October 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Rach finds out which kids sports are the most expensive during their childhood and it's shocking!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
A Mad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are we almost at the school holidays?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah? You know they consistent feedback that I've had from
a lot of different moms over what are we? Are
we in week two? Yeah? Yeah, week two? We're in
week two roughly started? You know term four. We all
know that term four isn't naturally really busy with kids,
(00:49):
but it's also busy on our calendars because you're like
Christmas parties and kids, Christmas parties and breakups and sport breakups.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's just work as well, because I, like, I had
a conversation with my husband day the other day.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, we need to start thinking about.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Make king money to tide us over the Christmas period
when everything shuts down and not things to do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah. And so the constant comment that I've had from
all these different moms over the past few weeks has
just been I'm drowning and it hasn't really even started yet.
I in particular ask this one mum she's got three boys,
and she was saying for her, rowing has started. And
(01:32):
so rowing means consistent every morning up at like four
to be at training by four point forty five am,
and she's driving the kids Acrosstown to do this to
get to school.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
By this time, I wouldn't allow them to do it. Well,
I've been saying, I didn't give them the option to
take up rowing who had to get that's really much.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Off of me. She goes, I feel like I'm so
tired right now that I'm drunk. And I just sort
of looked at her and was like, how are you
going to do this for another What is it like
seven weeks or eight weeks? I don't think that is
for me. I don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think they finish in November.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, her boys are definitely not. They're not in senior year.
So and then it's Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's, oh my god, it's October.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh my gosh, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I can't believe it because as soon as the Halloween
ship finishes next week one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Of the moms that thing is Christmas mom goes she said,
I said, oh, are you guys doing anything for Halloween?
And she went, oh, by the time I decorate for Halloween,
it'll be fucking christ Yeah, it Christmas. So she said,
I'm skipping Halloween decorations. AND's going straight to Christmas. Am
(02:53):
I a bad mum for wanting to put a stop
to it? Okay, well, this is just a hot topic
and it's straight off the bat of I said it
on Channel nine News caught me off guard cooking dinner.
TV's on in the background. The top most expensive children's
sport that your kids could be doing as extracurricular okay,
(03:16):
and they had like the table up and it was
like the top ten. Wasn't only then at night, it
was the following morning it was on the Today Show
like they're trying to make so I don't know why.
I don't know why. We're at the end of the year.
We've already paid our fees. Yeah, don't worry about telling
us now how much could paid bad? Yeah, don't worry.
It's not going to show you what the forecast is
(03:37):
for next year. What could I have spent my money on?
Oh yeah, oh look at me. I could have saved
this amount of money. I genuinely though, had to go,
holy shit, because we and you, for your girls, we're
paying two lots of this. So the top most expensive
children's sport is dance, dance, dance, damn yeh.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Because it's not just the fee is for them to learn,
it's then the costume. Yeah, and then you have to
pay to go to the concert. Yeah, And that's just
expense after expense, and you have to pay for the photos.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They even gave you This is the funniest part. They
even gave you the breakdown of how much you were spending.
And they said, obviously with dance being frequently cited as
the most expensive overall, with costs averaging over thirty thousand
dollars for a child's childhood in Australia, Wow, so you're
(04:39):
spending at a minimum thirty thousand dollars of that childhood
span of how long they do dance, yeah, which I'm
over fine.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They did it from three until.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Like fourteen or fifteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I was not sad when they gave that outrage. I
had a moment I think I went to the last concert, yeah,
and had a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Of oh, this is the last, this is a life.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
A little bit sad, yes, in that moment, and then
after that I was like, oh no, I'm so fine.
I the next chapter, onto the next expense. I don't
keep her, No, it just just moves on.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
To you, moved on to well, that was what I
was going to say to you. Was the second most
frequent of the top of the list. Annual expenses around
the three thousand dollar mark. So we're thinking fees for
a year ice hockey. Oh yeah, and your girls did
ice skating, yeah, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Most expensive one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah. Tennis is up there with costs averaging around sixteen
thousand over a childhood in Australia. Gymnastics closely followed behind that. Cricket.
I think we dance, I just go, naturally, I know
that we're getting hold per term, how much we're getting paid, right,
and I've only got one child dancing now, whom also
(05:59):
has danced since she was three. But at the same
time I sort of went, I don't even turn a
blind eye to it now, like does that make sense?
Like I just go, we know how much we've got
to pay if she's going to continue to do her dance,
and that is per term. Here I am complaining Elsie's
starting netball. Oh my god, three hundred and seventy five
(06:21):
dollars for a year of netple. That is crazy. Like
I'm banging on like it's the worst thing in the world,
because that is expensive. When they came on three hundred
and seventy five dollars for the year, we're just your
fees to play. Is that not good? Well, no, it's
still expensive, I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But and then that how many is that like once
a week.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Or yeah, once a week. And that's just the winter season.
So now we're into summer, Katie, I've paid again, oh
summer yeah yeah, yeah, because we're now finished winter because
apparently netball now isn't just a winter sport, it's an
all rounder sport. And so it's of course make another competition. Yeah,
doesn't matter if it's forty degree heat.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Put them out there, and then do they have does
she have to have like a certain jersey?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, uniform, uniform. And then on top of that, Gracie goes,
I think I might want to play touch touch footy,
and I was like, well, how much the fe's go
touch footy? Yeah, on top of dance and then on
top of school and then on top of us. Okay,
how much? But touch footy was reasonable So for me
even to sign my name up, get this, I'm playing
(07:28):
touch football? Yeah? Am I playing touch football? Or trying
to way touch for all, I'm going to go trying.
But I even wrote back and was like, is this
how much it's going to cost me to play like
six games of touch footy? This is wild? Like yeah, insurances.
I was like, insurances, why because I'm old? This is bullshit.
And then even Graces, I think Gracie's was going to
(07:50):
be something like one eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This is the thing. And then it just feels constant
because a season or a term or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It might be, it goes so fast.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and then you're like, oh, you have a moment
of going, oh, everything's paid up to date, and then
here's another.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
One, here's ten two, pay this again, and you're like,
oh my gosh. And if your child is anything like
mine at the moment, we start the year in a
certain sized uniform and shoes, and now at the end
of the year, I'm buying more shoes that have gone
up nearly two sizes.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I said to it, hang on a sec. Are you
sure these are right shoes for you? How could you
have been wearing those other ones? She goes, Mom, they've
been typed for do you know how You've been typed
for the whole season? And I was like, so at
what stage didn't you think to go Mum, I can
barely run in my shoes any longer, she goes, So
I do want to ask for nuance. I said, you've
(08:46):
just gone up two and a half sizes. That's a
big difference. Yeah. Anyway, the Asseix man made me feel
really bad about my Parentdee.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, well, at least you didn't put your kids in
school shoes for like three years. Are like seven sizes
too big and like flap them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, I was I remember that podcast. They're probably going
to make grade twelve in.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Them, Rach. Honestly, I'm not buying any Amelia's lost a
jumper in winter. I'm like, I am not buying a
single piece of school uniform next year. For the last year.
You just make do with what you've got, Yes, right,
I will have only have bought two pairs of shoes, well,
four kids two pairs of shoes each for their entire
(09:32):
high school years.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But how many hats have you replaced?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't even replace the hats anymore. They know that
I don't replace hats anymore. They go with their sports
bucket hat m and blazer.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Did you end up replacing a blazer?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No? Blazers. I've got air tags in them. Oh yeah, yeah,
so I can track where they are.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, yeah, it's very smart. Yeah I know, and way
cheaper than replacing a blazer because your blazers are expensive.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wh I pass a block shop, the dance shop block.
I smile to myself about not needing to go in
there and buy.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Tap shoes and shit. I walked fast, step by step
yesterday and I felt I don't want to go in.
Please don't make me go in. I was like, oh,
I don't want to do it. We only replaced shoes
midway through this year, and for the first time we
bought secondhand shoes. Tap shoes, yeah, because I said to her,
you don't even know that you're gonna like these, and no,
(10:35):
it's from this teacher and she's so good. And I
was like, she still wants fifty dollars for them, and
they're pretty warned. Can you negotiated a bit roller, negotiate
down
Apogae Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am I
A Mad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are we almost at the school holidays?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah? You know they consistent feedback that I've had from
a lot of different moms over what are we? Are
we in week two? Yeah? Yeah, week two? We're in
week two roughly started? You know term four. We all
know that term four isn't naturally really busy with kids,
(00:49):
but it's also busy on our calendars because you're like
Christmas parties and kids, Christmas parties and breakups and sport breakups.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's just work as well, because I, like, I had
a conversation with my husband day the other day.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, we need to start thinking about.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Make king money to tide us over the Christmas period
when everything shuts down and not things to do anything.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah. And so the constant comment that I've had from
all these different moms over the past few weeks has
just been I'm drowning and it hasn't really even started yet.
I in particular ask this one mum she's got three boys,
and she was saying for her, rowing has started. And
(01:32):
so rowing means consistent every morning up at like four
to be at training by four point forty five am,
and she's driving the kids Acrosstown to do this to
get to school.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
By this time, I wouldn't allow them to do it. Well,
I've been saying, I didn't give them the option to
take up rowing who had to get that's really much.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Off of me. She goes, I feel like I'm so
tired right now that I'm drunk. And I just sort
of looked at her and was like, how are you
going to do this for another What is it like
seven weeks or eight weeks? I don't think that is
for me. I don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think they finish in November.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, her boys are definitely not. They're not in senior year.
So and then it's Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's, oh my god, it's October.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh my gosh, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I can't believe it because as soon as the Halloween
ship finishes next week one.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Of the moms that thing is Christmas mom goes she said,
I said, oh, are you guys doing anything for Halloween?
And she went, oh, by the time I decorate for Halloween,
it'll be fucking christ Yeah, it Christmas. So she said,
I'm skipping Halloween decorations. AND's going straight to Christmas. Am
(02:53):
I a bad mum for wanting to put a stop
to it? Okay, well, this is just a hot topic
and it's straight off the bat of I said it
on Channel nine News caught me off guard cooking dinner.
TV's on in the background. The top most expensive children's
sport that your kids could be doing as extracurricular okay,
(03:16):
and they had like the table up and it was
like the top ten. Wasn't only then at night, it
was the following morning it was on the Today Show
like they're trying to make so I don't know why.
I don't know why. We're at the end of the year.
We've already paid our fees. Yeah, don't worry about telling
us now how much could paid bad? Yeah, don't worry.
It's not going to show you what the forecast is
(03:37):
for next year. What could I have spent my money on?
Oh yeah, oh look at me. I could have saved
this amount of money. I genuinely though, had to go,
holy shit, because we and you, for your girls, we're
paying two lots of this. So the top most expensive
children's sport is dance, dance, dance, damn yeh.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Because it's not just the fee is for them to learn,
it's then the costume. Yeah, and then you have to
pay to go to the concert. Yeah, And that's just
expense after expense, and you have to pay for the photos.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They even gave you This is the funniest part. They
even gave you the breakdown of how much you were spending.
And they said, obviously with dance being frequently cited as
the most expensive overall, with costs averaging over thirty thousand
dollars for a child's childhood in Australia, Wow, so you're
(04:39):
spending at a minimum thirty thousand dollars of that childhood
span of how long they do dance, yeah, which I'm
over fine.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They did it from three until.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Like fourteen or fifteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I was not sad when they gave that outrage. I
had a moment I think I went to the last concert, yeah,
and had a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Of oh, this is the last, this is a life.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
A little bit sad, yes, in that moment, and then
after that I was like, oh no, I'm so fine.
I the next chapter, onto the next expense. I don't
keep her, No, it just just moves on.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
To you, moved on to well, that was what I
was going to say to you. Was the second most
frequent of the top of the list. Annual expenses around
the three thousand dollar mark. So we're thinking fees for
a year ice hockey. Oh yeah, and your girls did
ice skating, yeah, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Most expensive one.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah. Tennis is up there with costs averaging around sixteen
thousand over a childhood in Australia. Gymnastics closely followed behind that. Cricket.
I think we dance, I just go, naturally, I know
that we're getting hold per term, how much we're getting paid, right,
and I've only got one child dancing now, whom also
(05:59):
has danced since she was three. But at the same
time I sort of went, I don't even turn a
blind eye to it now, like does that make sense?
Like I just go, we know how much we've got
to pay if she's going to continue to do her dance,
and that is per term. Here I am complaining Elsie's
starting netball. Oh my god, three hundred and seventy five
(06:21):
dollars for a year of netple. That is crazy. Like
I'm banging on like it's the worst thing in the world,
because that is expensive. When they came on three hundred
and seventy five dollars for the year, we're just your
fees to play. Is that not good? Well, no, it's
still expensive, I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But and then that how many is that like once
a week.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Or yeah, once a week. And that's just the winter season.
So now we're into summer, Katie, I've paid again, oh
summer yeah yeah, yeah, because we're now finished winter because
apparently netball now isn't just a winter sport, it's an
all rounder sport. And so it's of course make another competition. Yeah,
doesn't matter if it's forty degree heat.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Put them out there, and then do they have does
she have to have like a certain jersey?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, uniform, uniform. And then on top of that, Gracie goes,
I think I might want to play touch touch footy,
and I was like, well, how much the fe's go
touch footy? Yeah, on top of dance and then on
top of school and then on top of us. Okay,
how much? But touch footy was reasonable So for me
even to sign my name up, get this, I'm playing
(07:28):
touch football? Yeah? Am I playing touch football? Or trying
to way touch for all, I'm going to go trying.
But I even wrote back and was like, is this
how much it's going to cost me to play like
six games of touch footy? This is wild? Like yeah, insurances.
I was like, insurances, why because I'm old? This is bullshit.
And then even Graces, I think Gracie's was going to
(07:50):
be something like one eighty.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This is the thing. And then it just feels constant
because a season or a term or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
It might be, it goes so fast.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and then you're like, oh, you have a moment
of going, oh, everything's paid up to date, and then
here's another.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
One, here's ten two, pay this again, and you're like,
oh my gosh. And if your child is anything like
mine at the moment, we start the year in a
certain sized uniform and shoes, and now at the end
of the year, I'm buying more shoes that have gone
up nearly two sizes.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I said to it, hang on a sec. Are you
sure these are right shoes for you? How could you
have been wearing those other ones? She goes, Mom, they've
been typed for do you know how You've been typed
for the whole season? And I was like, so at
what stage didn't you think to go Mum, I can
barely run in my shoes any longer, she goes, So
I do want to ask for nuance. I said, you've
(08:46):
just gone up two and a half sizes. That's a
big difference. Yeah. Anyway, the Asseix man made me feel
really bad about my Parentdee.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, well, at least you didn't put your kids in
school shoes for like three years. Are like seven sizes
too big and like flap them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, I was I remember that podcast. They're probably going
to make grade twelve in.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Them, Rach. Honestly, I'm not buying any Amelia's lost a
jumper in winter. I'm like, I am not buying a
single piece of school uniform next year. For the last year.
You just make do with what you've got, Yes, right,
I will have only have bought two pairs of shoes, well,
four kids two pairs of shoes each for their entire
(09:32):
high school years.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But how many hats have you replaced?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't even replace the hats anymore. They know that
I don't replace hats anymore. They go with their sports
bucket hat m and blazer.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Did you end up replacing a blazer?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No? Blazers. I've got air tags in them. Oh yeah, yeah,
so I can track where they are.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, yeah, it's very smart. Yeah I know, and way
cheaper than replacing a blazer because your blazers are expensive.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wh I pass a block shop, the dance shop block.
I smile to myself about not needing to go in
there and buy.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Tap shoes and shit. I walked fast, step by step
yesterday and I felt I don't want to go in.
Please don't make me go in. I was like, oh,
I don't want to do it. We only replaced shoes
midway through this year, and for the first time we
bought secondhand shoes. Tap shoes, yeah, because I said to her,
you don't even know that you're gonna like these, and no,
(10:35):
it's from this teacher and she's so good. And I
was like, she still wants fifty dollars for them, and
they're pretty warned. Can you negotiated a bit roller, negotiate
down
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