May 9, 2025 • 6 mins
Kevin Milne recently received an email, passed on by Jack Tame, about advice he gave on the show 18 years ago. He said that parents should buy an exercise book, tie a pencil to it and write in even the little highlights of their kids growing up.
The listener did just that, giving his son a book filled with special moments and memories on his 21st birthday.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talk said be.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay, here's one.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Blair has sent me a note to say Jack, I
was there with the procession for Prince William and Kate
Middleton when they get married. I hate to say I
wasn't invited to the official ceremony itself, but still to
be there standing as the procession went by felt like
a real moment in history. Yeah, if you've got one,
send us it by all means. Ninety two ninety two
(00:33):
is the text number this morning. You can email me
like bleeded Jacket News Talks. He'db dot co dot nz
right now. It is sixteen minutes past nine. Kevin Milne
is with us this morning, Kelder Kevin Kyoder.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, I don't know what these occasions, I don't know, don'
have been to anything that fantastic. It was in the
Westminster Abbey just minutes after Princess Anne married Dad other
fella turned out to be. And how we got in
there amusing because there was a queue going for miles
(01:09):
and merely a couple of Keywi mates over there. We
were right up at the church door almost and there's
a group of men taking out a grand piano. So
we said, do you want to hand? And so we
so we gave them a hand and then walked back
into the into the abbey with them and there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, it's a classic thing.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's way you should always have a Hiver's vest in
your backpack, you know, so you're going to slip it
on at a convenient moment.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just feel like he was a good at kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Needling their way into historical moments. So yeah, it'll be
you know, I'm sure there'll be some some good examples
this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Anyway, Kevin, a very special email.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was sent to us which piqued your attention.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, we've said the gray email from a listener. It
was sent to you, of course, and you forwarded it
on to me for me. The letter represents the rewards
of remaining on a show for a long long time.
Here's the listener's email, which I've abbreviated. Approximately eighteen years ago,
(02:19):
in his regular Saturday morning slot on ZEBBI, Kevin explained
he had kept a record of the particularly amusing things
his kids said or did and the joy of looking
back and remembering. He recommended we all do it. So
I took him up on the idea with my son,
who was three years old. This week, I handed over
(02:43):
the Humble Exercise Book to my son at his twenty
first birthday party. His reaction exceeded all expectations. So thanks
for the idea, and I too commend keeping such a
record to anyone with young children, anyone just like you. Jack. Well,
(03:03):
thanks for that listener, for his delightful message, and for
being such a loyal listener over nearly two decades. And
so I have to ask you, Jack, have you started
with recording the key moments and roomies?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you know, I need to.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I need to get a wriggle on in that department.
So I haven't yet, Kevin, for either Roomy or for
MANI I need to do a better job of recording things.
Of course, you can get a bit lazy because with
our cell phones these days, you can just snap a
photo and think, oh, that's that right. But I wonder
if I wonder if there may even be a digital
version for those of us who you know, just think that, oh,
(03:41):
digging out a scrap book every now and then, or
digging out an exercise book every now and then, there's
going to be a bit of a pain. But I'll
tell you what I have done is over the last
couple of years, I have recorded myself talking about significant
things in my life. So for example, during the COVID lockdowns,
I think after the first big nationwide lockdown, I sat
(04:03):
down and just recorded myself talking about it half an hour,
and I saved that little audio recording because I thought, oh,
this will be useful for someone's social studies project in
about fifteen years time. And the same thing after money
was born, I just I sat down and kind of
recorded myself just explaining, you know, the kind of story
and what had happened and how it felt and all
(04:23):
that kind of thing, and saved it away. But yeah,
I think it's a lovely idea. The problem is that
at the speed of modern life, it's easy just to
kind of let their stuff fall by the wayside in
the moment, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, soon it's a bit old fashioned. My advice, incidentally,
just for those that wouldn't have went around eighteen years ago,
was sipody to get an exercise book, drill a hole
through the top left hand corner of it, so you're
going to attach a pen or a pencil or something
to buy a piece of string and keep it in
the kitchen to capture all those magic moments in your
(04:56):
children's growth. Yeah. I now have one further piece of
advice regarding this, use a set predictionercise book for each child.
We didn't. It's on all our four kids in one large,
hard covered notebook, which you'd think was a pretty good idea.
We now have to hack it apart if we're to
(05:16):
give each of our kids their own little life story.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I mean maybe it's better just holding on to it,
just one piece and a bit of family history that
somebody keeps. But I think actually, no one book for
each kid.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's a nice idea.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We've done one other little thing we've so with Money's
you know, the first couple of months we have just
we took some of the photographs of him meeting various
family members and that kind of thing, and we've printed
that off into a little book, you know, because we
used to do it all, you know, when babies were
born and stuff. You'd always have a kind of a
photo book or photo album, and so we've done a
(05:54):
wee version of that. I think that's a lot easier
in the digital age. But I love the idea of
an exercise. Yeah, Kevin, I think.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It's a real Yeah. Yeah, there must be a digital
way of doing that. And I agree that the old
exercise book is pretty old fashioned, but at least that's uh.
There's no mucking around with it, and it actually provides
possibly a better end product. Yeah, it does than unraveling,
you know, pouring everything out of your out of your computer.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's spoken like by someone who clearly hasn't seen my
handwriting before. Given, that's my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I can't read it myself. Little love your son.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Hey, thank you so much for that. Have a great weekend, given,
and we'll catch you again very soon.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talk said be.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay, here's one.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Blair has sent me a note to say Jack, I
was there with the procession for Prince William and Kate
Middleton when they get married. I hate to say I
wasn't invited to the official ceremony itself, but still to
be there standing as the procession went by felt like
a real moment in history. Yeah, if you've got one,
send us it by all means. Ninety two ninety two
(00:33):
is the text number this morning. You can email me
like bleeded Jacket News Talks. He'db dot co dot nz
right now. It is sixteen minutes past nine. Kevin Milne
is with us this morning, Kelder Kevin Kyoder.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, I don't know what these occasions, I don't know, don'
have been to anything that fantastic. It was in the
Westminster Abbey just minutes after Princess Anne married Dad other
fella turned out to be. And how we got in
there amusing because there was a queue going for miles
(01:09):
and merely a couple of Keywi mates over there. We
were right up at the church door almost and there's
a group of men taking out a grand piano. So
we said, do you want to hand? And so we
so we gave them a hand and then walked back
into the into the abbey with them and there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, it's a classic thing.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's way you should always have a Hiver's vest in
your backpack, you know, so you're going to slip it
on at a convenient moment.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just feel like he was a good at kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Needling their way into historical moments. So yeah, it'll be
you know, I'm sure there'll be some some good examples
this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Anyway, Kevin, a very special email.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was sent to us which piqued your attention.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, we've said the gray email from a listener. It
was sent to you, of course, and you forwarded it
on to me for me. The letter represents the rewards
of remaining on a show for a long long time.
Here's the listener's email, which I've abbreviated. Approximately eighteen years ago,
(02:19):
in his regular Saturday morning slot on ZEBBI, Kevin explained
he had kept a record of the particularly amusing things
his kids said or did and the joy of looking
back and remembering. He recommended we all do it. So
I took him up on the idea with my son,
who was three years old. This week, I handed over
(02:43):
the Humble Exercise Book to my son at his twenty
first birthday party. His reaction exceeded all expectations. So thanks
for the idea, and I too commend keeping such a
record to anyone with young children, anyone just like you. Jack. Well,
(03:03):
thanks for that listener, for his delightful message, and for
being such a loyal listener over nearly two decades. And
so I have to ask you, Jack, have you started
with recording the key moments and roomies?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, you know, I need to.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I need to get a wriggle on in that department.
So I haven't yet, Kevin, for either Roomy or for
MANI I need to do a better job of recording things.
Of course, you can get a bit lazy because with
our cell phones these days, you can just snap a
photo and think, oh, that's that right. But I wonder
if I wonder if there may even be a digital
version for those of us who you know, just think that, oh,
(03:41):
digging out a scrap book every now and then, or
digging out an exercise book every now and then, there's
going to be a bit of a pain. But I'll
tell you what I have done is over the last
couple of years, I have recorded myself talking about significant
things in my life. So for example, during the COVID lockdowns,
I think after the first big nationwide lockdown, I sat
(04:03):
down and just recorded myself talking about it half an hour,
and I saved that little audio recording because I thought, oh,
this will be useful for someone's social studies project in
about fifteen years time. And the same thing after money
was born, I just I sat down and kind of
recorded myself just explaining, you know, the kind of story
and what had happened and how it felt and all
(04:23):
that kind of thing, and saved it away. But yeah,
I think it's a lovely idea. The problem is that
at the speed of modern life, it's easy just to
kind of let their stuff fall by the wayside in
the moment, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, soon it's a bit old fashioned. My advice, incidentally,
just for those that wouldn't have went around eighteen years ago,
was sipody to get an exercise book, drill a hole
through the top left hand corner of it, so you're
going to attach a pen or a pencil or something
to buy a piece of string and keep it in
the kitchen to capture all those magic moments in your
(04:56):
children's growth. Yeah. I now have one further piece of
advice regarding this, use a set predictionercise book for each child.
We didn't. It's on all our four kids in one large,
hard covered notebook, which you'd think was a pretty good idea.
We now have to hack it apart if we're to
(05:16):
give each of our kids their own little life story.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah right.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I mean maybe it's better just holding on to it,
just one piece and a bit of family history that
somebody keeps. But I think actually, no one book for
each kid.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's a nice idea.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We've done one other little thing we've so with Money's
you know, the first couple of months we have just
we took some of the photographs of him meeting various
family members and that kind of thing, and we've printed
that off into a little book, you know, because we
used to do it all, you know, when babies were
born and stuff. You'd always have a kind of a
photo book or photo album, and so we've done a
(05:54):
wee version of that. I think that's a lot easier
in the digital age. But I love the idea of
an exercise. Yeah, Kevin, I think.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It's a real Yeah. Yeah, there must be a digital
way of doing that. And I agree that the old
exercise book is pretty old fashioned, but at least that's uh.
There's no mucking around with it, and it actually provides
possibly a better end product. Yeah, it does than unraveling,
you know, pouring everything out of your out of your computer.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's spoken like by someone who clearly hasn't seen my
handwriting before. Given, that's my goodness.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I can't read it myself. Little love your son.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Hey, thank you so much for that. Have a great weekend, given,
and we'll catch you again very soon.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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