Speaker 1: Apod Shape Production.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode about My Bad Mum podcast.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy to think that this is like the
Speaker 1: first term down and done. Yeah, Like I know that
Speaker 1: when you first have children, everyone says you blink, just
Speaker 1: blink and it's gone.
Speaker 3: I do feel like that with high school.
Speaker 1: Genuinely think that for high school, like for primary school.
Speaker 3: Holly said to me the other day, she was like, what.
Speaker 1: She'll have literally one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: She's got seven terms of school left. That's after like
Speaker 1: with having this fun down seven terms, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, and then, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? I feel like, all of a sudden, I
Speaker 2: got like a panicky feeling of.
Speaker 3: What they gonna do. They need to plan. I know
Speaker 3: we don't have a plan.
Speaker 1: But they do because they're doing that tafe course and stuff,
Speaker 1: so they'll have it kind of a clear understanding of
Speaker 1: what they like and what they don't like. Surely by
Speaker 1: grade eleven, they would write.
Speaker 2: It feels like, all of a sudden, this end of
Speaker 2: schooling has come, and I'm excited by so much of it.
Speaker 2: Like I am so excited to not have to buy
Speaker 2: lunchbox food, and not have to pay school fees and
Speaker 2: not have to wash uniforms. Like I'm excited by so
Speaker 2: much of it, and also I'm excited for them because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know how good it feels when you
Speaker 2: leave school and you're like freedom.
Speaker 1: I think you don't actually know. You're so lost with
Speaker 1: what you're meant to be doing when you finish school.
Speaker 3: Because it's been your whole life.
Speaker 1: You've had a routine in a structure for that long.
Speaker 1: You're like, what do I do? Where do I go?
Speaker 1: Who do I spend my time with? No, mate, just
Speaker 1: get a job. That's what you need to do until
Speaker 1: you figure it out, because life is expensive. I need
Speaker 1: an honest opinion from you. What age did your daughters
Speaker 1: and you have to own if they don't, What age
Speaker 1: did your daughters start ironing their own uniforms? They don't iron, okay,
Speaker 1: but uniforms because they are in a formal uniform.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so no one iron the uniforms. We don't know
Speaker 3: any uniforms.
Speaker 1: What do they do?
Speaker 2: It's just a dress that oh wash, hang on the line,
Speaker 2: and it goes back in the wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Oh so it doesn't need it. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a really easy one that doesn't need to or you're
Speaker 1: all down with like creases.
Speaker 3: Both, But no, it doesn't need it. It doesn't need it.
Speaker 1: Some of the material genuinely doesn't. No.
Speaker 2: I know, we talk often about how many jobs mums have,
Speaker 2: and we have a lot. We carry the mental load, we.
Speaker 3: Look after the house, the pets, whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One thing I don't do is iron jay shop, and
Speaker 2: I don't have that much that needs ironing, whereas he's got.
Speaker 3: Shirts and yeah, so I think the ironing lady.
Speaker 1: Okay, So where I'm getting to with this is Gracie's
Speaker 1: new formal uniform, which he has three out of five
Speaker 1: days with her high school. It needs to. The material
Speaker 1: is horrendous to the point that you wash it and
Speaker 1: you hang it properly, you throw it like you shake
Speaker 1: it out so that the creases don't comes out still
Speaker 1: so creased.
Speaker 3: It's annoying.
Speaker 1: So now we're like, what are we talking? We're like
Speaker 1: ten weeks in to turn one, and I'm very good
Speaker 1: at ironing. If I want to be, If I want
Speaker 1: to be Sam, I used to when he was first
Speaker 1: playing football, I would iron his shirt for that post game.
Speaker 1: They have to be in like a formal shirt. I
Speaker 1: did that for a little hot second. I think we
Speaker 1: got engaged and then I stopped. But he had also
Speaker 1: said I don't mind doing that because he likes ironing, right,
Speaker 1: probably like Jay. Now fast forward to having a daughter
Speaker 1: now in high school, and I remember starting high school,
Speaker 1: so old school nettle skirts have tiny, tiny pleats. My
Speaker 1: mom's job of that would just be would be horrendous.
Speaker 1: So I would kick and I would just be like,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? This is still shit? Like
Speaker 1: to my mum. My mom was like, if you can
Speaker 1: do better, do it, go load it up. So now
Speaker 1: here i am fast forward to having my own child,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, not that she's told me that my
Speaker 1: job is not very good, but I was like, you
Speaker 1: need to learn how to iron. Here's your job. Every Sunday.
Speaker 1: You need to iron the three skirts and the three shirts.
Speaker 1: That's it, I'm telling you, Katie. The tears, the crying,
Speaker 1: the screaming, the whining, this like constant why she irons
Speaker 1: for the whole time She's moaning about how bad her
Speaker 1: life is, so bad that her friends don't and none
Speaker 1: of them do this, all of their moms do this.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you're not them, and I'm not
Speaker 1: their mothers. I said, but when you're twenty and you've
Speaker 1: got a job and you're living out a home, I said,
Speaker 1: you'll thank me because you'll know how to iron, you
Speaker 1: know about presentation, and you know how to present yourself
Speaker 1: the way that you should be to the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. Yep, she does it. We've done this now.
Speaker 1: I think this is the third Sunday. Oh my god, Katie,
Speaker 1: I was like.
Speaker 3: And I almost gave in, yeah, because it's easier to
Speaker 3: do yourself. I can't listen to it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I can't give in.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you can't. God's stay strong, stay strong.
Speaker 1: So then her alarm goes off and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I said, why is your alarm set for five forty?
Speaker 1: She because I forgot to iron my last shirt and
Speaker 1: skirt for today, and I went, oh, that sucks. And
Speaker 1: you know, deep down, I was like, oh, just be
Speaker 1: a fucking good mum and say I'll do that one
Speaker 1: for you so that you don't have to get up
Speaker 1: at five forty. She still did not get up at
Speaker 1: five footy jef y and do it, but I genuinely
Speaker 1: was like, just be a good mom. And it will
Speaker 1: take you five minutes, it takes her twenty. Like it's
Speaker 1: but I didn't do it. I was like, no, this
Speaker 1: is not teaching her anything if I give it now.
Speaker 1: But the thing I just thought of with yours, yours
Speaker 1: are at the back end of it, and I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe you're still ironing for them.
Speaker 2: No, I would rather hang stuff up to drop the
Speaker 2: creases out with the steam from the shower. We talk
Speaker 2: about hacks.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: There's always work that does not always work.
Speaker 3: Well it works.
Speaker 4: Ish am I a bad mum for not being ready
Speaker 4: for the jelly cat trend?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Like no one's bank is ready for
Speaker 3: the jelly caat trend.
Speaker 1: I'm having like this moment where I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: a hundred. There's numerous reasons why. One is because I
Speaker 1: go to this particular gym on different mornings and some
Speaker 1: of the other members are in their mid early mid
Speaker 1: twenties and I'm having chat with them, Oh, you know
Speaker 1: what's on this weekend, and they're like, we're having a
Speaker 1: jelly cat party. And I was like, jelly cat. Now,
Speaker 1: my girl's ten and twelve, right or nine? Eleven, ten
Speaker 1: or twelve? It is a particular soft toy brand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: anyone that doesn't know is started off originally as Rabbits
Speaker 1: now has a range of animals that you can buy,
Speaker 1: but it is a specific toy. So he's twenty or so,
Speaker 1: let's just say twenty. They're in their twenties are having
Speaker 1: jelly cat parties where they're buying jelly cats for each
Speaker 1: other or they swap and trade them.
Speaker 3: Early twenties, what happened to.
Speaker 2: Me doing speed and drinking cutting?
Speaker 1: In my head, I was like, let's go back to
Speaker 1: being twenty five. What was I doing on twenty five?
Speaker 1: I was flying around the world, putting way too much,
Speaker 1: having miscur sex with people that I didn't know in
Speaker 1: different countries. But I wasn't having jelly cat bunnies. No,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then I was thinking, did I, like,
Speaker 1: have I missed something? Have I maybe, like, you know,
Speaker 1: not allowed my own children to have soft toys long enough? Like?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 2: It's kind of a lot more healthy and wholesome than
Speaker 2: I felt like we were in our early twenties.
Speaker 1: But I'm taking away from it. I think that if
Speaker 1: it works for you, that works for you.
Speaker 2: But they are soft. They are soft toys. And they
Speaker 2: are really fucking expensive, overpriced soft toys for.
Speaker 3: What they are now.
Speaker 2: Jellycat is a company from the UK. They have obviously
Speaker 2: done some really.
Speaker 3: Good TikTok advertising talk job.
Speaker 1: Marketing campaign right, yeah you're on TikTok. Yeah I'm not
Speaker 1: on TikTok, so I would not have a clue where
Speaker 1: the campaigns come from. Why are they having parties?
Speaker 2: That's not a party, it's not It's like fucking TopWare parties.
Speaker 2: Remember you had a top wear party once you told
Speaker 2: everyone it was toperware parties, it was sex toys, it
Speaker 2: was sex and then you had to go around to
Speaker 2: the moms in the school playground with their orders.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, here's your order.
Speaker 1: That was a wild It's just seeing that in my
Speaker 1: head that is a party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just reminded me this is completely off topic.
Speaker 2: While I was talking to someone the other day and
Speaker 2: she has a like a caravan business, like she sells
Speaker 2: camper vans. She went, oh, this is not what I
Speaker 2: always did. She said, I actually used to travel around
Speaker 2: in a camper van to remote areas of the outback
Speaker 2: selling sex toys. I was like, what a great job.
Speaker 2: Who when they haven't gone adult shop on every corner
Speaker 2: like they have here in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: But how are you advertising? You don't know what is
Speaker 1: the marketing?
Speaker 3: Just knocking on doors like avon, Hi.
Speaker 1: My name is Rachel. I am I'm selling sex Squeeze.
Speaker 1: If you're interested? What the fuckdoo?
Speaker 3: Honestly everybody has needs.
Speaker 2: That definitely was the market for it. I mean I
Speaker 2: don't know how well she did, but I imagine I.
Speaker 1: Just want to know how she did. What an opening
Speaker 1: line was that would be a tough cell to Oh.
Speaker 2: How's your day going? Beautiful weather we're having here? What's
Speaker 2: your sex life like?
Speaker 3: Do you have a man? Do you need one?
Speaker 1: Go down that line that track of like, Hi, yes, great,
Speaker 1: this is so fantastic. Have you ever made this caravan shake?
Speaker 1: Have you ever made this caravan rock and roll? If
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And they'd be like woman
Speaker 1: all about. I've got a few products that might make you, yeah,
Speaker 1: be able to achieve this. Anyway, How do we get there?
Speaker 3: A jelly cat? I will tell you. We're a house
Speaker 3: of six jelly cats.
Speaker 1: You see, your daughter's is sixteen? Are you jelly cat?
Speaker 2: And they're buying them for like their birthday and stuff
Speaker 2: at this age. When I look at what Gracie is
Speaker 2: in two, I'm like, I could tell you.
Speaker 3: What's going to be next on the list.
Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes I'm like, Okay, is she wearing
Speaker 2: one teaspoons yet?
Speaker 3: Does she have a white fox?
Speaker 2: Who is she?
Speaker 3: Interphagus? Brent Green water bottles? Does she have one yet?
Speaker 1: There's another one now? Awala?
Speaker 3: The girls are into Stanley's.
Speaker 1: No, so yeah, we've got one Stanley. Stanley doesn't work
Speaker 1: in our family.
Speaker 3: Are They're saying to me, Mommy need to get Stanley.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's not practical. You can't tip it up.
Speaker 1: No, it's just it's leaks.
Speaker 3: How do you put in your bag?
Speaker 1: Don't see that Stanley's are useful for anyone apart from
Speaker 1: the fact that it looks like you're carrying around like
Speaker 1: a wheely bin the size of a wheeliband.
Speaker 2: Because the idea is that it fits in your car
Speaker 2: drink holder. Because it's small at the bottom and then
Speaker 2: fatter at the top that still contains a lot of water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the new one is called it in a
Speaker 1: wala or something like that. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: don't obviously know about that.
Speaker 3: The water bottle Camart do insulated water bottle.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say to that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we know how I feel about came out. It's
Speaker 1: still a soft spot from when our lags brought them
Speaker 1: a rain jacket. But the rain jacket actually is a
Speaker 1: waterproof so it's kind of weird. On that note, just
Speaker 1: to wrap this up, actually, I was lucky enough to
Speaker 1: get an early birthday present.
Speaker 3: A jelly cat.
Speaker 1: No, a fucking wet weather jacket. A rain jacket, it's waterproof.
Speaker 3: Oh good.
Speaker 1: What did you want for your birthday, Rachel? For your
Speaker 1: forty earth a rain jacket?
Speaker 2: No, I said, no one else, No, no, don't buy
Speaker 2: me a rain jacket.
Speaker 1: I don't need a macpack waterjacket. I'm not intending to
Speaker 1: go out into cyclonic weather anytime soon.
Speaker 3: No, I mean you did.
Speaker 2: I did the one cyclone we had that hit Brisbane.
Speaker 2: You were out there in a rain jacket that wasn't waterproof.
Speaker 1: I thought it was waterproof when I sent it with
Speaker 1: my child on a campspe.
Speaker 3: He looked like a drowned hat. Channel nine news reader.
Speaker 2: When there's a storm, or there's weather, or there's weather
Speaker 2: being on the news, it's like put that reporter in
Speaker 2: the worst hit area. I want to see a fallen
Speaker 2: tree behind it. Find a fallen tree, and now yourself
Speaker 2: in front of it.
Speaker 1: Now, cute wind.
Speaker 3: Put the wind on.
Speaker 1: Anybody got fans.
Speaker 2: The cameraman's got camera in one hand and the leaf
Speaker 2: blower in the other.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's really hairy out here. Back to you in
Speaker 3: the studio.
Speaker 1: Anyway is our topic of conversation and podcast about parentings,
Speaker 1: and I remember how it started.