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July 21, 2025 • 12 mins

Katie knew full well her girls had left their lunchboxes in their school bags for the whole 3 weeks of holidays! Instead of being a good Mum and reminding them, she chose to let them discover for themselves! 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appogiae Production. Welcome back to another episode of am I
A Bad Mom? Podcast. We're on Instagram as well at

(00:27):
am I A Bad Mum? Who put the thing on
there recently.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I send a lot of memes and forwards from my
own account to am I A Bad Mom, and then
I forget to then go double click and go to
am I A Bad Mom and then share what I'd
sent it. So there's probably about forty five memes sitting
there waiting to be shared. But I think, yeah, we've
got a really really interactive community on our install, which

(00:56):
we're very blessed with. I have to say, because some
Instagram accounts I've heard can go one way or another.
We've got amazing interactive one. Yeah, we just got to
put more shit up. Everyone loves it. They come back
with the law. I was like, yeah, we're barthing. My
kids said something the other day, and I was thinking
about this because you and I say it a lot.

(01:17):
We're having breakfast together and Elsie goes, you know what,
I like what you do for a job. She goes, yeah,
but like I also like your job being here for us.
I like that you raise us. It's just a really
really hard job. Isn't it. I'm thinking she's trying to
reverse psychology. Yeah, it is a hard job. Are you
contemplating having kids anytime soon? Or And she was like, well, no,

(01:39):
ives thinking about it, Like you don't really stop doing
this job, do you? And I was like, which part,
the PT or the parenting? She goes to the parenting, like,
you just have to keep doing it all day long
and then all night and then all the next day.
And I was like, yeah, it's a twenty four to
seven job. Do you understand what twenty four to seven means?

(01:59):
She goes, just means a lot, doesn't it. And I said,
twenty four hours a day, seven days week, three hundred
and six five days a year. I said, And it
doesn't stop after that. It just keeps that renewal process,
that subscription that you just can't get rid of. It
just keeps someone popping back up.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
And she was actually sick days no, holy yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
But she was saying all of this, she goes, you
really just don't stop to you, And I was like, no,
So consider your options wisely when you're thinking about this
and you're like, this is it I want to have
a child, think about this moment that's nice of.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Her that she was acknowledging it.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Though.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's got the same thing.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
So I say.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Similar things to the girls sometimes. And Holly said to me,
I'm absolutely not having children, and I was like, you
absolutely are. Yeah, you need to experience some of these
things and go, oh, no, I understand how it was
my mum.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that's why I think that they say that the
true appreciation of your own mother comes when you become
a mother or a vice versa father.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Something, there is a part of me right, Like I
go back and go, I wasn't that hard.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I wasn't that bad.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I tell myself that actually daily, I was a pretty
good kid. And then I go, how did I end
up like this? How did I get here? And then
I look at Sam and go, this is your fault.
You were a shit kid. You were a shit kid.
That's why they are doing this. They got your behaviors.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
My bad mum.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
For not helping.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, this is a situation where I could have absolutely
resolved it.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Really simply and easily. Yeah, and I chose not to.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I chose to let them deal with it. And I
knew that it was not going to end well. So
this is on the weekend Sunday, and it's okay, we're
going back to school tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Is everything ready? Make sure everyone's.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Got who yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Make sure everyone knows where their uniform.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hats, uniforms, hat back, and do your lunch box the
night before.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
The girls don't mind doing their lunchbox the night before.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
It gives them a little bit more time they're not
so rushed in the morning.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
So get your lunchboxes done. Okay, great, yep, everything's checked.
Everything's good to go.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just gonna get out the food from the fridge and
make my lunch box. Where's my lunchbox? Where's my lunchbox?
Two lunch boxes?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Not in the drawer? Where the lunchboxes go? Where are they?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Then?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, I've got an idea.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Have you checked your school bag after having three weeks
off school?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Did you empty it.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Out, unpack it, wash it all up on the last
day of school?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, So they've gone into their bag and I
knew it. I knew it. That's three weeks.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You that their lunch boxes were still in their bags.
And I chose not to say anything because.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I was like, it's not my problem problem.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
My lunch box isn't still in my bag after Yeah, yeah,
because I know when I get home, I look also
pack my stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, you're not busy. You're not busy. You're not too
busy to do it.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
You've had three weeks off.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Also on that last Friday though, where they're like finishing
up and you know that you've got three weeks off,
like and you're throwing that bag into your cupboard. Surely
just look down.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Is there not a part.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Of you that goes, okay, cool, schools back next week?
What do I need to make I should probably go
through my bag and clear out.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
I do it regularly with my handbag.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, I clear out all the shit, old receipts,
whatever else is in there.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I feel good about that. I love it when it's all.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh yeah, because it goes back to yeah and it's
nice again.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't understand it. I don't understan And it's like
your gym bag, right. Is there ever a time where
you will throw your gym bag into a cupboard and
you don't empty out the clothes to wash.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, well, I mean certain people, but not me.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
That was a little certain peoples, and my husband does that.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I understand why people want to remain married but live
in separate houses. Get it, I get it. I never
thought i'd say it, but I get it.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I understand why women then turn to being lesbians because.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Matt living in a house just with another woman.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
No, I just I genuinely go. I understand why people
want to make other types of relationships work where you
don't have to.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
We've got men together.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
We've got friends who both split up from husbands, moved
in together just for a short temporary time with both
sets of kids. And I remember hearing a story about
one getting home from work and kids all been fed,
all been based, all in pajamas, homework done, and she

(07:21):
was like.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh my god, this is what it's like.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
This is what it's like a woman.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Everything's so efficient and tidy and done.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Except they're both just very highly driven towards men. But
the whole part was then the other one came home
and was like, saw that that was all done, and
she was finishing off the kids. So then she started dinner,
and that's how the balance worked, and she was like, wow,
at this, I actually don't mind cooking dinner because the
other half is done. The pressure is off. So yeah,

(07:53):
going back to the parenting part of it. Let's talk
about the fact that your daughter's left their lunchboxes for
three weeks. What did they look like? That's all I
was like, I want to know what it looked like.
And did they go up and get them out and
then bring them down and expect that someone else can
clean them.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
No, they didn't dare do that, but they were a
bit like, oh god, there was definitely a container full
of moldy grapes.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yuck.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
There was a cheese and crackers, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I would have been gagging if I had to undo
a lunch box after three weeks, to the point that
I probably would have thrown this whole thing out and
then just charged them another fifty dollars about a new one.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's gross.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
How can they forget that I did the same thing though,
And it's funny because everyone was doing the same thing
on the weekend. They were like, Oh, we're just prepping
for school, making sure their hats are back in there,
and we've washed all the jackets and we've done all
of this. I'm thinking, yeah, I did all of that,
but I don't know where I put it. Where did
I put all of it? And then even sending Elsie
off to school. Fuck, I don't even think she had

(09:00):
her hat back in her bag, because I'd usually wash,
let it all dry and then I'll put it back
in the bag. So on the morning off of I'm
not going, shit, where is it? But I didn't think
to do that part.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
I just don't understand the just like I just don't
understand it.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, I genuinely have seen. Also, I can't think of
what they call it at your school, but I've seen
the canteen at your school, and I can understand why
your girls don't want to take lunch in lunchboxes.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
The girls do like eating at school.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
But what I've realized, and if you look at the
cost of the bloody stuff in the supermarket these days,
I worked out how much I spent and I went
to Audi Rah like I wasn't splashing out. I went
to Audi and got lunchbox stuff which I think will
last three days. And I spent eighty dollars. And I

(09:55):
think to myself, I could probably buy them lunch at
school for twenty dollars a day. That's three days for
sixty dollars. Probably cheaper for me to buy lunch at
school than it is to get it in the supermarket
and make it.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Now, how much will it be per day for the
talk shop.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm actually going to go on the app and I'm
going to have a look right now at what I
could buy them for lunch tomorrow. They could have minor vegetarian.
But if I was to do this for like your girls, example,
the special is bacon and cheese pasta.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Bacon and cheese pasta, yep.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Six dollars fifty. Okay, So let's say both girls are.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Going to have that. I mean, what else? Do you
need a drink?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
A drink? They need a drink.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Let's do a pump one of those flavored waters.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, four dollars fifty.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
So there is a passa main meal plus a drink.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Twenty two dollars for the two of them.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
For both of them, for both. Yeah, you're definitely playing
exuberant amount of fees and you're getting cheaped. I'm telling you,
I think two dollars. The canteen at Samford is the
biggest rip off and it's shitty food. Like if you're
paying twenty dollars per child, it gets a toasty else
gets a toasty This I can tell you what it is.
She has toasted sandwich with ham and cheese on whole meal,

(11:22):
and then she'll have two cookies and a crazy lemon
or a juice that's first break. Second break, she always
asks me for a garlic bread and a frozen juice cup. Okay,
how much that's eighteen dollars for.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
The day for a day.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's for one for one, and then take Gracy.
Gracie thinks it's the best because she's doing it whilst
I'm driving her to school, so she's loading up. I said,
one of them, I like got there and I said,
are you kidding me? Am? I feeding your whole entire class,
which might be hungry.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
And you know, the worst thing is as well, is
that they will order all that food and then they'll
come home and they go, oh, I gave Averas some
because she didn't what.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not paying for hers. Yeah, I get
that a lot. I'm just taking four dollars out of
their tin because I owe such and such a juice cup.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, it's funny when you talk about grabbing four dollars
here and there. I actually yesterday Rach paid holy five
dollars for giving me a shoulder massage, and then I
had to pay another five dollars to be able to
put a video on my story that she was in
and she said absolutely, don't post that, and I won't please.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's funny five.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Dollars, five dollars for content. Now you're paying her for content.
She's out of control. Start paying rent, Start paying rent.
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