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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Robin Kid Now with Courios the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So school holidays are all done and dusted, but I
had raffing my almost six year old into everything.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Sporting him was yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Loved it though, Like I sent him to oz kick
and that was really good. He came back with a
terrific drop punt by the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So was this like a scouting holiday? You were talenting,
you were finding out like you were talent.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
What he's got a little bit, A little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You got your own child.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So he went to he did a full day of
soccer soccer camp at Cooper and I think he enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And so there was a tennis camp and I knew
some of his mates were going to tennis camp. We'll
send him to that and see here we go. So
I asked him afterwards, this is a couple of days later,
for a for a little report on how he thinks
he went in the tennis When you played tennis the
other day, Yeah, how do you feel like you went
at it?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I think I went pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, what what gave you the indicator that you're good
at it. I did hit lots of rackets balls your balls, yeh,
from the racket, from the racket.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And where did they go when you hit the ball
over the fence and I had to sit time out?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Did everyone else have to.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Go on to time out?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Lots of bad lots of people to go to time out?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
How often did you have to go to time out
all the time?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He said it was great because he hit the ball
over the big fans, not the net, not the net.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I did doing that.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did clarify. I said, did you're not talking about
the net? And goes, no, the fence. So he goes
and the other kids. He says, he was talking about
his good mate Will.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It goes Will. Will didn't hit it over the fence once.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
He was terrible. He's probably thinking that little fence.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I'm in big trouble. Yeah, and he's going, I'll
keep going the time out, but I feel like i'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Maybe he thought I'm that good, I'm going to and
let them try.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I once say, you said, Dad, I'm so powerful. So
I don't know. I don't really know how if am
I supposed to.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Cricket, then cricket cricket? Or do I tell him that
he's good at tennis? Do I let him believe that
he's good at know it's under truth thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You might need to witness it. What's his swing life?
You know, it's a step into.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The ball, I think, and his racket's phasing up.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's what I know. Maybe well cricket, Yeah, that's that's
you know, lots of money in that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now cricket just go sick.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, maybe that's the answer. But if you've got advice
on that, whether or not you should be telling his
the truth?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Like should you be encouraging mediocrity?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah? Well I need help on this to be honest. Yeah,
little story for you, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thirteen one oh six fives out number.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was just talking about about Raffie, my little boy,
who went to tennis camp over the school holidays and
was very proud of himself for how powerful he was
because he hit it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Over the fence big events every time, the big one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yep, I kept damn agative time out because I just
hit it so hard to it was so good, too good,
and I'm wondering, am I supposed to tell him the
truth that he's not good at tennis?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Or do you encourage?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so our producer, tired is working from home today,
is incensed. He's very on this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Tide, good morning. This is a ridiculous curb. You are
the ultimate fake it till you make it kind of guy.
So you've got to be given your little kids some confidence,
like you've got to build them up. I don't think
he's okay at something?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Why?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
But what if it's not his thing and I'm telling
him a lie, I'm lying.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
To him if it's a first or sicking, go what
You're just going to can it there? And he's just
got to move on and try and find something else.
What if it's a slow burn?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know that pretty early on. If they can't hold
the racket, prop give away the fence.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You guys are correct. Parents, Sorry, come.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
On, it's about It's about you go through one and nope,
try try something else. You try all the sports with
all the money. First, what did you now? What were
you playing in New Zealand, Todd when you were growing up?
What was your big sports?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Surely cricket?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
No, it wasn't cricket. I also played one round of rugby,
but my feet got too cold, so can there. And
I moved on to hockey right through right through high
school and everything. I came to Australia to play hockey.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And what happened. We lost, So you should have stopped.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We're confident that time.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You tell them that time, and it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Was just way than There's plenty of things you can try. Yeah,
if it doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Next And look, if I'm honest, I can't say that.
I don't do that with my kids. But so Monte
at the moment, she's really getting into a sport like
in school and loving it. And yeah, and she came
home in the day and remember that video I sent
I showed us all a while ago of me by.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
On the ball and hitting in the face.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah, she's six by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, beautiful little girl.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
It just seemed beautifully you know, But anyway, it just
went anyway. So she asked me on the other day, Dad,
can we get that game out?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You hit me in the face?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Really that out?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Please?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I want to play the game that hit me in
the face.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, hit me in the eye.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I'm like, I am the man you stop, okay, and
I got it out and it's obviously an adult. So
you know the little plastic back last, but they're plastic. They're
just they're long, right, and we're playing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And you know, she's actually not bad like tennis ballad
you know those little softballs.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
It's yeah, like the backyard ones where they they they're
not hard, but they're soft yeah, rubbery, yeah, and they
and they bounce on the on the on the on
the road at the back and anyway, like what is
actually the one thing with Montana? She she listened really well,
and she can she does everything you usually tell her,
like basketball, right, she was like she can shoot it
(06:49):
on shoot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
One hand, she goes bang, she just drains it right.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So she's coachable. That yeah, one of that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, one of those. That's good. That's what the coach says.
You were coachable. That's what kids.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You're not coaching.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I feel like you're about to get to your three
year old.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yeah, and look she was swinging and hitting the ball
bang bang, and then daddy can overturn.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm like, yeah, get it in there, get in there.
And he's grabbed the bat and.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
It's like probably bigger than him hold the bat here
he's left handed, by the way, he yeah, because right handed,
and didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Worry who's who's left handed?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And you and cricket. But so then I'm swinging the ball,
so you know, months six, yeah, pucks and three.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And he's swing miss right, you know, watch the ball
stand still, slide on, you know, put the bat down. Yeah,
I'm really just I'm trying to make a professional already.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And swing miss, swing miss.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
And then he goes to swing and he's swinging himself
off his feet like, wings himself around, falls down, grazed
his legs, ball in his eyes out.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm like, it's not my phone, is it? Mate? You
don't watch the ball. I'm just intoing, right, I'm like, what.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Do you reckon you're going to do if you swing
that art next time? And I'm like and then and
I'm like, no, I don't care old you are you
want to play it?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He goes, yeah, I'll get another go. And then anyway,
twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
On, do you think it would have been anything like
when Monty was three? You never would have done that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
No, no, no, You've.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Just been hard on him because he's a boy.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well yeah, well and then I sort of after a while,
I got the I just got the ship.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Just gay man like you doing me and annoying me,
just go inside annoying me.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He's real sad. I felt terrible. I've been a bit
harsh on.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I feel like, yeah, you're just you're too Is it
too harsh? Different standards?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Because you've got to You've got to treat him the
same way you would treat Monty. You got to give
him chance.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I adn't treating them the same way and treating she's
six Jesus, he's a little boy.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You want to be good.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You got to give him a minute, okay, yeah, so
maybe two?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, so I reckon, I can a bit slow it
down a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So you reckon when small like she's getting nord, you're
not going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I think, do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You're going to be the same.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've got a feeling because she's a girl as well,
I'm going to treat her a lot easier than the
other one.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, because Hucks is a boy. Yeah, do you reckon
I'm pushing him harder.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, I think you do. I think I think you
naturally do. I think I probably will. Yeah, I think
I'll definitely.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I already know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I get madder at Raf even though he's older, so
he annoys me more. But you know what I mean, Like,
I don't think I'll ever go off the way I
do with Cianna because she's a little girl.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I want a bit harsh.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Just put it redon. You need to put that through
the filter. Okay, yeah, just calm it down. But she's good,
she's got a future. Christie's on the phone out of
park room though your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Christy, Hey, Corey, you've been way too hard on your
little man. What's going to happen when he comes back
and says, kid out here, Dad, you're annoying me. Yeah,
and you goes red flags. He's start chatting me and
oh wow, he's picked that up for me. And it's
like the inside the slection is what I'm pointing out
is what they're going to pick up. True, you've got
(10:06):
a much bigger ball that you've got to deal with
it through that filter.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, but I gave him time, but you know, not enough,
not enough.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
He's only three.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You're trying to get his hand eye coordination down, pat
and you want him to hit a ball.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Okay, thanks, CHRISTI