August 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Rach spends the day supporting her youngest in her sporting competition, but when she doesn't win, it's ALL MUM'S FAULT! Suprise, suprise Rach doesn't have much sympathy!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appolgate Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
a Bad MoMA Podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I just look at myself in a camera as you
started the intro line, I was looking at my hair
and I'm like, just looks like a mushroom head today?
Why do I do this to myself? Why do I
look like a mushroom Who says that you want to
leave the house? Hey, you should leave the house and
you should go to an athletics day today looking like
a mushroom.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I actually said to you that I really like your
pants today.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Thank you tracksuit pants. I love a good tracksuit pants.
Bit smarter. Yeah, find a fancy pair of tracksuit pants
and you can wear them outside the house. Yes, this
is a color that we both wear. Yeah, I like
that green. It's like an olive green. I'd say it's
a kind of a sage. Don't come to us for
parenting advice, but come to us for fashion advice. Can
(01:08):
rock a mum outfit?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm going through a stage at the moment where I
hate everything in my water everything.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You need to get it all, Go to Jake nothing.
What did I wear last year? I don't know. Go
back to your phone, get to your photos. And put
this date in last year and then just see like
float through the like the month of like this time
last year, and see what some of your outfits are.
(01:34):
I can guarantee you there'll be a few cheek shirts
in there. Yeah, hundreds.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well I've got every everything, every collection that them all. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now, am I a bad mum for showing no sympathy?
I feel really bad saying that because when we got here,
because I have a child here today, this is her list.
(02:05):
You gave her a list and said, here, write a
list of one to ten things that you're grateful for today.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now this is like let's talk like real time. It's
late afternoon with her and I have been out all
day and I yelled out as we were walking in
and I can't be one of them. Ha ha ha.
So the first three it says mum, four is me,
five is my life, six is being fast, seven is
trying my best, eight is not giving up, nine is
(02:31):
family support, and Ted is being happy. Yeah. Pretty cute.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I was like, that's really nice. I mean, we talk
a lot lot about the shit that mum gets, but
interestingly dad is not on that list.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And just coming off the back of what her and
I have just done for the day. So we've been
out at the Queensland State Athletic Center. It's our first
time representing. I think it's Northwest District's team. And then
you go and then you compete. Now, when you get
to these sort of levels, there's some hard, hard, hard
competition out there. I struggle, And I've spoken about this
(03:09):
a lot on this podcast, about like being the what
would you call, like the support team, like the support crew.
I'm fine with sitting on the sideline, oh cheer And
like I said to her, you could come twenty fifth
out of the race and I'll still be your number
one cheerleader no matter what. Like I actually don't care
if you win or you lose, as long as you've
(03:29):
tried your hardest. Don't go in the half hearted. Don't
go in there and go I don't know why I
didn't win. Do you want me to tell you why
you didn't win because you didn't try. So we've been
there and done that today, and then I get this
list and now I feel like shit.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
This is why this podcast is really good to do
off the back of an argument or a hard morning
with your kids, because then it's easy to talk about
the content, oh man, Whereas when they're being lovely, you're like, oh,
I don't have an episode today.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
My girls now always go, oh your podcasts today? Do
you what are you going to talk about? It depends
how much of an asshole you to be. No, so
I'm the asshole today. So we just walked out. She
did really well. She smashed a PB for high jump
this morning, which is awesome. Didn't make the top four,
but was in the realm of like the top eight,
which is awesome. And then shot put came along, and
(04:21):
this kid is exceptionally strong at shot put. We're also
talking tens, like she's in tens, guys. She's not going
through the Olympics right now. But she gets out there
and she gets caught up in the vibe. She's got
friends everywhere from all walks of circles of life. Right
we go in there, and then at one stage, she's
(04:42):
down at the high jump and she's back looking up
at the whole grand stand of people and she's waving
to someone. I was like, do you really know someone
up there or you just like you're just pretending that
you've won a gold medal. She's just getting caught in
the vibe of things. So goes down to shotput. She
makes the top eight. Now the top eight then get
one more throw, and then with that one more throw
(05:04):
comes the top three, and the top three then go
away and represent states or something like that. Anyway, so
she just gets caught up in the vibe and her
name gets called. So she just walks up and she
picks up the shop put and she goes, oh, just
throws it half hearted. I was like this anyway. She
(05:24):
walks off. Then we're leaving, but then we get outside
and then I cop it me. I cop it because
you didn't finish. She finished in the I think it
was top five. How is it my fault that you
didn't throw? Well?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I mean top five was still really great.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's great. You just don't make the place right. They
take the top three again, Katie, how is it my fault?
And then at that stage, I feel myself like staying calm,
staying calm, not reacting, giving her all the positives like
you could come last and I still support you, you know,
a positive positive. And then when she's still going at me,
(06:02):
I just turned around and I said, because you go
out there half hearted. No one said, hey, Elsey, take
your shot, but only in one second. You had all
the time in the world. Slow it down, think about
the things that you need to use. Got to use
my legs, got to power, gotta I am higher, I
got to do this, got to do that. Take your time.
No one's rushing you. But you just walked out there,
picked the ball up and threw it. And how is
(06:23):
it my fault? Like how you havn't go Oh to
your fault? It went from me not caring to then
me not supporting her, and then I get this ten
point letters.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I find it interesting though, because you're a very sporty family.
She's growing up with dad who played professional football, mum
who you were pro netball for a time. Yeah, very sporty,
very driven, very focused. You win the mum's race, that
(06:56):
the sports kind of all.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Dad wins the dad race. I know, I know, and
I really like I have to go back to that
Katie and think about, like I need to be speaking
to her, how I would want to be spoken to
do you know what I mean? Like my brain does
not operate like hers, and so I think probably where
I'm coming from a like feeling a bit shit, is
that I've got to like somehow find a different way
of being able to like almost like resonate with her
(07:20):
when she's feeling really flat about getting to where she
wants to. I tried to explain to her, I said,
I don't know. I think you just have to find
like that little bit more and you tell me that
makes you want to win, Like if we were talking
about physical ability and capability, you have all of it. Yeah,
you should see some of these kids today running Holy
dooly they are like athletes already, Like it's crazy to
(07:44):
watch anyway, shit parenting by me because it was my
fault that she didn't come.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's a hard one though, because I think I've done
the like other extreme to that, and I'd be.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Like wow done, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And to the point where these days, like Holly all
say to me, seemed very excited by the fact that
I got a for example, and I'm like, well, what.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Start like fireworks, throw a party for you? Because should
I have been that person that picked them up so
much that now it is disappointing.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I need to probably take a leaf out of your book,
you know, Apart from me saying good job you tried
really hard, and I'm really proud of you. I don't
have anything more because in my head I was like, okay, well,
off we go.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It was a waste of a day.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I've been here since seven am. I just look
and go and You're like, there's so many people. Go
why wasn't she in any of the running races? And
I was like, yeah, ask her, why weren't you in
any of the running races? Because you got sore legs
so you didn't compete in the finals.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I bet it took every ounce of energy from you
not to step up and grab that shot and throw
it yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm telling you, Katie, I would have lost today. Those
ten year old girls, some of them were bigger than me.
I swear, what are we doing with our kids these days?
I was like, one girl was stronger than me physically.
I could see she was so strong, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, this is completely off topic. But when you walked
in with Elsie to do the podcast today, I said, else,
what size are your feet? Because I cleared out our
garage over the weekend and I had two pairs of
perfectly good roller which the girls had hardly ever used.
And she went I'm a size eight, and I went, oh,
(09:42):
Jesus you for like five to six. I was thinking
that'd be great for Elsie.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Thanks for begging.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
She looked at me as though to go like, why
are you asking for my shoe size? And I went, oh,
I was going to give you some rollerblades, but now
I'm not sorry.
Appolgate Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
a Bad MoMA Podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I just look at myself in a camera as you
started the intro line, I was looking at my hair
and I'm like, just looks like a mushroom head today?
Why do I do this to myself? Why do I
look like a mushroom Who says that you want to
leave the house? Hey, you should leave the house and
you should go to an athletics day today looking like
a mushroom.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I actually said to you that I really like your
pants today.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Thank you tracksuit pants. I love a good tracksuit pants.
Bit smarter. Yeah, find a fancy pair of tracksuit pants
and you can wear them outside the house. Yes, this
is a color that we both wear. Yeah, I like
that green. It's like an olive green. I'd say it's
a kind of a sage. Don't come to us for
parenting advice, but come to us for fashion advice. Can
(01:08):
rock a mum outfit?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm going through a stage at the moment where I
hate everything in my water everything.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You need to get it all, Go to Jake nothing.
What did I wear last year? I don't know. Go
back to your phone, get to your photos. And put
this date in last year and then just see like
float through the like the month of like this time
last year, and see what some of your outfits are.
(01:34):
I can guarantee you there'll be a few cheek shirts
in there. Yeah, hundreds.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well I've got every everything, every collection that them all. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now, am I a bad mum for showing no sympathy?
I feel really bad saying that because when we got here,
because I have a child here today, this is her list.
(02:05):
You gave her a list and said, here, write a
list of one to ten things that you're grateful for today.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now this is like let's talk like real time. It's
late afternoon with her and I have been out all
day and I yelled out as we were walking in
and I can't be one of them. Ha ha ha.
So the first three it says mum, four is me,
five is my life, six is being fast, seven is
trying my best, eight is not giving up, nine is
(02:31):
family support, and Ted is being happy. Yeah. Pretty cute.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I was like, that's really nice. I mean, we talk
a lot lot about the shit that mum gets, but
interestingly dad is not on that list.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And just coming off the back of what her and
I have just done for the day. So we've been
out at the Queensland State Athletic Center. It's our first
time representing. I think it's Northwest District's team. And then
you go and then you compete. Now, when you get
to these sort of levels, there's some hard, hard, hard
competition out there. I struggle, And I've spoken about this
(03:09):
a lot on this podcast, about like being the what
would you call, like the support team, like the support crew.
I'm fine with sitting on the sideline, oh cheer And
like I said to her, you could come twenty fifth
out of the race and I'll still be your number
one cheerleader no matter what. Like I actually don't care
if you win or you lose, as long as you've
(03:29):
tried your hardest. Don't go in the half hearted. Don't
go in there and go I don't know why I
didn't win. Do you want me to tell you why
you didn't win because you didn't try. So we've been
there and done that today, and then I get this
list and now I feel like shit.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
This is why this podcast is really good to do
off the back of an argument or a hard morning
with your kids, because then it's easy to talk about
the content, oh man, Whereas when they're being lovely, you're like, oh,
I don't have an episode today.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
My girls now always go, oh your podcasts today? Do
you what are you going to talk about? It depends
how much of an asshole you to be. No, so
I'm the asshole today. So we just walked out. She
did really well. She smashed a PB for high jump
this morning, which is awesome. Didn't make the top four,
but was in the realm of like the top eight,
which is awesome. And then shot put came along, and
(04:21):
this kid is exceptionally strong at shot put. We're also
talking tens, like she's in tens, guys. She's not going
through the Olympics right now. But she gets out there
and she gets caught up in the vibe. She's got
friends everywhere from all walks of circles of life. Right
we go in there, and then at one stage, she's
(04:42):
down at the high jump and she's back looking up
at the whole grand stand of people and she's waving
to someone. I was like, do you really know someone
up there or you just like you're just pretending that
you've won a gold medal. She's just getting caught in
the vibe of things. So goes down to shotput. She
makes the top eight. Now the top eight then get
one more throw, and then with that one more throw
(05:04):
comes the top three, and the top three then go
away and represent states or something like that. Anyway, so
she just gets caught up in the vibe and her
name gets called. So she just walks up and she
picks up the shop put and she goes, oh, just
throws it half hearted. I was like this anyway. She
(05:24):
walks off. Then we're leaving, but then we get outside
and then I cop it me. I cop it because
you didn't finish. She finished in the I think it
was top five. How is it my fault that you
didn't throw? Well?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I mean top five was still really great.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's great. You just don't make the place right. They
take the top three again, Katie, how is it my fault?
And then at that stage, I feel myself like staying calm,
staying calm, not reacting, giving her all the positives like
you could come last and I still support you, you know,
a positive positive. And then when she's still going at me,
(06:02):
I just turned around and I said, because you go
out there half hearted. No one said, hey, Elsey, take
your shot, but only in one second. You had all
the time in the world. Slow it down, think about
the things that you need to use. Got to use
my legs, got to power, gotta I am higher, I
got to do this, got to do that. Take your time.
No one's rushing you. But you just walked out there,
picked the ball up and threw it. And how is
(06:23):
it my fault? Like how you havn't go Oh to
your fault? It went from me not caring to then
me not supporting her, and then I get this ten
point letters.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I find it interesting though, because you're a very sporty family.
She's growing up with dad who played professional football, mum
who you were pro netball for a time. Yeah, very sporty,
very driven, very focused. You win the mum's race, that
(06:56):
the sports kind of all.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Dad wins the dad race. I know, I know, and
I really like I have to go back to that
Katie and think about, like I need to be speaking
to her, how I would want to be spoken to
do you know what I mean? Like my brain does
not operate like hers, and so I think probably where
I'm coming from a like feeling a bit shit, is
that I've got to like somehow find a different way
of being able to like almost like resonate with her
(07:20):
when she's feeling really flat about getting to where she
wants to. I tried to explain to her, I said,
I don't know. I think you just have to find
like that little bit more and you tell me that
makes you want to win, Like if we were talking
about physical ability and capability, you have all of it. Yeah,
you should see some of these kids today running Holy
dooly they are like athletes already, Like it's crazy to
(07:44):
watch anyway, shit parenting by me because it was my
fault that she didn't come.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's a hard one though, because I think I've done
the like other extreme to that, and I'd be.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Like wow done, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And to the point where these days, like Holly all
say to me, seemed very excited by the fact that
I got a for example, and I'm like, well, what.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Start like fireworks, throw a party for you? Because should
I have been that person that picked them up so
much that now it is disappointing.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I need to probably take a leaf out of your book,
you know, Apart from me saying good job you tried
really hard, and I'm really proud of you. I don't
have anything more because in my head I was like, okay, well,
off we go.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It was a waste of a day.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But I've been here since seven am. I just look
and go and You're like, there's so many people. Go
why wasn't she in any of the running races? And
I was like, yeah, ask her, why weren't you in
any of the running races? Because you got sore legs
so you didn't compete in the finals.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I bet it took every ounce of energy from you
not to step up and grab that shot and throw
it yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm telling you, Katie, I would have lost today. Those
ten year old girls, some of them were bigger than me.
I swear, what are we doing with our kids these days?
I was like, one girl was stronger than me physically.
I could see she was so strong, and I was like.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, this is completely off topic. But when you walked
in with Elsie to do the podcast today, I said, else,
what size are your feet? Because I cleared out our
garage over the weekend and I had two pairs of
perfectly good roller which the girls had hardly ever used.
And she went I'm a size eight, and I went, oh,
(09:42):
Jesus you for like five to six. I was thinking
that'd be great for Elsie.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Thanks for begging.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
She looked at me as though to go like, why
are you asking for my shoe size? And I went, oh,
I was going to give you some rollerblades, but now
I'm not sorry.
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