August 21, 2025 • 9 mins
Rach finds herself at a game of touch footy where her 12 year old is playing against the over 15's. So she does what no other parent would do and asks the coach for a jersey!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apod shake production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Cooking back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We're on Instagram too. At am I A Bad Mum?
We will have a Facebook.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're just locating the log in at the moment. Oh gosh,
it shouldn't be this hard. It's all that hard.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But it shouldn't be because how easy is it for
people to hack you on Facebook these days?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know it's easy to hack. Can't get your own
password back?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's yeah, right now, right my email, I'm getting notifications
saying my email password. You know how when you bring
it up on your phone and it says you need
to put the password that email. Someone's hacked. I can't
even work out how to change the password.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's what I mean. Once it's hacked. Apparently it's easy
to hack, but you can't get your own passway back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What why get me started on that?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Get me started technology? We never know what the password is.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I went into Apple I got Gracie's laptop fixed because
we had water damage.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's a real source spot for me. Ah. How much
was it five hundred to repair just the excess?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because you had Apple Care? Yeah, that's with the upper
care five hundred dollars excess. Isn't that like half of
the cost third?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Anyway, I took it back, did that, sat down with
the lady. We tried to diagnose what was wrong with it,
you know, before they send it off.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And she was just like, so.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Have you done a backup on this lately? I was like,
I don't know, it's clear it. She was really nervous
and I said, well, it doesn't matter. It's my daughter's
I was like, I shouldn't even be here doing this,
paying you another five hundred dollars to get water fixed
in something that's brand new.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We're only half half way through. I'm telling you, Katie.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The amount of waivers that I had to sign in
order for her to send my daughter's laptop away.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And just get it fixed because it was going to
clear it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I was like, well, whatever she loses, that'll teach her
not to do this again. And then the amount of
times we had to enter certain passwords Apple password, I
Cloud password, this password.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was like, I don't even remember them all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So now I have to lock a note and she
showed me how to lock a note so I can
have my details in there. Oh, so you know, like
the notes section in there, you can put a lock
on certain notes so no one else can get into
that without the password.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So you need a password for the lock. I was like, yes,
let's do this.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Look at me being new age, just don't ever forget
the password. Don't change your face to the point that
your face idea does not work.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Am I bard mom for wanting to step in.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Over the weekend, Katie Gracie had her first Touch tournament. Now,
Gracie being my eldest, this is her first team sport
event that went over three days.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
This carnival was j ginormous, actually going like what are
we doing here?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friday, Saturday, Sunday? Two or three games on Friday. Three
games on Saturday didn't make the finals, so only one
game on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Honestly, on the Friday, I get there and I was
taken back by the size of these women.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And I have to say women, little women. They were
playing in a.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Category that allowed their team of majority of them were
in grade seven, seven and eight.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We're playing against these fifteens. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The girl that Gracie was playing against were my sights.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And I was like, holy duly looking around going, oh,
we had the right, can't of all? Like have they
got them in opens? Like this girl's no word of
a light?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Were my height, my build, Most of them had bigger
boobs than me by far. Grazy looked like a baby
against these I was like, so they were playing against yes, yeah,
that's who she was playing against.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's who her team was versing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I didn't want to be one of those parents, like
obviously just learning the ropes touch football was not my
thing at school.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The teacher comes.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Over to me to say, oh, hi, you know high Rah,
you know Gracie played really well in the first game,
and you know, thanks for coming along. And I just
looked at him and I was like, what age group
are the in?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And he goes, oh, yeah, about that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I brought them in the wrong age group, so there
was a lower grade age group.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That their team should have been in.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But he was like, I missed that group, so I
got them into the fifteenth. I looked at him and
I was like, look around. I was like, these girls
my size, Like this is crazy. Anyway, carry forward, next
game comes on. Elsie was happened to be with me
because our mate was off sick from school. Standard anyway,
(05:19):
so she's with me.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's fine. Honestly, Katie. At one stage, I was like,
just let me step in. I just need to get
out there. I have to have a go. They were
getting their asses handed to them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because they're completely different age group, devastating.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I know. I was looking.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean I was in active with surprised, and I
was like, fuck, I just want to get you know,
I just want to help them. And then again, knowing
me and my background, I sort of started to get like,
not vocal, but I was like, good job, I'll go Grace.
Like you could see Gracie was busting her ass right,
as was her whole team.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But they were just getting handed. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was horror anyway, not horrible to watch. It was
a great learning lesson Katie. But I just was like, hey, coach,
put me in I have a goat. Put me in
a jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'll have Honestly, it would have been the same size
as all of them.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, so I would have looked like I fit in
out there, not Gracey's. And then this one girl she
was after Gracie. Right, Gracie was having a good old go.
She was having a red hot crack. Now this is
also Gracey's first year of ever playing touch football, so
it's not the strongest of you know, like skills, but
she's getting the hang of it and she's really enjoying it.
So she's out there, she's having a go, she's having
(06:28):
her this one girl she was just at her anyway.
Then she goes up for the touch three times and
slams her like slams Gracie.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And then as a parent you're like watching, going, oh
my god, or if you do that again.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was like starting to like gurl up inside, going,
oh my god, don't push her, don't push her.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why are you pushing her? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
She comes off less a little cotton socks. So the
games went for twenty five minutes straight.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That was just the whole duration. There was no half
time or anything like that. She come over to me
at the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
She's like, didn't want to do anything in front of
her coach, and she literally put her head in my
chest and just do it like start.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Of ball, and she goes by we're losing by so much,
and I was like, oh no, and you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You would have explained to her, there's so much older
than Yeah, it's not a fair.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's not a fair. Yeah, that's what I was saying
to it. I was like, it's not anyone's fault.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But it's like you're playing in a category that is
like not your age group.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Look at the size of them and she gets me
up here and then look what she did and she
scratched her arm, Like shit, it's a big scratch marks.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know anything about touch football. So it's a
contact sport. Is it like they're allowed to grab each other.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Look, hopefully someone chimes in and messages me and says,
this is actually how you play touch for But I
think with touch footy is like you're like coming up
and I want to sort of like put my arm
out to sort of touch you, like if I'm running
the ball, I want to sort of touch you before
you touch me kind of thing. So I'm running up,
you're trying to move the ball really quickly in play
(08:03):
up the field and then whoever's got it and the
last sort of thing you sort of take off and
try and do that. But as they're sort of touching
you or you're touching them, there's a lot of like contact,
Like these girls were not just touching they were like
like literally palming them. Obviously they've gone to like touch
her or catcher and they've just dug the nails in
all the way that. I was like, my poor little
(08:25):
tiny dancer, like, oh, I think we should stick to dance,
Like you should stick to dance because you're so upset.
I should stick to dance because I don't like seeing
you get belted up out here.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I was like, oh my gosh. But at the same time,
I was like, give me a go, just one go,
give me half game. Did you give the girl that
dug her nails in like a little like? Yeah, she
was even clappy.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
She was like she clapped herself when she'd got Gracie.
I was like, what that is unfair? She genuinely also
was my size.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What are we feeding our children? These kids are huge. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to get into the team again after that.
So you're going to trial out, I'm going to try
I'm going back to school. I'm gonna just try out
for the touch team.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I would love to see, wouldn't see that?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Everyone be like, why is here a parent playing? Why
is she grabbing them by the hair.
Apod shake production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Cooking back to another episode of Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We're on Instagram too. At am I A Bad Mum?
We will have a Facebook.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're just locating the log in at the moment. Oh gosh,
it shouldn't be this hard. It's all that hard.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But it shouldn't be because how easy is it for
people to hack you on Facebook these days?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I know it's easy to hack. Can't get your own
password back?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's yeah, right now, right my email, I'm getting notifications
saying my email password. You know how when you bring
it up on your phone and it says you need
to put the password that email. Someone's hacked. I can't
even work out how to change the password.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's what I mean. Once it's hacked. Apparently it's easy
to hack, but you can't get your own passway back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What why get me started on that?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Get me started technology? We never know what the password is.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I went into Apple I got Gracie's laptop fixed because
we had water damage.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's a real source spot for me. Ah. How much
was it five hundred to repair just the excess?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because you had Apple Care? Yeah, that's with the upper
care five hundred dollars excess. Isn't that like half of
the cost third?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Anyway, I took it back, did that, sat down with
the lady. We tried to diagnose what was wrong with it,
you know, before they send it off.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And she was just like, so.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Have you done a backup on this lately? I was like,
I don't know, it's clear it. She was really nervous
and I said, well, it doesn't matter. It's my daughter's
I was like, I shouldn't even be here doing this,
paying you another five hundred dollars to get water fixed
in something that's brand new.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We're only half half way through. I'm telling you, Katie.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The amount of waivers that I had to sign in
order for her to send my daughter's laptop away.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And just get it fixed because it was going to
clear it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I was like, well, whatever she loses, that'll teach her
not to do this again. And then the amount of
times we had to enter certain passwords Apple password, I
Cloud password, this password.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was like, I don't even remember them all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So now I have to lock a note and she
showed me how to lock a note so I can
have my details in there. Oh, so you know, like
the notes section in there, you can put a lock
on certain notes so no one else can get into
that without the password.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So you need a password for the lock. I was like, yes,
let's do this.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Look at me being new age, just don't ever forget
the password. Don't change your face to the point that
your face idea does not work.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Am I bard mom for wanting to step in.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Over the weekend, Katie Gracie had her first Touch tournament. Now,
Gracie being my eldest, this is her first team sport
event that went over three days.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
This carnival was j ginormous, actually going like what are
we doing here?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Friday, Saturday, Sunday? Two or three games on Friday. Three
games on Saturday didn't make the finals, so only one
game on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Honestly, on the Friday, I get there and I was
taken back by the size of these women.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And I have to say women, little women. They were
playing in a.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Category that allowed their team of majority of them were
in grade seven, seven and eight.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We're playing against these fifteens. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The girl that Gracie was playing against were my sights.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And I was like, holy duly looking around going, oh,
we had the right, can't of all? Like have they
got them in opens? Like this girl's no word of
a light?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Were my height, my build, Most of them had bigger
boobs than me by far. Grazy looked like a baby
against these I was like, so they were playing against yes, yeah,
that's who she was playing against.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's who her team was versing.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I didn't want to be one of those parents, like
obviously just learning the ropes touch football was not my
thing at school.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The teacher comes.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Over to me to say, oh, hi, you know high Rah,
you know Gracie played really well in the first game,
and you know, thanks for coming along. And I just
looked at him and I was like, what age group
are the in?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And he goes, oh, yeah, about that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I brought them in the wrong age group, so there
was a lower grade age group.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That their team should have been in.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But he was like, I missed that group, so I
got them into the fifteenth. I looked at him and
I was like, look around. I was like, these girls
my size, Like this is crazy. Anyway, carry forward, next
game comes on. Elsie was happened to be with me
because our mate was off sick from school. Standard anyway,
(05:19):
so she's with me.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's fine. Honestly, Katie. At one stage, I was like,
just let me step in. I just need to get
out there. I have to have a go. They were
getting their asses handed to them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because they're completely different age group, devastating.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I know. I was looking.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean I was in active with surprised, and I
was like, fuck, I just want to get you know,
I just want to help them. And then again, knowing
me and my background, I sort of started to get like,
not vocal, but I was like, good job, I'll go Grace.
Like you could see Gracie was busting her ass right,
as was her whole team.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But they were just getting handed. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was horror anyway, not horrible to watch. It was
a great learning lesson Katie. But I just was like, hey, coach,
put me in I have a goat. Put me in
a jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'll have Honestly, it would have been the same size
as all of them.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, so I would have looked like I fit in
out there, not Gracey's. And then this one girl she
was after Gracie. Right, Gracie was having a good old go.
She was having a red hot crack. Now this is
also Gracey's first year of ever playing touch football, so
it's not the strongest of you know, like skills, but
she's getting the hang of it and she's really enjoying it.
So she's out there, she's having a go, she's having
(06:28):
her this one girl she was just at her anyway.
Then she goes up for the touch three times and
slams her like slams Gracie.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And then as a parent you're like watching, going, oh
my god, or if you do that again.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was like starting to like gurl up inside, going,
oh my god, don't push her, don't push her.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why are you pushing her? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
She comes off less a little cotton socks. So the
games went for twenty five minutes straight.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That was just the whole duration. There was no half
time or anything like that. She come over to me
at the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
She's like, didn't want to do anything in front of
her coach, and she literally put her head in my
chest and just do it like start.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Of ball, and she goes by we're losing by so much,
and I was like, oh no, and you can't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You would have explained to her, there's so much older
than Yeah, it's not a fair.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's not a fair. Yeah, that's what I was saying
to it. I was like, it's not anyone's fault.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But it's like you're playing in a category that is
like not your age group.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Look at the size of them and she gets me
up here and then look what she did and she
scratched her arm, Like shit, it's a big scratch marks.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know anything about touch football. So it's a
contact sport. Is it like they're allowed to grab each other.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Look, hopefully someone chimes in and messages me and says,
this is actually how you play touch for But I
think with touch footy is like you're like coming up
and I want to sort of like put my arm
out to sort of touch you, like if I'm running
the ball, I want to sort of touch you before
you touch me kind of thing. So I'm running up,
you're trying to move the ball really quickly in play
(08:03):
up the field and then whoever's got it and the
last sort of thing you sort of take off and
try and do that. But as they're sort of touching
you or you're touching them, there's a lot of like contact,
Like these girls were not just touching they were like
like literally palming them. Obviously they've gone to like touch
her or catcher and they've just dug the nails in
all the way that. I was like, my poor little
(08:25):
tiny dancer, like, oh, I think we should stick to dance,
Like you should stick to dance because you're so upset.
I should stick to dance because I don't like seeing
you get belted up out here.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I was like, oh my gosh. But at the same time,
I was like, give me a go, just one go,
give me half game. Did you give the girl that
dug her nails in like a little like? Yeah, she
was even clappy.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
She was like she clapped herself when she'd got Gracie.
I was like, what that is unfair? She genuinely also
was my size.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What are we feeding our children? These kids are huge. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to get into the team again after that.
So you're going to trial out, I'm going to try
I'm going back to school. I'm gonna just try out
for the touch team.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I would love to see, wouldn't see that?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Everyone be like, why is here a parent playing? Why
is she grabbing them by the hair.
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