October 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Rach is approached by her 12 year old to discuss her breaking the rules and in fact why the rules are in place in the first place - oh how the tables have turned!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apochae Production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about My.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Bad Mum podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Guess what I was lucky enough to do on the
weekend after the back of I think it's not even
called R and B Fridays, but like Friday Friday's Live.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I went to Friday's Live on the Friday night. Had
a great old time. I had a great old time.
Didn't get like, you know, a white girl like I normally.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Would pople Mariah Yarry, Yeah, pitbull Mariah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Did she do All I Want for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I waited all night and then they went to Sydney
the following night and she did it in Sydney. But
there was a really bad video going around Sydney that
she lip synced a lot of it, like it was
clear as day she lip synced, whereas everyone at me
like we are Was she really that good? Did she
lip sync? I said, do you know what, I'm pretty
good at picking that up. Didn't see it and she
(01:11):
was genuinely singing because I heard the notes change and stuff.
It wasn't just straight through, So maybe she wore herself out,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In Brisbane.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Then the next night in Sydney sang the Christmas song.
She even changed her outfit, whereas in Brisbane she hading
one outfit. Anyway, there was a lot of people there
and I had a great old time and then I
went into Saturday lucky enough to go and see Teddy Swims.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The next day I was lucky enough to be able
to dance competition.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah I didn't. It was the cool weekend, bought a
musical weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I also sat there at one stage and had a
moment where I was cringing about a couple of the
uniforms that were coming out on stage, and I just
because I think it was a bit tired slash delirious.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It'd been a huge weekend. And then I'm sitting there
and I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
These performances after performances, after performances.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's one of those weekends that you go, I definitely
need another day the other weekend to get over the
weekends because there's too much going on. Because not only
were you out Friday night, Saturday night, yeah, but I'm
guessing you rock Sunday morning. Oh, netball and that stuff
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Netball into dance competition and Budroom. So we had to
then drive to Sunshine Ghost and then we were home
at eight pm at night because the last one was
at six pm.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, you do too much with Nanadee. I know she
says it all the time, Rachel, you do too much.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It was too much and I was judging, Judge said,
and I can tell you that much. Am I a
bad mum for breaking the rules? We talk about this
a bit, right. I think it's a personality thing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know if it's like a star sign you know,
our other bit of star sign traits. I also love
a bit of the human design chart work, so I've
done all that about myself and I think this is
a bit of my personality of breaking rules.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like I'm in.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Aries aries, personality known to everyone. If you read everything,
I mean, your Instagram is going to fill up with it.
Now aries aries Aries fiery, fiery and full on and
ask for forgiveness, not for permission, Like there's just this
is the ongoing story of my life. Actually, now that
I say that and flashes through my eyes, Elsie went
(03:32):
to camp. I know from the list of what everything
can and can't take, I have that little bit of
again coming into Elsie and my relationship and then my
understanding of how she operates and what she.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Eats and what she doesn't eat.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So by me sending you off to camp for four days, Katie,
when you if you even if you had her at
your house and you said.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Morning tea, it's a fruit platter, she just doesn't eat. Yeah, right, yep.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
She's also very much like me as to then when
she hits that point of extreme hunger, she is hungry,
like it's not pleasant for anyone around.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So I go out on the Monday.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Prior to packing Monday night to send her off on
camp on Tuesday, and I grab and it was like
four or five of those like organic meat sticks individually
wrapped like the beef jerky and everything that's like dry
foodish but at the same time can stay in her
bag because it doesn't need to be refrigerated, and a
(04:36):
packet of lollies. I put it on the bench and
there was some elsie and bars like fucking rice bubbles,
like yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I put it all on the end of the bench.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I continue doing every other fifty five other things I'm
doing at the same time, think well, when I'm going
up to pack her bag with her, because she'd half
packed her stuff which I'd given her I said, give
the list, start getting it out, just laid on the ground.
Then we'll do the rest together. I've got that sitting there.
Gracie comes home from Dan. She goes, what is that?
(05:05):
And I said, I'm putting in Elsie's bag for camp.
You know that you're not allowed to. You're breaking all
the rules. Mum, I went, yeah, but she doesn't eat anything,
so if she just starves herself for four days, I'm
going to be the person that cops the ship in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The back end of that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Because your sister doesn't eat buck all, So what am
I supposed to do? I said, I'm starting to panic
that she's going to be like malnutrition by the time.
But at the same time, and she goes, you didn't
give me lollies. She said that you don't want to
break the rules, and she's spraying me. I said, have
you quite finished? Have you quite finished? I said, you
(05:44):
also eat everything?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, Because in her mind she's like, well, she's the
favorite child.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Then she so and I looked at her and I said,
all right, we'll take the fucking lollies out.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't give a shit. Take the lollies out.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Then you're even she's just breaking the rules mum by
sending food with her.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Funny how because my girls are the exact same. There
are certain things and they're like, you're breaking the rules
and they like shamey for it, and I'm like, this
is supposed to be the other way around. You're supposed
to be doing the things that you're not supposed to do,
and I'm supposed to be picking you up on her.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
She's just trying to be nasty. I think she'd had
a bad day.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And I looked her as you quite finished, I'll removed
the lallies then you even shecuse, but what if someone
else with allergies eats the things that Elsie's got in
her bag? Well, I said, well, I've given your sister
a clear instruction to leave it at the bottom of
her bag and then when she's had the meat to stick,
put the rubbish back in her bag.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I saw it on Friday.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I didn't say, hey, else, take your food and share
it with your camp mates. I said, I'm doing this
as a last resort. If she's not hungry and she's
had plenty to eat, she won't touch it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You're getting into trouble for smuggling. I've fred jerky into
school camp of all the.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Things, beef jerky, beef turkey.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was like, this is pretty rich. You're going off
me for breaking the rules.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You're twelve. How does be quiet sound?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Do you know what reminds me of Do you know
Russell Brand?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I went to see him in Brisbane and he did
this bit of his comedy routine where he was talking
about coming into Australia and that video that plays as
You're about to land that talks about Australia's strict what's
it called.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The biosecurity food or honey or anything that's got dirt
on them.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, and I remember him standing up and he went,
you know, I've got a pretty impressive criminal record, but
you guys take fucking fruit smuggling very seriously.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's so true, and that is how I feel about
meat sick.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're the beef jerky smuggler. Well, I've rached in here
for I smuggled beef jerk into the school camp.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Even saying it, I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't want her teachers to have to deal with
the hungry version of Elsie because they'll send her home.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then the other part of it Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Tom was like, I'll ask for forgiveness if I get
the email home dear missus Saturday.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We appreciate you trying to feed your child, but.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You've broken all the rules of the school camp and
now Elsie's never going to be allowed to go again.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How did you get FUX out?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I remember getting an email from the girl's daycare back
in the day. They were like two or something, and
there was an email that went out to all the parents.
This wasn't aimed at me, by the way, saying, we
really encourage a nutritious lunch packed for your child to
come for the.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Day at daycare.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Please note that we don't include leftover KFC.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
In this.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I was like, that's aimed that one person. She's nicely
sent it out to every parents don't really know who
it is that that one person knows who they are.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Shit, Yeah I'm the one. I only had leftover KFC
from last night in the fridge and nothing else.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh my god, you're asking for trouble. I also would
feel so shamed about that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah I would. But I also I'm like, give
that woman some love, Like she hasn't been chopping in
a while.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Don't.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Let's not judge her.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
On who knows what's going on for her. She might
also have a painful kid that doesn't eat anything.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, and I have definitely been the bum that is
cutting moldy crusts off of sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I might have smuggled beef jerky and to my child's
camp bag, but I've never done the mold on.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh yeah, I've never.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, absolutely cut us the mold to get another at
least three days out of that bread.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
This dis
Apochae Production.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode about My.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Bad Mum podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Guess what I was lucky enough to do on the
weekend after the back of I think it's not even
called R and B Fridays, but like Friday Friday's Live.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I went to Friday's Live on the Friday night. Had
a great old time. I had a great old time.
Didn't get like, you know, a white girl like I normally.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Would pople Mariah Yarry, Yeah, pitbull Mariah.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Did she do All I Want for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I waited all night and then they went to Sydney
the following night and she did it in Sydney. But
there was a really bad video going around Sydney that
she lip synced a lot of it, like it was
clear as day she lip synced, whereas everyone at me
like we are Was she really that good? Did she
lip sync? I said, do you know what, I'm pretty
good at picking that up. Didn't see it and she
(01:11):
was genuinely singing because I heard the notes change and stuff.
It wasn't just straight through, So maybe she wore herself out,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
In Brisbane.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Then the next night in Sydney sang the Christmas song.
She even changed her outfit, whereas in Brisbane she hading
one outfit. Anyway, there was a lot of people there
and I had a great old time and then I
went into Saturday lucky enough to go and see Teddy Swims.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The next day I was lucky enough to be able
to dance competition.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah I didn't. It was the cool weekend, bought a
musical weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I also sat there at one stage and had a
moment where I was cringing about a couple of the
uniforms that were coming out on stage, and I just
because I think it was a bit tired slash delirious.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It'd been a huge weekend. And then I'm sitting there
and I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
These performances after performances, after performances.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's one of those weekends that you go, I definitely
need another day the other weekend to get over the
weekends because there's too much going on. Because not only
were you out Friday night, Saturday night, yeah, but I'm
guessing you rock Sunday morning. Oh, netball and that stuff
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Netball into dance competition and Budroom. So we had to
then drive to Sunshine Ghost and then we were home
at eight pm at night because the last one was
at six pm.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, you do too much with Nanadee. I know she
says it all the time, Rachel, you do too much.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It was too much and I was judging, Judge said,
and I can tell you that much. Am I a
bad mum for breaking the rules? We talk about this
a bit, right. I think it's a personality thing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know if it's like a star sign you know,
our other bit of star sign traits. I also love
a bit of the human design chart work, so I've
done all that about myself and I think this is
a bit of my personality of breaking rules.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like I'm in.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Aries aries, personality known to everyone. If you read everything,
I mean, your Instagram is going to fill up with it.
Now aries aries Aries fiery, fiery and full on and
ask for forgiveness, not for permission, Like there's just this
is the ongoing story of my life. Actually, now that
I say that and flashes through my eyes, Elsie went
(03:32):
to camp. I know from the list of what everything
can and can't take, I have that little bit of
again coming into Elsie and my relationship and then my
understanding of how she operates and what she.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Eats and what she doesn't eat.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So by me sending you off to camp for four days, Katie,
when you if you even if you had her at
your house and you said.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Morning tea, it's a fruit platter, she just doesn't eat. Yeah, right, yep.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
She's also very much like me as to then when
she hits that point of extreme hunger, she is hungry,
like it's not pleasant for anyone around.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So I go out on the Monday.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Prior to packing Monday night to send her off on
camp on Tuesday, and I grab and it was like
four or five of those like organic meat sticks individually
wrapped like the beef jerky and everything that's like dry
foodish but at the same time can stay in her
bag because it doesn't need to be refrigerated, and a
(04:36):
packet of lollies. I put it on the bench and
there was some elsie and bars like fucking rice bubbles,
like yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I put it all on the end of the bench.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I continue doing every other fifty five other things I'm
doing at the same time, think well, when I'm going
up to pack her bag with her, because she'd half
packed her stuff which I'd given her I said, give
the list, start getting it out, just laid on the ground.
Then we'll do the rest together. I've got that sitting there.
Gracie comes home from Dan. She goes, what is that?
(05:05):
And I said, I'm putting in Elsie's bag for camp.
You know that you're not allowed to. You're breaking all
the rules. Mum, I went, yeah, but she doesn't eat anything,
so if she just starves herself for four days, I'm
going to be the person that cops the ship in.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The back end of that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Because your sister doesn't eat buck all, So what am
I supposed to do? I said, I'm starting to panic
that she's going to be like malnutrition by the time.
But at the same time, and she goes, you didn't
give me lollies. She said that you don't want to
break the rules, and she's spraying me. I said, have
you quite finished? Have you quite finished? I said, you
(05:44):
also eat everything?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, Because in her mind she's like, well, she's the
favorite child.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Then she so and I looked at her and I said,
all right, we'll take the fucking lollies out.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't give a shit. Take the lollies out.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Then you're even she's just breaking the rules mum by
sending food with her.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Funny how because my girls are the exact same. There
are certain things and they're like, you're breaking the rules
and they like shamey for it, and I'm like, this
is supposed to be the other way around. You're supposed
to be doing the things that you're not supposed to do,
and I'm supposed to be picking you up on her.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
She's just trying to be nasty. I think she'd had
a bad day.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And I looked her as you quite finished, I'll removed
the lallies then you even shecuse, but what if someone
else with allergies eats the things that Elsie's got in
her bag? Well, I said, well, I've given your sister
a clear instruction to leave it at the bottom of
her bag and then when she's had the meat to stick,
put the rubbish back in her bag.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And I saw it on Friday.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I didn't say, hey, else, take your food and share
it with your camp mates. I said, I'm doing this
as a last resort. If she's not hungry and she's
had plenty to eat, she won't touch it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You're getting into trouble for smuggling. I've fred jerky into
school camp of all the.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Things, beef jerky, beef turkey.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I was like, this is pretty rich. You're going off
me for breaking the rules.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You're twelve. How does be quiet sound?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Do you know what reminds me of Do you know
Russell Brand?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I went to see him in Brisbane and he did
this bit of his comedy routine where he was talking
about coming into Australia and that video that plays as
You're about to land that talks about Australia's strict what's
it called.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The biosecurity food or honey or anything that's got dirt
on them.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, and I remember him standing up and he went,
you know, I've got a pretty impressive criminal record, but
you guys take fucking fruit smuggling very seriously.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's so true, and that is how I feel about
meat sick.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're the beef jerky smuggler. Well, I've rached in here
for I smuggled beef jerk into the school camp.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Even saying it, I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't want her teachers to have to deal with
the hungry version of Elsie because they'll send her home.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then the other part of it Katie.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Tom was like, I'll ask for forgiveness if I get
the email home dear missus Saturday.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We appreciate you trying to feed your child, but.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You've broken all the rules of the school camp and
now Elsie's never going to be allowed to go again.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
How did you get FUX out?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I remember getting an email from the girl's daycare back
in the day. They were like two or something, and
there was an email that went out to all the parents.
This wasn't aimed at me, by the way, saying, we
really encourage a nutritious lunch packed for your child to
come for the.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Day at daycare.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Please note that we don't include leftover KFC.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
In this.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I was like, that's aimed that one person. She's nicely
sent it out to every parents don't really know who
it is that that one person knows who they are.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Shit, Yeah I'm the one. I only had leftover KFC
from last night in the fridge and nothing else.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh my god, you're asking for trouble. I also would
feel so shamed about that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah I would. But I also I'm like, give
that woman some love, Like she hasn't been chopping in
a while.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Don't.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Let's not judge her.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
On who knows what's going on for her. She might
also have a painful kid that doesn't eat anything.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, and I have definitely been the bum that is
cutting moldy crusts off of sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I might have smuggled beef jerky and to my child's
camp bag, but I've never done the mold on.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh yeah, I've never.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, absolutely cut us the mold to get another at
least three days out of that bread.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
This dis
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