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Episode 6: 10 Ways Kids Embarrass Us | Funny Parenting Stories & Toddler Meltdowns · Bright Star Kids Parenting Podcast

• 0:00
  Dimity: Welcome to the Bright Star Kids Parenting Podcast.
• 0:03
  Dimity: Hi, I'm Dimity and this is Susan and today we're gonna be talking about the top 10 ways that our kids have thrown us under the bus.
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  Susan: And before we start, if your kid ever said something in public that has absolutely mortified you, this is your show.
• 0:16
  Susan: Click, like and subscribe.
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  Susan: Okay, so let's count down from 10 to 1, which is gonna be the most embarrassing.
• 0:23
  Susan: So Dimity, what is it?
• 0:25
  Susan: Number 10.
• 0:26
  Dimity: The accidental theft.
• 0:27
  Susan: Okay, well, I've got a great story for this one.
• 0:30
  Susan: Um, when me and Jamie were out just shopping around, he was in his little like stroller, and I was just pushing him.
• 0:38
  Susan: I'd gone and done all the different shopping, and then when we got to the car, what did I see?
• 0:45
  Susan: But he had basically taken it, wasn't like very expensive, but it was all these like hair bobbins.
• 0:50
  Susan: He must have just like grabbed them from the you know, this the kind of like stall thing.
• 0:55
  Susan: And uh so he had I think he had maybe like two or three of those, uh, probably like ten dollars worth.
• 1:01
  Susan: But um, yeah, I was a bit like, oh, he's like, I didn't pay for them, so yeah, I decided okay.
• 1:09
  Susan: It wasn't like super far back to the shop, so I put him back in the stroller, got the things, and then walked all the way back to the shop and had to give it to the security guard.
• 1:21
  Susan: I'm so sorry, my son has stolen these hair bobbins.
• 1:25
  Susan: Please take them back.
• 1:26
  Susan: So, yeah, it was very good.
• 1:28
  Susan: I was very good for doing it, but uh definitely I think I'm sure plenty of people out there have had their kids steal things by accident.
• 1:36
  Susan: Yeah, have you taken them back, or did you just kind of go, well, you know, it is what it is.
• 1:42
  Dimity: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:43
  Dimity: Luckily, none of my kids have done that.
• 1:44
  Dimity: Okay, but I can just imagine, you know, one of a kids like a kid walking out with like a really expensive item.
• 1:50
  Susan: Oh, yeah, imagine that.
• 1:51
  Dimity: Yeah.
• 1:51
  Susan: Although I think you would definitely bring that back.
• 1:53
  Dimity: Oh, yeah, 100%.
• 1:54
  Dimity: But imagine you walk out and the alarms go off, and you're like, oh my gosh, and these kids just sitting in the prayer with oh gosh.
• 2:00
  Susan: Yeah.
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  Susan: So number nine, we've got physical chaos in a public place.
• 2:04
  Dimity: Yes, I've got some stories for this one, but most embarrassing for me, my son Louie, he's a clinger.
• 2:10
  Dimity: Okay.
• 2:10
  Dimity: He clings onto you if you try and like put him down or pulling him out of the car or something, putting him into his car seat, he'll cling.
• 2:17
  Dimity: And um recently he's been clinging onto me, and whenever I put him down, he pulls my shirt down.
• 2:23
  Dimity: Whole bra exposed.
• 2:25
  Dimity: Um, even Poppy, Poppy says to me, "Mum, I just saw your whole bra!" And she like says it really loudly in public, and I'm like, Oh gosh, like this is just it's too much.
• 2:35
  Dimity: It's too much.
• 2:36
  Dimity: It's just chaotic.
• 2:37
  Dimity: You're moving around, you're like, Oh, I need to get the the kids on the floor, I need to get him out of his seat, but he's like grabbing onto me and he's fighting to get out, and he's yeah, and it's just it's it's a lot.
• 2:45
  Susan: Yeah, well, kids like in public places in general are just wild.
• 2:50
  Susan: Have they ever uh pulled anything off supermarket shelves or things like that for you?
• 2:54
  Dimity: Uh no.
• 2:55
  Susan: Oh, that's pretty good.
• 2:56
  Susan: You're lucky.
• 2:57
  Susan: I think that's good.
• 2:57
  Susan: Yeah, I've definitely seen kids.
• 2:59
  Susan: Luckily, Jamie didn't do it, but I've definitely seen other kids who just yeah, go run riot.
• 3:05
  Dimity: Well, to be fair, I think if if we had Louie out of the pram, he would probably do that.
• 3:09
  Susan: Okay.
• 3:09
  Dimity: But we've been avoiding.
• 3:10
  Susan: Okay.
• 3:11
  Dimity: Because he is a runner, he'll run.
• 3:12
  Dimity: So I think if he was out of the pram and walking around more, then yes, it would be happening.
• 3:17
  Susan: When I was in a just like kind of a small, kind of like one of those Just Jeans kind of places, I totally got undressed.
• 3:23
  Susan: I was in my knickers and my bra, and Jamie was there with me, he's probably like, you know, three or four, and it was one of those as those shops that had the you know, like the changing room was like, yeah, and everybody else was out there, could see.
• 3:37
  Susan: Anyway, he decided that he was bored and he opened up the changing room doors and yeah, revealed me in my my full glory.
• 3:47
  Dimity: Did everyone look as well?
• 3:48
  Susan: Well, it felt like they did, and I think that's the thing, is like, you know, you never you always are so much more like like mortified.
• 3:56
  Susan: But actually, most people probably didn't notice, but I was like, and I also had to try and then get him to come back again.
• 4:03
  Susan: You know, yeah.
• 4:04
  Susan: So yeah, that's another good one.
• 4:06
  Dimity: That's always a fear of mine, actually, whenever I'm getting changed.
• 4:09
  Dimity: So scary to think it can actually happen.
• 4:11
  Dimity: Oh god.
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  Dimity: So number eight, we have our lies dismantled.
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  Dimity: So this is a really big one.
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  Dimity: Poppy is at the age where she loves to tell everyone, "I'm three."
• 4:22
  Susan: Okay.
• 4:23
  Dimity: "I'm three." So we have multiple times tried to get her into places for a cheaper price. Because obviously two and uh you know, zero to two is free.
• 4:37
  Dimity: Free or a little bit cheaper.
• 4:38
  Dimity: So multiple times we said, "Oh, um," they'll say, "Oh, how old is she?" And we'll say, "Oh, she's two." And she says, No, mummy, no, I'm three.
• 4:46
  Dimity: I'm three, mummy!" And it is so mortifying.
• 4:49
  Dimity: So then you have to go, oh, yeah, she's two turns three.
• 4:53
  Dimity: I can't believe that.
• 4:54
  Dimity: Oh, damn, and then you have to pay the full price anyway, plus you're embarrassed at the same time, so yeah, that's a big one.
• 5:00
  Susan: Yeah, definitely.
• 5:01
  Susan: And uh, and as they get older as well, you're gonna have those different restrictions, so yeah, but as they get older, they will be able to play along a little bit more.
• 5:10
  Susan: You go, shh, you are remember, you are whatever age it is.
• 5:14
  Susan: Oh gosh. Yeah, and the little kids they just can't lie.
• 5:18
  Dimity: No, so it's and they're proud, they're proud to be, you know, a big girl, but oh gosh, it's so funny.
• 5:23
  Susan: And I was the same, so I actually have a story when I was a kid.
• 5:27
  Susan: I was probably around like 10.
• 5:29
  Susan: My sister didn't tell me what her plan was, but she went into a shop and she was trying to buy these shoes, and she only had a certain amount of money, or else she only wanted to spend a certain amount of money, so she was bargaining with the um the sales guy and said, you know, like say it's a hundred dollars, I've only got a hundred dollars, and but the guy was like, Well, you know, it's a hundred and thirty dollars, and um, and then I piped up, and I said, 'Oh, I've got thirty dollars.' So cute, and of course it was back in Ireland, so it would have been not dollars, but um, yeah, Laura's like, shh, you know, my sister was giving out to me like shh,' and uh the guy pretended that he didn't hear me.
• 6:12
  Susan: But uh yeah, I was so sweet.
• 6:14
  Susan: I was gonna give her my very like small amount of money so that she could get her shoes.
• 6:20
  Dimity: Aaaawww
• 6:20
  Susan: I know she did manage to get them for the discount.
• 6:22
  Susan: Okay, and now we've got number seven, which is eating out and like so in restaurants and eating at other people's houses.
• 6:30
  Dimity: Yes.
• 6:30
  Susan: And for me, like Jamie is just very fussy, he's always been a fussy eater, you know.
• 6:35
  Susan: So we will like accommodate his needs at home.
• 6:38
  Susan: So when when we go to like restaurants, I would always make sure that there would always be really basic foods on there, but also when we go to other people's houses, you don't always know what they're going to make.
• 6:50
  Dimity: Yeah.
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  Susan: And my friend, one of my friends, um, she's got kids who will eat everything.
• 6:55
  Susan: Like, I'm just I'm yeah, I'm very jealous of of those kids who will eat anything.
• 7:00
  Susan: Jamie is not one of those kids now.
• 7:02
  Susan: He's getting better, but around that time he absolutely was so fussy.
• 7:07
  Susan: And my friend had made this beautiful dinner, but I was looking at it going, he is not gonna eat anything.
• 7:13
  Susan: He might eat the piece of bread that's on the thing, but yeah, I was like, Oh, and I was saying to n to Jamie really quietly, as you know, she was kind of getting everything ready.
• 7:22
  Susan: I was like, just please try to eat something, eat it, you know.
• 7:25
  Susan: Oh, and I was like bribing him, like, I will get you your like you know, game voucher thing if you eat if you eat at least half of what's on the plate, and he was like, Oh, he's like giving out, and I'm like, shh and I'm trying to make sure nobody else could like could see.
• 7:42
  Susan: Um, eventually the host, she actually did cop onto this and was like, hold on a second, is there something going on?
• 7:49
  Susan: Like, does he not like it?
• 7:50
  Susan: And I was like, Oh, and Jamie, of course, piped up and said, "No, I don't like it," and didn't want to hurt her feelings because like she'd made all this beautiful food, and I was like, "I'm so sorry, Jamie's just really fussy," and so yeah, she ended up making him like something else.
• 8:04
  Dimity: Oh, well, that's lovely.
• 8:05
  Susan: Yeah.
• 8:05
  Susan: So he got away with it, but I was just like, you're just trying to like make sure that you don't embarrass your friend, or like you know, you just you really want your kid to look like they will eat stuff.
• 8:18
  Dimity: Yeah, whenever we go out for dinner, obviously Louie is still learning to eat, so he makes a big mess.
• 8:24
  Dimity: That's another thing with kids eating out.
• 8:26
  Dimity: Yeah, um, we avoid it, to be honest, going out with two kids because Poppy's fussy, so it's always a like like Jamie, it's hard to get them to eat.
• 8:35
  Dimity: Yeah, and then Louie is still in the phase where he likes to pick things up and he throws things.
• 8:40
  Dimity: He threw a corn cob at me the other day.
• 8:42
  Susan: Oh wow.
• 8:42
  Dimity: Um, looked at me straight, straight at my face.
• 8:46
  Dimity: So it's just I yeah, we avoid it because otherwise you've got the mess on the floor, you've got the wait, like the waitresses coming over, and they're like, "Oh, oh, do you want me to help you clean it up?" And I'm like, "No, no, no, that's fine, that's my mess, I'll do it, I'll do it." And I have to like pick up, it's just I avoid it.
• 9:01
  Dimity: It is mortifying.
• 9:01
  Dimity: It's so mortifying.
• 9:02
  Susan: Most people will say that they don't want to do that either.
• 9:04
  Susan: Yeah.
• 9:05
  Dimity: Yep.
• 9:05
  Dimity: Okay, so number six, we have bodily accidents at the worst possible times.
• 9:10
  Susan: Yeah, well, I've got a few of these actually, but uh one of the most memorable ones for me was I was at my friend's house.
• 9:17
  Susan: Luckily, we're outside.
• 9:18
  Dimity: Okay.
• 9:19
  Susan: It was a nice sunny day, and Jamie was you know, he's probably around like two or three, and he was sitting on my lap, and all of a sudden, and this is gonna trigger you, but vomited all over me, like drenched from the top all the way through to my jeans, the amount of vomit that he threw up in my direction.
• 9:41
  Susan: And I was at my friend's house.
• 9:44
  Susan: I didn't I brought some changes of clothes for him, but I didn't think of doing anything for myself.
• 9:50
  Susan: Um, my friend was very nice.
• 9:51
  Susan: She did offer, like, would I like a shower and you know, borrow her clothes?
• 9:55
  Susan: I was like, "Jo, I just want to get out of here." So I did manage to kind of get him undressed and like changed, but I've for me, I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna go home.
• 10:05
  Susan: I was like 10-15 minutes away, but oh, the smell was disgusting.
• 10:10
  Susan: I was like so wet, but I put a plastic bag on my car seat, and I I never drove home so quickly.
• 10:20
  Susan: It was the most revolting thing.
• 10:22
  Susan: Another one, I think, uh, for those kind of like bodily functions was when Jamie was um we were flying back to Ireland actually, and um it was in one of the smaller planes, and he had done this like explosive poop in the nappy.
• 10:38
  Susan: So it gone, I could smell it, and it had gone everywhere.
• 10:41
  Susan: Like, oh no.
• 10:42
  Susan: And like those airplane toilets are so tiny.
• 10:46
  Susan: So I had to get in there, and it was only me because Nigel couldn't fit too.
• 10:49
  Susan: So you had to like pull the um the you know thing down, and it's and he's like wiggling as well.
• 10:56
  Susan: He's at that age where he was like not wanting to lie there still, and I'm having to clean it up, and it was so horrible.
• 11:03
  Susan: And I could hear that there was lots of people outside waiting to get in.
• 11:07
  Susan: So I managed to clean him up and get a new nappy on him.
• 11:10
  Susan: Um, and then when I came back out, I was just mortified because the smell in there I knew was just horrible, and I didn't have any spray to like make it you know, disguise the smell.
• 11:21
  Susan: So the next person who went in, I was I'm still so sorry.
• 11:24
  Dimity: Oh my gosh.
• 11:25
  Dimity: That's did you say anything to them?
• 11:26
  Susan: Not really, because it's a what do you think?
• 11:28
  Susan: So yeah, I was just kind of like hanging my head and shaking.
• 11:35
  Dimity: That's so funny.
• 11:35
  Dimity: I'm quite lucky, I've not had anything like that.
• 11:38
  Dimity: None of my kids have.
• 11:39
  Susan: You've still got plenty of time.
• 11:40
  Susan: Well, true.
• 11:41
  Susan: I true.
• 11:41
  Susan: Okay, before we move on, if you're resonating with any of these stories, make sure to give us a like and subscribe if you haven't already.
• 11:49
  Susan: Okay, so we're down to number five, and we're gonna be talking about our bodies and the things that are meant to be private.
• 11:55
  Dimity: Yes, I've got uh a really embarrassing one for this one.
• 11:58
  Dimity: So um, my daughter, she is three, so she's kind of like clocking on to bodily functions and like things that happen to your body.
• 12:06
  Dimity: And um the first time that she saw I had my period, we were in the public toilet and we weren't in the parents' room, we were in an actual proper toilet.
• 12:17
  Dimity: I pulled my pants down, go into the toilet, and she looks at my pad.
• 12:23
  Dimity: Yeah, pad, and she says to me, "Oh my gosh, mummy, are you okay?
• 12:27
  Dimity: You hurt?
• 12:28
  Dimity: There's so much blood!" And I thought, oh my god.
• 12:33
  Dimity: And I could hear her voice echo throughout the whole toilet, and I'm thinking, oh geez, like this is not happening right now.
• 12:40
  Dimity: I took it as a moment to explain to her, yeah, you know, women's bodies, and this is gonna happen, and blah blah blah.
• 12:45
  Dimity: But it was just...
• 12:47
  Susan: That's so cute.
• 12:48
  Dimity: Yeah, it was it was really cute.
• 12:49
  Dimity: She even do you wouldn't do you need a band-aid?
• 12:51
  Dimity: I mean, there's just so much, and I was like, oh god.
• 12:54
  Susan: And when you ran out of the toilet, was there anybody there?
• 12:57
  Dimity: Yeah, it was full, it was a full toilet.
• 12:59
  Susan: And they're all like cueing for waiting.
• 13:01
  Susan: Were they all looking at you for a smile?
• 13:03
  Dimity: Yes, they were, they were.
• 13:04
  Dimity: It was so funny.
• 13:05
  Susan: I'm sure it made their day.
• 13:07
  Dimity: Yeah, it was really funny.
• 13:08
  Dimity: It was like when you look back, but at the time I was like, "Shh, shh, don't say anymore!" But yeah, I did take it as a time to be like, oh yeah, this is this is what's gonna happen, you know.
• 13:18
  Susan: We had friends over and um Jamie piped up, he was probably around like maybe five or something, and he's like, uh "Daddy said mommy's gonna be a bit grumpy because she's got her period," and I was like, "What do you say to that?" I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna kill him.
• 13:38
  Susan: Oh my god, that's so probably, you know, I'm sure pet people out there have had embarrassing things like this.
• 13:46
  Susan: To make sure to leave a comment and tell us.
• 13:48
  Susan: Number four, we've got brutally honest about other people's bodies.
• 13:53
  Dimity: Oh yeah, this is a big one.
• 13:55
  Dimity: It's so embarrassing.
• 13:57
  Susan: It's very embarrassing.
• 13:57
  Susan: And the thing is, kids have no filter.
• 14:00
  Dimity: No.
• 14:00
  Susan: They and the thing is you can't say to them, like, you're not allowed to, you know, because you don't even know when they're going to say it.
• 14:07
  Dimity: Exactly.
• 14:07
  Susan: What is going to prompt it.
• 14:09
  Susan: But you've got a good story.
• 14:10
  Dimity: I do have one.
• 14:10
  Dimity: So Poppy.
• 14:12
  Dimity: It's always Poppy, isn't it?
• 14:14
  Dimity: It's always Poppy.
• 14:15
  Susan: Well, I guess.
• 14:15
  Susan: I'm sure Louie will do it.
• 14:18
  Susan: He'll embarrass you later.
• 14:20
  Dimity: She um saw a man in a wheelchair, and obviously that was a new experience for her.
• 14:25
  Dimity: She didn't know what that was, and she looks at me very loudly, says, "Mummy, why is that man driving a car with his hands?"
• 14:33
  Susan: It was very cute.
• 14:34
  Dimity: It was very cute, it was.
• 14:36
  Dimity: But it was just so loud, and he heard it, and I kind of went and looked at him with my eyes wide, and he kind of just smiled, and I was like, "Okay," so it's okay.
• 14:46
  Dimity: Again, I took that as a time to explain to her, you know, not everyone's bodies are the same.
• 14:50
  Dimity: Some people need help.
• 14:52
  Dimity: Um, you know, but we don't we don't say anything about that, we don't comment on it.
• 14:58
  Dimity: That's you know, but on the other hand.
• 15:00
  Susan: I know it is really tricky as a parent to try and figure out what what to say and when to say it, and when to just go, shh, shh.
• 15:06
  Susan: Yes.
• 15:07
  Susan: I've had to do that a few times.
• 15:09
  Susan: Shh.
• 15:09
  Susan: Yeah.
• 15:10
  Susan: And you're hoping that the other people have not like heard your kids saying whatever it is that they were going to say.
• 15:18
  Dimity: I know, yeah.
• 15:18
  Dimity: It's just so it was good.
• 15:20
  Dimity: It was good that he was okay about it because I can imagine that there might have been a time, like if she was to say something about someone else.
• 15:26
  Dimity: But it wouldn't have been like that.
• 15:28
  Susan: So yeah, good lesson.
• 15:29
  Dimity: Yeah.
• 15:30
  Susan: Found lots of like really funny things that mum groups have been talking about.
• 15:35
  Susan: There are different things like um kids pointing to women and saying, "Are you pregnant?" when they're not pregnant?
• 15:43
  Susan: Or pointing to uh you know a big man's belly and saying, "Oh, you're very fat." Like luckily, Jamie's never said any of those things, but yeah, be pretty mortifying.
• 15:53
  Susan: And even I think there was some person said um their kid pointed to this old woman and said, "Are you a witch?"
• 16:00
  Dimity: Oh god.
• 16:01
  Susan: Which it would be oh, it would be terrible for the old woman.
• 16:04
  Dimity: Actually, Poppy would probably do something like that because she sees witches in you know movies and they're old and they're, you know, and she says, "Oh, mummy, a witch, a witch!" But so she would probably do that.
• 16:13
  Dimity: That's something I gotta keep in mind.
• 16:16
  Susan: Yeah, there's lots of embarrassing things that I'm sure everybody's kids have done, and I'm sure they're even worse than what we've just said.
• 16:22
  Dimity: Yeah, definitely.
• 16:24
  Dimity: Okay, number three, we've got the meltdown that makes you look like a kidnapper.
• 16:28
  Dimity: And Susan, you've got a story for this one.
• 16:30
  Susan: I do, yes.
• 16:31
  Susan: So when before I had Jamie, I had um a little niece, she was probably around three at that point, and me and Nigel had brought her into Dublin, and uh it was a big treat for her.
• 16:45
  Susan: She was so excited, and she was running around like kind of like public melt, like, "Woo!" Hello on a great time! And I was like, if you don't stop this, you're we're not gonna get you an ice cream because we'd promised her an ice cream, and she just started screaming, like she was so upset.
• 17:03
  Susan: The fact that she wasn't gonna get her ice cream, and then she's like, "I want my mummy!" and I'm just like, "Oh, I'm her auntie!" and I was like really worried because everyone's sort of like looking uh who is her kid being so upset, yelling that she wants her mummy and daddy.
• 17:21
  Susan: I think she said.
• 17:22
  Dimity: Oh, good.
• 17:22
  Susan: I was like, oh, and so I was like, "Look, I'll get you an ice cream." I've never backed down so quickly in my life than saying yes, and then immediately when she heard she got her ice cream, she was happy.
• 17:35
  Susan: I was like, phew.
• 17:36
  Susan: So yeah, I could have gotten arrested for that one, but...
• 17:38
  Dimity: Oh, my god.
• 17:40
  Susan: So that was before I had a kid, and yeah, good training having your nieces and nephews.
• 17:45
  Dimity: Well, that was a good training, yeah.
• 17:47
  Dimity: I actually have one as well.
• 17:49
  Dimity: So whenever Poppy is having a meltdown in public, she always says, "I want my daddy, I want my daddy!" and she yells it really loud.
• 17:57
  Dimity: And I always always make a point of saying, "Well, mummy is looking after you today." Mummy's the one looking after you because I'm like terrified that people are gonna think that I'm not the mum or that I've got this kid that you know.
• 18:12
  Susan: It's brilliant.
• 18:13
  Susan: Love kids.
• 18:15
  Dimity: Love kids.
• 18:15
  Susan: Yeah, and number two is when our kids swear, or the words that they say that do not sound like those words.
• 18:25
  Susan: So Dimity, you've got one, I think, for this.
• 18:28
  Dimity: Yes, I actually think for me this is probably the most embarrassing thing that has happened for me personally.
• 18:34
  Dimity: Okay.
• 18:34
  Dimity: But when Poppy was learning how to talk, she was obsessed with clocks for a long time.
• 18:41
  Susan: Okay.
• 18:42
  Susan: Uh we know where this one is.
• 18:44
  Dimity: Yes, yes.
• 18:45
  Dimity: And anytime she saw a clock, she would point at it and let us know that there was a clock there.
• 18:51
  Dimity: And she didn't fully know how to say the L in some words yet.
• 18:57
  Dimity: So she could say, you know, colour, she could say black, she could say, you know, other L's, but in clock, no, she couldn't say it.
• 19:06
  Dimity: So she would always call it 'cock', basically.
• 19:10
  Dimity: And she pointed at a clock one time, and it was a black clock.
• 19:15
  Dimity: And she points at this clock in the middle of the shop, because it was like one of a big one, like in the shopping centre.
• 19:20
  Dimity: She points at it and yells, "Mummy, look, a black cock!" And I that I was speechless.
• 19:29
  Dimity: I didn't know what to do.
• 19:30
  Dimity: I literally, my jaw dropped.
• 19:32
  Dimity: I'm pushing the trolley and I'm like, oh my god.
• 19:35
  Dimity: And I like look around at everyone was looking at me.
• 19:38
  Dimity: It wasn't like a, it wasn't like a oh, I thought everyone was looking at me.
• 19:42
  Dimity: No, no, everyone was looking at me.
• 19:45
  Susan: Brilliant.
• 19:45
  Dimity: And people were smiling, people were, people were like had their.
• 19:49
  Susan: And you don't want to say anything to her because you don't want her to then think, oh, it's you know, a bad word or whatever.
• 19:55
  Dimity: Exactly, exactly.
• 19:56
  Dimity: And all I said was, "Yes, baby, that is a black clock." And then I just walked off with my head down, and I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that.
• 20:05
  Susan: It's brilliant.
• 20:05
  Dimity: It was so funny.
• 20:06
  Dimity: Now that I look back at the time, I was mortified, but so funny.
• 20:09
  Susan: I love it.
• 20:11
  Susan: And I'm definitely like curse words are things that kids pick up all the time, or they'll say words that sound like a different word, and it's really tricky to try and like balance between telling them what it is.
• 20:26
  Susan: Most of the time we just ignore it.
• 20:28
  Dimity: Yes.
• 20:28
  Susan: Do not laugh.
• 20:29
  Dimity: No, it's hard not to, though.
• 20:31
  Susan: It is hard not to.
• 20:32
  Susan: Yeah.
• 20:33
  Susan: I love um Modern Family.
• 20:35
  Susan: I don't know if you ever watch it, but it's one of my favourite shows.
• 20:38
  Susan: Jamie has has made us watch it so many times, it's unbelievable.
• 20:41
  Susan: But there was an episode in that where Lily, she was around probably four, and she was a bridesmaid or like a flower girl at a wedding, and she got into her mind that the F word that sounds like duck would be funny.
• 20:56
  Susan: And her dad uh found it so funny, and every time she would say it, he would laugh.
• 21:03
  Susan: And the other dad, because it was the the gay couple, um, he would be really mad, and so they she ended up deciding that um she thought that her other dad was like um sad, so she decided to say it in front of everybody, the whole service.
• 21:18
  Dimity: Oh good.
• 21:18
  Susan: And absolutely brilliant, everybody cracked up laughing.
• 21:21
  Susan: So, like this is a problem, isn't it?
• 21:23
  Susan: When you've got a kid that thinks that it's funny to say a curse word and you are laughing, like they will just keep doing it, and then they'll bring it to school and all these other things.
• 21:33
  Susan: You're like, oh.
• 21:34
  Dimity: It's so funny, it's so funny.
• 21:36
  Dimity: Truck is a big one.
• 21:37
  Dimity: I'm pretty sure we went through a phase where Poppy didn't know how to say truck properly, it should say the other word, and it was so funny.
• 21:44
  Susan: Yeah.
• 21:44
  Susan: And as a parent, like I've you know, because it's I'm pretty good at at saying the odd curse word here and there, but I when I was a parent, I really made sure, like I tried my best to like not say it at all.
• 21:56
  Susan: So um I would say, "Oh, sugar!"
• 21:59
  Dimity: Uh huh.
• 22:00
  Susan: Instead of the other one.
• 22:01
  Susan: And yeah, it's amazing how much you can like change your vocabulary when you become a parent and you're trying your best like not to say any of those naughty words.
• 22:09
  Susan: Because you really don't want your kids saying those bad words.
• 22:13
  Dimity: Actually, my mum told me my mum was watching Poppy the other day, uh yesterday actually, and she says to me, oh, um, "Poppy actually said to me, 'Oh, F word.'" And she actually said though, like F word.
• 22:23
  Dimity: She didn't say the actual word, she said, "Oh, F word."
• 22:26
  Susan: Oh like she actually said that?
• 22:28
  Susan: Brilliant on the thing.
• 22:29
  Dimity: She didn't actually say the word.
• 22:30
  Dimity: She said, "oh, F word." And my mum was like, "Oh, at least she's not said it."
• 22:35
  Susan: So you guys must be saying it without even knowing.
• 22:38
  Susan: Like, as an evil must say the F word, you know, because they do pick it up.
• 22:42
  Susan: You know, so funny.
• 22:44
  Susan: Unless they've got like older siblings and things like that, then like, oh, it must be hard, you know, to try and like when you've because I was a baby of five, so I don't know if I said curse words or not, but like surely, you know, but when you've only got when you've only got the oldest, then it's a lot easier to monitor just you and your partner's words.
• 23:02
  Dimity: Definitely.
• 23:03
  Dimity: We're pretty bad.
• 23:04
  Dimity: I'm not gonna lie.
• 23:04
  Susan: Are you?
• 23:05
  Dimity: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:05
  Susan: Have your any of your kids picked up on it?
• 23:08
  Dimity: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:08
  Susan: Okay.
• 23:09
  Susan: Poppy has said it.
• 23:10
  Susan: Okay.
• 23:10
  Susan: Yes.
• 23:11
  Dimity: And
• 23:12
  Susan: Oh yeah.
• 23:15
  Dimity: Sorry.
• 23:16
  Dimity: Yeah, a lot of the time.
• 23:18
  Susan: And finally, we are down to number one.
• 23:21
  Susan: The full public meltdown.
• 23:25
  Susan: I am positive every parent here has experienced this.
• 23:31
  Susan: Or if you haven't been very lucky and haven't had too much with your own kid, I guarantee you've seen it happen on a regular basis, especially in supermarkets.
• 23:42
  Dimity: Yes. Definitely.
• 23:43
  Susan: And I think like for me, the number one thing I used to try and do, and again, because I only had one kid, it's a lot easier is to monitor the times when I bring Jamie to the shops with me.
• 23:54
  Susan: So like I don't bring him when he's tired, I don't bring him when he's hungry.
• 23:58
  Susan: All these things kind of like help to like avert the whole public meltdown.
• 24:04
  Dimity: Okay.
• 24:04
  Susan: And I've also got a pretty, he's relatively chilled out kid.
• 24:08
  Susan: So I've been pretty lucky not to have too much of these.
• 24:11
  Dimity: Well, that's good.
• 24:12
  Susan: I know, I'm lucky, but you have .
• 24:14
  Dimity: Yeah, way uh deep in that at the moment.
• 24:18
  Susan: Okay.
• 24:18
  Dimity: Poppy is she's got an attitude, I'm not gonna lie.
• 24:22
  Susan: She's got a drama.
• 24:23
  Dimity: She does.
• 24:24
  Susan: Okay.
• 24:24
  Dimity: Yeah, she's a drama queen, she is.
• 24:26
  Dimity: Well she gets it.
• 24:26
  Dimity: I wonder where she gets it from.
• 24:28
  Dimity: Um from me.
• 24:29
  Dimity: Um, but she will full blown on the floor, kicking her legs.
• 24:38
  Dimity: Um she makes this noise.
• 24:41
  Dimity: She goes...
• 24:42
  Susan: Oh god!
• 24:43
  Dimity: Oh, my god.
• 24:45
  Dimity: And I always it's always over something, like she'll want something and we'll say, No, you know, you've had you've already had a chocolate milk today.
• 24:52
  Dimity: We're not gonna get you chocolate smoothie.
• 24:54
  Susan: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Dimity: She loses it.
• 24:55
  Dimity: Because you normally every time we go to the shops, she'll get like a something like a smoothie.
• 25:00
  Dimity: Yeah, Jamie used to always get something.
• 25:02
  Dimity: But recently she's been having a little chocolate milk in the morning, so we thought, okay, we've been going to the shops and we say, No, you don't need a chocolate milk, and she loses it, absolutely loses it.
• 25:12
  Dimity: She's in a trolley a lot of the time.
• 25:13
  Susan: Okay.
• 25:14
  Dimity: So then she's like moving the trolley around, and then the trolley's moving back and forth, and I'm having her say, "Stop, don't do that, it's unsafe."
• 25:20
  Susan: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Dimity: And I'm always I don't know whether I should snap and be, "Sit down, don't do that!" Or if I should be the calm parent that's like, "it's okay," because I don't know what other people are gonna think.
• 25:35
  Dimity: Do you know what I mean?
• 25:36
  Dimity: I always struggle with that.
• 25:38
  Dimity: It's just it's so embarrassing.
• 25:39
  Susan: And that's what they say, like um more of the like people um behave differently in public than they do at home.
• 25:47
  Susan: So they they'll actually discipline their kids differently out and about because most people are just absolutely mortified of like what other people are thinking.
• 25:55
  Susan: So you're not just concentrating on your kid, you're thinking about all these other people who you've never seen before, you'll never see them again, and you are so worried about their judgment.
• 26:06
  Dimity: Yes.
• 26:06
  Susan: And like actually, who cares?
• 26:08
  Dimity: I know.
• 26:09
  Susan: And like I think as parents are or other people, most people just kind of go, they understand, you know, that kids are kids and like don't be so judgmental.
• 26:19
  Susan: There are some people who will give you these like evil eyes and whatever, but like whatever, whatever.
• 26:24
  Susan: Yeah, um, so I think you just have to be like consistent in like how you do that.
• 26:30
  Susan: Like I was I really am very lucky with Jamie.
• 26:34
  Susan: Like, I've always said to him, if you uh kick up a fuss, you get nothing.
• 26:40
  Susan: And so like I've tried to be consistent with this now, it's so much easier said than done.
• 26:46
  Susan: But yeah, he's now at the age where he's 13 and he knows that if he annoys me and he and he makes a massive fuss over it, he will get nothing.
• 26:55
  Dimity: Okay.
• 26:55
  Dimity: like nothing.
• 26:56
  Dimity: He yeah, so but it's he's a much more chill kid, like you've got a more maybe higher strung, a little bit more dramatic, and yeah, it is really hard, you know.
• 27:08
  Dimity: It's really hard, and it is hard to not resist the whole like actually just give it to them, whatever it is that they want.
• 27:14
  Dimity: But the problem is that they're really clever, and they will like learn, and they'll go, "Oh, that behaviour got me this." Yeah.
• 27:23
  Dimity: So then next time, maybe they'll think I might do that again.
• 27:28
  Dimity: I think that's probably where we have gone wrong because a lot of the time we will say, Okay, if you just stop, we'll give it to you then.
• 27:37
  Susan: And she's really smart too.
• 27:39
  Dimity: So it is true.
• 27:41
  Dimity: There's been also multiple times where she's not stopped, and I have had to physically pick her up, yeah, sling her under my arm, just walk out.
• 27:51
  Susan: Have you ever had a trolley full of stuff?
• 27:52
  Susan: Because people have done that where they literally have to go, that's it, we're done, and they've they've looked, the trolley has to go there.
• 28:01
  Dimity: I have, I have, and I've done that once.
• 28:04
  Dimity: We had um Louie, I had Louie in the front, you know, the little seats in the trolley, stacked trolley.
• 28:10
  Dimity: Poppy was losing it.
• 28:11
  Dimity: Yeah, Louie started crying.
• 28:13
  Dimity: So I'm just this mum with like I couldn't control either of them.
• 28:18
  Dimity: I did.
• 28:18
  Dimity: I had to dump the trolley, pick I had Louie on one side, and I'm picking Poppy up and I'm walking out, and it wasn't.
• 28:25
  Susan: It's so hard.
• 28:26
  Susan: And there are so many.
• 28:27
  Susan: I bet you there's like at least 90% of our the audience looking at this will go, yeah, I've done that, been there, got the t-shirt.
• 28:37
  Susan: Um, and we're all in the same boat.
• 28:39
  Susan: Yeah, we're all just trying to figure out how do we make our kids actually do a little bit of what we want, which is why the whole if you can, not when they're tired, yeah, not when they're hungry.
• 28:51
  Susan: Um and I do just leave them at home.
• 28:53
  Dimity: So you don't take them anyway.
• 28:55
  Susan: When you do, when you do your weekly shop, just it's like can you just mind them?
• 28:59
  Susan: I'm just gonna go.
• 29:00
  Susan: And actually, that's like one of my favourite things to do is just to do my weekly shop by myself with nobody else.
• 29:05
  Susan: I quite enjoy it.
• 29:07
  Susan: Online shopping, there will be people who will say, Do online shopping, what are you doing?
• 29:11
  Susan: Don't go to the shops.
• 29:12
  Susan: Yeah, you're crazy.
• 29:13
  Dimity: Yeah, for sure.
• 29:14
  Susan: But I don't like online shopping.
• 29:15
  Dimity: Neither do I.
• 29:16
  Dimity: So I like to be able to touch everything in like um yeah.
• 29:20
  Dimity: I think I think for me, a lot of it comes from when I was before I was a mum.
• 29:24
  Dimity: I used I did.
• 29:25
  Dimity: I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't horrible.
• 29:27
  Dimity: I wasn't like, oh, look at that mum, doesn't it?
• 29:29
  Dimity: But I was.
• 29:29
  Dimity: I would look at a mum and think, oh god, why can't she control her kid?
• 29:33
  Dimity: And then I think, oh, I'm gonna do that so differently when I'm when I'm a mum.
• 29:37
  Susan: It's amazing how many things you think you're gonna do differently when you're a parent.
• 29:41
  Susan: You've got you've got all these amazing like notions of like what an incredible parent you're gonna be, what a beautiful children you're gonna have.
• 29:48
  Susan: You're not gonna have these crazy ones.
• 29:50
  Dimity: Absolutely delusional.
• 29:52
  Dimity: I was delusional.
• 29:53
  Susan: I think there's so many parents out there, especially like if you are a brand new mum and you've got these beautiful little like babies just sitting there and it's just gorgeous.
• 30:02
  Susan: Wait, yeah, wait for another few years and yeah, yeah, it might all change.
• 30:07
  Dimity: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:08
  Dimity: I thought I was lucky because everyone told me terrible twos.
• 30:11
  Dimity: You're gonna get the terrible twos.
• 30:13
  Dimity: She's gonna be like off the handle, she you're not gonna be able to control her.
• 30:17
  Dimity: And I had a great experience with twos, and I thought, oh, well.
• 30:20
  Susan: Then the tree taint the tree tree anger.
• 30:23
  Susan: Or they basically they say the teenager.
• 30:26
  Dimity: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Dimity: Um, and I yeah, I thought to myself, oh my gosh, I've aced this.
• 30:30
  Dimity: She's perfect, she's this perfect kid, and now it is.
• 30:34
  Susan: But it's all development, yeah.
• 30:36
  Susan: And it's only because she's so smart and she's just figuring it all out, and she's got her personality.
• 30:41
  Dimity: Exactly, and you forget all about it when they look up at you and they say, "I love you, mummy," and give you a cuddle at the end, you know.
• 30:46
  Susan: It's so cute.
• 30:46
  Dimity: You can't you can't be mad at them forever.
• 30:49
  Susan: It's beautiful.
• 30:50
  Susan: And so that's the end of our top 10 ways that kids mortify us, and now it's our turn to mortify them.
• 30:58
  Susan: So yeah, Jamie is he's 13.
• 31:01
  Dimity: Yeah.
• 31:01
  Susan: So I'm now at the uh at the time where uh in my life where I'm now starting to mortify him, and I'm gonna really enjoy it, I think, actually.
• 31:10
  Susan: Um no, but like I do, I do try.
• 31:13
  Susan: Like one of the the when I googled this, uh the the top things are um parents dancing in front of him, which is weird because it's kind of like I don't know when how many times parents would dance in front, but um hugs, uh affectionate, uh public shows of you know um affection.
• 31:32
  Susan: Uh fair enough, I can kind of see that.
• 31:34
  Susan: Um, like holding hands, hugging, kissing, yeah, um, you know, things like that, sharing photographs of them on social media is definitely another thing that absolutely Jamie won't even smile for in my camera anymore.
• 31:48
  Susan: Like he won't really allow it's I have to be very sneaky when I get my phone out.
• 31:52
  Susan: Um definitely uh the if I want to give him a hug or something, I'll do it in private.
• 31:59
  Dimity: Yeah, okay.
• 31:59
  Susan: I won't expect him to like want to actually do that at all.
• 32:03
  Dimity: Yeah, okay.
• 32:04
  Susan: Um so yeah, if you if you've had a kid who likes to hold your hand and then they start to go, I don't want to, that's just natural progression, and it is a bit sad.
• 32:13
  Dimity: Yeah.
• 32:14
  Dimity: But like it's not you, it's them.
• 32:16
  Dimity: I'm actually getting that a little bit.
• 32:18
  Dimity: I'm still the cool mum that you know wants to be around.
• 32:20
  Susan: Yeah, well, enjoy it because it won't last forever.
• 32:23
  Susan: Yeah.
• 32:23
  Susan: And I think that's about it.
• 32:25
  Susan: That's our top 10 things of how our kids have mortified us.
• 32:30
  Susan: Tell us how your kids have mortified you, and we'd love to hear from you.
• 32:34
  Susan: Have a great day.
• 32:35
  Susan: Bye.
• 32:38
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• 32:38
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• 32:42
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• 32:44
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• 32:52
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• 32:54
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