Speaker 1: I want to know, do you think there's ever a
Speaker 1: time where it's appropriate to publicly criticize someone else's parenting.
Speaker 1: So if you see a parent doing something that you
Speaker 1: don't think is a good idea with their own children
Speaker 1: in a public space.
Speaker 2: We have to find public you're going to get up
Speaker 2: on a soapbox and yell it out.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're at the park, maybe you're at the pub,
Speaker 1: like wherever you are, they're doing something and you're like,
Speaker 1: that's terrible parenting.
Speaker 3: I should tell them, Mitch, do you reckon?
Speaker 4: This story is going to be Laura criticizing someone or
Speaker 4: someone criticizing Laura.
Speaker 2: She's been criticized for sure.
Speaker 3: No I haven't. It's the other way around, you criticize.
Speaker 1: Okay, No I didn't, And that's why I have a
Speaker 1: big question to ask. So we were at the pub
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. I was there with my husband, with
Speaker 1: my two kids, and also with my mum.
Speaker 3: Now, Kimbo loves the wine.
Speaker 1: She is also a school teacher and she's very very
Speaker 1: active in our kids' life, like she's you know, she's
Speaker 1: very good at parenting and she's also very responsible. So
Speaker 1: we're at the pub and we walked in we sat
Speaker 1: down at our table, and at the table directly next
Speaker 1: to us, we there's three kids. They were like three boys,
Speaker 1: maybe around ten years old. They were really young, and
Speaker 1: they were sitting there like really excited about a game
Speaker 1: that they were playing, and they were, you know, writing
Speaker 1: something down and looking up at the screen. And then
Speaker 1: we realized they were playing Keno. Not only were they
Speaker 1: just pretending to play, their parents had bought them Keino tabs,
Speaker 1: you know, like when you go up and you get
Speaker 1: the little paper that you enter your numbers on.
Speaker 3: I don't play. I'm also not seventy, but they played Keno.
Speaker 3: Isn't Keno just like a bingo?
Speaker 2: But it is adults. It's still gambling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's full gambling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, take away the money. Kids can still play that.
Speaker 4: It's like memory no.
Speaker 2: But this is it's still illegal.
Speaker 3: So the kids were sitting there playing Keno.
Speaker 1: Their family was on the other table, so we were
Speaker 1: kind of sandwiched in between. We were the meat between
Speaker 1: the parents and the kids playing Keno. So my mum
Speaker 1: realized that they were playing it properly and not just
Speaker 1: a pretend game that their parents had obviously paid for
Speaker 1: money for them to have active games, and my mom
Speaker 1: was outraged and I was like, Mum, don't say anything.
Speaker 3: Don't say a single thing, and she was like, I
Speaker 3: can't believe it.
Speaker 1: She didn't directly talk to the table, but she talked
Speaker 1: so loudly about her disapproval of this child gambling that
Speaker 1: she made sure that the table next to us heard her,
Speaker 1: to the point that they then turned around and said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: But if you have a problem with it, you can
Speaker 3: mind your own business.
Speaker 4: To my mother that actually, I feel so incredibly uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I'm on the side of the parents. I think Britain gambling.
Speaker 4: I think we're smarter, not harder. Why do we have
Speaker 4: to be at our kids beck and call twenty four
Speaker 4: to seven.
Speaker 3: They're ten years old. They can amuse themselves.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying yes to gambling, but I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: it's lazy parenting because you've said, amuse yourself.
Speaker 3: I think that that's.
Speaker 1: Why it's lazy parenting, because the only thing that they
Speaker 1: could come up with to get the kids to amuse
Speaker 1: themselves in that place is something that is actually not
Speaker 1: child appropriate.
Speaker 3: But the question that I.
Speaker 1: Really wanted to know is is do you think there's
Speaker 1: ever a situation where or a way that you can
Speaker 1: criticize someone's parenting with them, you know, like directly to them, or.
Speaker 2: Do you just have to always I think no. I
Speaker 2: think you do not know what is going on inside
Speaker 2: someone's family. You don't know the child parent relationship. I
Speaker 2: don't think you can. It's such a personal dig that
Speaker 2: you know one percent. You know the tip of the iceberg, right,
Speaker 2: you see one moment or a couple of bad Keino
Speaker 2: taps and then and then you think, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you know the full story. You might not.
Speaker 3: You don't know.
Speaker 4: I only think you can when it is a very
Speaker 4: serious issue. If there's physical violence or things like that,
Speaker 4: I think it's okay to step Like if you're watching
Speaker 4: somebody reprimand someone that everyone knows is too.
Speaker 3: Far, I think one hundred percent you step in.
Speaker 4: But for it's normal parenting, No, you can't go and
Speaker 4: say anything to me.
Speaker 5: I used to roll my dad's cigarettes at the local park.
Speaker 5: He had a cigarette machine. I used to get the
Speaker 5: little pouch and I ustill only had to whit the tip.
Speaker 5: I could have created a fact short did If ETSI
Speaker 5: was a thing back in the day, I would have
Speaker 5: been making money I was rolling those things so quick.
Speaker 3: I used to go to auctions with my dad. It
Speaker 3: was an auctioneer. I was like, do I have two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty fives? Do I have two hundred and thirty?
Speaker 3: It's about eight years old.
Speaker 2: And we're fine. We're desperate for attention now as adults,
Speaker 2: but we're fine.
Speaker 3: I'm still selling myself off. Do I have two un
Speaker 3: turn twenty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: He's just traffic