September 11, 2025 • 9 mins
Katie is getting pushback from her kids around driving because OBVIOUSLY they know better. But also on a lot of other things too like food and sleep so she's introduced a new saying which is "do what the f*** you like!"
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apodjeke Production. Welcome back to another episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Podcast? We were on Instagram too at am I A
Bad Mum? I'm shit at Instagram At the moment I
feel like I go on for a second and this
will be when I'm like in a waiting room for
an appointment.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, when you're trying to kill that five minutes of
wherever you are.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How about this? And this is why I believe, this
is my theory of why the years are going by
so fast, because we're never bored. I found myself and
I really noticed. What I did is I was walking
and I needed to cross the road, and I walked
up to the crossing and I waited because there wasn't
the Little Green Man yet. And as soon as I
(01:05):
saw I had to stand there for a second, got
my phone out of my bag. Why couldn't I have
just stood and looked around?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And I make a conscious effort, especially if I'm walking
and I open my phone whilst walking, Like you're not
that desperate to look at a screen that you're going
to hit by a car because they're turning through a
red light.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What were you doing just on the gram? Yeah, how'd
you hit by the car. Didn't bring my head up,
just couldn't do it. Needed to see what was on
the gram.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And then we give our kids a hard time for
wanting to.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Be screen time, screen time and regulation. If adults can't
do it, kids are definitely not going to be able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
See, we can't do it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Literally screw doing so much that the years are going
to go past that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't say that I just turned forty. I don't want
to go faster.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
My abad mom for telling them to do whatever the
fuck they like.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Content constantly has this flavor to it at the moment,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, I'm like two people. Like there's two parts of
me at the moment. There's the part that goes still
be a parent, it's still important to have boundaries and
you know, they still need to have enough sleep and
all the rest of it. And then there's another part
of me that's like completely just goney, Okay, well I've
done the education now and even things like eating rage. Yeah,
(02:41):
like they'll grab like a coke or something, yeah, and
I'll be like raising my eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, because yeah, I'll suck at this part too.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But there's a couple of things. First of all, there
is can I be asked to argue with them about
do you really need another coke? They're not good for
you kind of thing. There's then the part that goes,
they've got the education, they know full well, I know
Molly gets to a point where she's like, I need
some In fact, they both do well. They'll come home
(03:13):
from like school, camp or something and they just want
vegetables and because they feel like like we do like adults,
like if you're eating.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All you want once you come home, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, and so they definitely have that. But I am
then kind of there's a part which is like, well
they're not. It's bad for them. I can't tell them
in their thirties what to eat and what to not eat. Yea,
to drink and what to not drink. I feel like
I've done the education, ye rach. I've got a whole
(03:45):
bunch of vitamins and supplements. I've told everyone else in
the houses, includes my husband, just so you know, we've
got this, this, this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And this.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If you want any you know, I have in the
past put that in their bathroom. So I'm like, when
you brush your teeth, take that or in the morning whatever.
And I took them all out of the pantry last
week and I put them all on the kitchen bench,
which I don't love because I'm hosting.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No no, no, yeah, I don't want to out.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But I was like, I'm gonna leave them all out.
I'm gonna show you what I take and I'm gonna
offer you them and then if you don't want them,
then don't worry about it. And so I've got disappoint
made where they have got no interest. They're like almost
laugh at me, like oh the mumble of fucking vitamins,
and they're not interested. So I'm putting them back in
(04:37):
the pantry. And there's a part of me that's like,
oh that's fine, Like they cost a lot of money
more for me off me. I'll just take them then.
But it's things like that, and again in two minds, still,
I'm still like battling.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The two people.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It's going go to bed now, You're gonna be so
tired tomorrow. And then the do whatever the fuck you like,
Because what I know about teenagers is they are experts
in everything, but they know absolutely fucking nothing, no nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I just love that they know everything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I mean, I've only got tweens, and they seem to
also be super knowledgeable about a lot of things that
I thought, wow at ten and twelve, I really don't
know how you know all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, it's the arguments, and this is the thing they
really believe in their arguments. Yeah, they're putting across. Yeah,
will be driving, rach Amelia, will be driving to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Argue with me.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm like, mate, She's like, well, you don't do that.
I'm like, I passed my tests already, I've been driving.
I don't need to do it like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah. Yeah, but also formulate your own formulate your own
driving skills and ability based on what I do and
don't do. That is irrelevant, like with what you do
and don't do. Come to me when you've got the
same amount of years of experience, hands on experience, meaning
me aka also known as Mum driving you everywhere for
(06:05):
the last sixteen years of your life.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The best ones, right, are the ones that are arguing
about the rules. So traffic lights, speed, Oh the speed
Oh they're not even gonna know. They're not gonna care
if I'm doing Oh yes they will. These aren't my rules.
I didn't make up the speed limit if there's a police.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Mate, the first time I get pulled over, you're going
to be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I argue these officer like you're arguing.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
With me, and it scares the shit out of you
when you first get pulled over by the police.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I got pulled over when I was seventeen and I
wasn't wearing a seat belt my little Nissan Micra, and
I will always remember to this day him telling me,
I really don't want to be the person that has
to go to your house and tell your mum that
you've gone through the windscreen. And he gave me a
fine whatever it was back then, and I remember being annoyed,
(07:04):
I've got to pay fine. But I have never not
worn my seat belt since.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm a bit of a nonwearer when I'm on things
like public transport because I find it hard to wear
seat belts that other people want.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But it's sort of like, I know it's a bit weird, ah,
but I genuinely in my own car, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, especially after the beep beep were installed, like
when it beeps that you can't you can't not now.
And then the other part was, you know, like we
didn't have the overhead cameras now that we've.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Got I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Seat belts for me were just like a like I
don't want to die. Obviously, you're at risk every time
you get into a car, let alone anything else.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The mobile phone fine is one thousand dollars touch a
mobile phone. But you know, if you're a business, so
this is very relevant if you're a small business, which
you probably are. Yeah, I'm a small business. Just four
thousand dollars for us.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Also, I don't know why. I don't know what. It's
just another revenue raising in life.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're a big company, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Willy nilly, revenue raising. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But going back to speed, I had the opposite in
my car.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The other day and Elsie's sitting in the back and
we just dropped her little friend off home, which was fine,
but usually she'll jump in the front shool, so when
her friends gone, she'll jump back in the front with me.
And she's like, you know what, I'm going to stay here,
And I was like, okay, right, oh, sweet love.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Feeling like an uber, Well, kick back and relax. Anyway,
We're just we're driving high gum water. Can I help
you with anything else. Literally was driving along from the back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The speed limit inspector goes, what's the speed limit right now?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Mum said eighty.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why, well, you're clearly not doing eighty, are you, I said, well,
you're clearly going to take much longer to walk home,
aren't you. I said, so choose your buttles, mate, and.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
G sat there and proceeded to have a giggle to
herself because she thought it was the funniest thing she'd know.
And I was like, mate, do you start driving? Come
at me.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Then I learned to drive like that because of how
long you used to take to get out of the
house shoes on seventy six times.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I just loved it. I was like, how about shut
the fuck up on the back seat? Shut it up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We need one of those things that they have in
like the police vans where they put the screen up
so you can't hear see the people in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're like that and that screen
Apodjeke Production. Welcome back to another episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Am I A Bad Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Podcast? We were on Instagram too at am I A
Bad Mum? I'm shit at Instagram At the moment I
feel like I go on for a second and this
will be when I'm like in a waiting room for
an appointment.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, when you're trying to kill that five minutes of
wherever you are.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How about this? And this is why I believe, this
is my theory of why the years are going by
so fast, because we're never bored. I found myself and
I really noticed. What I did is I was walking
and I needed to cross the road, and I walked
up to the crossing and I waited because there wasn't
the Little Green Man yet. And as soon as I
(01:05):
saw I had to stand there for a second, got
my phone out of my bag. Why couldn't I have
just stood and looked around?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And I make a conscious effort, especially if I'm walking
and I open my phone whilst walking, Like you're not
that desperate to look at a screen that you're going
to hit by a car because they're turning through a
red light.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
What were you doing just on the gram? Yeah, how'd
you hit by the car. Didn't bring my head up,
just couldn't do it. Needed to see what was on
the gram.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And then we give our kids a hard time for
wanting to.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Be screen time, screen time and regulation. If adults can't
do it, kids are definitely not going to be able
to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
See, we can't do it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Literally screw doing so much that the years are going
to go past that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't say that I just turned forty. I don't want
to go faster.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
My abad mom for telling them to do whatever the
fuck they like.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Content constantly has this flavor to it at the moment,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, I'm like two people. Like there's two parts of
me at the moment. There's the part that goes still
be a parent, it's still important to have boundaries and
you know, they still need to have enough sleep and
all the rest of it. And then there's another part
of me that's like completely just goney, Okay, well I've
done the education now and even things like eating rage. Yeah,
(02:41):
like they'll grab like a coke or something, yeah, and
I'll be like raising my eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, because yeah, I'll suck at this part too.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But there's a couple of things. First of all, there
is can I be asked to argue with them about
do you really need another coke? They're not good for
you kind of thing. There's then the part that goes,
they've got the education, they know full well, I know
Molly gets to a point where she's like, I need
some In fact, they both do well. They'll come home
(03:13):
from like school, camp or something and they just want
vegetables and because they feel like like we do like adults,
like if you're eating.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
All you want once you come home, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, and so they definitely have that. But I am
then kind of there's a part which is like, well
they're not. It's bad for them. I can't tell them
in their thirties what to eat and what to not eat. Yea,
to drink and what to not drink. I feel like
I've done the education, ye rach. I've got a whole
(03:45):
bunch of vitamins and supplements. I've told everyone else in
the houses, includes my husband, just so you know, we've
got this, this, this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And this.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If you want any you know, I have in the
past put that in their bathroom. So I'm like, when
you brush your teeth, take that or in the morning whatever.
And I took them all out of the pantry last
week and I put them all on the kitchen bench,
which I don't love because I'm hosting.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No no, no, yeah, I don't want to out.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But I was like, I'm gonna leave them all out.
I'm gonna show you what I take and I'm gonna
offer you them and then if you don't want them,
then don't worry about it. And so I've got disappoint
made where they have got no interest. They're like almost
laugh at me, like oh the mumble of fucking vitamins,
and they're not interested. So I'm putting them back in
(04:37):
the pantry. And there's a part of me that's like,
oh that's fine, Like they cost a lot of money
more for me off me. I'll just take them then.
But it's things like that, and again in two minds, still,
I'm still like battling.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The two people.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It's going go to bed now, You're gonna be so
tired tomorrow. And then the do whatever the fuck you like,
Because what I know about teenagers is they are experts
in everything, but they know absolutely fucking nothing, no nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I just love that they know everything.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I mean, I've only got tweens, and they seem to
also be super knowledgeable about a lot of things that
I thought, wow at ten and twelve, I really don't
know how you know all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, it's the arguments, and this is the thing they
really believe in their arguments. Yeah, they're putting across. Yeah,
will be driving, rach Amelia, will be driving to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Argue with me.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm like, mate, She's like, well, you don't do that.
I'm like, I passed my tests already, I've been driving.
I don't need to do it like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah. Yeah, but also formulate your own formulate your own
driving skills and ability based on what I do and
don't do. That is irrelevant, like with what you do
and don't do. Come to me when you've got the
same amount of years of experience, hands on experience, meaning
me aka also known as Mum driving you everywhere for
(06:05):
the last sixteen years of your life.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The best ones, right, are the ones that are arguing
about the rules. So traffic lights, speed, Oh the speed
Oh they're not even gonna know. They're not gonna care
if I'm doing Oh yes they will. These aren't my rules.
I didn't make up the speed limit if there's a police.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Mate, the first time I get pulled over, you're going
to be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I argue these officer like you're arguing.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
With me, and it scares the shit out of you
when you first get pulled over by the police.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I got pulled over when I was seventeen and I
wasn't wearing a seat belt my little Nissan Micra, and
I will always remember to this day him telling me,
I really don't want to be the person that has
to go to your house and tell your mum that
you've gone through the windscreen. And he gave me a
fine whatever it was back then, and I remember being annoyed,
(07:04):
I've got to pay fine. But I have never not
worn my seat belt since.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm a bit of a nonwearer when I'm on things
like public transport because I find it hard to wear
seat belts that other people want.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But it's sort of like, I know it's a bit weird, ah,
but I genuinely in my own car, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, especially after the beep beep were installed, like
when it beeps that you can't you can't not now.
And then the other part was, you know, like we
didn't have the overhead cameras now that we've.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Got I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Seat belts for me were just like a like I
don't want to die. Obviously, you're at risk every time
you get into a car, let alone anything else.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The mobile phone fine is one thousand dollars touch a
mobile phone. But you know, if you're a business, so
this is very relevant if you're a small business, which
you probably are. Yeah, I'm a small business. Just four
thousand dollars for us.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Also, I don't know why. I don't know what. It's
just another revenue raising in life.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're a big company, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Willy nilly, revenue raising. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But going back to speed, I had the opposite in
my car.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The other day and Elsie's sitting in the back and
we just dropped her little friend off home, which was fine,
but usually she'll jump in the front shool, so when
her friends gone, she'll jump back in the front with me.
And she's like, you know what, I'm going to stay here,
And I was like, okay, right, oh, sweet love.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Feeling like an uber, Well, kick back and relax. Anyway,
We're just we're driving high gum water. Can I help
you with anything else. Literally was driving along from the back.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The speed limit inspector goes, what's the speed limit right now?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Mum said eighty.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Why, well, you're clearly not doing eighty, are you, I said, well,
you're clearly going to take much longer to walk home,
aren't you. I said, so choose your buttles, mate, and.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
G sat there and proceeded to have a giggle to
herself because she thought it was the funniest thing she'd know.
And I was like, mate, do you start driving? Come
at me.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Then I learned to drive like that because of how
long you used to take to get out of the
house shoes on seventy six times.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I just loved it. I was like, how about shut
the fuck up on the back seat? Shut it up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We need one of those things that they have in
like the police vans where they put the screen up
so you can't hear see the people in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You're like that and that screen
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