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The Daylight Savings Headf*ck · Outspoken the Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Mums Group you actually want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of. I'm Sophie Torbert and I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by my triplet sisters and journalists, Kate and Amy.
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  Speaker 1: I want to spare a thought for all of the
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  Speaker 1: parents over this long weekend because we've been hit with
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  Speaker 1: a double whammy. Not only was it Easter, so kids
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  Speaker 1: were extra hyped up on chocolate, but it was also
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  Speaker 1: daylight savings and the end of daylight savings. And when
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  Speaker 1: I woke up on Instagram, all I was seeing were
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  Speaker 1: these posts by parents who got woken up at either
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  Speaker 1: 4 a.m., or 5 a.m. by their kids who haven't
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  Speaker 1: adjusted to the new time. Dale and I were some
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  Speaker 1: of those parents who got woken up really early. Thank
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  Speaker 1: goodness for me, it was Dale's shift. Sophie, I listened
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  Speaker 1: to last week's episode talking about shifts. It was his shift.
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  Speaker 1: So he had to unfortunately deal with that early wake up.
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  Speaker 1: I've been really nervous about daylight savings ending and how
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  Speaker 1: it was going to impact my son's sleep. So literally,
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  Speaker 1: I have been prepping for a week. That's what Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Golley says with his sleep guide. You know, for two days,
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  Speaker 1: get them up. 15 minutes later, for the next day,
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  Speaker 1: half an hour, like it sort of goes on like that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really follow it foolproof. I just got him
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  Speaker 1: up gradually a little bit later each day. And then
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  Speaker 1: the day before daylight savings hit, I pushed everything back
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  Speaker 1: by an hour. So he got up an hour later.
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  Speaker 1: He ate dinner an hour later. And we also had
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  Speaker 1: a dinner party that night purposely to keep our boys
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  Speaker 1: up for an extra hour. And I'm happy to say
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  Speaker 1: it worked. So he got up bang on 8am. That
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  Speaker 1: is so good. I'm very jealous. Which was technically 7am.
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  Speaker 1: And we were like, we woke up and we're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, Dr. Golley is a genius. Well, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Golley has finally responded to our invite to be on
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  Speaker 1: our podcast. He ended up following us, I think just
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  Speaker 1: before this podcast launched. It was actually on our Outspoken,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast Instagram account. He was putting the feelers out
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  Speaker 1: and we happily picked up on that. We mentioned him
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. He played hard to get for, I
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  Speaker 1: think about four weeks now. We say him, it's the
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  Speaker 1: media team. It's clearly his marketing team. This week he
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  Speaker 1: commented on something that was actually totally unrelated to him
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  Speaker 1: or his sleep guide. So I put up this reel
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  Speaker 1: and it was, this is your sign to have a
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  Speaker 1: baby at the same time as your best friend. And
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  Speaker 1: he wrote something like well-played and I was just sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the couch and I was so ecstatic. I called
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  Speaker 1: out to my husband. I'm like, is Dr. Golly flirting
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  Speaker 1: with us? Like what is going on? Can you not
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  Speaker 1: put this on the podcast? That is so embarrassing. No,
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  Speaker 1: I said it as a joke. I said it as
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  Speaker 1: a joke because I was staring my husband down. And
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  Speaker 1: then he's like, what are you talking about? I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: look what he's written. This wasn't even promoted. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to be so red-faced because we are going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing an in-person interview with Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Golly.
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  Speaker 1: You are both going to seize up. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have to take over. This is what normally happens. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be a bit of a nerve rash happening for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to put it out there. It's all
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a joke. Of course it is. I
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  Speaker 1: don't actually have the hots for Dr. Golly. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: the husbands are rattled, which I love because I screenshot
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  Speaker 1: one of the messages from, I mean, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: it's Dr. Golly's marketing team that have been messaging us.
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  Speaker 1: And they suggested let's do the interview in person. And
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  Speaker 1: then my husband said, should I send the divorce papers
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  Speaker 1: through now? I loved how once he messaged, we were like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a sec, what is Dr. Golly's first name? It's Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? I said Daniel. Okay. Danny. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was his doctor. Dan, for those of us who are
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  Speaker 1: friends on Instagram. Do you know what was crazy? The
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  Speaker 1: other day he uploaded a photo with his brother who's
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  Speaker 1: also a doctor. Two doctors. He's a doctor too, so
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  Speaker 1: you're three doctors. You know what? We were trying to
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  Speaker 1: play it cool on Instagram and I messaged you guys
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  Speaker 1: when he wrote the well-played comment under our reel and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my God, what do we reply? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what the funniest thing is? I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to a podcast. I think it was Mamma Mia's Parenting
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  Speaker 1: Podcast and they were talking about how the purple love
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  Speaker 1: heart means that you're horny. I think that actually came
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  Speaker 1: up in the show Adolescence because they were saying that
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  Speaker 1: emojis all have different meanings. Like secret meanings from the parents. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: with teenagers. So the different love hearts mean different things.
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  Speaker 1: So the purple one means you're horny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I put in the group, what's your reply?
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  Speaker 1: And you guys just sent all these purple love hearts.
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  Speaker 1: As a joke. I fucking lost it. Anyway. So we
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  Speaker 1: all ended up just liking the comment from him in
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  Speaker 1: our own names. And then one of our listeners, who's
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  Speaker 1: been an OG from Day Dot, I think she wrote underneath, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, the girls are going to be fangirling hard
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  Speaker 1: in their comment section. And I was like. Group chat.
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  Speaker 1: In their group chat. And I was like, babe, don't
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  Speaker 1: add us like that. Terribly sorry. We hadn't been told.
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  Speaker 2: We hadn't been told you were a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do, doctor?
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  Speaker 1: Very nice to have you with us, doctor. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're in room five, doctor. And Mrs. Abbott. How do
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  Speaker 1: you do? Dr. Abbott, actually. I'm sorry? Dr. Abbott. Now
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  Speaker 1: this Easter was really special because it was the first
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  Speaker 1: one we got to celebrate as mums. Sophie, last year
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  Speaker 1: you were really pregnant and I had just given birth
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  Speaker 1: to Harry. Yeah, I don't know how you did it, Amy,
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  Speaker 1: because you were only five days postpartum and every Easter
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  Speaker 1: Sunday we've had this tradition where we go to a
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  Speaker 1: national park and we invite all of our family and
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  Speaker 1: also all of our in-laws. So we all do this
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  Speaker 1: big catch-up and this big celebration. People find it a
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  Speaker 1: bit weird that we invite all the in-laws and that
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  Speaker 1: they all know each other. I think it's so lovely.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, you rocked up five days postpartum wearing jeans
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  Speaker 1: and boots. And I don't know how you did it.
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  Speaker 1: I hobbled in as well. Sponsored by Endone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you were high on life at that time. I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I was very impressed. The fact that you had jeans on,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think I left the house.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon and I were like, I don't know how she
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  Speaker 1: actually did it because we were a mess and couldn't
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  Speaker 1: leave the house for weeks on end. Like the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you were there and operating and you brought everything
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  Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, I think you bought a fruit platter.
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  Speaker 1: I did actually. I think I was just, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: high on life and stubborn. Well, it was a thing
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  Speaker 1: I was looking forward to the most. I remember on
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  Speaker 1: the day Dale was like, you know, we don't actually
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  Speaker 1: have to go. I said, You know what? This was
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  Speaker 1: sort of my thing when I was pregnant. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have Harry and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: so magical. We can take him to National Park. This
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  Speaker 1: is what my husband has said though, that he said
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  Speaker 1: that we all have the worst case of FOMO. We
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  Speaker 1: never want to miss out. So I think that also
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  Speaker 1: played a bit of a part in it. But did
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  Speaker 1: you have FOMO last year, Sophie? Because you were the
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  Speaker 1: only one that I mean, not that Harry was participating
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  Speaker 1: in an egg hunt when he was five days old,
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  Speaker 1: but it felt special to have your kids there on Easter.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a little bit left out because my sister-in-law
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  Speaker 1: also has a son who's almost exact same age as
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  Speaker 1: all of our kids. And yeah, you guys were all
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  Speaker 1: there with them. And I was like, I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's a piece of the puzzle missing. And he
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  Speaker 1: was there this year, which was so special. It was
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  Speaker 1: so magical to see them all playing together. It reminded
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  Speaker 1: me a bit of our childhood going to the national park.
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  Speaker 1: And we also did an Easter dinner the night before
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  Speaker 1: at my house. And Dale was saying, It reminded him
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  Speaker 1: of the family on Home Alone before they go on holiday,
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  Speaker 1: something chaotic and beautiful. And it got me thinking because
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of talk online about tips on
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  Speaker 1: how to actually make your child's childhood absolutely magical. And
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  Speaker 1: it made me think back to things when we were little.
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  Speaker 1: Can you guys think of anything? Our mum would make
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  Speaker 1: our birthday really special because she would let us choose
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  Speaker 1: which cake we wanted from the Australian Woman's Weekly Cookbook.
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  Speaker 1: And she would make all three of them in one night.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know how she did it because I
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  Speaker 1: had to make one for Jack's birthday last year. And
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  Speaker 1: it was so tough. That's definitely something I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm planning on making one for Harry this year. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, like this wasn't something we did as
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  Speaker 1: a family, but it was a lot of Americans online
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  Speaker 1: were saying that there was a birthday fairy that they
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  Speaker 1: were told about that lives at their house. And the
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  Speaker 1: birthday fairy would come in. So while you were sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: And they would fill up the room with balloons and
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  Speaker 1: they'd be like streamers all over the bed. And I've
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  Speaker 1: seen parents trying to do this on TikTok. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how they don't wake up their kids. They
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  Speaker 1: must be really deep sleepers. That reminds me of when
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  Speaker 1: we were little. There was one Easter where we were
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  Speaker 1: staying at our family friend's house. And somehow the parents
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  Speaker 1: managed to put Easter bunnies under our pillows without cracking them.
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  Speaker 1: I just still don't understand how it happened. What do
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  Speaker 1: you guys think about this one? Because a girl was
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  Speaker 1: saying that every year before she got married, her parents
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  Speaker 1: would make her their Valentine.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they would give her a Valentine's Day card.
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  Speaker 1: They'd take her out for a meal, not specifically on
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, but they'd make her fairly special. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people doing that with younger children. I
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  Speaker 1: think maybe when you're 17 it's a bit much. I
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  Speaker 1: think that sets you up for disappointment when guys are
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  Speaker 1: shit on Valentine's Day. Well, that's what she said. She
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  Speaker 1: said that parents have set the bar so high for her.
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  Speaker 1: Was she an only child or was it all the siblings? Well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the people, especially Americans, one thing I
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  Speaker 1: noticed was they would talk about how magical their childhoods were,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of it had to do with how
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  Speaker 1: rich their family was. They're like every holiday we'd have
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  Speaker 1: different PJs. And I was like, that sounds amazing. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that you have to spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money in order to make your kid's childhood magical.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's in just everyday moments that when you reflect
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  Speaker 1: on your childhood, it's a feeling of your childhood. It's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily like, Oh, I got the best present in
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  Speaker 1: the world. It's like, Oh, I, had a great day
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  Speaker 1: out with my mom who spent time with me one-on-one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest though, having a wad of cash makes
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  Speaker 1: it a lot easier. I mean, you know, some of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff I saw people doing for their kids Easter,
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  Speaker 1: like there was this woman who she put up a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a, it was sort of rage baiting. She
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  Speaker 1: put up a video saying how terrible it is when
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  Speaker 1: parents don't do anything for their kids. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: showed this video of her setting up this blow up
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  Speaker 1: pool and and then filling it with presents and then
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  Speaker 1: doing all of the Easter baskets. And this was just
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  Speaker 1: all for Easter morning. And a lot of people were saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: hang on, when did Easter turn into Christmas? I think
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  Speaker 1: there has been a big change because when we were little,
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  Speaker 1: I remember you were absolutely thrilled with getting an Easter
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  Speaker 1: egg hunt and like one chocolate bunny, which probably this
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  Speaker 1: Easter in 2026 would have cost the absolute earth. But
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  Speaker 1: now I'm seeing everyone doing, I mean, I fell into
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  Speaker 1: the trap too. making this sort of Easter basket. It's
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  Speaker 1: all for Instagram though. I never posted it on Instagram. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you posted it, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: social media has made other mums feel like I need
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  Speaker 1: to do the Easter basket. And it's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: bad thing because I think sometimes it's a really, it's got,
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  Speaker 1: people have the best intentions, but it does put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure on other mums. I saw a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mums doing the flower footprints. When did that become
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  Speaker 1: a thing? Because that happens with the Easter bunny and
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  Speaker 1: also Santa. Is the flower meant to be, like when
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  Speaker 1: it's Santa's footprint, is it meant to be snow? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I don't get because. Or is it like
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  Speaker 1: magic dust or something? I saw this TikTok went off
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  Speaker 1: of a dad. And he used four Easter eggs to
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  Speaker 1: make the footprint stencil. So there was one big Easter
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  Speaker 1: egg as the main part of the paw. And then
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  Speaker 1: there were three little small eggs as the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the paw. That was so clever. That popped up on
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  Speaker 1: my feed as well. I feel sorry for myself and
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  Speaker 1: other dog mums, though, that it makes it a lot
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  Speaker 1: more difficult to be leaving these flowered footprints everywhere because
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  Speaker 1: my dog will just eat it. Yeah. I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how food also has a big part in making
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  Speaker 1: your childhood magical. Like I was thinking about our Nana's
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  Speaker 1: famous chocolate cake recipe and how that would come out
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  Speaker 1: at every birthday party. And now when I have a piece,
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  Speaker 1: it just transports me back. And then it reminded me
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  Speaker 1: of how on the Kardashians, remember Kris Jenner had this
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  Speaker 1: famous lemon cake? recipe and it turns out it was
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  Speaker 1: just made from a box but she'd add extra bits
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  Speaker 1: of lemon rind to it let's be real sometimes those
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  Speaker 1: cakes are the best yeah they are out of the
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  Speaker 1: box i have an unpopular opinion i can't stand packet
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  Speaker 1: cakes i really don't like them i think you can
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  Speaker 1: taste that they're packet cake it's very offensive because i
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  Speaker 1: quite often make a packet i don't agree that's why
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  Speaker 1: i'm calling you out you need the right brand it's
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  Speaker 1: betty crocker of the best we stupidly went shopping on
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  Speaker 1: the sad day before easter sunday which was a nightmare
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  Speaker 1: And there was this mum and her adult children. They
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  Speaker 1: were discussing which was the best box cake. And I
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  Speaker 1: actually wanted to chime in and be like, none of them.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know, though, when they first brought out packet cakes,
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  Speaker 1: they actually made it so you only had to add
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  Speaker 1: water to the cake, but no one bought it because
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  Speaker 1: they thought it looked so low effort if they were
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  Speaker 1: to serve it. So as a marketing ploy, the companies
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  Speaker 1: actually made it. They took out the powdered egg and
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: the powdered milk and they made it that you had
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  Speaker 1: to add it. Because then people started buying it. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I've never really understood about the packet cakes. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: so what's actually in it? Is it just sugar and flour? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is. Because it's not that hard to have those
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  Speaker 1: ingredients at home. Just measure them out. You know, Stepford
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  Speaker 1: wife over here. Sometimes some of us don't have any time. Okay, Nigella.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us need to use a microwave. But I
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  Speaker 1: still need a bit of milk, full fat, which I've
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  Speaker 1: warmed in the microwave. Okay. Let's get into iconic or unhinged.
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  Speaker 1: So a listener has written in saying that when she
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  Speaker 1: takes her baby out for a walk in the pram,
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  Speaker 1: she faces him outwards. And so she can prop up
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  Speaker 1: her iPad on the canopy so the baby can enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the nature and she can enjoy the walk whilst looking
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  Speaker 1: at her iPad, watching the Real Housewives of Beverly. Iconic.
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  Speaker 1: This is a great idea. I mean, I remember I
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  Speaker 1: found it difficult when I had my son facing me
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  Speaker 1: on the walk. Cause I was like, Oh, I definitely
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  Speaker 1: can't be scrolling on my phone. But now that he's
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  Speaker 1: forward facing, I'm like, Oh, this is great. I can
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  Speaker 1: just catch up on emails or social media. In saying
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  Speaker 1: that though, you've got to be so careful when you're
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: walking of traffic, particularly in my area. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a bit unhinged. I'm sorry to this listener because she
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: should be listening to the mom's group. Podcasts are way
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  Speaker 1: easier to listen to. But also I think again, I
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  Speaker 1: live in the hills, so it'd be really bumpy to
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  Speaker 1: be trying to peer down at this iPad, I'd feel sick.
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  Speaker 1: But what I like is the kid doesn't have the iPad.
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  Speaker 1: It's like she's got the iPad. It's mum's time as well.
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  Speaker 1: So her child is enjoying looking out at the nature.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also agreeing with Kate. I'm saying iconic, but I
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  Speaker 1: personally can't watch TV and walk at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me a headache. I love listening to a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: That was my favourite thing when Harry was really little.
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  Speaker 1: We'd go on these huge walks and it would be
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  Speaker 1: sort of like me time, getting out, exercising. But If
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  Speaker 1: you can watch an iPad and walk and you can
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  Speaker 1: look around and, you know, it's obviously done in a
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  Speaker 1: safe way, iconic. I want to know what age do
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  Speaker 1: you have to stop listening to your podcast in front
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  Speaker 1: of them though? Because I'll always have them on in
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  Speaker 1: the playpen when I'm playing with it. Wait, do you
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  Speaker 1: listen out loud or with AirPods? I listen out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's when the child tells you to turn
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  Speaker 1: it off, which has happened to me. I actually thought
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  Speaker 1: it was good for his development though. He's probably picking
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  Speaker 1: up all these words. Well, that's why, because Jack will
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: pick up words. There was something like I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to a podcast in the car when he would let
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  Speaker 1: me and He repeated a word back and then I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: felt so bad because sometimes we've got negative reviews on
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: our other podcast, Outspoken, where we've dropped the F-bomb. And
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I'm like, actually, I tend to agree. It is rather
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: jarring when you're listening to a podcast in the car
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: and someone drops a swear word. I'm the biggest culprit
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: for that. So I've actually started spelling out swear words.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Now it's taken almost two years because every time I'd
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: be on the phone to Kate, she'd be like, Stop
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: swearing in front of Jack. And now I find myself
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: being like, F-U-C-K. I'm going to blame you. Our mum
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: was spelling out something the other day, but it wasn't
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: even rude. It was like, I'm getting some L-U-N-C-H. And
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, why are you spelling that out? That
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: brings me back to childhood. Just a constant spelling out
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: of things. Have you seen that TikTok? It's from that
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Candy Gigi, the woman who says clit all the time.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Surely people have seen that. We've spoken about that. We've
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: spoken about that, yeah. And she did one where she
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: was spelling out, So it's been a little C-U-N-T and
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: like everything. So good. See, the problem with mums is
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: that she does really long words and she says it
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: so quickly that I don't even know what she said.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: We've been a little bit S-A-D today, haven't we, Max?
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: We've been a little bit S-A-D. We were meant to
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: go to the P-A-R-K this morning, but unfortunately it was C-L-O-S-E-D.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: So instead we were going to go to the L-I-B-R-A-R.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: and read some B-O-O-S, but unfortunately that was also C-O-S-E-D,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: so that Max had a little cry and was being
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a C-U-M-T.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Now we've got a question for the mums group. It
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: was actually sent in by a lovely listener, and they've asked,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: what is the etiquette when it comes to the dedicated
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: pram parking at shopping centres? So can you actually park
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: there if you don't have a pram? So we're talking
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: about you do have a baby, but you're using a
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: carrier or you're walking in with them, can you use it? See,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I've always wondered what the age limit is on it. Like,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: is it under 12 months? Yeah. I've heard some parents
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: who have kids that are school age saying, well, I
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: should still be able to use this. I'm a parent.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's a bit of liberty. I think it's
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: more down to how mobile your kid is. I mean,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I have personally used the pram parks when I haven't
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: got the pram out, but it's when I've had to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: carry my son and I've deeply regretted not getting the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: pram out. I've actually never used one. I haven't actually
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: spotted them before. It's not because I've been too proud.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I've used it once and the only time I used
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: it This man came up and someone had dropped like
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: some dirty burp towel and he thought it was mine
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and he handed it back to my son and like
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: put it right in his face. I was like, that's
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: actually not ours. Thank you. See, I've actually used it
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: like when I didn't have Jack with me but I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: had the pram in the car. What? Well, I had
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to rush into it really quickly to get back to
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: my husband before my son woke up. That's a dick move.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Are the pram parks, are they actually wider to facilitate? No,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: they're just closer to the store. No, Amy, actually. No,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: some of them are. So at Burnside Village, actually I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: have used once, but I used it at Burnside and yeah,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: they're these luxe, really wide parks. There's a lot of
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: room for you to get in and out. That might
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: just be Burnside Village because the one I've used, they've
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: just been the same, except they're closer to the shop.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that you use one when you're by yourself. Well, okay.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: It was wrong, but I mean, I don't normally use
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: them and I was in a rush and I was
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a new mum and I actually, I was going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: pick up a Nintendo Switch for my husband's birthday. Doesn't
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: make it better. But she had a pram in the car.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: But she wasn't getting the pram out. You have to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: get the pram out. Well, do you know what? I
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: just think if your child's there with you, you can
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: park there. As someone said, it's not really like, yes,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: it's called pram parking, but it really should be called
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: child parking. It's because it's easier on the sign to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: put a picture of a pram.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So what's the cutoff age that a child can be
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: to park there though? When they no longer use a pram.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: What age is that? Okay, so my neighbour, who I'm
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: starting to think doesn't have a lot to do with
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: his four children because he's made some really bold statements.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: The other day we were pushing out, I mean, I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: think Jack was 18 months at the time, and the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: neighbour yells out, oh, he's a big boy now. Why
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't he just walk with you? Yeah. To be fair,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like your son doesn't look quite old for
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: his age. He's obviously not even two yet, but he
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: looks like a little boy. But he's not walking 5Ks. No,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he's not. Yeah, and he's like, oh, but can't he walk?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: And we're like, well, yes, he can walk, but it
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: would literally take us two hours to go on our
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: 20-minute walk. Jamie and his mum are so close. He
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: calls his mum for everything. I mean, honestly, I would
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: say it goes Penny, me. That's the order. Let's get
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: into our recommendations. So I'm coming to you guys with
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the TV show, And I've already got Sophie onto it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: It's called Raising Chelsea. It's on Disney. And it follows
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the life of Jamie Lang and his wife, Sophie, as
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they have a baby. And so they were on Made
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in Chelsea. They also have recorded a number of podcasts together.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Sophie is hilarious. I am only one episode in and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I had to text you, Amy, being like, oh my God,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jamie is literally my husband because there was this scene
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: where they're like, He is very close with his mother.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He calls her on the daily, every day. He FaceTimes
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: her and he even just asked her how to cook things.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And my husband had literally just been on FaceTime to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: his mum being like, how long do I put this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: steak in the air fryer? Is that what Google's for?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: But not that Brandon does this, I don't think. But
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Jamie insists, like initially he was calling his mum Mumsy
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and his wife Sophie was like, I didn't have a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: problem with that. No, it was Mama. He kept calling
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: her Mama. She's like, originally I didn't have a problem
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: with him calling her Mama, but now it's turned into Mummy.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And the next thing he's like, Mummy. Actually, I'm going
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to get in so much trouble because for some reason
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Brandon listens to every podcast of the Mums group. Well,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: let's hope when it gets to recommendations he tunes out.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: But basically. He's like, I'm safe without getting mentioned. In
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: his phone, his mum is down as Mummy fish. Oh.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mummy fish? But I think that's a bit of a joke.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: So hang on, is the thing with Jamie Lange's mum
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is she's quite a hard woman. Like she's not really
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: like the sort of mummy that you'd think. And it's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: because Jamie is really open about talking about his emotions.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: He's releasing a book on men's mental health. And his
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: mum and dad were like, oh, surely no one wants
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to hear about that, Jamie. Like, what are you talking about,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: your emotions? And so, yeah, it's actually hilarious. And I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: haven't gotten around to reality show for a while. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: used to love watching them, but then I've turned into
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a real lover of period dramas. Yeah, they're just overproduced previously.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And I feel like this one's kind of, It is
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a reality show but it's almost documentary or docu-series-esque so
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I kind of like it a bit better. And it
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: reminded me so much of being pregnant because the first
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: episode is they find out they're pregnant and they go
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and visit the midwife and then I think by the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: third episode they've had the baby but it's really good. Yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see the newborn days because you
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: said that Brandon and I would really relate to it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: being in the newborn trenches.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: You can tell they're just exhausted. I don't think the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: camera crew came for the first three weeks. And Jamie!
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Jamie Lang sitting there and Sophie, the wife's doing everything
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and he's rushing around in these dinosaur like children's pajamas.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It's hilarious. Mine isn't a recommendation, but it's a recommendation
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I want from the community of listeners. That's a bit cheeky. Yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: because I'm being greedy. So my son is literally 10
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: months old in a week or a week-ish. Not that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you're counting. He is still in our room, in our bedroom.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And I know the safe sleep recommendation is to have
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: your baby in your room until they're at least six
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: months to 12 months of age. But then I've also
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: read stuff that says, oh, don't keep them in there
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: until they're a year old because then it will be
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: really difficult to move them out. So I just don't
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: know what to do. Move them out. I just– because, okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: he's starting to– Luca, you are evicted. It makes me
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: feel so sad. I love waking up to his little
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: cute face in the morning. This is big mummy and daddy.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm just worried because he started to stand at
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the moment and you hear that once they start to stand,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: then they want to stand up in their cot and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: their sleep goes back. We moved Harry out, what was it,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: probably six weeks ago. So we probably held on a bit.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: We kept him in the room a bit longer.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: But it's been really good. It takes maybe two weeks
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: for them to fully get used to it. That's when
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: he was back in your room. Yeah, because you had
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a bit of a roving door because I think he
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was in and then he was out and then he
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: was back again. Well, because, yeah, he was going through
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: teething and stuff and it was just easier not to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: have to get out of bed and walk down the hallway.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Now that we're coming up to winter, I'm like, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: don't want to be having to get up and down.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It'll be easier in the long run. It's just next
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to you. My recommendation is to invest in an annual
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: zoo membership. So we got one as a family and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it has been so good because it's quite expensive to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: go to the zoo as a one-off. And when you're
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: working between wake windows, you actually don't have time to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: see every animal at the zoo. And it's kind of
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: stressful because you feel like you've got to pack it
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: all in because you've paid all this money. Whereas if
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you've got the annual membership I think we worked out
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: if you go at least two or three times. At
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: least every day. No, it's only two or three trips.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It actually pays for itself. So we've already been three times. Oh, wow.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And we've only had it since December. So what, a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: couple of months. It's so nice because it's sort of like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you know, you can take other people along with you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, our parents have a Zoom membership and it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: just a nice day out. It's actually such a good
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: first birthday present because Make sure you are following us
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: on Instagram because we're going to be putting together a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: first birthday gift guide. My son is nearly two, so
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've got some good recommendations of things
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that he's actually used. And your sons are about to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: turn one, so you've already got some good gifts. I've
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: got some gift ideas, yes. Well, that is where we're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: going to leave things today. We do want to ask
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you guys, though, can you do us a massive favor
• 23:38
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• 23:43
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• 23:45
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• 23:49
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• 23:51
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• 23:54
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• 23:56
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• 24:12
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• 24:15
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