November 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Katie has gone to extreme lengths in her 'helicopter parent' journey which Rach thinks is extremely unnecessary!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogae Production, an episode about My Bad Mom podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How many weeks have we got to a Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Katie? I was just going to say this morning, someone
posted on her Instart like, and you know when you
sometimes see things and then and you're like, oh fuck,
I didn't want to see that. Do you know what
I said? Six fridays until Christmas? Six fridays until Christmas.
Don't worry about fucking school. Christmas is six fridays away.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh my god, I haven't done my Christmas. I haven't
started even I don't even have an idea neither. Well
I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't either, I have no idea. Yeah no, oh,
best of luck to ask. You got six fridays to go,
and if you have not started shopping, you might as
well start now, because holy wow.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Although Black Friday sales, when does that? What does this
even mean?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Because I'm waiting and then you see some places go
early Black Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, like you know, like Black Friday. I thought Black
Friday was a day and it now gives to be
like two weeks. Great. I went to Freedom the other day.
I got a couple of little things pillows. No, that's
t KMX Okay, I'm not paying freedom prices pillows, cushions.
Come on, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ah just loves to relaser fucking pillows every six months.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, I like the Glasshouse fragrance.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Anyway, I got a few things from there, like obviously,
I went in and got more than what I walked
in to get. And I said to the guy, is
any of this is going to go on sale for
Black Friday sales? And he went probably not, but keep
your receipt because if it does go on sale for
Black Friday, we give you the difference back. Is that
(02:08):
everywhere and it's not even I didn't buy it in
Black Friday sale, So they must have enough people that
get pissed off that they buy stuff and then they
go on sale. I just thought that was something you
had to suck up. Yeah, like yeah, but I sales everywhere.
You buy Christmas presents in December and then they go
on sale in January and you're like, oh, tough shit,
(02:29):
yeah you know you've missed out. But I asked the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, I didn't ask the same thing, but when I
went to pillow Talk, I same thing. I was like, yeah,
but it is this all just going to come down
further in the Black Friday sales? She goes, oh, probably
not these ones.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There was somewhere else. This happened to rage last year.
I think I was changing sizes or something, and they went, oh,
we're going to give you this much back too, because
they've gone on sale since you bought them. I've never
had that happen now now. I was so impressed.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Question HEREO, would you return dry cleaning if you weren't
happy with the dry cleaning? Probably not, I swear I
just got my dress returned from the drag cleaner and.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not even been done.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I like say, make up still on the inside, still
smells like me Katie, And just for the record, sixty
five dollars or something to get it done because it
was a cocktail dress.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, I probably in that situation I probably would me. Yeah.
I mean normally, if it was a cheaper amount and
it was just like a shirt or something, I would
probably just never go back to that time cleaner. No,
I'm filthy about it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm so filthy about it because at number one, I
took two things in to get dry cleaned, and she
was like one hundred and ten dollars. I was like,
for fucking what, And I was like, anyway, paid it,
have used this particular place before, got the dress home,
was about to list it for sale and deep hop
and then literally I zipped it to try and change
it onto the hangar and all of that stuff still
(03:58):
got the makeup marks and then still smells like me,
like I can smell my own bo and perfume on it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, they haven't done it. I've done nothing with it.
No take back I will. Yeah, she should be appalled.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, she was so proud. She's like, look, we didn't
damage it. Of course you didn't fucking damage it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You didn't wash it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'm clean tos and sell it now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I was like, anyway, that's off topic. Am I bad
mum for being a helicopter parent?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, well, it's nice to see you take on a
new title.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mentioned previously on the podcast that Holly passa driving.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Tests yes on her birthday. Yeah, they have birthday, but
she was the only one that went for it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah. Oh thank goodness, because I as we got closer
to the day, I was like, shit, if she doesn't pass,
it's going to be a horrible birthday. She did a
fabulous job. Got it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Now she's loose on the roads.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
On the weekend, she had a shift at work and
she needed to drive, which she was fine, like it
was going to be the first time she was driving
by herself without her sister in the car, Familia, who's
quite happy just being a passenger princess. She drove this
morning to school right because she still needs to get
(05:30):
her hours up and she said, oh, I like being
a passenger better than I do being a driver.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No, we cannot let her get to that because otherwise
she really will never go for her license. That we
need her to go for her license.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, So Holly drove to work and I said, leave
early because you need to like sus out at the
parking situation, like always do that because you don't know
where you're going to park. She gets to work and
she's there in plenty of time, and she parks and
she said to me, Mum, I'm like on the line
(06:04):
and I was like, well, just like go back out
and then go back into the space. She was like,
I can't. She was like freaking out because the car
park was so busy. She had to wait for a spot,
so she had to just go with it. Wasn't a
case of like there was heaps of bays free. Yeah,
And so she got all like flustered and she was
worried about it. And then she said the guy who
(06:25):
was coming back to the car next to her wasn't
going to be able to get in because she was
so close to him. Oh yeah, So I said, just
wind the window down and explain that you've only just
passed your test and you know you're going to try
and straighten up. So no, no, no, I don't want
to say that. Then she calls me back five minutes later,
h and she went. The guy came and he got
(06:48):
into the car, and he found it really difficult because
I was so close. I was like, what did you
say something? And she went, no, I just moved into
the passenger seat. So I looked like I wasn't the driver,
So I looked like I was just waiting for my
bum to come back out. And she'd parked back.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh my god, what did she do? So she just
sat there and waited for him to go so that
she could move.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
She left it like that and locked the car and
went into work. And so then I have then worried
because she's also in a two hour zone rage and
she was working for five hours. So, in true helicopter
parents style, I drove out there and I pulled out
(07:31):
of the parking space she'd gone head in. In that moment,
I was just going to straighten up the car and
check out the two hours situation and see how enforced
I thought it was going to be. And in that moment,
I went, oh, when she leaves, it would be so
much easier for her if it's reverse parked in and
(07:53):
go out forward. I moved the car around, locked it
and left.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
When did she say something?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
She probably walked up to the car and thought.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Or did you tell her that you'd already done it?
You would have walked out of the car and gone,
I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Sure I went in front. This is wild. What are
you going to do when you can't get to it? Yeah,
I'm just going to feel like it. She's never gonna
let go. How did you learn? Yeah? Why wouldn't come
and move you all?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And I remember the first time I drove into work
and I drove straight into the fence. I went into
park and drive straight into a fence.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, all right? Learn quickly after that that you won't
do it again.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No, I didn't ever drive into a fence.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Again exactly, So I think they have to learn. Yeah,
they're going to get the confidence with it. They can't
wait for you to come and move their car every lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We need to work on this. I'm going to fill
your weekends up so much that you genuinely have no
time to be able to go to DFO, drive all
the way to Gufo and move her car for lunch.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Honestly, I was very concerned about the two hour situation.
I didn't want the car was going to be towed
away again though.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
How did you learn about parking?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I know I learned pretty early on. This is
a hack if anyone's over there that if you get
a fine in a car park that is not given
to you by the counsel or the police. So counsel
or police, you know, that's what you're going to have
to do it You have to pay that. If it's
(09:30):
a private company that's given you a ticket in their
own car park, you don't have to pay it. They
will keep sending you threatening letters. I know this, This
is a fact. They will keep sending you threatening letters
with threatening things about what's going to happen if you
don't pay. Yeah, nothing happens because you're still you're still
(09:54):
you're still still getting allow. Yeah, there's been seven five
hundred dollars worth of interest on.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I wasn't gonna have dude. Yeah, I just think it
is only week one and you're showing signs of this
helicopter behavior from another helicopter mom. Yeah, we need to
work on it, definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I did follow her on Life three sixty the whole
way there and the whole way home, and all three
of us actually did.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Me and Jay were in the car we parked at
macas because Amelia had a shift. Oh yeah, dropping her off.
She's in the back, all three of us on our
phones watching Holly on Life through sixty. Oh she's slowing. Oh,
she's like, Oh she's gone into that lane. Good job, Holly,
you're in the right lane. Oh my gosh, God help.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
When she gets a boyfriend, it's gonna be horrible for her.
Apogae Production, an episode about My Bad Mom podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How many weeks have we got to a Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Katie? I was just going to say this morning, someone
posted on her Instart like, and you know when you
sometimes see things and then and you're like, oh fuck,
I didn't want to see that. Do you know what
I said? Six fridays until Christmas? Six fridays until Christmas.
Don't worry about fucking school. Christmas is six fridays away.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh my god, I haven't done my Christmas. I haven't
started even I don't even have an idea neither. Well
I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't either, I have no idea. Yeah no, oh,
best of luck to ask. You got six fridays to go,
and if you have not started shopping, you might as
well start now, because holy wow.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Although Black Friday sales, when does that? What does this
even mean?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Because I'm waiting and then you see some places go
early Black Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, like you know, like Black Friday. I thought Black
Friday was a day and it now gives to be
like two weeks. Great. I went to Freedom the other day.
I got a couple of little things pillows. No, that's
t KMX Okay, I'm not paying freedom prices pillows, cushions.
Come on, I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ah just loves to relaser fucking pillows every six months.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, I like the Glasshouse fragrance.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Anyway, I got a few things from there, like obviously,
I went in and got more than what I walked
in to get. And I said to the guy, is
any of this is going to go on sale for
Black Friday sales? And he went probably not, but keep
your receipt because if it does go on sale for
Black Friday, we give you the difference back. Is that
(02:08):
everywhere and it's not even I didn't buy it in
Black Friday sale, So they must have enough people that
get pissed off that they buy stuff and then they
go on sale. I just thought that was something you
had to suck up. Yeah, like yeah, but I sales everywhere.
You buy Christmas presents in December and then they go
on sale in January and you're like, oh, tough shit,
(02:29):
yeah you know you've missed out. But I asked the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, I didn't ask the same thing, but when I
went to pillow Talk, I same thing. I was like, yeah,
but it is this all just going to come down
further in the Black Friday sales? She goes, oh, probably
not these ones.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
There was somewhere else. This happened to rage last year.
I think I was changing sizes or something, and they went, oh,
we're going to give you this much back too, because
they've gone on sale since you bought them. I've never
had that happen now now. I was so impressed.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Question HEREO, would you return dry cleaning if you weren't
happy with the dry cleaning? Probably not, I swear I
just got my dress returned from the drag cleaner and.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not even been done.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I like say, make up still on the inside, still
smells like me Katie, And just for the record, sixty
five dollars or something to get it done because it
was a cocktail dress.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, I probably in that situation I probably would me. Yeah.
I mean normally, if it was a cheaper amount and
it was just like a shirt or something, I would
probably just never go back to that time cleaner. No,
I'm filthy about it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm so filthy about it because at number one, I
took two things in to get dry cleaned, and she
was like one hundred and ten dollars. I was like,
for fucking what, And I was like, anyway, paid it,
have used this particular place before, got the dress home,
was about to list it for sale and deep hop
and then literally I zipped it to try and change
it onto the hangar and all of that stuff still
(03:58):
got the makeup marks and then still smells like me,
like I can smell my own bo and perfume on it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, they haven't done it. I've done nothing with it.
No take back I will. Yeah, she should be appalled.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, she was so proud. She's like, look, we didn't
damage it. Of course you didn't fucking damage it.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You didn't wash it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'm clean tos and sell it now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I was like, anyway, that's off topic. Am I bad
mum for being a helicopter parent?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, well, it's nice to see you take on a
new title.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mentioned previously on the podcast that Holly passa driving.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Tests yes on her birthday. Yeah, they have birthday, but
she was the only one that went for it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah. Oh thank goodness, because I as we got closer
to the day, I was like, shit, if she doesn't pass,
it's going to be a horrible birthday. She did a
fabulous job. Got it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Now she's loose on the roads.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
On the weekend, she had a shift at work and
she needed to drive, which she was fine, like it
was going to be the first time she was driving
by herself without her sister in the car, Familia, who's
quite happy just being a passenger princess. She drove this
morning to school right because she still needs to get
(05:30):
her hours up and she said, oh, I like being
a passenger better than I do being a driver.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No, we cannot let her get to that because otherwise
she really will never go for her license. That we
need her to go for her license.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, So Holly drove to work and I said, leave
early because you need to like sus out at the
parking situation, like always do that because you don't know
where you're going to park. She gets to work and
she's there in plenty of time, and she parks and
she said to me, Mum, I'm like on the line
(06:04):
and I was like, well, just like go back out
and then go back into the space. She was like,
I can't. She was like freaking out because the car
park was so busy. She had to wait for a spot,
so she had to just go with it. Wasn't a
case of like there was heaps of bays free. Yeah,
And so she got all like flustered and she was
worried about it. And then she said the guy who
(06:25):
was coming back to the car next to her wasn't
going to be able to get in because she was
so close to him. Oh yeah, So I said, just
wind the window down and explain that you've only just
passed your test and you know you're going to try
and straighten up. So no, no, no, I don't want
to say that. Then she calls me back five minutes later,
h and she went. The guy came and he got
(06:48):
into the car, and he found it really difficult because
I was so close. I was like, what did you
say something? And she went, no, I just moved into
the passenger seat. So I looked like I wasn't the driver,
So I looked like I was just waiting for my
bum to come back out. And she'd parked back.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh my god, what did she do? So she just
sat there and waited for him to go so that
she could move.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
She left it like that and locked the car and
went into work. And so then I have then worried
because she's also in a two hour zone rage and
she was working for five hours. So, in true helicopter
parents style, I drove out there and I pulled out
(07:31):
of the parking space she'd gone head in. In that moment,
I was just going to straighten up the car and
check out the two hours situation and see how enforced
I thought it was going to be. And in that moment,
I went, oh, when she leaves, it would be so
much easier for her if it's reverse parked in and
(07:53):
go out forward. I moved the car around, locked it
and left.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
When did she say something?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
She probably walked up to the car and thought.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Or did you tell her that you'd already done it?
You would have walked out of the car and gone,
I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Sure I went in front. This is wild. What are
you going to do when you can't get to it? Yeah,
I'm just going to feel like it. She's never gonna
let go. How did you learn? Yeah? Why wouldn't come
and move you all?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And I remember the first time I drove into work
and I drove straight into the fence. I went into
park and drive straight into a fence.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, all right? Learn quickly after that that you won't
do it again.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No, I didn't ever drive into a fence.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Again exactly, So I think they have to learn. Yeah,
they're going to get the confidence with it. They can't
wait for you to come and move their car every lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
We need to work on this. I'm going to fill
your weekends up so much that you genuinely have no
time to be able to go to DFO, drive all
the way to Gufo and move her car for lunch.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Honestly, I was very concerned about the two hour situation.
I didn't want the car was going to be towed
away again though.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
How did you learn about parking?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I know I learned pretty early on. This is
a hack if anyone's over there that if you get
a fine in a car park that is not given
to you by the counsel or the police. So counsel
or police, you know, that's what you're going to have
to do it You have to pay that. If it's
(09:30):
a private company that's given you a ticket in their
own car park, you don't have to pay it. They
will keep sending you threatening letters. I know this, This
is a fact. They will keep sending you threatening letters
with threatening things about what's going to happen if you
don't pay. Yeah, nothing happens because you're still you're still
(09:54):
you're still still getting allow. Yeah, there's been seven five
hundred dollars worth of interest on.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I wasn't gonna have dude. Yeah, I just think it
is only week one and you're showing signs of this
helicopter behavior from another helicopter mom. Yeah, we need to
work on it, definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I did follow her on Life three sixty the whole
way there and the whole way home, and all three
of us actually did.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Me and Jay were in the car we parked at
macas because Amelia had a shift. Oh yeah, dropping her off.
She's in the back, all three of us on our
phones watching Holly on Life through sixty. Oh she's slowing. Oh,
she's like, Oh she's gone into that lane. Good job, Holly,
you're in the right lane. Oh my gosh, God help.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
When she gets a boyfriend, it's gonna be horrible for her.
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