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Speaker 2: Asking Cut is something we do every week on Thursdays
Speaker 2: where you guys write in or call in your deepest,
Speaker 2: darkest burning questions and we do our best to answer them.
Speaker 2: And we have the lovely Amy has phoned in today.
Speaker 2: Hey Amy, A Hi, Hey, what is the problem O?
Speaker 3: So, guys, I have this problem. I don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with my mother in law, but I have a
Speaker 3: problem with the state of her house. So in a nutshell,
Speaker 3: she has got three dogs and one cat and they've
Speaker 3: got no toilet training sense whatsoever. Every time I go around,
Speaker 3: there's a pooh on the floor, there's we on the law.
Speaker 3: And I have a one year old who will be
Speaker 3: spending a day a week with her, and I just
Speaker 3: can't trust that he's not going to put the pooh
Speaker 3: in his mouth.
Speaker 4: It's a good way to build some immunity.
Speaker 3: Well, no, this is what she tells me.
Speaker 2: Not true. Because you can actually get really sick. Cats
Speaker 2: particularly the cats can make children very very sick. I
Speaker 2: think it can actually kill them. I'm not just saying
Speaker 2: there's diseases you can pick.
Speaker 3: It's gastro waiting to happen, is it not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's to help with babysitting, so
Speaker 4: you're not having to pay his pay your day care fees.
Speaker 4: Is there not a way that she could come to
Speaker 4: your house and do the babysitting at your house?
Speaker 3: So no, because she runs a business from home.
Speaker 1: Which is the other issue I have with it.
Speaker 4: Also, last week I went there, there was raw chicken
Speaker 4: breast on the bench.
Speaker 3: The dogs were eating it.
Speaker 4: Do you know what though, I mean, it's a hard
Speaker 4: one because you're getting something out of your mother in law,
Speaker 4: which is that she's she's going to be helping you
Speaker 4: to take care of the kids, which saves you having
Speaker 4: another day of daycare, which is obviously so expensive. So true,
Speaker 4: it's so expensive. So I guess like there's a big
Speaker 4: decision for you to make. Either you're comfortable with your
Speaker 4: is it a little boy or a little girl? My
Speaker 4: boy with your boy being there, or you have to
Speaker 4: pay that extra money and have them in daycare because
Speaker 4: I also worry if your mother in law's living like this,
Speaker 4: if she's got rubbish everywhere, if she's letting the animals like,
Speaker 4: you know, pool on the floor and she's not able
Speaker 4: to clean it up, or whatever it is. I always
Speaker 4: ask the question, like, is that person's mental health okay?
Speaker 4: Because it's a real sign of someone who's not coping
Speaker 4: when they're living in a state that's not clean or
Speaker 4: hygienic or good for them. And that could also be
Speaker 4: something that is an issue that no one's considered. She
Speaker 4: may not be okay.
Speaker 1: Some people are just lazy as well.
Speaker 2: Though some people are just dirty and like and of
Speaker 2: course there could be more problems there, but some people
Speaker 2: are just dirty and lazy. I think for me, if
Speaker 2: I could find the money, I would be trying to
Speaker 2: find the money in and put my kid in the
Speaker 2: daycare rather than in that environment. Also, if you can't
Speaker 2: clean up after your animal, I wouldn't trust these animals
Speaker 2: to be around my one year old animals. You don't
Speaker 2: know the way they behave. It could be you could
Speaker 2: have had your family pet forever, but you would never
Speaker 2: leave it unattended in a room with an animal and
Speaker 2: a baby.
Speaker 4: So have you ever had the conversation with her, like,
Speaker 4: have you ever spoken to her about it and explained
Speaker 4: your worries or pointed out the things.
Speaker 3: And I have mentioned my anxiety about putting him on
Speaker 3: the floor because literally every time I walk in, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's a dog who.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's too hard.
Speaker 3: But she sort of just goes oh like an acts
Speaker 3: as if you know, she's not aware of it, but
Speaker 3: it's every time, And just how do you not know
Speaker 3: that there's who on the floor inside your house?
Speaker 1: I'd say you need to sit her down and make
Speaker 1: sure everything's good with her, because I think I'm with
Speaker 1: you laws if you're living like that, you know, have
Speaker 1: the chat, make sure she's okay. Maybe she's waiting, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, you just need to extend the olive
Speaker 1: branch and the poops can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they we'll keep us updated there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's a tricky one. And if you can't
Speaker 4: come to some sort of resolution, I think it's you
Speaker 4: have to put them into daycare or look at getting
Speaker 4: a babysitter or something. We'll see if you can work
Speaker 4: from home on those days. But yeah, it may be
Speaker 4: if she can't take care of herself and her animals
Speaker 4: at the moment in her house. It may be too
Speaker 4: much of a burden for her to be able to
Speaker 4: take care of your child as well.
Speaker 2: It's an easy one day care for me.
Speaker 3: There's a tough conversation to be had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Amy, that's not how it all goes.
Speaker 1: Okay, no worries. If you want some advice like that,
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Speaker 4: Well, Laura has multiple phones.
Speaker 2: She got burn a phone, She's got the app, Authentic
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