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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lucky Dip time. It's Lucky Dip time. It's Melan Monty.
You're ready to dip, You're lucky.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Duck, you're theda.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that the tune that you've ah? I thought that's
what I was singing at Christmas tune, But you're talking
about Christmas stuff. I got it, I got there.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I was trying to be thematic with my that's the
first time you've ever sung Yeah, And I did the
voice that you know, the voice I do it. I
bag you for it, but I do it too. Every
time I say like, and Mark said, well, then what
did you do? The food always put in a stupid voice. Yes,
today's lucky Dip?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Is well not inspired? Really a rip off of There's
this Instagram account that I would really suggest you have
a look at if you have kids. Her name, that
handle is at Chelsea explains okay, who she calls herself
the Michael Jordan of babysitting, Right. I think she spent
a lot of time as a babysitter and a nanny
and stuff, and she's just got all of these hacks
(01:07):
and stuff for kids and like, and then she's got
it's just a heap of different things, right, yeah, but
mostly kid related broad age group or young kids broad
mostly when I first started watching her, it was mostly
young kids. But she does all different stuff like productivity
hacks and all that. But one of the things one
(01:28):
of the videos I watched if her was talking about
how it can be such a punish to get your
kids into the shower or whatever. And she was saying
when she was watching kids, she would say to them, Okay,
it's messy time you've got I think it was like
two minutes. Go into the backyard. I want you to
get as dirty as you can, as messy as you can.
So they would be rolling around and you know, rubbing
shit all over themselves or whatever, and then you'd be like, Okay,
(01:51):
now it's time to do the big clean and then
they would run to the shower. She's sort of like
paired something exciting for them, right, So it wasn't just
stick order getting ahower. So stupid little things like that, right, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Good, good tips. But then my kids would still going, no,
I'm not getting in the shower, and I'd be like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You're getting grass in the house, or look, you sucked
up your pants. Do not be saying those now anyway.
So she's doing this series at the moment for gift
ideas that are, because it's Cozi Lives right, very inexpensive,
sometimes even free for kids, and some of them I
(02:32):
thought I would do today if you're struggling with some
little things to do for your kids for Christmas. For Christmas, Yep,
sorry I didn't. I didn't say that. I thought the
fucking Christmas Carol at the stime, why don't you she's
when she's talking about teens, she said, the idea is
the thought of giving them a sense of control around things. Right.
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So the first one was buying your team in a
very mini little fridge for their room, and she reckons
you can get them from Amazon for about fifty bucks.
When I say little, she said, like my old maybe
six cans of drink, right, like really small. But she said,
you've put their favorite drink in there, whatever it might be.
(03:17):
Your parent, you decide.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
She said.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And then you go and you go to all like
heaps of different shops that have like you know, Asian
shops have a lot of those little like the pocky
I think it's called pockey like the sticks that are
dipted in like snacks from around the world. Basically, you
make them a little hamper filled with all different snacks
from around the world or whatever, and put it on
top of the bar fridge and you're like, and this
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is yours for your room, this feeling of isn't it
a great idea? I loved that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I would have loved that. To fifty dollars for a
fridge that is wild.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well she's actually said twenty five, but she's American, so
I've had it and I thought, let's say fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I've really loved that idea. You me who I used
to work, we said too, if you wrap up a
coke and give it to your kid for Christmas, it's
the best fucking thing that's ever happened to them.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm like, yeah, you're right, yeah, Or mine could just
go to the fridge in the garage.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah. I hate seeing my kids drink coke.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'll come home with it. I'm like, for some reason,
it's so when you see your kids swigger coke, you're like, oh,
and then Odie, you'll always be like, can I have some?
And so we'll put something in a cup for hum
and I'm like, yack, hua we.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
There's something about I think when they get to a
certain age and when it's accessible, it takes the excitement
out of it. Like when it's there, I'm not that
tucked about having it. It's if I say no, you
can never have that, that's just for special occasions, then
they're like obsessed with obsessed totally. But yeah, I get it,
Like it's not an ideal thing for them to have anyway. Okay,
this one is beautiful. It's a letter box and she
(04:48):
said what she she said she does it for lots
of people that she loves, but for kids. So it's
a box that you write all different letters for different
like occasions or whatever to your kids. So an example
she gat it was open when you're hungry. Oh so
there's no so in It's got like a little but
you put a little note in there or whatever, and
(05:09):
then maybe inside you make a voucher that says this week,
I'm going to make your favorite dinner or something, and
they say what night of the week, or it's got
a voucher to their favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Fast food place or okay.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Whatever you know. And you can also make it touching
in ways like open when you miss me, open when
you can't sleep, open when you're nervous, open when you're sad,
and you write messages to them, letters to them for
those moments, like maybe if they're feeling nervous, you know,
like reassurance or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Totally, Mike, you would need a voucher in every single
one of those. Well, I think you'd be surprised, because
I think that they would like a voucher in everyone.
But I also think that we assume that they don't
care about our level of care, and I think that
they do. And also the fact that this is a letter.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's tangible. It's not just in a moment you've said
it and they're walking off on you. This is something
that they can read, and I think that they are
mindful of the fact that Mum sat down and wrote
all these letters.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I wonder. I don't think my boys would give a shit.
I feel like it would work beautifully for you and
dom or you. No, you and Luca probably, but my
boys would be like in fucking spender cent on this.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, but like of course too, like if you have
the means to buy your kids lots of things, this
is an addition, yes, okay. But another one she had
was open when you're lonely, and maybe one of them
is there's a couple of movie tickets in there, and
when they you can say, okay, invite a friend and
I'll take this to the movies. Yeah, whatever, Just it's
a nice it's a nice idea. Anyway, this is this
(06:43):
would be difficult for you, I think, but a paint box.
So you basically go to Bunnings and you grab a
heap of paint, you know, the little paint sample cards. Yes,
you put it in the box, You buy a roller,
you buy paint tray or whatever, and when they open it,
you say, you can paint your room whatever color you want. Right,
but this is the beauty of it that I thought
(07:05):
you And then she's like, so you go to let's say,
Bunnings together. You can't influence anything they say. You let
them pick. So if they want black or red, whatever,
you let them do it. Because it's paint, it can
always be painted over.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Everyone says that, oh, it's just paint, but it's such
a hassle to paint.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It is a hassle to paint. But then afterwards you
are helping them paint their room. Right, So there's the
educational side of things where you're probably showing them okay,
so you've got to tape up the skirting boards or whatever.
But then also that feeling of them feeling like they
accomplished something.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And they had control over it as well. I had control.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
They're going to bed at night, they're looking at the
wall and going, oh my god, I did that. But
also I painted that with my mum.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, that's so cute. I would just put in color
samples that I want, so they'd be different shades of
light grain and cran. No, no, no, no, no, you can't.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Be like that, because the idea is that that's just
the thing to explain to them what it is we're
going to.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
When they go to the shop, they choose whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, you know what, you'd say, you know, what's a
good strategy that you go to the shop and you say,
don't even look at the greens, I don't want any
more green in the house. And then they'll be like,
I think I want green. Actually, yeah, totally. I know.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
God Arlo would go like a turquoise or something like that.
I know I control freak for that. I guess.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
In fairness, it is their.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Room, yes, it's their room, but it's in my house. Yeah,
but rules. But that's also like Odie's hair is so long,
it's midway down his back. He's like, I want haircut,
like Arlo, I said, no way, when it goes brown,
you can, because it will go brown at some point,
but while it's this white, And then I'm like, is
that bad that I'm not letting him decide on what
his hair is? But I cannot cut off that hair.
(08:51):
I can't do it now. I don't care if I'm controlling.
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, well then you've made up your mind. Yeah, and
the little kids just a few ideas, because the idea
too is that they're also creative, so it gets them
off a device or whatever. So she said, just you know,
you buy those giant rolls of paper. Yes, she said,
a giant roll of paper. She said, it's ours. They
you know, you can trace the outline of their body.
(09:15):
They can draw like a racetrack and then play with
their cars on it. Like, there's so many different things
you can do with that. One of the things she
said was an invention box. You basically get a big
plastic tub shit that you think to throw out like lids,
lids of things going to the garage. Maybe you've got
some tubing from something, rubber tubing, I don't know, pipe cleaners,
(09:39):
go to the craft shop, foam, feathers, whatever. You put
it all in the invention box and they like that
and then you can keep adding to it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Actually good ideas, because sometimes when people give Christmas ideas,
I'm like, oh God.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But I think it's because it gets them thinking, and
it's also like they open it and they're like.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Wow, you know kids different.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, yeah, they're going to use their imagination. Oh maybe
I'll make a bus this you know, this lid can
be the wheels, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Whatever, and you can just use stuff that's around your
house and then just get a few arts and crafty
stuff and check it in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So that was a good idea. And the only other
thing that I've got on there too is like you
could do that with anything. So if your kid liked baking.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, it was just thinking that baking cape.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Liners, decorating shit, let them go crazy. But also I
thought clay. I'm very into clay at the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, are you using clay?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, I did buy air dry clay. There's too much
of a punish I think I've got to buy the
one that you actually bake in the oven. But yes,
like the fun you could have No, I think the
ones nol you can just actually put it in your
shut up yeah wow. And if you're sitting there with
your kids and you're making stuff and you could make
it funny, right, So like with your boys, you could
(10:52):
do say balls, dick and balls. You could say, make
a big dog poo yeah, whatever, but even make make
a figurine of Daddy. Yes, and see what they do.
And then once it's baked they can paint it. It's
like this creativity togetherness, you know, like, and it's they're
not they don't have their head in a phone or
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a device.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I just like those ideas. Look at you. Yeah, I
liked them too. They were very, very cute and I've
bet a lot of you guys listening will use those
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