Speaker 1: Apodja Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
Speaker 1: A Bad Mom? Podcast? That's the question we ask, am
Speaker 1: I a bad mum? And then you say no.
Speaker 2: And we allay cheers, cheers for what? Cheers for another day,
Speaker 2: another day of sanity and all being on the same bus. Patience, patience,
Speaker 2: what else? Moments of reflection.
Speaker 1: Someone sent me this on Instagram. It says, whoever invented
Speaker 1: slime and then made a YouTube video how to show
Speaker 1: kids how to make slime? I hope you step on lego?
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny? Slime and lego both things that I
Speaker 2: don't overly love.
Speaker 1: Don't even get me started on slime. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. It ruins carpets, It ruins furniture, It gets
Speaker 1: in hair, It does my head, and I hate it.
Speaker 2: Am I a bad mum for sending my child to
Speaker 2: singing lessons? After the dentist? After the dentist?
Speaker 1: What does she have to have done at the dentist?
Speaker 2: I feel like a bad mum even opening this conversation up,
Speaker 2: because I've had this conversation with our dentists, going why
Speaker 2: what are we doing wrong? She's getting a feeling at
Speaker 2: the back on one of her big teeth like a
Speaker 2: moler at the back. Yeah, And I sort of went
Speaker 2: straight in and just was like.
Speaker 1: What are we doing wrong?
Speaker 2: Why's her teeth needing fillings? She's seven?
Speaker 1: You can need a feeling from overbrushing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that. That's my problem with my children.
Speaker 2: I feel like all I do is shove that toothbrush
Speaker 2: right down their throat just to try and brush them
Speaker 2: every night. I'm still helping out with brushing their teeth
Speaker 2: every night.
Speaker 1: It can be certain things like fruit juice. Like fruit
Speaker 1: juice is good, like proper orange juice is really good
Speaker 1: for you, But it's the acidity and the sugars that are.
Speaker 2: In it you can Yeah, she is more of the
Speaker 2: juice drinker. Both My children wouldn't know what soft drink is,
Speaker 2: so I don't have to worry about that. I know
Speaker 2: what you mean, though.
Speaker 1: Do you think it sounds bad when you say my
Speaker 1: kid needs a filling at age seven?
Speaker 2: Seven? Yeah? Why is her teeth falling apart at seven?
Speaker 1: Because you don't want to grow eat lollies all day long?
Speaker 2: No, she's a fruit bat though, Like I'm talking, proper
Speaker 2: fruit bat, always eating fruit. Yes, fruit yes, Elsie said
Speaker 2: that too. Elsie chimed in and was like, oh, because
Speaker 2: you love those fruits. She always calls it fruits. I
Speaker 2: don't know why she thinks it's more than one, but
Speaker 2: she says, you're always eating the fruits, and so she
Speaker 2: thinks that that's the reason. So that would be another
Speaker 2: reason for her never to eat fruit in her whole entire.
Speaker 1: Any fruit or vegetables. And now she's seeing her sister
Speaker 1: has to go and have a filling because she eats
Speaker 1: fruit and vegetables.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. So basically as we do, and coming
Speaker 2: out of isolation, everything's like coming slowly back to normal.
Speaker 2: And so I'm jam packing the kids' lives again, which
Speaker 2: we said that we wouldn't do. But she's got singing lessons,
Speaker 2: and the amount of joy that my child gets when
Speaker 2: she walks out of singing lessons, I'm not seeing her
Speaker 2: like this with anything.
Speaker 1: Does she get her singing voice from you? Do you think, yes,
Speaker 1: you're a good singer?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I know. Yeah, I can't sing and don't have
Speaker 2: a musical sort of note in my body, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: You've got to accept not being good at things.
Speaker 1: As long as you like listening. To it. I love
Speaker 1: listening to my own singing. No one else does.
Speaker 2: I like it. It was really good in the shower
Speaker 2: when no one else is listening. So she comes out
Speaker 2: with these vibes. So I thought, oh shit, now I've
Speaker 2: got a dentist. So I've got a rush. And we
Speaker 2: go to a dentist on the other side of Brisbane,
Speaker 2: so we've got to pick her up. Do the dentist
Speaker 2: come back? And she was like, no, but I cannot
Speaker 2: miss singing. Cannot can't, I said, but you can under stand.
Speaker 1: For a second, how come you go to a dentist
Speaker 1: that's over the other side of town. You know that
Speaker 1: there's a dentist like on every other street everywhere. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, your childhood dentist.
Speaker 2: No, it's not my childhood, but but I really like him.
Speaker 1: Did he give you a sticker?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It gave me a real pad on the back
Speaker 2: brush every time, they're amazing.
Speaker 1: Do you always take the little toothpaste samples the samples?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you get your kids to give you your pocket?
Speaker 2: No, because they give us a bag every time. So
Speaker 2: any appointment that we go, we get a little kit bag.
Speaker 2: You leave with a kit bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you can get the extra ones that
Speaker 1: reception the samples.
Speaker 2: They've got apples on the desk, so yeah, I know
Speaker 2: it's healthy as well.
Speaker 1: Good for your teeth. That's too many apple there.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know why I do it. Do you
Speaker 2: want to know another weird fact about me? Here we
Speaker 2: go throw myself under the bush.
Speaker 1: God, what's going to be?
Speaker 2: He always smells nice. His after shave is really nice.
Speaker 2: And I don't have a crush on him. And he's
Speaker 2: married and I'm married, and it's fine. But somebody smells nice.
Speaker 1: Drive across the other side of town to the dentist
Speaker 1: for Is that.
Speaker 2: What you're saying? Okay, alright, say let's go back to
Speaker 2: my child. This is the reason why I feel very comfortable.
Speaker 2: I really love them. They're an amazing team.
Speaker 1: But oh now it's the team.
Speaker 2: It's not just the nice it's just him when I
Speaker 2: only see him. But yeah, so I feel comfortable with him,
Speaker 2: hence my children going there. So then she's going back
Speaker 2: with a numb face to try and do singing lessons
Speaker 2: a video. I'm not lad in.
Speaker 1: The room because she can't even talk. When you've had
Speaker 1: your teeth number.
Speaker 2: I can imagine it's probably gonna be really numb because
Speaker 2: it's one of the big molars at the back. It's
Speaker 2: going to be great, isn't it. She almost she'll probably
Speaker 2: drill as she's singing.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there are other kids there is it just
Speaker 1: a private lesson lesson? Thank goodness.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't make her do that. That'd be terrible. If
Speaker 2: there's someone else in the room.
Speaker 1: It's going to be terrible anyway. She's going to be
Speaker 1: dribbling it when she won't be able to say a word,
Speaker 1: you know when you have that numbness horn.
Speaker 2: I'm saying you sound, and then she's going to be
Speaker 2: singing it.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mom for sending my child to
Speaker 1: seeing lessons? After yes your own Homan.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask to at least record a snippet ah
Speaker 2: ship We do, No, you do.