⚡MINI: "I Woke Up To 9 Missed Calls!" Hayley Pearson's Son's False Alarm 📱

# Navigating the Cryptic World of Teenage Text Messages

Ever received a text from your teenager that simply reads "bruh" or "need money"? In this candid episode, Hayley shares the emotional rollercoaster of communicating with her 13-year-old son while she was traveling. From pouring her heart out in lengthy, affectionate messages only to receive a heart emoji in response, to the panic-inducing nine missed calls that turned out to be nothing more than a bubble tea emergency, this episode hilariously captures the communication gap between parents and their teenagers.

The stark contrast between her heartfelt messages and her son's brief, transactional responses highlights a universal parenting challenge. Haley's frustration resonates with parents everywhere as she admits, "I love him so much, but I just want more out of my teenage son." She even shares her mother's lament about raising sons versus daughters when it comes to emotional communication.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, let's have a moment for teenagers. Guys.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
If you are a mum or a dad of teenagers,
then I feel you. I know what it's like to
get texts from your teenager because they can be quite
short of words. It's either like just a brah or
I mum, girl's moneymum got money on mus spriggy, that

(00:44):
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I would imagine it's mostly from the male teenagers.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Are the girls, girls?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I donna lie that now. Girls, I'm sure would be
a lot more emotional.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
So I'm just going to read out some text messages
between me and my beautiful son, who I love so much,
my firstborn.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Can I play the part of your thirteen year old?

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
You can? Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is a couple of weeks ago, so just keep
in mind I'm away. I'm away from him for like
ten day, so I write to him, Hi, Bobby, how
are you? I miss you. I hope you're having a
good holiday. I wish I could give you the biggest
hug right now. It's so nice being with Ganny and
Parr and seeing amazing parts of the world will come
here one day. I love you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Kiss kiss kiss, love heart react.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's all I got.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's all I got, just a love heart react. And then.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think it was like, what's five hours later? Yeah,
I said.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
What are you doing today?

Speaker 5 (01:40):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Sorry, I said, morning Bobby, Afternoon Mum. That's all I got.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Keeping in mind, I just said how much I love him?

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Afternoon Mum, how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What are you doing today?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I'm then not going to reply for the next three days,
and I'm going to message you out of the blue
and I'm going to say, hey, mom, can you please
add some money to card by any chance?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
All right, to which I was now asleep.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So that didn't happen for four hours and sixteen minutes,
and then the next message is from me, the thirteen
year old. You missed a call, but the call didn't
leave a message. You missed a call, but the caller
didn't leave a message. You missed a call, but the
caller didn't leave a message. I haven't had any lunch.
Would you mind giving me some money? You missed a

(02:27):
call but the caller didn't leave a message. You missed
a call? What the caller didn't leave a message? You
missed a call, but the caller didn't leave a message.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Now, before we go on, this is nine miss calls, right?
So I wake up to nine miss calls, and my
mom and dad then came running to my room and like, Haley,
Austin's called you.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
He called to say, is mom awake?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
I really need to talk to her, and they were like,
he really misses you.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
He's thirteen and he misses his mum. And I was like,
something smells fishy. So I called Austin and I said
to him, mate, what's wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Are you dying? I've had nine miss calls from you?
What's happened?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
And he goes, oh, I just wanted a bubble tea.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Have I got money?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Almost briggy anyway out with the boys.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
And then I was really annoyed and I was stewing
over it, and I wrote to him, Austin, did you
only call because you wanted money?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
And he replied yes, sorry, this is my life.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I love him so much, but I just want more
out of my teenage son.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I want more my mother.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
My mother has two boys and I'm thirty three, my
brother's thirty. And weekly she will say to us, I
wish one of you was a daughter because of the
way that we reply, the way that she calls and
asks us a thousand questions and we go, yeah, cool,
it's all good.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Daughters give so much more. I want more as someone
that's really emotional. I want you to like, write me
a long text message. It will be so nice. Not
just is there money and must bringer? I want money.
I need a bubble tea.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Mum man needs a bubble tea.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Thirteen one two three, give us a ring if you
have some teenagers Tamsen in Cape Jervis Tamsen, what have
you got for us?

Speaker 6 (04:07):
So my eighteen year old son only ever text messages
me when he's looking for money, So I've actually changed
his ringtone to dire straits money for Nothing.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
What a song too?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I need to do that too.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
So the funny thing is that I was watching a
Facebook video one day and it was actually that song
was playing, and my husband was absolutely convinced that my
son was messaging, and I had to show him the
video to prove that he was and he was actually
leaving me alone.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I thought it would stop. It still goes at eighteen.
It's still asking for money.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yes, oh absolutely, it's actually more so now even though
they work.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, it goes forever, Haley. I mean I got a
job now. I didn't need it, but I'm happy for
under give me money. Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Tams and Dylan and Kilburn. Dylan, you got kids at
are ten and eleven. They've just got their first phone.
So where are we at here?

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, they like to head out to the local park,
which is a normal occurrence, but we have a shot
that is directly across the road, and I tend to
get text messages Dad, can you please put some money
on my card? Or what for? You meant to be
at a park though there's nothing to buy at a park. Oh,
we're going to go to the shop. Well, no, you're
not allowed at the shop. So I run down at

(05:18):
the park check on them and they're not there. So
I send them a text we're about to use or
we're at the park. I can't see you at the park.
They go April fools. Oh it's October, silly billy. You
can't use April falls. October falls.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I'm going to take away your spriggy card haha, all
year round falls.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, the o TR getting a modest dog.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, that's what they do.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yes, that's the usual case. The o TR is just
across the road from the park and it's the most
dogs that they're all over.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
They're just tucking into a teenagers hang out the od R.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's so many better places to hang out.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
The most dog is three dollars. How do you I'm
going to pick that yesterday from ODR with the Lives.
It was five dollars and it was delicious.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
You go to hang out the o TR.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
What the hell? We didn't hang out, We just went
and then we vacated with the ODR.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
You sit down.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I had some cashws Beck and only we're talking about
teenager text what's your story?

Speaker 7 (06:12):
I guess I resonated with them. Haley. You said, you know,
female's emotional long texts, and that is me. But I
realized it's not all females. And my mum, so my
daughter's grandma, and my thirteen year old send me the
same response. Just the boomer says okay, and the thirteen

(06:34):
year old just replies.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
K yeah, yeah, I get get the kay because it's
the same for dads. So I could send dad quite
a long message and he would reply thumbs up emoji.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well does he This is a mad that's what dads do,
get it? Mind, that is very emotional.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I get you.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I just got a message then saying you're our favorite daughter.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm your only daughter, you're also our least favorite.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Actually, in one of paraws round us out here frustrating
texts from the kids.

Speaker 8 (07:03):
My sixteen year old message me the other day asking
me for fifty cents because with fifty cents short for
a vending machine.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Fifty cents And what did you have to transfer onto
a sprety?

Speaker 8 (07:19):
Oh no, we put it into a bank account.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Just a fifty transfer.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
God, and the stress of a teenager when they run
out of money is like the end of the world
for them.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Oh, it's constant.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah. Actually, does your teenager text you from her bedroom?

Speaker 8 (07:32):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (07:34):
How far away is the bedroom from the living room?
We're talking teenagers.

Speaker 8 (07:39):
I have two teenagers. One's probably five meters from my
bedroom and the other one's probably about ten.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Fire up the group text. We don't need to see
each other today, girls.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Thanks for sharing you guys