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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning.

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Speaker 2: Satham.

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Speaker 1: Julia Baird is one of my favorite authors and journalists,

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Speaker 1: and she took to Twitter last week asking for help

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Speaker 1: in locating a sloth. What had happened was her goddaughter

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Speaker 1: was in a car with goddaughter's mum and they're driving

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Speaker 1: just near the Harbor Bridge and she had a pink

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Speaker 1: stuffed sloth called Slothy. Kids original when they name their things,

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Speaker 1: aren't they. So she had Slothy and somehow Slothy went

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Speaker 1: out the window. So Julia took to Twitter to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: desperate times. Little Ava is desperate without Slothy. If anyone

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Speaker 1: sees a purple sloth, please let us know. And you

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Speaker 1: know what Slothy has turned up. Really, Jimmy, who drives

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Speaker 1: the Harbor Bridge is part of the Harbor Bridge Harbor

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Speaker 1: Harbor Bridge road crew, was out in his truck and

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Speaker 1: he saw and found Slothy. So the pictures of Slothy

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Speaker 1: being into the seat belt, going back to the depot,

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Speaker 1: sitting there waiting for Ava and a mum to come

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Speaker 1: and collect Slothy. This is days after Slothy went missing.

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Speaker 1: And then Slothy's had a shower, you know, being scrub clean,

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Speaker 1: had a bath. Slothy is back in the arms of

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Speaker 1: Ava and all is right with the world. But you

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Speaker 1: know what it's like when your kid is so attached

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Speaker 1: to something, there is no peace in your life until

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Speaker 1: you get it back. We've had a couple of incidents

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Speaker 1: when we go up to visit my dad when he

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Speaker 1: was living on the Sunshine Coast, and when the kids

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Speaker 1: were little, they each had Blanky. Obsessed with blanket. I

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Speaker 1: remember obsessed and it was a scrap of material from

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Speaker 1: a bigger scrap because I thought, well, I'll keep cutting

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Speaker 1: it so we keep getting more. But we're at the

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Speaker 1: airport about to fly home, and this scrap of material

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Speaker 1: went missing. I think it was for Jack. We've had

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Speaker 1: an incident with limb and An and an incident with Jack.

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Speaker 1: I think this is Jack's turn. And I thought, we

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Speaker 1: can't get on that plane without Blanky because he'll he

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Speaker 1: won't stop screaming yeah until we get Blankie. In the end,

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Speaker 1: I found Blankie in a cleaner s bin, took it out.

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Speaker 1: I didn't care of the germs. Here's your Blanky.

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Speaker 2: That just adds to the kid mank that goes all

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Speaker 2: over that stuff.

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Speaker 1: And also Jack would insist on taking this stuff with him.

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Speaker 1: When he first got into lego, he'd make these lego.

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Speaker 1: He'd put these things together as fragile as a nice,

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Speaker 1: as a as a glacier. I don't know, it's the

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Speaker 1: most fragile thing you can imagine a bit of lego. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well that's fragile as a lego. And he'd insist on

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Speaker 1: taking it with him in the car and going to

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Speaker 1: a cafe or whatever, invariably walking across the road. It

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Speaker 1: would break tears. It was just exhausting.

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Speaker 2: My youngest had Pooh Bear, got a little Pooh Bear

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Speaker 2: when he was he's christening, and he was very attached

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Speaker 2: to the Pooh Bear. And then one day my wife

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Speaker 2: was and came out and she saw a whole rack

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Speaker 2: of Pooh Bears for sale, and she said, well, I'll

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Speaker 2: buy another one of those in case he.

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Speaker 1: Loses clever as a spare.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's classic third child right there.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You figured it out by then.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, he's got on to the second Pooh Bear. So

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Speaker 2: we had a rod to our back. He could only

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Speaker 2: have two Pooh Bears from then on, So for years

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Speaker 2: he carried around two Pooh Bears.

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Speaker 1: So that's twice the fear of and.

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Speaker 2: If you lost one, we couldn't go anywhere without the others.

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Speaker 2: Well you've got that one, mate says, Now we're going

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Speaker 2: to find the other, and we would be. We're in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas looking for the Pooh Bear. That Pooh Bear

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Speaker 2: traveled the world oh or Pooh Bears.

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Speaker 1: It's exhort poos Bear.

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Speaker 2: Poo's bear, and he's almost eighteen now. And I believe

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Speaker 2: they're still around somewhere.

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Speaker 1: But you know what they But the obsession completely goes,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. I put I took Peter Walsh's advice. You know,

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Speaker 1: he says, honor it. You don't have to keep it,

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Speaker 1: just honor it. But I did chop up a little

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Speaker 1: bit of blanket and put it in a frame. But

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Speaker 1: that's for my purposes. The kids, now, kids give a rat.

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Speaker 1: I went through all of that, and they know I

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Speaker 1: don't remember any of it.

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Speaker 2: That's a rod to your back. And maybe give them nothing, or.

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Speaker 1: Give them fifty dollars and they'll never lose it, hopefully.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Get attached to that money.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. But at

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Speaker 1: one point seven value