Speaker 1: Appod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode about I
Speaker 1: Bad Mum podcast, a podcast where we bitch about our
Speaker 1: kids for ten minutes. That's not my kids, honestly, just
Speaker 1: think that. They're like, what are you gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that on your podcast? Because I'll write notes every now
Speaker 1: and then. I'm like, oh, that's a perfect topic for
Speaker 1: the podcast. And they're like, oh, the podcast where you
Speaker 1: just bitch and moan about you kids saying bad things
Speaker 1: about us?
Speaker 2: What do you want us to do? Say good things?
Speaker 1: Yes, will be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, then show me the money. Guys.
Speaker 2: The other part of it is, Katie, we do love
Speaker 2: our children. We just have moments of parenting that come up,
Speaker 2: like every other person that is doing this thing called parenting,
Speaker 2: that you you just need to speak about because it
Speaker 2: gives some relevance to other people. Yeah, because like sometimes
Speaker 2: you'll say stuff and I'll go, ah, yeah, I get it,
Speaker 2: except I'm not as laid down the track. I'm earlier
Speaker 2: in that sort of spin of it. Two girls are
Speaker 2: all to come, and it's the same with like moms
Speaker 2: with the boys. They've got the same sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just on a higher level. Yeah, the boys are
Speaker 2: harder at the younger age. They get easier on the
Speaker 2: later stage. That's what most of the mums that I
Speaker 2: know they've got boys, they put in the hard yards early,
Speaker 2: whereas we've had a good start and then ours gets
Speaker 2: harder with the hormones coming in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe was a high speed car chase in our
Speaker 1: area the other night, and when I googled it the
Speaker 1: next day, it was a fifteen year old boy. He
Speaker 1: was being chased by a police helicopter and a police
Speaker 1: obviously car.
Speaker 2: He must be a really good driver for fifteen. That's
Speaker 2: my girl's age. I know what's with that question is yeah,
Speaker 2: but my question is where are the parents. Yeah, these
Speaker 2: children that are running around loose, they've got parents.
Speaker 1: Your solution to it was perfect that we should all
Speaker 1: just buy manual cars.
Speaker 2: One percent going to get stolen. Trust me if it's
Speaker 2: a manual, because these little ships don't know how to
Speaker 2: drive manuals. I ain't going out and getting their license
Speaker 2: and going, hey, I need an auto and emmanual. Why
Speaker 2: because I want to steal cars for the rest of
Speaker 2: my life. Flogs.
Speaker 1: Am I mad mum for calling someone else's kid an asshole?
Speaker 2: Standard? No? I don't call other people's kids assholes, often.
Speaker 1: Not to their faces. This incident was this morning. Actually,
Speaker 1: I was driving into work and and when I haven't
Speaker 1: got kids in the car, like I either like to,
Speaker 1: depending on my mood, listen to a podcast or listen
Speaker 1: to music. Depends on whether I want to be thoughtful
Speaker 1: and have some inspiration for the day, or whether I
Speaker 1: just want to be at retro's listening to the nineties
Speaker 1: dance hits.
Speaker 2: Just needing a little bit of a sensory overload to
Speaker 2: get you through the morning, make me feel young again, Yeah,
Speaker 2: totally get it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, driving in I enjoy driving by myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it a bit a piece and choiet, get
Speaker 1: your phone calls done, that kind of stuff. And the
Speaker 1: car in front of me, obviously there's some kids. You
Speaker 1: can see kids in the back because you know they're
Speaker 1: in car seats, but you know they're kind of shit
Speaker 1: shit gothers, arms and legs and shit. I mean, I
Speaker 1: didn't see it, but I'm sure at some point there
Speaker 1: was the old reach around from the mum grabbing an ankle.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I see a shoe
Speaker 1: thrown out the window, and you could see it's a
Speaker 1: small kid's shoe that's been thrown out of the window.
Speaker 1: My instant reaction is, oh, my goodness, like, that's a
Speaker 1: shoe you've been thrown out, and then I've run over
Speaker 1: it because we can't right behind, and I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that the shoe was going to come flying out the window.
Speaker 1: And then I've run over the shoe and then I've
Speaker 1: like looked in my mirror behind I'm like, oh, that
Speaker 1: shoes ruined now. But my instant thought was you are
Speaker 1: an asshole. That kid's an asshole because that mom has
Speaker 1: gone out and she has spent her money on your
Speaker 1: shoes so that you can do whatever you wherever you're going,
Speaker 1: kindie park, whatever, so you can do that shit because
Speaker 1: you've got shoes on. Now you've just thrown a shoe
Speaker 1: out the window.
Speaker 2: Made me feel really sad, maybe feel sad angry. Pulled
Speaker 2: up and that was my kid thrown their shoe out
Speaker 2: the window. Yeah, that's our windows have got locks these days.
Speaker 2: Just lock it, lock it page those animals in agent.
Speaker 2: Don't let them throw their clothes out of the I
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever seen that, and no, I've not
Speaker 2: even experienced that as a parent.
Speaker 1: This was a small child, obviously I could see.
Speaker 2: The or like a sibling. I threw it a sibling
Speaker 2: straight away. Maybe it was stuck in the middle of
Speaker 2: the two car seats. Imagine that, right, Oh, you little prick,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to throw it out the window. You're
Speaker 2: going to get in trouble from mum for throwing yours
Speaker 2: at it, Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Either way, there was a kid in the car that
Speaker 1: was an asshole, that was like, I don't care about
Speaker 1: mum's money and the fact that she went out and
Speaker 1: bought these shoes for my brother or for me. It's
Speaker 1: a complete disregard for you and your time and your
Speaker 1: hard work, anything which never changes. Rach. Honestly, we talk
Speaker 1: about the things we should and shouldn't do as parents,
Speaker 1: and we talk about the fact that a child psychologist
Speaker 1: will often say do it differently. We talk about the
Speaker 1: ninety second rule, wait and have a think before you react.
Speaker 1: I cried the other day when one of the girls
Speaker 1: was in the shower. This was like a fake cry,
Speaker 1: but I was like, at the end of my teller,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to get this into their heads,
Speaker 1: and I pretended to start crying, and she's like, what
Speaker 1: are you crying about? I was like, you've taken so
Speaker 1: long in this shower. I can't afford the electricity bill.
Speaker 2: Did they just laugh or just say oh god, Mom's
Speaker 2: lost again.
Speaker 1: She's like stared at me, like serious, are you really
Speaker 1: crying over the electricity bill or the water bill? The
Speaker 1: fact that I'm having a long shower. And then in
Speaker 1: my own head, I'm going, are you really pretending to
Speaker 1: cry to try and get her to have a shorter shower?
Speaker 2: Maybe you just need to put like one of those
Speaker 2: time caps on the hot water system. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can do this anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get them from Bunnings. But my hesitation
Speaker 1: on that is that that's the shower that guests will
Speaker 1: use if they come to stay.
Speaker 2: Well, you've only got five minutes. Sorry, you don't get
Speaker 2: longer than that. Sorry, our guests that stay five minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you if it's easily to put on, it's easy
Speaker 2: to remove.
Speaker 1: We time our showers in this house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. Let's just roll with that.
Speaker 1: My auntie came and stayed a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and she's really old school in that she has baths
Speaker 1: a lot o water bill when she left after having
Speaker 1: a bath every day, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: We're sharing one or two.
Speaker 1: Sorry, we tie our showers and the bath can only
Speaker 1: go up to this line.
Speaker 2: Don't feel above that line. I would loll so hard
Speaker 2: if that happened. Oh sorry, you run out of hot water.
Speaker 2: You'll just have to use the bottom.
Speaker 1: Is it okay? If I have a bath, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: if you want a real shallow.
Speaker 2: One, you can wash your feet in that.
Speaker 1: We're thinking about getting a B day, just use that instead.
Speaker 1: As a kid growing up, we had a B day
Speaker 1: in our house. Do you know what a B day is?
Speaker 1: You wash your bum And I used to wash my
Speaker 1: feet when I was a kid. And you know when
Speaker 1: you start wearing like sneakers and your feet sink because
Speaker 1: you wear them with no socks. Yeah, I never really
Speaker 1: used the B day from my vagina, just my feet.
Speaker 2: I was loving because you call it B day? What
Speaker 2: is it? And I thought it was like the day.
Speaker 1: Day?
Speaker 2: So I could be wrong. I could be wrong. But
Speaker 2: now that you're saying that, when I was living in
Speaker 2: the Middle East for those few years, I used to
Speaker 2: do the same thing. Used to wash my feet in
Speaker 2: there when I get from work, because you're coming out
Speaker 2: of your work choose and you're like, whoa, they are gross.
Speaker 2: And that was with stockings, so I would just wash
Speaker 2: my feet in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do think that they're actually quite a significant asset
Speaker 2: to one's household when you think about it, like, we're
Speaker 2: one of the only cultures that don't.
Speaker 1: Clean your barm. We just use tissue paper. And really
Speaker 1: that's quite gross, isn't it, because you're just smearing.
Speaker 2: Eating from the same hands that you're wiping your bottom with.
Speaker 1: Also the cleaning of your bum, we're just wiping it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: When we were on holiday, we had a heated toilet seat.
Speaker 2: When you travel to Japan, they've got so many buttons
Speaker 2: on the side of a toilet. You know, you.
Speaker 1: Got hoses. It goes up, it goes sideways.
Speaker 2: I remember taking the kids and I had to go
Speaker 2: to the toilet in order to learn how to use
Speaker 2: the toilet, in order to be able to teach the
Speaker 2: girls how to use the toilet because they looked at
Speaker 2: all these buttons. And we went in ski season, so
Speaker 2: it was freezing, but then that warmth when you sit down. Now,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, when I sit down. If I
Speaker 2: have to sit down on a toilet seat at Westfield
Speaker 2: and it's warm, I'm fucking off that thing in a
Speaker 2: hot That means somebody has been sitting on that too far,
Speaker 2: too long. But you go to Japan and that seat
Speaker 2: is heated, so it's actually kind of that. You sit
Speaker 2: down and you're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I'll sit here for quite a while. This
Speaker 1: is lovely, it's enjoyable toilet It's weird. Who's the thought.
Speaker 2: Even going down that track of talking about kids and
Speaker 2: toilets and wiping the bottom? How many times do you
Speaker 2: have to have the conversation about toilet hygiene with your kids?
Speaker 2: I'm talking all ages and this whole thing of going
Speaker 2: why do you need fourteen squares of paper for one
Speaker 2: Wii fold? Its three or four little squares follow them
Speaker 2: together one Wii. That's plenty. That's not going through that paper, Like,
Speaker 2: just cut back on the usage of the toilet paper,
Speaker 2: not because we're short on toilet paper, but because you're
Speaker 2: clogging the system. And you're like, yay hi, how many
Speaker 2: times are after this conversation with my kids about toilet eyeiene?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Really implicating some bathroom rules in this episode, I
Speaker 1: think so. Bath's are shallow, showers are timed, fold your
Speaker 1: toilet roll.
Speaker 2: Bi days are used for cleaning food for day B
Speaker 2: day Day. Sounds very fancy, even just saying the word.
Speaker 1: It's a fancy thing to have, but all it does
Speaker 1: is shoot water up your asshole.