March 1, 2023 • 15 mins
What's happening in parenting in the news?
Topics included in this episode -
- 'We love kids but it's time to take control': Restaurant bans anyone under 10
- Rihanna credits motherhood for headlining Super Bowl show: 'You can do anything'
- Instant noodles are a leading cause of childhood burn injuries, new study
- Wild way Australian kids are outsmarting new school phone bans
- Aunt sparks outrage after taking toddler for 'mullet' haircut, without permission
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The time poor parent who just wants answers.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now from a waitressing point of view, when you get
to the table and there's been kids there, you're going
to spend an extra six to ten minutes cleaning up
that table compared to the one where a couple of
bad odds of evening.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a spaghetti house, much less. And now here's the
scars of our show, My Mum and Dad, Kylie.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is going to be a jam packed loads of
fun this week. Aga in parenting. You're so good at that,
we should make a promo out of that and just
get it out there that everyone knows. I love this
podcast episode. This is trash talk. This is looking at
what parenting's happening in the news, what people are talking
(00:49):
about when it comes to paring in the news. And
I've been collecting over the last couple of weeks a
whole lot of articles where parenting has gone absolutely crazy.
We've got way too many news articles about parenting to
talk about, but I think that we should just dive
into it and get cracking. For those of you who
needed the podcast once a month, we basically look at
what's happening in parenting in the news, and we laugh
(01:10):
about it, or we comment on it, or we just
keep you up to date. I what people are talking
about with stuff that relates to kids and parents.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, well I want to talk about the no kids
allowed in the restaurant. Right a popular Italian restaurant New
Jersey will be turning away children under the age of.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ten BBS to Hiss. Dave Cralin explains why Nettie's House
of Spaghetti is doing this. So this is an article
that was on kids Spot just recently. It's based on
something that was happening in the United States. I can
see it happening in Australia as well, though I don't
think this is a uniquely US kind of thing. Kidspot
dot com dot Au have got this article called we
Love kids, but It's time to take control. Restaurant bans
(01:48):
anyone under ten. A popular restaurant has sparked debate over
its decision to ban children under the age of ten
from dining there. Neddie's House of Spaghetti in New Joysey
made the announcement last week on their Facebook page, explaining
their reasoning, we love kids, We really truly do but
lately it's been extremely challenging to accommodate children at Nettie's.
Between noise levels, lack of space for high chairs, cleaning
(02:11):
up crazy messes, and the liability of kids running around
the restaurant, we have decided that it's time to take
control of the situation. This wasn't a decision that was
made lightly, but some recent events have pushed us to
implement this new policy. As of March eighth, the day
we return from our winter break, we will no longer
allow children under ten to dine in the restaurant. We
know that this is going to make some of you
very upset, especially those of you with very well behave kids,
(02:32):
but we believe this is the right decision for our
business moving forward. Thanks for understanding, Kylie. What do you
think is it okay for restaurants to ban kids? I
think that you love this. I can tell them from
your face. You're thinking, what's the problem here? Why is
this news? So for the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Longest time, while ever we have had young children, we
have rung restaurants and said, what time do you open
your doors? We want to be in and out before
another person comes in, because it is hard.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We would make five pm bookings like four p thirty
if we could, let's just get in, get out, get
it done.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So we will choose takeaway over taking kids out. So
I don't have a problem with the restaurant saying that
it's an adult's only zone. Yeah, Like, if they've said
you can take your ten year olds, I'd be quite
happy if they said no kids. Not that I would
want every restaurant to do that, but I don't have
a problem with there being you know, a handful of
(03:27):
places where adults going to go. I mean, you've got
smoke free signs, smoking zone, Like, I don't have a
problem with that at all.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I think it's great because when you and I go
out for dinner, I really like to not have the
drama of kids. And you can get it from a
like from a watering point of view, waitressing point of view.
When you get to the table and there's been kids there,
you're going to spend an extra six to ten minutes
cleaning up that table compared to the one where a
couple of adults of even.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a spaghetti house, for goodness sake, can imagine mess.
I know what my two year olds would do with spaghetti.
I just yeah, I don't have a problem with it
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And what I think as well is from a restaurant
point of view, there's gonna be a lot of restaurants
that are quite happy to have you and your kids.
But if a restaurant says, nah, we're just done with it,
I'm totally cool with that. But that was in the news,
kidspot dot com, dot you. I am curious, like when
it comes to ten being the cutoff. I can imagine
some families like, Oh, we really like Neddie's House of
(04:22):
Spaghetti though, and we've got a nine year old. We've
got an eight year old. What are they going to
do ask for the births. Let's just go and check it.
Let's just tell them that they're ten, and we'll get
them in there anyway. So I think this is just
kind of like the nightclub entry. I remember when you
were sixteen or seventeen, you want to sneak into the
night club. We're gonna have all these eight nine year
old sneaking into Netti's house to get So that's the
(04:43):
first story. I thought it was a fun one with
parenting being in the news, I mean, they're talking about
having kid free suburbs, and kid free communities, and it's
the same thing, right, if that's what you want, field
your boots. There's plenty of places that kids can go
and plenty of places that you can eat. Well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think we just we have to acknowledge it takes
types to make the world go round.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, right at the day, so really Rihanna performing with
authority right as a musical icon, but also with subtle
nods that yes, she is pregnant again. And it was
no mistake that the soon to be mother of two
started and ended her show alone on a floating stage
at what her producer said was the top of the world.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So number two Rihanna at the super Bowl, Rihanna made headlines,
credited motherhood for headlining the super Bowl and said you
can do anything. So she's literally one of the world's
biggest stars. She steps out onto the super Bowl stage
in front of like one hundred million people basically because
of the way it's televised and goes around the globe.
(05:44):
And she did it, perform for fifteen minutes or something
like that. All of her biggest hits while she was pregnant.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You make it sound like it's a massive feet.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was all over the news. Everyone was making a
big deal of it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I haven't seen Rihanna, So did she do like some
major dance moves or something.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
She just up on stage and she performed and rocked
the place while she was pregnant, And people are saying,
this is a really, really, really big deal. I love
how you're like, why is this a big deal? I
love that because so what she was pregnant and she
(06:20):
performed at a concert Like that's okay, right, yeah, okay,
big news. Hey, this is that's this week in parenting.
The third story for this week in parenting.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
This week in Parenting, Yes, is all about instant noodles.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did you know instant noodles accounts for almost a third
of childhood burn injuries. A study published in the journal
Burns examine the data regarding all pediatric patients. Okay, this
was on nine honey, and I just can you trust
nine honey?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah? Are you saying can you trust ninety? Calling me
honey is because that's what it sounded like. Can you
trust nine honey? Yes, you can absolutely. That's that's where
Chanel nine, That's where the upcoming season two of Parental
Guidance will be.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can definitely totally trustweay.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The headline is instant noodles or a leading cause of
child burn injuries, says a new study. Now this almost
made it into the doctor's desk, but I decided that
it was probably a little bit more this week in
pairenting the doctor's desk. It didn't feel like it was
serious enough science for me. But let me share this
with you. A popular and convenient, low budget snack is
proving to be dangerous for young kids. According to a
(07:26):
new US study, instant noodles account for nearly a third
of childhood burn injuries. Now I remember when I was young,
I would I never actually spilt it on me, but
burn the inside of your mouth with that hot water
like that, there's pain going on there. The study, carried
out by Research as the University of Chicago and published
in the journal Burns, analyzed data of children who were
(07:49):
admitted to the hospital with school injuries between twenty ten
and twenty twenty. Of the seven hundred and ninety cases,
thirty one percent were caused by instant noodles. That's a percentage.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That's a huge percentage.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I can feel a class action coming on against the
noodle manufacturers. Furthermore, unsupervised children also faced higher risk, with
forty percent of instant Nordle burns occurring when children were
reported to be alone during the time of injury. Now,
I can't believe that they're collecting this much data, but
they've got the data and that's what they're showing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You think about the level of burn that scolding water.
A child gets from scolding water, Yeah, this is intense
and depending on how much water we're talking about, that's
the difference between you know, a finger, a hand, an
arm halfway down your body. It's noteworthy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The researcher in charge of the study, doctor Sebastian v Rell, said, anecdotally,
it felt like every other child we were consulted on
for a burn was injured by instant nordles. It was
a great headline, the instant noodles injured me. So we
wanted to dive into the data to see what the
trend really was and obviously it's a bit of an issue.
So we're raising that if you can, I say this,
(09:00):
if you're one of those parents that lets your kids
eat instant noodles, like we actually have instant noodles in
our house, don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
No, we don't. And you know what. This week in
parenting in the Coolson household, our twenty year old who
has had her own stash of instant noodles because I
will not buy them any more. Yes, she has them there.
If we have a yo yo night.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
A yoo night for those of you who are unfamiliar
with the term, is that you're on your own night
where Kylie and I just say we're not cooking for you.
Figure it out for yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And so she's too lazy to do anything else. She'll
pull out one of her cups. And she pulled one
out the other night and she said, you know what,
I'm so over these noodles. I didn't think I would
ever hear that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I haven't had instant noodles far. It's got to be
twenty years, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's not really food, is it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Be careful people listening to the podcast to eat instan noodles.
But if you do, if you do, just make sure
they're cool. Don't burn the kids with them. They're deadly, apparently,
according to the Science.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So story number four kids breaking into phones at school.
The education Minister's being forced defend Essay's controversial school mobile
phone ban only days after it was introduced.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It comes after a series of videos emerged showing students
vandalizing the taxpayer funded pouches used to keep the phones locked.
So Kylie, This story was on news dot com dot
Au The wild Way Australian kids are out smarting the
new school rule. So basically this year in South Australian
high schools, mobile telephones have been banned and the school
(10:28):
bought these pouches that are called yonder pouches. The idea
is that you stick the phone in there and then
it kind of it's locked. There's a special magnetic system
to unlock the phone. It just keeps phones out of kids'
hands while they're in the school yard. But according to
news dot com tell You, Australian students have found sneaky
ways to skirt around new mobile phone bands that schools
have spent thousands of dollars implementing. Basically, what the kids
(10:53):
are doing is the yonder pouches. They've found ways to
break them open and you don't need magnets. You have
to do According to the TikTok videos, where there are
dozens of videos of OSSI students teaching others how to
open the pouches. Is you get the Yonder bag and
you whack it really hard on this part just here,
That's what it says. And the TikTok just whack it
(11:14):
right here on this part. Hit it hard a couple
of times, and what do you know, Abrica dabruh, you
can get access to your phone. I mean it probably
breaks the Yonder pouch, which is worth about fifteen dollars
or thereabouts. It just says, you just want to bang
it a couple of times, really hard. This only works
with the new one, the one with the button. I
guess what this really shows is as parents, we can
come up with every possible solution to keep the kids safe,
(11:39):
to keep the kids offline, to keep the kids away
from their screens. And you know what they're going to do.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They're going to find a way.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They're going to say, don't care, don't care, you can't
make me. I can do what I want, and they do,
and sometimes the things that they do end up being
quite costly because they actually don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well. Story number five is the mullet.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Story number five. Do we have more stories? How many
more have we got that's it. This is the last
one okay this week compairing. This one caught my attention
because I'm just not quite sure how i'd respond. I
think I do know, but I'd love to get your
response here. Okay, so this was once again on nine Honey.
We will link to the story in the show notes.
Aunt sparks outrage aren't after taking toddler for a mullet
(12:25):
haircut without permission? Do you love it? Stay tuned to
see her reaction. Yes, I was expecting a bigger response
than that. You're just looking at me, So basically, what's
happened happened. So a woman has sparked fury online after
she took her nephew for a bold new haircut without
(12:46):
telling his mum. The aunt, who shared a video of
the process on her TikTok account, described it as a
little prank, but it seems that most people fail to
see the humor. My sister left me in charge of
her child, so I thought it would be funny to
take him to the hairdresser and paul a little prank,
she says in the clip captioned baby Mullet. Now, I've
got to tell you, this kid has got a thick
(13:07):
mop of hair. Little guy hair, lots and lots of hair.
I mean, he's actually a really spunky looking kid. And
she says, I'm not going to tell you guys what
it's going to be, but it's going to be so funny.
Then she holds him up so that you can see
this great head of hair. He sits down and next
thing you know, the hairdresser pulls out the clippers and
(13:28):
the mullet. The mullet is delivered, the sides are shaved off,
there's the ugly stuff at the back. It's really really well,
it's really bad, full stop and a story. Kylie, you've
got a kid. Your sister takes him. And this is
hard for us to imagine because we have six daughters,
but your sister takes our son to the hairdresser at
(13:52):
the age of what two or three?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So the problem is, I am not emotionally attached. And
that little baby is so adorable that regardless what haircut.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're saying you're seeing, the mullet will still work. You
don't care. He's super super cute.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But if that was my child, yeah, I would lose it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, So I mean, you could do it with a
girl as well, though, Like, let's say your sister, one
of your sisters takes one of our kids to the
hairdresser for just a surprise, is for a haircut. She
doesn't give her a mullet, but she gives her a fringe.
Or you've been working on getting some length and she
gives her It.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Wasn't even my sister. I took the kids to the hairdresser.
I had twelve year old and the fifteen year old
in the seat, and I said to them, I will
just go and meet dad because he's got Emily. She's
going to have her haircut after you. By the time
I came back, the twelve year old had made a
decision that we hadn't talked about, and I took one
look at her and I went, what have you done?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You do take haircuts? Seriously? Do you remember the time
when I took the kids for a haircut and you
said they're only allowed to have I don't know what
was it, five centimeters taken off. We just need to
get the ends growing nicely. And I decided to get
the kids to have cut it all off. I said,
let's give them a bob instead. Let's just give them
a nice Bob, they looked gorgeous. You didn't talk to
me for a month, Oh don't. You didn't see me,
(15:03):
made me sleep with the dog.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You make me sound terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'm just saying, you take your haircuts pretty seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah. Yeah. You know what my hairdressers said to me
once when I went in for a haircut and I
was a bit unsure about it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It'll grow on you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Don't worry, It'll grow on you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah. We hope you've enjoyed this episode of This Week
in Parenting. Thanks so much for listening to the Happy
Families podcast. It's produced by Justin Rawlan for Bridge Media.
Craig Bruce is our executive producer. For more information about
how to make your family happier and how to make
sure that you have consent before haircuts, visit Happy families
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It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The time poor parent who just wants answers.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now from a waitressing point of view, when you get
to the table and there's been kids there, you're going
to spend an extra six to ten minutes cleaning up
that table compared to the one where a couple of
bad odds of evening.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a spaghetti house, much less. And now here's the
scars of our show, My Mum and Dad, Kylie.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is going to be a jam packed loads of
fun this week. Aga in parenting. You're so good at that,
we should make a promo out of that and just
get it out there that everyone knows. I love this
podcast episode. This is trash talk. This is looking at
what parenting's happening in the news, what people are talking
(00:49):
about when it comes to paring in the news. And
I've been collecting over the last couple of weeks a
whole lot of articles where parenting has gone absolutely crazy.
We've got way too many news articles about parenting to
talk about, but I think that we should just dive
into it and get cracking. For those of you who
needed the podcast once a month, we basically look at
what's happening in parenting in the news, and we laugh
(01:10):
about it, or we comment on it, or we just
keep you up to date. I what people are talking
about with stuff that relates to kids and parents.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, well I want to talk about the no kids
allowed in the restaurant. Right a popular Italian restaurant New
Jersey will be turning away children under the age of.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ten BBS to Hiss. Dave Cralin explains why Nettie's House
of Spaghetti is doing this. So this is an article
that was on kids Spot just recently. It's based on
something that was happening in the United States. I can
see it happening in Australia as well, though I don't
think this is a uniquely US kind of thing. Kidspot
dot com dot Au have got this article called we
Love kids, but It's time to take control. Restaurant bans
(01:48):
anyone under ten. A popular restaurant has sparked debate over
its decision to ban children under the age of ten
from dining there. Neddie's House of Spaghetti in New Joysey
made the announcement last week on their Facebook page, explaining
their reasoning, we love kids, We really truly do but
lately it's been extremely challenging to accommodate children at Nettie's.
Between noise levels, lack of space for high chairs, cleaning
(02:11):
up crazy messes, and the liability of kids running around
the restaurant, we have decided that it's time to take
control of the situation. This wasn't a decision that was
made lightly, but some recent events have pushed us to
implement this new policy. As of March eighth, the day
we return from our winter break, we will no longer
allow children under ten to dine in the restaurant. We
know that this is going to make some of you
very upset, especially those of you with very well behave kids,
(02:32):
but we believe this is the right decision for our
business moving forward. Thanks for understanding, Kylie. What do you
think is it okay for restaurants to ban kids? I
think that you love this. I can tell them from
your face. You're thinking, what's the problem here? Why is
this news? So for the.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Longest time, while ever we have had young children, we
have rung restaurants and said, what time do you open
your doors? We want to be in and out before
another person comes in, because it is hard.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We would make five pm bookings like four p thirty
if we could, let's just get in, get out, get
it done.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So we will choose takeaway over taking kids out. So
I don't have a problem with the restaurant saying that
it's an adult's only zone. Yeah, Like, if they've said
you can take your ten year olds, I'd be quite
happy if they said no kids. Not that I would
want every restaurant to do that, but I don't have
a problem with there being you know, a handful of
(03:27):
places where adults going to go. I mean, you've got
smoke free signs, smoking zone, Like, I don't have a
problem with that at all.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I think it's great because when you and I go
out for dinner, I really like to not have the
drama of kids. And you can get it from a
like from a watering point of view, waitressing point of view.
When you get to the table and there's been kids there,
you're going to spend an extra six to ten minutes
cleaning up that table compared to the one where a
couple of adults of even.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's a spaghetti house, for goodness sake, can imagine mess.
I know what my two year olds would do with spaghetti.
I just yeah, I don't have a problem with it
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And what I think as well is from a restaurant
point of view, there's gonna be a lot of restaurants
that are quite happy to have you and your kids.
But if a restaurant says, nah, we're just done with it,
I'm totally cool with that. But that was in the news,
kidspot dot com, dot you. I am curious, like when
it comes to ten being the cutoff. I can imagine
some families like, Oh, we really like Neddie's House of
(04:22):
Spaghetti though, and we've got a nine year old. We've
got an eight year old. What are they going to
do ask for the births. Let's just go and check it.
Let's just tell them that they're ten, and we'll get
them in there anyway. So I think this is just
kind of like the nightclub entry. I remember when you
were sixteen or seventeen, you want to sneak into the
night club. We're gonna have all these eight nine year
old sneaking into Netti's house to get So that's the
(04:43):
first story. I thought it was a fun one with
parenting being in the news, I mean, they're talking about
having kid free suburbs, and kid free communities, and it's
the same thing, right, if that's what you want, field
your boots. There's plenty of places that kids can go
and plenty of places that you can eat. Well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think we just we have to acknowledge it takes
types to make the world go round.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, right at the day, so really Rihanna performing with
authority right as a musical icon, but also with subtle
nods that yes, she is pregnant again. And it was
no mistake that the soon to be mother of two
started and ended her show alone on a floating stage
at what her producer said was the top of the world.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So number two Rihanna at the super Bowl, Rihanna made headlines,
credited motherhood for headlining the super Bowl and said you
can do anything. So she's literally one of the world's
biggest stars. She steps out onto the super Bowl stage
in front of like one hundred million people basically because
of the way it's televised and goes around the globe.
(05:44):
And she did it, perform for fifteen minutes or something
like that. All of her biggest hits while she was pregnant.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You make it sound like it's a massive feet.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It was all over the news. Everyone was making a
big deal of it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I haven't seen Rihanna, So did she do like some
major dance moves or something.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
She just up on stage and she performed and rocked
the place while she was pregnant, And people are saying,
this is a really, really, really big deal. I love
how you're like, why is this a big deal? I
love that because so what she was pregnant and she
(06:20):
performed at a concert Like that's okay, right, yeah, okay,
big news. Hey, this is that's this week in parenting.
The third story for this week in parenting.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
This week in Parenting, Yes, is all about instant noodles.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Did you know instant noodles accounts for almost a third
of childhood burn injuries. A study published in the journal
Burns examine the data regarding all pediatric patients. Okay, this
was on nine honey, and I just can you trust
nine honey?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah? Are you saying can you trust ninety? Calling me
honey is because that's what it sounded like. Can you
trust nine honey? Yes, you can absolutely. That's that's where
Chanel nine, That's where the upcoming season two of Parental
Guidance will be.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can definitely totally trustweay.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The headline is instant noodles or a leading cause of
child burn injuries, says a new study. Now this almost
made it into the doctor's desk, but I decided that
it was probably a little bit more this week in
pairenting the doctor's desk. It didn't feel like it was
serious enough science for me. But let me share this
with you. A popular and convenient, low budget snack is
proving to be dangerous for young kids. According to a
(07:26):
new US study, instant noodles account for nearly a third
of childhood burn injuries. Now I remember when I was young,
I would I never actually spilt it on me, but
burn the inside of your mouth with that hot water
like that, there's pain going on there. The study, carried
out by Research as the University of Chicago and published
in the journal Burns, analyzed data of children who were
(07:49):
admitted to the hospital with school injuries between twenty ten
and twenty twenty. Of the seven hundred and ninety cases,
thirty one percent were caused by instant noodles. That's a percentage.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That's a huge percentage.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I can feel a class action coming on against the
noodle manufacturers. Furthermore, unsupervised children also faced higher risk, with
forty percent of instant Nordle burns occurring when children were
reported to be alone during the time of injury. Now,
I can't believe that they're collecting this much data, but
they've got the data and that's what they're showing.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You think about the level of burn that scolding water.
A child gets from scolding water, Yeah, this is intense
and depending on how much water we're talking about, that's
the difference between you know, a finger, a hand, an
arm halfway down your body. It's noteworthy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The researcher in charge of the study, doctor Sebastian v Rell, said, anecdotally,
it felt like every other child we were consulted on
for a burn was injured by instant nordles. It was
a great headline, the instant noodles injured me. So we
wanted to dive into the data to see what the
trend really was and obviously it's a bit of an issue.
So we're raising that if you can, I say this,
(09:00):
if you're one of those parents that lets your kids
eat instant noodles, like we actually have instant noodles in
our house, don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
No, we don't. And you know what. This week in
parenting in the Coolson household, our twenty year old who
has had her own stash of instant noodles because I
will not buy them any more. Yes, she has them there.
If we have a yo yo night.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
A yoo night for those of you who are unfamiliar
with the term, is that you're on your own night
where Kylie and I just say we're not cooking for you.
Figure it out for yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And so she's too lazy to do anything else. She'll
pull out one of her cups. And she pulled one
out the other night and she said, you know what,
I'm so over these noodles. I didn't think I would
ever hear that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I was so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I haven't had instant noodles far. It's got to be
twenty years, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's not really food, is it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Be careful people listening to the podcast to eat instan noodles.
But if you do, if you do, just make sure
they're cool. Don't burn the kids with them. They're deadly, apparently,
according to the Science.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So story number four kids breaking into phones at school.
The education Minister's being forced defend Essay's controversial school mobile
phone ban only days after it was introduced.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It comes after a series of videos emerged showing students
vandalizing the taxpayer funded pouches used to keep the phones locked.
So Kylie, This story was on news dot com dot
Au The wild Way Australian kids are out smarting the
new school rule. So basically this year in South Australian
high schools, mobile telephones have been banned and the school
(10:28):
bought these pouches that are called yonder pouches. The idea
is that you stick the phone in there and then
it kind of it's locked. There's a special magnetic system
to unlock the phone. It just keeps phones out of kids'
hands while they're in the school yard. But according to
news dot com tell You, Australian students have found sneaky
ways to skirt around new mobile phone bands that schools
have spent thousands of dollars implementing. Basically, what the kids
(10:53):
are doing is the yonder pouches. They've found ways to
break them open and you don't need magnets. You have
to do According to the TikTok videos, where there are
dozens of videos of OSSI students teaching others how to
open the pouches. Is you get the Yonder bag and
you whack it really hard on this part just here,
That's what it says. And the TikTok just whack it
(11:14):
right here on this part. Hit it hard a couple
of times, and what do you know, Abrica dabruh, you
can get access to your phone. I mean it probably
breaks the Yonder pouch, which is worth about fifteen dollars
or thereabouts. It just says, you just want to bang
it a couple of times, really hard. This only works
with the new one, the one with the button. I
guess what this really shows is as parents, we can
come up with every possible solution to keep the kids safe,
(11:39):
to keep the kids offline, to keep the kids away
from their screens. And you know what they're going to do.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
They're going to find a way.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
They're going to say, don't care, don't care, you can't
make me. I can do what I want, and they do,
and sometimes the things that they do end up being
quite costly because they actually don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well. Story number five is the mullet.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Story number five. Do we have more stories? How many
more have we got that's it. This is the last
one okay this week compairing. This one caught my attention
because I'm just not quite sure how i'd respond. I
think I do know, but I'd love to get your
response here. Okay, so this was once again on nine Honey.
We will link to the story in the show notes.
Aunt sparks outrage aren't after taking toddler for a mullet
(12:25):
haircut without permission? Do you love it? Stay tuned to
see her reaction. Yes, I was expecting a bigger response
than that. You're just looking at me, So basically, what's
happened happened. So a woman has sparked fury online after
she took her nephew for a bold new haircut without
(12:46):
telling his mum. The aunt, who shared a video of
the process on her TikTok account, described it as a
little prank, but it seems that most people fail to
see the humor. My sister left me in charge of
her child, so I thought it would be funny to
take him to the hairdresser and paul a little prank,
she says in the clip captioned baby Mullet. Now, I've
got to tell you, this kid has got a thick
(13:07):
mop of hair. Little guy hair, lots and lots of hair.
I mean, he's actually a really spunky looking kid. And
she says, I'm not going to tell you guys what
it's going to be, but it's going to be so funny.
Then she holds him up so that you can see
this great head of hair. He sits down and next
thing you know, the hairdresser pulls out the clippers and
(13:28):
the mullet. The mullet is delivered, the sides are shaved off,
there's the ugly stuff at the back. It's really really well,
it's really bad, full stop and a story. Kylie, you've
got a kid. Your sister takes him. And this is
hard for us to imagine because we have six daughters,
but your sister takes our son to the hairdresser at
(13:52):
the age of what two or three?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So the problem is, I am not emotionally attached. And
that little baby is so adorable that regardless what haircut.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You're saying you're seeing, the mullet will still work. You
don't care. He's super super cute.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But if that was my child, yeah, I would lose it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, So I mean, you could do it with a
girl as well, though, Like, let's say your sister, one
of your sisters takes one of our kids to the
hairdresser for just a surprise, is for a haircut. She
doesn't give her a mullet, but she gives her a fringe.
Or you've been working on getting some length and she
gives her It.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Wasn't even my sister. I took the kids to the hairdresser.
I had twelve year old and the fifteen year old
in the seat, and I said to them, I will
just go and meet dad because he's got Emily. She's
going to have her haircut after you. By the time
I came back, the twelve year old had made a
decision that we hadn't talked about, and I took one
look at her and I went, what have you done?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You do take haircuts? Seriously? Do you remember the time
when I took the kids for a haircut and you
said they're only allowed to have I don't know what
was it, five centimeters taken off. We just need to
get the ends growing nicely. And I decided to get
the kids to have cut it all off. I said,
let's give them a bob instead. Let's just give them
a nice Bob, they looked gorgeous. You didn't talk to
me for a month, Oh don't. You didn't see me,
(15:03):
made me sleep with the dog.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You make me sound terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'm just saying, you take your haircuts pretty seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah. Yeah. You know what my hairdressers said to me
once when I went in for a haircut and I
was a bit unsure about it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
It'll grow on you.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Don't worry, It'll grow on you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah. We hope you've enjoyed this episode of This Week
in Parenting. Thanks so much for listening to the Happy
Families podcast. It's produced by Justin Rawlan for Bridge Media.
Craig Bruce is our executive producer. For more information about
how to make your family happier and how to make
sure that you have consent before haircuts, visit Happy families
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