stage, Katie, I looked at her and said.
Speaker 2: Eat this cereal put in your mouth.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to drive the car. I feel sorry for
Speaker 3: it because I'm just bugging.
Speaker 1: Stundar twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 2: One eye opened having to shuffle cereal down.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mum for mixing shit up?
Speaker 3: I know it's actually just a little fun reflective moment.
Speaker 3: But Katie, this is so different to what I have
Speaker 3: ever done. And I don't actually even know why I
Speaker 3: did it. I think because I walked past something in
Speaker 3: the Ida. I was getting stuff on the way home,
Speaker 3: and I had to get a couple of things for dinner,
Speaker 3: and I was walking through Ida, our local Ida, which
Speaker 3: is highly overpriced.
Speaker 1: Just needed to add that in just made me feel better.
Speaker 1: And I just genuinely.
Speaker 3: Was walking about Sistan and all of these DIY slime.
Speaker 1: Kits were reduced for half price. Slime Don't worry.
Speaker 3: I paid fucking overs for everything else but the slime
Speaker 3: kids for half price. But it looked really creative, and
Speaker 3: I thought I would just get one for each of
Speaker 3: the girls, right number one hate slime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that shit goes on your carpet, Elsie.
Speaker 1: You didn't even really budget it.
Speaker 3: So I took it home and I went, oh, so
Speaker 3: I got you something, an IgA, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: Can I have a look.
Speaker 3: She came out and she goes, oh, slime kid, thanks, mum,
Speaker 3: walked straight back into the TV room.
Speaker 1: Oh, and I think I was like waiting for a
Speaker 1: reaction where she was really excited. Yeah, anyway, let's fast forward.
Speaker 3: She sat down, we ate dinner, that was all well
Speaker 3: and good, and then she goes, I think I might
Speaker 3: get my slime kit out.
Speaker 1: Is that okay? And I was like, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: that's great.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely gonna video it, you know, like what I'm
Speaker 3: like with screen time?
Speaker 1: I was like, why like.
Speaker 2: A haul like of what she's got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a hal or like an unboxing or
Speaker 3: an anyway, instead of me doing what I normally do,
Speaker 3: which is absolutely not put the screen down and you
Speaker 3: do not need it, just sit there and be in
Speaker 3: the moment, enjoy the slime kit for you, Like, who
Speaker 3: are going to send it to? You're not putting up
Speaker 3: on your YouTube channel, you don't have one anyway. Instead
Speaker 3: I was just like, yeah, sure, go for gold. And
Speaker 3: she sat there no way to lie for the next
Speaker 3: hour at different times like doing this screen stuff, but
Speaker 3: like actually enjoying the whole process, but not only that,
Speaker 3: then relaying step by step what she was doing. So
Speaker 3: it was really interesting to see Amy drop my guard
Speaker 3: to allow her that. But she's doing it all in
Speaker 3: front of me, so it's not going anywhere, it's not
Speaker 3: being sent anywhere, it's not being shown anywhere. But for
Speaker 3: her it was something completely new. But it was just
Speaker 3: really interesting to watch that creative sort of flow.
Speaker 1: Happen for her.
Speaker 3: My reflection as a parent was I loosened the string
Speaker 3: a little bit. They sat there for way longer than
Speaker 3: what they normally would, and instead of watching TV, they
Speaker 3: sort of did that, played with this slime, designed all
Speaker 3: this stuff like creative. But then right at the end,
Speaker 3: once you've major masterpiece, you squish it up and it's slim.
Speaker 2: So it's two things in one. So you've got slime
Speaker 2: and the actual making whatever you're making, Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: you've got the filming it and making it a kind
Speaker 2: of YouTube video that yeah, go on YouTube. But they're
Speaker 2: all doing that, I know. So when the girls get
Speaker 2: Christmas presents, for example, they then go on and do
Speaker 2: a hall and so this goes on their Snapchat, and
Speaker 2: so they film the things that they've got. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: I got this and I'm really excited and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Everything's content, right, even the part that it blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Yours that haven't got social media yet, they're already going,
Speaker 2: this is content, Like we need to film this. You
Speaker 2: know what my girls used to watch all the time.
Speaker 1: People are unboxing things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but also people filming themselves playing video games.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't get it.
Speaker 2: It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find that so weird.
Speaker 2: And they make also people make me millions and all
Speaker 2: they do is film themselves going okay, and so this
Speaker 2: is what I have to do for this part, and
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna shoot this guy here and.
Speaker 3: For someone though, like myself, Katie that finds it hard
Speaker 3: to s it's still to watch, even the shows on
Speaker 3: Netflix that I want to watch, Like, I think about
Speaker 3: me wasting my life watching somebody else play a game
Speaker 3: like that blows my mudh It captures kids, little brains
Speaker 3: and does all that.
Speaker 1: Obviously we know why been.
Speaker 2: Scrolling through TikTok and it's like you're watching like three
Speaker 2: to four seconds of each video. Yeah, and they say.
Speaker 1: That now like nothing is capturing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it needs to be the first few seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, twelve seconds tops, Like that's wild Hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is why they've got wild Man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well that's the first time ever ever let the girls
Speaker 3: do anything like that. It was just so interesting to
Speaker 3: see a different side of them. But also it was
Speaker 3: nice that they didn't want to go straight into like
Speaker 3: watching TV or whatever. I think Lego Masters is the
Speaker 3: current flavor at the moment, but like it was nice
Speaker 3: to see them just sit there and be creative.
Speaker 2: Imagine if Elsie says one day, Mum, I've been really
Speaker 2: thinking about what I want to do when I'm older,
Speaker 2: and I realized that this is going to take off,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to film myself making different things out
Speaker 2: of slime. You know, have kids subscribing all over the world.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be a millionaire. Yeah you thought she would
Speaker 2: be a millionaire from playing tennis or netball, or it's
Speaker 2: going to be making fucking slime.
Speaker 3: I had to do it twice though, I was like,
Speaker 3: looking at it going, you forget that there are devices
Speaker 3: going and they're doing a show technically right, putting on
Speaker 3: a show for themselves. And at the same time you're
Speaker 3: in the background, You're still like your normal household is functioning,
Speaker 3: and so like, at one stage, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, row, get outside, you idiot.
Speaker 2: Like it's capturing all of your.
Speaker 1: Me I was like, oh that is odd.
Speaker 2: This is such a thing, Rach. And you will no
Speaker 2: matter how much you protest right now, you will get
Speaker 2: to a point your kids will be all over social
Speaker 2: media and one day out day my girls do edits
Speaker 2: of Billie I List videos, right, yeah, they're not on
Speaker 2: the videos. Like, the two of them don't do anything
Speaker 2: else on this particular TikTok channel other than do edits
Speaker 2: of billy videos and put them together in cap car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've got like three million followers on there. It's insane.
Speaker 1: Billy are crazy good on them though. That's really cool
Speaker 1: cap Carters.
Speaker 2: I was like, why don't you use that channel? Stop
Speaker 2: posting your own stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, slowly introduce who they are, like an introduction, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then go from there.
Speaker 2: The people behind the Billy Eilish aid it. They will
Speaker 2: never do that.
Speaker 1: No, just keep producing the music, Billy.
Speaker 2: They said the other day, they we, Mom, did you
Speaker 2: hear about something happened with Billy Eilish. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what it was. If someone said something bad or
Speaker 2: something and they were like, Mom, like it was so sad.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, poor Billy eilis crying into a million
Speaker 2: of dollars. Oh, and I think she's doing all right.
Speaker 1: I think she's brushed it off. Her management got rid
Speaker 1: of it, and she didn't even know