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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Because if as parents we don't have enough on our plate,

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Speaker 2: now we're being blamed for our children being bad at maths.

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Speaker 2: I'm reading an article that says parents have been blamed

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Speaker 2: for Australia's Year four students.

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Speaker 1: How old you are you in Year four? You're nine? Ten?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for U four students are trailing twenty two other

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Speaker 2: countries in our maths performances, and they're saying it's because

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Speaker 2: we don't teach kids their numbers and letters before kindergarten.

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Speaker 2: I thought that had all been disproved, that all those

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Speaker 2: flash cards you give babies and things that everyone catches

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Speaker 2: up in the end. I often felt that there were

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Speaker 2: other families and it made me feel like a bad

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Speaker 2: mum that you'd go to their houses and they'd have

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Speaker 2: the Times tables stuck on the wall of the loo

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Speaker 2: or on the bedroom wall for the kids and things.

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Speaker 1: We never did any of that, but my kids are okay.

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Speaker 1: The skeleton on the toilet and.

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Speaker 2: The picture of the girl with playing tennis with now

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Speaker 2: wonders we've go on her underpants, But at the same

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Speaker 2: time she's just sort of scratching a bum. She watched

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Speaker 2: enough of your teenage walls. But my children are good

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Speaker 2: at maths, and I would never push the maths. How

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Speaker 2: about you?

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Speaker 1: My kids were great at maths, very very good at maths.

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Speaker 2: So what does that say about your mother? Because what

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Speaker 2: do you say, Well, you're not.

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Speaker 1: Great at maths? Where's this coming from?

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Speaker 2: It's coming from here?

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Speaker 1: What is ten percent of six dollars fifty? It would

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Speaker 1: be ten cents? Today is Wednesday?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: What day was it? Three days ago? Monday?

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Speaker 2: No, twelve minus four equals six?

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Speaker 1: What is nine times eight forty eight? Lucas, what is

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Speaker 1: nine times eight? Correct? That's a disgrace, nowhere near it.

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Speaker 2: No, you always sounded outrageous, as if it was someone.

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Speaker 1: Else's fault, my mother's fault. Yeah, I actually blame your mother.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and a man is generation