Speaker 1: Oh, it's quite a pleasant little blow.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to two doting dads. I am Maddie Jay
Speaker 1: and this is a podcast that is all about parenting.
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Speaker 1: We have to always say at the start of every
Speaker 1: episode that there will be absolutely no advice given whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So if you hear something and you go that's incorrect. No,
Speaker 1: you don't do it that way. That's fine.
Speaker 2: You heard correctly.
Speaker 1: We're not giving advice that she keeps happy great as frazzled.
Speaker 1: Frazzled at the moment. I had a bit of an
Speaker 1: emotional drop off this morning.
Speaker 2: Emotional. I hope you're okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone was not good.
Speaker 2: No one was good.
Speaker 1: Everybody was a little bit emotional. No, the teachers were fine.
Speaker 3: It was more so like, oh Godlala and Mali.
Speaker 1: Now, I have a tricky daycare in that there is
Speaker 1: only one spot that you can park. What is It's
Speaker 1: on a main road opposite the daycare. There's a high
Speaker 1: school right in the mornings, it's fucking it's peak. It's
Speaker 1: peak hour. You got people going to work, you got
Speaker 1: people dropping off the kids at the high school. You've
Speaker 1: got parents dropping off the kids. The daycare, and there's
Speaker 1: only one car park available. It's like a ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen minute like quick car park at the very front
Speaker 1: of our daycare.
Speaker 3: So where does everyone else go?
Speaker 1: I don't know, dude, I don't know how they do it.
Speaker 1: I had a secret little car spot that was then
Speaker 1: an alleyway that was maybe a five minute walk, and
Speaker 1: now that one's been taken up. So every morning, just
Speaker 1: the anxiety of like, I don't know how I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this. I don't know where I'm going to park.
Speaker 1: Will I walk fifty meters? Will I walk a kilometer?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 2: And it really does park at home, mate.
Speaker 1: It's literally gotten to the point where I've I've thought
Speaker 1: I'm parked almost closer to my house now than I
Speaker 1: am to the actual daycare. That's why I wanted to
Speaker 1: get one of the electric bikes.
Speaker 2: A cargo thing that there's a guy.
Speaker 3: There's a guy that cruise around like near our place
Speaker 3: now with one. Next so I see him, I'll be like, hey,
Speaker 3: I know this guy once one of them. I don't
Speaker 3: think he's electric because it's quite flat, the Kindi's where
Speaker 3: we are quite flat, man, this.
Speaker 1: Is very very hilly, So this morning obviously had to record.
Speaker 1: The last thing I wanted to do, ASH was be
Speaker 1: late for you, because I know how that makes you annoyed,
Speaker 1: and an annoyed ASH is not good for anyone.
Speaker 2: Don't make this about me, mate.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, time is running out. Traffic was bad,
Speaker 1: it was banked up. I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: make this.
Speaker 2: I told the kids to jump out of forty k
Speaker 2: it's forty for a reason.
Speaker 1: Down like three, actually go, But I was like, screw it,
Speaker 1: I'm going to park. It a no stopping zone. Nice
Speaker 1: going to do it has to be done. I don't
Speaker 1: like to break the rules, Ash, but every now and
Speaker 1: then you got to. You got to do it. So anyway,
Speaker 1: get there, pull up, and I'm like fuck.
Speaker 2: Just nervous already.
Speaker 1: I'm also the kind of person that when I was younger,
Speaker 1: whenever I did anything naughty, there was always like someone watching.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I might always get sprung if I was
Speaker 2: like breaking the rules.
Speaker 1: Turn around, there's always a teacher there who would catch
Speaker 1: me right handed.
Speaker 3: Was just always that cunt that gets away with everything too.
Speaker 3: You know you have that one friend always gets away
Speaker 3: with everything.
Speaker 2: Not me.
Speaker 1: I'd sneeze and like illegal, lock him up, fellas attention.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm trying to get the kids out of
Speaker 1: the car, making it quick. And then Lola's at the
Speaker 1: age now where she's got like a little bag. She
Speaker 1: brings her knickknacks, and she dropped her bag of knickknacks
Speaker 1: on the floor, like all of a sudden, there's like
Speaker 1: dummies as toys, and I'm like, forget about it, like
Speaker 1: in the car, on the floor, on the floor, and
Speaker 1: so she's like, I've got to get a daddy, and
Speaker 1: I'm like okay, like I'm watching No Man hard. And
Speaker 1: then after like it must have been like three minutes
Speaker 1: times ticking, Marley's also out of the car. She's waiting there.
Speaker 1: Finally I get Lola out of the car, take about
Speaker 1: five steps and I.
Speaker 2: Look up parking cop. Yeah fuck off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two of them.
Speaker 2: Two of them.
Speaker 3: What were they doing having in their morning coffee and
Speaker 3: You've driven a crime directly to them.
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded at this point, get down on the ground,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh man, And I was in
Speaker 1: that moment I made a split second decision. I was like,
Speaker 1: do I just say, hey, guys, book me? Fuck it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, book me?
Speaker 3: Just tell them as the kindy company vehicle, just like
Speaker 3: just drop the fine in there.
Speaker 1: But then I I start then like reverse walking and
Speaker 1: I'm getting back in the car, and I was like
Speaker 1: with the kids, yeah, and I'm like I can't it's
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks, dude, and no stopping.
Speaker 3: Do they not show any mercy and be like, mate.
Speaker 2: We know that you're going through it right now. You've
Speaker 2: got two kids. Just you're a single day.
Speaker 1: These are parking inspectors.
Speaker 3: They have no mercy when they have that fucking job.
Speaker 1: He was licking his lips and he was like.
Speaker 2: We double up the fine on this.
Speaker 1: He had like he was walking towards me with a
Speaker 1: half erection flip.
Speaker 2: He's just like, how you going there?
Speaker 1: Son?
Speaker 2: Good one your rent And.
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, I'm like I get back in the
Speaker 1: car and I was like what do you mean? Very
Speaker 1: confusing for the kids because they're like what would were
Speaker 1: I can see Daycad. I'm like, get back in the car,
Speaker 1: throw them back in, and I'm like almost didn't even
Speaker 1: do their seat belts up because I thought like do
Speaker 1: I even do? I just speed off. But anyway, he
Speaker 1: had a quick world with me and he's like you
Speaker 1: can't park there, And I was like, I know, I
Speaker 1: can't park.
Speaker 2: There's a kid.
Speaker 1: You got to find a place to park. And I'm like, ye,
Speaker 1: look around, look around, there's nowhere at all.
Speaker 2: Will you take my kids into Kindy for me? They
Speaker 2: should do a drop off like a drive through service. Okay,
Speaker 2: no one's steal my idea. This is my idea.
Speaker 3: It's like a Macca's drive through situation. You drive in,
Speaker 3: someone opens the back door, the kids get ushered out.
Speaker 3: You don't have to say bye if you don't want,
Speaker 3: depend on what the car ride.
Speaker 2: You out in the way. There, the door shut, they
Speaker 2: go into Kindy. You're gone.
Speaker 1: I saw this the other day, like a valet at
Speaker 1: the high school. Right, that's what they do because it's
Speaker 1: so busy. Right, they have I'm guessing the year twelve students.
Speaker 1: They stand there with high vison. As your car pulls up,
Speaker 1: the students open the door and let the kids out,
Speaker 1: and they then close the door and usher the.
Speaker 2: Kids genius into the school.
Speaker 3: Genius.
Speaker 1: It's a well run operation.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it before my life. They need to
Speaker 1: have that for daycare.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like maybe not another child getting my child
Speaker 3: out like maybe an adult put a worker a.
Speaker 1: Toddlers like welcome at So anyway, I had to put
Speaker 1: the kids back in the car.
Speaker 3: Digg you strapping back in? Yeah, yeah, of course, and
Speaker 3: this is not a visual medium.
Speaker 1: I had to do another loop and traffic was backed up,
Speaker 1: so it took me like fifteen minutes to do a
Speaker 1: loop where I can get back in and why Then
Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, I just need to make this quick.
Speaker 1: And you feel bad. I know you'll say you'll sit
Speaker 1: down and you'll go no, I never feel guilty, but
Speaker 1: when you're like, okay, see here's your bag as you
Speaker 1: want to bortle to go by, and well, I was
Speaker 1: like one more heart and I'm like, hey, one my heart, Yeah,
Speaker 1: say one more kiss. And I'm like I don't have
Speaker 1: time for this. And then you're like, also, there's this
Speaker 1: little brick wall where Marley likes to walk along. It
Speaker 1: always walks on his brick wall.
Speaker 3: Everything's a fucking game, Jesus, and just get to kindy now.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're not walking across the wall and
Speaker 1: she's in tears, and then you feel guilty at that
Speaker 1: moment where you say goodbye. Yeah, you yelling and kids
Speaker 1: very frazzled.
Speaker 2: So they were they were just off it. We and
Speaker 2: you just got the hell out of it.
Speaker 1: Of course, Molly spots like a little flower she wants
Speaker 1: to pick up.
Speaker 3: But then you get a photo of them, and then
Speaker 3: they're like they're having the happiest day of their fucking life.
Speaker 2: Did you get a photo and then not happy?
Speaker 1: No, they were just crying in the corner.
Speaker 2: That reminds me of Oscar's sad boy day the other day.
Speaker 3: Remember, so we had been away, we got back and
Speaker 3: Oscar goes to two different kindergartens. One is like all
Speaker 3: older kids and then the other ones like a mixture,
Speaker 3: but logistically I don't know why, but they do. And
Speaker 3: he likes the one on the Monday Tuesday, doesn't like
Speaker 3: the one Wednesday. It's not that he doesn't like it,
Speaker 3: he just likes the other one because all bigger kids
Speaker 3: and there's little kids. And so we've been away, then
Speaker 3: we came back. On the Monday Tuesday, he went to
Speaker 3: the one he really likes, and then I tried to
Speaker 3: take him on the Wednesdays to the one he didn't
Speaker 3: lie and he as soon as he wakes up and
Speaker 3: he goes what kN.
Speaker 2: Is it today? And you're like, do you lie? Do
Speaker 2: you just lie?
Speaker 3: I don't lie there because there's two options when you
Speaker 3: come out of the driveway, the way he wants to go,
Speaker 3: anyway he doesn't want to go, and he knows.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I might as well just.
Speaker 3: Rip the band aid off real early and try and
Speaker 3: smooth him into it.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: The other day he just wasn't having it so slow.
Speaker 3: I even said, look, we'll tell you what. We'll go
Speaker 3: a little bit late and I'll have Popper pick you
Speaker 3: up really early, so you'll only be there for a
Speaker 3: couple of hours.
Speaker 2: You'll see the one or two people that you play
Speaker 2: with there that you like.
Speaker 1: Does he respond to that?
Speaker 2: All the other kids are probably anything, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: He doesn't like us?
Speaker 3: And he's like not really having it and whatever. And
Speaker 3: then we got there, pulled out the front and because
Speaker 3: it was a bit later, the kids were already out
Speaker 3: in the play ground area, which is awesome. They're already
Speaker 3: playing him like that's a good sign because they're going
Speaker 3: on the slide. They're pushing cars down the slide. And
Speaker 3: one of the kids he plays all the time was
Speaker 3: right there and he goes Oscars back and I'm like.
Speaker 2: I fucking love you, dream perfect. It's like I've planted
Speaker 2: him there to do that slip in your temper. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then Oscars like he packed up a little bit.
Speaker 3: I'm like, great, Okay, this is not going to be
Speaker 3: so bad. We walked in, he's seen the teachers worked
Speaker 3: out that I'm going to leave, and then I said,
Speaker 3: I'll come out in the playground with you and play.
Speaker 3: The girls are working. They're like, yeah, we'll just go
Speaker 3: and go out the side there and go meet out
Speaker 3: with Chase. And he usually plays with this with Chase.
Speaker 3: It's about the kids should be name names doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: You get out there and eventually I've managed to give
Speaker 3: him a last cuddle. Go back out to the car,
Speaker 3: and because the car is at the fence, I went
Speaker 3: to get in the car and he's up against the fence.
Speaker 2: And he's just balling.
Speaker 3: But he's not he's not hysterical, like he's not like
Speaker 3: I don't want to be here. He's just sad boy,
Speaker 3: which is almost way worse because it's like he was
Speaker 3: proper hurting and I was like, what did you do?
Speaker 2: I's got the car driver, No no, I actually started,
Speaker 2: he's looking as really awkward. No.
Speaker 3: I actually as I was getting in the car and I.
Speaker 2: Looked over to the through the passenger window and there
Speaker 2: he is, and I'm like, what sort of person am
Speaker 2: I right now.
Speaker 3: Opened the door, went back out, went to the edge
Speaker 3: of the fence. I was like, buddy, it's gonna be okay, like,
Speaker 3: and he was just so.
Speaker 1: Sad, and I was like, he just wants his daddy.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: I went back into the Kindy and I was like,
Speaker 3: come out here with me, budb'le come have a cuddle.
Speaker 3: And like, I took him around where it was nice
Speaker 3: and quiet to try and get some sense out of
Speaker 3: him for him to be like, you know, and he
Speaker 3: was just so sad and he calmed down, but he
Speaker 3: was just so sad, and he was like I just
Speaker 3: don't want to be he. I said, okay, these are
Speaker 3: your options.
Speaker 1: That is such a good tool. It's like, hey, option
Speaker 1: A or option B.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So option A was you can stay kindy for
Speaker 3: a very minute all amount of time before I send
Speaker 3: Poppery in like lunchtime to come and get you. I
Speaker 3: just have work to do this morning, and Mum's at work.
Speaker 3: That's option A, and option B is that you come
Speaker 3: home with me and I've got to lock in the
Speaker 3: laundry for the whole day.
Speaker 2: No I said that.
Speaker 1: In my head, I was like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is the most empathetic and caring that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I didn't say that. I said, look,
Speaker 3: if you come, I said, you come home with me.
Speaker 3: But I'm considering this that you're sick. You'll come home.
Speaker 3: We won't be playing. Daddy's got to do some work.
Speaker 3: Mummy's working as well. You'll have to just watch TV.
Speaker 3: You'll have lunch, really quiet day. We won't be going
Speaker 3: out to the park, won't be doing all this stuff
Speaker 3: you can play with like you know, like the quiet toy,
Speaker 3: do some drawing stuff.
Speaker 2: But you can't be I want to go out.
Speaker 3: To a park now, Daddy, because you've played me at
Speaker 3: the kindergarten.
Speaker 2: And he was like, I want to come home. I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, you can come home with me. Oh shit, yeah,
Speaker 2: So I said alright, and.
Speaker 3: Then I have text ACT was saying, yess, he's still
Speaker 3: in the garden.
Speaker 1: He swindled you.
Speaker 2: I thought that too, played you like a flute.
Speaker 3: No, I thought that too, But he honestly all day
Speaker 3: and I've never seen him like this, barely moved off
Speaker 3: the couch.
Speaker 2: He was sitting there.
Speaker 3: He was playing with some toys, watching TV Go, play
Speaker 3: some games on his phone.
Speaker 1: Was he getting sick? Do you think?
Speaker 2: No? No, because he did.
Speaker 3: He went to Kindy the next day. Okay, so and
Speaker 3: here's another thing too, which I'll give the Kindy props for.
Speaker 3: In a sec he actually understood that I had to work,
Speaker 3: So I even sat next to him my headphones on,
Speaker 3: listening to and editing stuff. And he was there and
Speaker 3: he was just quiet. It's a weird kid.
Speaker 2: For one day.
Speaker 3: In the afternoon he got a bit antsy, but as
Speaker 3: they do. But the Kindy rang up to check on him.
Speaker 2: It was really nice.
Speaker 3: She was like, oh, is there anything we can do
Speaker 3: for tomorrow? So he's gonna be comfortable tomorrow. And we're
Speaker 3: like to Oscarr, what would you like to.
Speaker 2: Play with tomorrow?
Speaker 3: It's like, I want to play with transformers and she's like,
Speaker 3: make sure I have all the transformers in the place ready.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, and we'll do it.
Speaker 3: We'll put it up so you guys can see how
Speaker 3: we played with the transport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there you guys like I want to be
Speaker 1: delivered by a helicopter into the backyard.
Speaker 3: Like please help me, Dad's lock me in the laundry.
Speaker 2: The washing machine is really scary. I said to.
Speaker 3: Him the other day, I said, you actually fit perfectly
Speaker 3: in that washing machine.
Speaker 2: No you no, ash. She just laughed. Okay, he knows that.
Speaker 3: It's a big ongoing joke now because he knows the
Speaker 3: dry is much scarier, and both of them will fit
Speaker 3: in there at the same time.
Speaker 1: Just when the listeners are going, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: guy's actually really really nice there, he is brings it
Speaker 1: right back.
Speaker 3: But I thought that was you get a mixed bag
Speaker 3: with We talk about it a lot on this podcast,
Speaker 3: daycare and stuff like that, We get a mixed bag.
Speaker 3: I would hate to be in that situation. So I'm
Speaker 3: going to bring you home with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always and it's tough. If Marley's just started
Speaker 1: doing it as well. The Thursday is the daddy day,
Speaker 1: and then she'll up in the morning and the very
Speaker 1: first question doesn't matter how many times you kind of
Speaker 1: pre empty the night before and like let her know that, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a Tuesday. Wednesday's going to be a day.
Speaker 1: Ka day. Then Thursdays you got a few more sleeps.
Speaker 1: We like try and drill it into her and like
Speaker 1: give her a perspective of like when it's going to
Speaker 1: be the daddy day. Every morning wakes up and she's like,
Speaker 1: hang on a second, is today the daddy day? There's
Speaker 1: a day dayk day, And I'm like, oh, I'll like
Speaker 1: I don't want to lead her.
Speaker 3: On, Yeah, you just have your best off to just
Speaker 3: be like you got to go today, because you know
Speaker 3: there's a couple of days of the week where like.
Speaker 2: April's actually got a job. I'm this is a job somehow,
Speaker 2: but like I we're busy enough, and it's like, buddy,
Speaker 2: it just can't.
Speaker 3: And this was like one of those days where it's
Speaker 3: like I had so many emails that have been away
Speaker 3: and I was like, just gonna have to juggle it.
Speaker 1: Except the only time that kind of didn't really work
Speaker 1: in my favor was at the moment. Marley still comes
Speaker 1: into I bed at three thirty in the morning and
Speaker 1: she just loves to kick everyone. I can kind of
Speaker 1: sleep through it, gets woken up, but she's like, I'll
Speaker 1: go into Marley's room, so it's just me and Marley
Speaker 1: in bed and it actually was a daddy day. My
Speaker 1: day's mixed up. Yeah, so it's a Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, a parent got their days mixed.
Speaker 1: But it must have been that. It was really it
Speaker 1: was like three point thirty.
Speaker 2: Four four in the morning. I was really thinking, and I.
Speaker 1: Also was so disorientated. I didn't know what time it was.
Speaker 1: And Marley's like, is it a daycare day? And I
Speaker 1: was like, yep, fortunately it is a daycare day today. No,
Speaker 1: and then she's all like she was expecting it to
Speaker 1: be the daddy day. So she flips out, runs out
Speaker 1: the room, and I fall back asleep.
Speaker 2: Not worried at all, like Laura being like, mat, come
Speaker 2: and get this kid.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that ash before we go into ordinary
Speaker 1: parent Yes, there's a message that I want to flag
Speaker 1: with you, and it it didn't make it. We've done nothing. Okay,
Speaker 1: didn't make sense to me. I was a bit confused.
Speaker 1: So a dad has written in and he says, currently
Speaker 1: the time of writing this message, it's two fifty am.
Speaker 1: Why did no one tell me that babies make so
Speaker 1: many fucking loud noises whilst they're sleeping. Heads up would
Speaker 1: have been great.
Speaker 2: I can relate totally. What do you mean obviously you're
Speaker 2: talking like newborn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the only noise that I can think
Speaker 1: of was when they scream. Yeah, when they're sleeping, they're sleeping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Oscar was Oscar was so noisy, like
Speaker 3: when we we bring him home from the hospital. And
Speaker 3: first of all, we all were in the same room
Speaker 3: because that's you know, that's what's advised.
Speaker 1: You had the cop next to the to the bed.
Speaker 3: First of all, we're like, fuck, it was winter, like fuck,
Speaker 3: it's we didn't realize how cold our our house was. Well,
Speaker 3: that particular room was like old unit, old windows, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: People who live in like a ducted air conditioned house
Speaker 1: are a part so lucky. God, you don't know how
Speaker 1: good you've got.
Speaker 3: We had that with Macy, but it was a summer baby,
Speaker 3: but we had air conditioning.
Speaker 2: Oh it was great. This place is like fucking living
Speaker 2: in a poor house.
Speaker 3: But the old place, like the windows were so.
Speaker 2: Old, the windows like rattley and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But we didn't realize that the room was so cold
Speaker 3: start off with, and were like he's shivering.
Speaker 1: His lips purple.
Speaker 3: Not good for we all moved to the loungery was
Speaker 3: a bit warmer, a bit more insulated, like nice bigger curtains.
Speaker 3: N it was nice and insulated for everybody.
Speaker 1: Question regarding that though, what about when issue with sunlight
Speaker 1: coming in?
Speaker 2: Is it too bright the liv No, No, it was quiet.
Speaker 2: We have these big shutters.
Speaker 1: You could like give it the bender treatment and black.
Speaker 3: It out, turn the oven on and really make it warm.
Speaker 3: I got this anyway, So we all slept in there
Speaker 3: for the first two weeks.
Speaker 2: But yes, he was like up and down all night.
Speaker 2: But when he was asleep, he was just like he
Speaker 2: had all these weird ticks. Like I was like, what
Speaker 2: the is with this kid?
Speaker 3: Only someone left the timerround, But I've had friends as
Speaker 3: well have been like, yeah, fuck, it's so noisy, just
Speaker 3: like it's so weird. From there, We're like, all right,
Speaker 3: we I think we upgraded our heater and we all
Speaker 3: moved back to the bedroom.
Speaker 2: But we're like, let's get this fucking kid out of here.
Speaker 1: Because people come over like guests and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: Ash and April, good to see you, and you're just like,
Speaker 1: April's asleep on the couch. What did you guys? We
Speaker 1: were you sleeping in the living.
Speaker 3: Room all on the lound. We were on the lounge
Speaker 3: and the cop was like on the lound. At the time,
Speaker 3: we had like a fourteen seat lounge.
Speaker 2: It was great, took up the whole living.
Speaker 3: Room space, but it was like so like twice the
Speaker 3: size of this so we could all fit. It was
Speaker 3: all fun and the dog, but Oscar was so noisy.
Speaker 3: Then we all moved back and I was like, Nah,
Speaker 3: this kid's got to get out of here. He's too noisy.
Speaker 2: So then we moved back in the living room. We know, we.
Speaker 3: Had a second bedroom, and we were like made it
Speaker 3: so it was warm enough. It's completely soundproofd so we
Speaker 3: couldn't hear it. But he was like, real, yeah, just
Speaker 3: I don't know. I suppose like they spend what night
Speaker 3: months in water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're coming out and they're like kick.
Speaker 3: Like when they're in the kicking, they probably make that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they definitely make like weird sleepy noises.
Speaker 1: Like I know what.
Speaker 3: I've had friends as well that they've said the same thing.
Speaker 3: Maybe you've just got one of those kids that only
Speaker 3: screams in their sleep.
Speaker 1: It was for lol. It was either either she was
Speaker 1: screaming like she was in pure agony or she was
Speaker 1: kind of toast. It was nowhere between.
Speaker 2: Do they sleep talk or anything?
Speaker 1: Oh maw, Marley does now.
Speaker 3: Because I suppose it's like the baby version of sleep talking, right,
Speaker 3: because they're alive, they're active, their brains like continuously growing.
Speaker 2: I suppose when they're.
Speaker 1: Still wires are still trying to connect it.
Speaker 2: But like I know Oscar now he like sleep, laughs,
Speaker 2: sleep screams. He's shocking.
Speaker 1: Only time, like before we go to bed, we did
Speaker 1: one last little check on the kids. And Marley is
Speaker 1: such a wrigglar that quite often she'll be like right
Speaker 1: on the edge, if not like on the.
Speaker 2: She falls out of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, downstairs and we'll just hear this. I'll put it
Speaker 1: back in bed. And as you put her back into
Speaker 1: the middle of the bed, she'll be like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to ride the pony. And you're like, what the
Speaker 1: clouds flowers are broken? Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: Say, like, look, I think it's not widely talked about.
Speaker 2: Maybe it needs to be more talked about.
Speaker 3: It like great, yeah, they're gonna first they're gonna scream
Speaker 3: themselves to sleep just about. But then when they're asleep,
Speaker 3: they're gonna make all sorts of noises.
Speaker 1: I do know it's annoying. Like Buster, for example, he'll
Speaker 1: sometimes come into our bedroom and he'll just be there
Speaker 1: going lick at his ned. Licking is absolute red Rocket,
Speaker 1: that's always. That is very annoying. But hey, let's get
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Speaker 3: When I'm time poor in brackets, often I do whatever
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Speaker 1: Brilliant brilliant. Marley is big on the like take a
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Speaker 1: We went for a standard nappy change, only to realize
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Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: We contemp literally. We contemplated going home, but thought we
Speaker 1: just need to run in. So we lined a plastic
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Speaker 1: It's one of those things where I have to always
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Speaker 1: We have questions, Yes, we do have some questions. The
Speaker 1: good people of this country need us, mostly parents, that
Speaker 1: they are in dy need of assistance. They have questions
Speaker 1: that need to be answered immediately. That is why we're here. Yes,
Speaker 1: do you guys have any advice to help my toddler
Speaker 1: brush their teeth?
Speaker 2: Pin them down?
Speaker 1: Next question, brushing teeth. It's bloody heart.
Speaker 2: My kids love it brushing their teeth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What are you using for toothpaste?
Speaker 2: Chocolate? Nah? Nah?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They just love it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they can't get enough of it.
Speaker 1: Really, you've been blessed. My kids absolutely hate their teeth
Speaker 1: being brushed. It is one of the most frustrating parts.
Speaker 2: When trying to brush a dog's teeth.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like faces, like doing a thing you
Speaker 1: can to avoid.
Speaker 2: Do you let them try and do it themselves? Though?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But they do such a crap.
Speaker 2: But this is the trick.
Speaker 1: Here we go. What do you got?
Speaker 2: This is the trick.
Speaker 3: What do you get them used to having it in
Speaker 3: their mouth and their own accord? And then you can
Speaker 3: even brush your teeth along with them and they can
Speaker 3: then they can teach themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh like like father, like son.
Speaker 2: April like something. I haven't brushed my teeth about fifteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I found something, Ash, you've got something. I
Speaker 1: found something that I think will make it a little
Speaker 1: bit easier for parents to brush their kids teeth.
Speaker 2: Were you got?
Speaker 1: It's right here?
Speaker 2: Is that a little electric toothbrush?
Speaker 1: That is no, no, it looks like it. If you
Speaker 1: want to give this a little go ash, you can.
Speaker 2: I'm not putting it in my mouth.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, don't. You don't use it to well, that's
Speaker 1: the only problem is that you can't. You can't turn
Speaker 1: it off. But you're meant to brush your teeth for
Speaker 1: as long as the music plays.
Speaker 2: That's too long.
Speaker 1: It's a very long time.
Speaker 2: Still, Yeah, I wonder you kids don't like to brush
Speaker 2: your teeth. They're enforced. That's the I look.
Speaker 1: Is it a different song? It keeps going?
Speaker 2: How long? It's shower for that long?
Speaker 1: Kids love it? Mate y, let me.
Speaker 2: We can't finish the show because of this fucking tooth brush.
Speaker 1: There needs to be an off button. But kids love it,
Speaker 1: kids are into it.
Speaker 3: There's no way, there's no way. It's too minute, two minutes.
Speaker 1: Don't touch it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, put in your pocket.
Speaker 3: It's still good. It's like on the Simpsons when the
Speaker 3: doorbell stays on.
Speaker 1: I can still hear it. That's my advice.
Speaker 2: Fail. Well, okay, go with what I said and pin
Speaker 2: them down. Next question.
Speaker 3: Alright, Alright, I have a twenty month old and I'm
Speaker 3: two months pregnant with my second.
Speaker 2: Do I need a double pram?
Speaker 1: Can I just say, very good reading?
Speaker 3: I am nine hundred months old.
Speaker 1: Eight minutes to get that question out? What was it again?
Speaker 2: Pram? Double pram? Does she need a double prem?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I feel so passionately about this. I sometimes get fixated
Speaker 1: on like certain things, like for example, when it came
Speaker 1: time to getting a leaf blower, man, I researched, like
Speaker 1: I was just really into knowing, like how many leaf
Speaker 1: blowers were out there, what the waterage was, like the
Speaker 1: battery life, and it was the same.
Speaker 2: Did you end up with? Wise?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the Riobi twelve volt.
Speaker 3: It was like, before we answer the continue to answer
Speaker 3: the question because there's something I wanted to talk to
Speaker 3: you about that I now own a power tool.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: Clearly really takes sec.
Speaker 1: Bringing in bringing in that is I don't want to
Speaker 1: judge the size of your tool, but that's pathetic. And
Speaker 1: it's the it's the auto's brand, is it. It's like, look, look,
Speaker 1: turn it on, give it a bell.
Speaker 3: Look, this is where I'm at. Okay, it's not how.
Speaker 2: Big it is, how you use it, first of all.
Speaker 3: But I'm now a proud owner of a power tool.
Speaker 3: It's my very first power tool. I went to Bunnings
Speaker 3: to buy it. This is not a Bunnings plug, by
Speaker 3: the way, and I was like, oh, I just get
Speaker 3: something cheap.
Speaker 2: It's just to do the garage and the back.
Speaker 3: I don't have much to do. So I went and
Speaker 3: I bought the blower, didn't do any research. Got home,
Speaker 3: realized that you've also got to buy the battery and
Speaker 3: stuff separately.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with that.
Speaker 3: The I know, and it costs me as much as
Speaker 3: the expensive one in thee.
Speaker 2: Anyway, what do you reckon?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Terrible?
Speaker 2: Does this make me a man? Or?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean it's it's getting there. It's like going
Speaker 1: through puberty. You've got You've got like three pubes that
Speaker 1: have sprouted. You want to get one of. I almost
Speaker 1: went the like petrol powered, like the one you put.
Speaker 2: On your back cut like no back area.
Speaker 1: It was like, we need to range this right in.
Speaker 3: But sorry, I wanted to bring that up as soon
Speaker 3: as you said blower.
Speaker 1: I wanted to show your enjoy. I felt the same
Speaker 1: about PRAM. I did a lot of research with a
Speaker 1: double pram because there's a lot of options. Actually, you
Speaker 1: can get the ones that are stacked on top of
Speaker 1: each other like a two story yeah.
Speaker 3: Or you can get the side by side, the double decker,
Speaker 3: the side car very confusing.
Speaker 1: A lot of conflicting reports out there because I put
Speaker 1: some stuff on stories. This is before Lawla was born,
Speaker 1: and some parents were like the two stack amazing. Others
Speaker 1: were like, no, you want the side by side. But
Speaker 1: the people like the side by side is too wide,
Speaker 1: you can't get down.
Speaker 2: I'm against it the whole.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is not okay the bugaboo donkey.
Speaker 3: We don't all have bugaboo money in the champs.
Speaker 1: The guy who's going out buying power tools.
Speaker 3: One power tool I own and isn't even considered the
Speaker 3: power tool. No, so I I just don't want to
Speaker 3: be looking for put my dick in the end of
Speaker 3: that thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get your mind. No, okay, anyway, you're like,
Speaker 1: it's my first power tool. You've got that many flash lights.
Speaker 2: I'm against the double pram. Here is why. One. You
Speaker 2: take up too much fucking footpath and you're wrangling that thing.
Speaker 1: You get right away. Everybody gets out of you.
Speaker 2: But that's the problem.
Speaker 3: Let's get the fuck out of my way. I've got
Speaker 3: you know, I'm as important as you.
Speaker 1: So if you have to take both kids to the park, how.
Speaker 2: Do you scooter a baby on the back attached?
Speaker 3: Oscar's riding along keeping macone entertained.
Speaker 1: Nice I go around a corner, Marley keeps forgetting to
Speaker 1: hold on like that.
Speaker 3: That's that the people comes down to education.
Speaker 1: I get to the park and I'm like, where the
Speaker 1: hell is Marley.
Speaker 2: Comes down to education?
Speaker 3: You're educate her and say hold on tight, hold on tight.
Speaker 1: Okay. Also coming back from the park, stopping this some groceries,
Speaker 1: the two.
Speaker 3: Cars, how do you fit down that? How do you
Speaker 3: fit down the aisle with that thing?
Speaker 1: Just bulldoze my way through.
Speaker 2: Get out of your part of the problem, part of
Speaker 2: the problem. So we bought one.
Speaker 1: Was like, what do you got with pram?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, I don't have it anymore. We didn't last that
Speaker 3: long because I was like, this is the biggest waste
Speaker 3: of fucking space that we have. We bought it, used
Speaker 3: it twice, realize it's just an absolute pain in the art.
Speaker 2: Moved on.
Speaker 1: So what's in the single prem what would you got.
Speaker 3: I've just got well, we barely even use it.
Speaker 2: We're now we're riding around a bike.
Speaker 3: I put kids in the back of my electric bike.
Speaker 3: I've got the April on the bike.
Speaker 2: Too, because a boat Adam hell on his scooter. Look,
Speaker 2: I would say, don't get one waste of time.
Speaker 1: Amber, who's written in Okay, you have a choice right now.
Speaker 1: You can listen to Ash, which is the right choice,
Speaker 1: or you can listen to myself. It's entirely up to you.
Speaker 3: But I don't be a burden on society and get
Speaker 3: a double prim.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, if you get a double Pram,
Speaker 1: you will never You'll never regret it, You'll ever make
Speaker 1: think about it.
Speaker 3: It won't impact her because she'll make a dad push it.
Speaker 1: No, think about how often you are going to be
Speaker 1: spending time with both these kids in PRAM. You want
Speaker 1: one that is going to be It's got a good
Speaker 1: turning circle, it's got great bearings.
Speaker 3: Just stick with the single. You don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about any of those things because the single does it all.
Speaker 1: Just when I thought we were best friends to be
Speaker 1: agreed on everything, Nope, you come out with this awful
Speaker 1: viewporn on prams.
Speaker 3: I think like we've got a travel single pram and
Speaker 3: a normal single pram. We don't use either of them
Speaker 3: now because the kids, like Macy wants to get up
Speaker 3: and run. I get a newborn, No, I get she's
Speaker 3: gonna have a newborn, probably gonna be most likely strapped
Speaker 3: to us, sometimes maybe strapped to dad. Sometimes feel like
Speaker 3: the double pram is something that's like the good ones expensive.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, if you're gonna get one, get
Speaker 3: the fucking good one. I agree with you on that point,
Speaker 3: but also very expensive for what they are.
Speaker 2: Buy another car.
Speaker 1: How can you put a price on your children?
Speaker 3: Ash, well, that's what are they going to eat this week?
Speaker 2: Or not make a choice. I'm hungry getting that double bram. Anyway.
Speaker 2: On that note, that's all we have time for today.
Speaker 1: Let's wrap it up. It's been a pleasure as always
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