June 9, 2025 • 20 mins
Listen to the highlights where Fred tells us about his Canadian getaway over the weekend! Plus, do you know a parent who lets their kid have way too much screen time? Judge Keke weighs in on Keke's Court!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the weekend. I did share with you on Friday that
I have neighbors. They're a couple. They're a lovely couple.
They're very nice people. He's a pilot as well, and
so we're like, let's go to Toronto. We're talking about
flying up there. So we did you know me though,
(00:43):
I'm just me, It's just Josh Fred. You know, I'm
not seeing anybody and whatever. So I was the third
wheel on this trip. And you guys speculated many things. Yes,
you speculated this with some kind of a swinger thing.
You suggested that I might be some kind of observer
or maybe he wants to be or she wants to
be up to I don't know. You you guys had
(01:04):
all kinds of theories. And he told me to pack
my sexy underwear, which I did just in case. And
he told me to watch from head to tell, which
I did just in case I was wanted or you know,
called into the game, you know, just in case I
came out of off the bench, you know, from the dugous.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They were like, hey, you're up right, you got to
be ready.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I just want you to know that none of that happened.
Nothing like that happened. Everything was on the up and
up my neighbors and we're still cordial. We can still
look each other in the eye. Everything's fine. We made
it to and Fro and everything was wonderful. They're very
nice people. We had a nice time. I did send
them the clip of k of all of your speculation.
(01:42):
It was a little weird because they do listen sometimes,
and so I didn't know if they had heard this
because I didn't hear from them all Friday and we
left Saturday morning, and I was like, are they formulating
after that segment where you guys said that basically I was.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Going to be their third in a swinger dynamic.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I kind of wondered if they were like looking for
a way out or or in fairness, if they were like,
oh my god, he's on to us, he's on to us,
and they were shy about it. But no, in fact,
they didn't hear it, and of course I'm the one
who brought it up. And then they were like, oh,
we got to hear this, and so I sent it
to and they enjoyed it. But it was fine. It
(02:21):
was fine. It's so sad said that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I wasn't. No.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, I think it's better for my long term like
community relations that we didn't do something like that. I
don't know, this is not my thing. They're in your
building right, like they're new neighbors. Oh they're like I can
see their door from my door. Okay, yeah, it's just
a bad keep a casual. I think so too, h.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Meeting is gonna be real awkward.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But you guys put me in a spot on Friday
because it's like, well, do you want to And I'm like, well,
if I say no, then I'm essentially saying I don't
want to have sex with my neighbors. But if I
say yes, then I'm saying I want to have sex
with my neighbors. Now one is more complimentary than the other,
but I so I'm in the middle. I like them,
I don't want to have sex with them. How about that.
(03:03):
I think they're very attractive. I have boundaries, not many,
but some, So how about that for an answer. I
had to think about that all weekend because you put
me in because if I everybody wants to be invited
to the party, but you don't want to have to go,
Like if somebody were like, would you get with Fred?
And it's like, no, Well my feelings are hurt now
all of a sudden, even though there was no expectation
(03:26):
of that ever happening. I'd never even thought about it.
But as soon as you say no, I feel rejected.
So that's why I was worried about it. I was
worried that I had offended them or hurt their feelings. However,
I did catch them one time. We had like three
hours between whatever we were doing in dinner, and I
was like, you guys can go to dinner without me.
It's like it's fine. I go to dinner somewhere. It's
all good. I'll go to Tim Horton's or something. Get
(03:47):
you get a donut. Okay, if you've been to torn so
I'll go to Earls. I'll go to Earls and get
me an Earl's a girl. It'll be fine. Don't you
worry about it. I've been there twice in the last month.
I'm basically Canadian now. So but then they were like, yeah, yeah, well, yeah,
that's great. We're gonna take a nap. We'll meet you
at dinner. And I'm like, and I told them, I said,
I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna go out for a walk.
And that's what I did. I went out for a walk. Now,
(04:07):
about half an hour later, I walked back. They're coming
out of the elevator for their walk. But they told
me they were napping, so I and they looked at
me like they looked scared when they saw me, Like
I like, I think they wanted to hang out without me,
and that's totally fine, or maybe they changed their mind.
But as soon as I saw them, I'm like, uh,
huh on that, huh, yeah, I see how it is.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You wanted to ditch me. It's fun. And then I
felt rejected.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh oh, see this is why three people can never
travel together.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I did this company. I didn't really, No, that was good.
That's all good.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Do you know there's a bar there called Friend's Not Here.
I have a picture of it, and I really wish
I would have I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't think I did know that because I probably
would have gone to that bar.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm sorry, hand me that is your bar.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But anyway, just for those of you who were wondering,
I did not there no shenan against none whatsoever, damn
and I did. I was like on the dating apps,
I'm like, what if what? I just let me just
match with some random person and bring him to dinner.
But then I was like, that's awkward for them. You know,
that's awkward for everybody. So I didn't do anything. I
just was the third wheel and it was fine. I
think it was fine. I mean they were they were
(05:17):
talking about future endeavors. So I feel like that means
that they.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You invited back, right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I guess I think I passed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I also was the one who flew them there, so
they had if they wanted to return to their country,
then they had to be nice to meet.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
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Speaker 1 (05:36):
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Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh it's courting, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right, it's the honorable Kiki is here eight Kik Yeah,
take it away, please.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. It says Kiki,
am I wrong for telling the other mom at my kids'
school that she is raising a screen zombie. I have
a ten year old daughter. Her name is Lily. She's active,
artistic and very social. She used to be friends with
another girl in her grade named Mia. Now MIA's mom, Jessica,
and I were casual friends because our daughters, you know,
(06:35):
hung out together.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But lately it's been very tense. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Every time, Lily would go over to MIA's house, all
Mia wanted to do was sit on her iPad for hours.
No conversation, no playing, no creativity, just roadblocks and TikTok.
Lily would come home bored and frustrate it. I talked
to Jessica about it once, casually, and she brushed it off,
saying that this is just what kids do now. So
(06:59):
Lily stopped one to hang out with Mia. I didn't
make it a big deal, you know, kids grow apart,
but Jessica approached me at the school pickup last week
and asked why was Lily ghosting Mia. I tried to
be polite and say that their interests have changed, but
she pushed, so I finally said, look, girl, your daughter
is always on screens. Lily wants to actually do things
(07:20):
when she hangs out. She's not into just sitting around
being a screen zombie. I even brought up how she's
allowing Miss Rachel to raise her youngest child. My kids
are limited to thirty minutes of screen time a day,
so that is what Lily is used to.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Miss Jessica freaked out on me and said I was
insulting her parenting. She said, I was shaming her and
her daughter and creating drama. She told a few other
moms that I'm judgmental and toxic, and they've since removed
me from the mom group chat. But I just feel
like parents need to stop using screens as a babysitter
and be a real parent.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If you can't leave.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Your house without your child's iPad, then you are the problem.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Am I wrong? Do I need to apologize?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Judge Kiki girl?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I mean yeah, I think you do need to apologize,
Like you don't know what her mom is going through,
and you know, I know your daughter is saying she
goes over there and they're just watching screens all day,
but like thirty minutes only a day. I can't even
get through my other Like I can't get through my
emails in thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, what's the point of even hanging out if you're
just gonna stare at screens?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I understand the same room, Like what's the pot.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You don't have to call the lady her kid a
scream zombie and say she's a bad mom because she's
watching letting the kids watch Miss Rachel Like, come on, lady.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I mean she asked, you know you better have
to close on a bad mom. But she asks, why
is your daughter not wanting to come over anymore? And
she answered the question honestly because there's no there's no
there's nothing happening. There's no conversation, there's no you know, bonding,
there's no camaraderie. You go over watch TV like I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't need to that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
You don't think it's a little judge when she says
you're not a real parent if you're letting screens be
your babysitter and if we leave home without the iPad
and you're the problem, like, ma'am out my barney back
in the day that I mean, my mom was a
bad mom.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Let me ask you a question, Giggy, if you an
eight five five three five to get a call, because
you guys are the jury. If you had a kid,
would you want your kid spending as much time on
social media as you do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Please?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Oh no, but but yes, because what am I going
to do entertain the kid all day?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Absolutely not exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So you agree, you agree that that's too much.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think that there should be a limit.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I don't, I don't know, I don't think just because
you decide that thirty minutes is the limit that should
be the standard for all parents, and if they don't
follow that, then they're a bad parent.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't think that, you know, m.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Yeah, as a parent, I think one of my biggest
fears is a couple when a I'm supparenting our screens.
I know one day my daughter is going to pick
up she's one, she's gonna pick up an iPad and
she already knows how to pick up my phone and
look at herself and start to scroll. And that does
scare me because I don't want my daughter to be
I'm going to call it an addiction because like I,
(10:16):
as an adult, feel like I am addicted to screens
like my phone and everything, and if I don't have it,
I constantly like I feel like I'm missing something and
I don't want my daughter to have that.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Is that unrealistic?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yes, because she's going to be born and raised in
this era right of the technology.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's just the truth.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But I do believe in limiting screen time and access
to what they're seeing and have access to you on
the screens because I don't think I'm no doctor anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was once and not anymore.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
But I from my understanding, it's not that beneficial for
your kids to be on screens all day, every day.
Right Again, I'm no doctor, I'm no expert, but it
can't be good. So that's why I feel like she's
not wrong for what she said, but the delivery was
completely wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You don't call another mom a bad mom. You don't
judge them.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
If you said they could be going through something you
don't know, if it's like a one pair household. And
there's no Miss Rachel slander on this show. Because I
love Miss Rachel, that is my co parent. But however,
I do I do limit the screen time with Miss Rachel.
So even though she's taught my daughter sign language and
other things, you know, it's hard.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's it's really hard, I think with the screens.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, I mean, you know, why parent when you've got YouTube?
I mean just an endless possibility. I mean, seriously, why
pay for a babysitter? Hey, hey, Kim, how you doing, Kim?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Kim? I'm doing great? Thanks for Colin? What do you
think you hear this story? What's your take?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
My cake is there's a way to say things and
the delivery was really bad. The way she said it,
she could have said it in a more polite way.
She could have handled it, maybe not calling her saying
she's the type of mom she is.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Just maybe like my my.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Child doesn't like to be on on her you know,
her computer, her tablet, whatever may be the case, as
much as as that, and I think she should apologize,
maybe tell her that my delivery could have been better,
and I apologize for how I came across.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yes, she didn't have to call her a bad mom,
but the woman asked the question. She answered the question honestly.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I mean, she gave it to her straight but it's like, oh,
it just sounded so mental.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Here, nobody likes the judger. You shouldn't judge and straight forward.
Sometimes people can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You have to be Yeah, yeah, Kim, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Have a great day. You too, have a great day,
as you called. I love you too. Yeah, Hi, Mike,
how you doing.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
I'll go a good so, Mike, I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Doing all right. Man.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So this woman, you know, if you just are just
tuning in, it's two moms interacting with each other and
they both have kids and and one mom used to
send her kid over to the other mom's house, but
all they would do is watch TV basically, or screens
or you know, iPads or phones or whatever. And so
the kid didn't want to go over there anymore, and
so did the mom. Asked the other mom more, well,
(12:59):
how come the kids that coming over? And then she said, well,
because you're a bad mom because all you do is
let the kids watch TV. Now, I don't think you
had to say that, but I think you could say, hey,
my daughter was you know, she likes to be a
little more active than that, and she don't want to
sit there and watch TV. She wants to go do
stuff and your daughter doesn't. So that's the answer, right, right,
I'd have.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
To agree with you.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
My daughter is the same way. She loves being outside
doing things, drawing.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Building, whatever it is.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
But if I'm just going to send her over there
to watch some TV, she can do that at home.
That to me, that that's you know, what's the point
of being the kid when you're just watching the screen.
So yeah, I definitely have to agree. My daughter is
very active and she could have been more tactful with
(13:46):
it that that could have been. But you know, the
lady did push her to keep asking, you know, what's
the issue, so she did. Yeah, she gave her the response,
and then she didn't like the response, so she tried
to make her out to be the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, yeah, Mike, good points. Thank you, have a good days.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Maybe what this mom could have done was invite her,
the kid the screen zombie over to.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Her house so she could see a tree.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, you know some activity.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This is place called a park. It's free and they
have stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You can YouTube.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah, let me show you a slide, you know, a
monkey bar or something.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And I get to a certain extent, this is generational,
Like I know that there are a lot of kids
who interact.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We talked about this all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
They interact primarily through technology and not face to face.
That's kind of what it's causing problems. It is. And
I have a buddy whose daughter just graduated in high school,
and she's a wonderful girl and they're a wonderful family.
But her interests are primarily, from what I understand, playing
video games on the computer. And she'll lock herself in
the room for hours and hours and hours, and that's
(14:52):
how she interacts with her friends, real life people but
his thing was, Hey, that's cool, but why am I
paying to send my kids away for college when more
than likely, for the time being, she's gonna sit in
her dorm room, and you know, she's gonna go to
class and do her homework and then she's gonna sit
in her dorm room and play video games with her
friends on the thing.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We can do that from home. Yeah, I don't have
to pay for a dorm for that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
True.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Now, I mean you could argue, well, you got to say,
you know, if you have the opportunity to send your
kid away, then you know there's some growth and all
this stuff. She'll have to fend for herself in some ways.
But you know, if she's gonna sit in the room,
I kind of see his point. It's like, maybe she
goes to community college and stays here until she grows
out of this thing, and maybe when she has an
interest in like sort of expanding her horizons, then maybe
that's when we send her away, right because you know,
(15:37):
does does the venue matter if you're not going to
leave the room, you know what I mean. I see
his point. I see I see his wife's point too,
which is, well, we need to push her out and
maybe she'll, you know, have to figure this out when
when we're not here to pull her away.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know, Lowland, Hi, Lolan, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
It?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Like Ronald? As it is?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's what it says. And I'm dumb, but it looks
like Lowland and Donald lolland it like Ronald. I've see
that name Donald Donald. But the way that she spelled it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Was l O l A n D. Is that how
you spell your name?
Speaker 8 (16:21):
L O n A l D.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That would have helped anyway, So go right ahead. I'm
a dumbie, but the spelling would help. What do you
think Kicky scored?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
So I'm pairing a two three and an almost seven
year old. We limit them to so little screen time.
They get about twenty minutes during the week when we
do their hair, and on the weekend they get an
hour maybe two tops with me and my wife are
feeling lazy that day. And I am not a fan
(16:51):
of carrying a screen out anywhere, like we out, they
don't get our phone. You need to learn to be bored,
to learn how to entertain yourself. We'll pack some crowns
or a coloring book like read them in you I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Read read them for you like that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I would think as a parent, it would be very easy,
Paulina to just hand your kid the iPad to turn
the TV on. And I think at times it's probably
a tool, right guys like you, uh, you know, when
you absolutely have to get something done or cook dinner
or something, it's like here, okay now. But like if
you just don't feel like it, the whole parenting thing,
(17:34):
I think that could become a crutch.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That would be me.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Well, yeah, if you yeah, you shouldn't have kids in
my opinion, if you can't parent, that's number one. But
number two, yeah, you're absolutely right cooking dinner, getting laundry,
doing something I need to, you know, have her in
this one spot.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
We'll put the TV on. Okay, I'll give her that.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
But like the screen and everything with the with the
iPads and the phones like that to me is just
so much trickier too, because I think from my understanding,
TV and iPads are actually different, like as far as
their engagement and like their focus because it's the access
to scrolling. I mean, like I'm not saying it's worse,
but it's not great either for a child to be
scrolling all day.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We'll give you g off a TikTok man. I mean,
come on, young.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Blowing up right now on TikTok. I can't get her
off anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Don't tell her she's gonna want money for creater fund. Okay, Hey,
thanks for calling. I have a great day. I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
All right, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Donald not spelled Lowland kids need to learn to be bored.
That's real. Oh, that is so real. It is real.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think that is actually excellent advice. Yes, I do, yes,
Like what's it like to just sit for a second
with no stimulation, just just for one minute, like just
let your brain, you know, breathe.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
For a second. Oh God, is it me?
Speaker 9 (18:44):
She?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh, I said it right? Thank god. Hi, Good morning
Kiki's Court. What do you think?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Well, personally, I think that the other mom was wrong
for having the one mom lead it off the mom
group chat. Yeah, and I didn't hear in the story
that the original mom said that the other mom was
a bad mom, Like, did she tell her to her
face she thought she was a bad mom or that
(19:14):
different philosophy?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
That was her going off at the end, she said,
if you can't leave your home without your child's iPad.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You are the problem.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
So I don't necessarily think that the first mom is
wrong because she has her way of raising her kids
like we all do. And then the kid is just
not happy going over there. So the woman kept pushing
and asking what was it? What was it?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (19:39):
And the mom said, look, your daughter's on the iPad
all the time during the visit, so what's the point.
And I think that the other lady's projecting. She decided that, oh,
I must be a bad mom. You know, she's calling
me this, she's calling me that. And I think that's
how it all blew up, because the other lady knows
deep inside that made the first mom is onto something.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
She asked and she got an answer and she didn't
like the answer. So yeah, it's true. Thank you so much,
have a good day.
We have your chance to win a trip for two
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(00:22):
and round trip bearfare. A confirmation text that we sent.
Standard message and data rates apply. All thanks to the
Live Nation jib Blong. I did go to Toronto over
the weekend. I did share with you on Friday that
I have neighbors. They're a couple. They're a lovely couple.
They're very nice people. He's a pilot as well, and
so we're like, let's go to Toronto. We're talking about
flying up there. So we did you know me though,
(00:43):
I'm just me, It's just Josh Fred. You know, I'm
not seeing anybody and whatever. So I was the third
wheel on this trip. And you guys speculated many things. Yes,
you speculated this with some kind of a swinger thing.
You suggested that I might be some kind of observer
or maybe he wants to be or she wants to
be up to I don't know. You you guys had
(01:04):
all kinds of theories. And he told me to pack
my sexy underwear, which I did just in case. And
he told me to watch from head to tell, which
I did just in case I was wanted or you know,
called into the game, you know, just in case I
came out of off the bench, you know, from the dugous.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They were like, hey, you're up right, you got to
be ready.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I just want you to know that none of that happened.
Nothing like that happened. Everything was on the up and
up my neighbors and we're still cordial. We can still
look each other in the eye. Everything's fine. We made
it to and Fro and everything was wonderful. They're very
nice people. We had a nice time. I did send
them the clip of k of all of your speculation.
(01:42):
It was a little weird because they do listen sometimes,
and so I didn't know if they had heard this
because I didn't hear from them all Friday and we
left Saturday morning, and I was like, are they formulating
after that segment where you guys said that basically I was.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Going to be their third in a swinger dynamic.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I kind of wondered if they were like looking for
a way out or or in fairness, if they were like,
oh my god, he's on to us, he's on to us,
and they were shy about it. But no, in fact,
they didn't hear it, and of course I'm the one
who brought it up. And then they were like, oh,
we got to hear this, and so I sent it
to and they enjoyed it. But it was fine. It
(02:21):
was fine. It's so sad said that.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I wasn't. No.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, I think it's better for my long term like
community relations that we didn't do something like that. I
don't know, this is not my thing. They're in your
building right, like they're new neighbors. Oh they're like I can
see their door from my door. Okay, yeah, it's just
a bad keep a casual. I think so too, h.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Meeting is gonna be real awkward.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But you guys put me in a spot on Friday
because it's like, well, do you want to And I'm like, well,
if I say no, then I'm essentially saying I don't
want to have sex with my neighbors. But if I
say yes, then I'm saying I want to have sex
with my neighbors. Now one is more complimentary than the other,
but I so I'm in the middle. I like them,
I don't want to have sex with them. How about that.
(03:03):
I think they're very attractive. I have boundaries, not many,
but some, So how about that for an answer. I
had to think about that all weekend because you put
me in because if I everybody wants to be invited
to the party, but you don't want to have to go,
Like if somebody were like, would you get with Fred?
And it's like, no, Well my feelings are hurt now
all of a sudden, even though there was no expectation
(03:26):
of that ever happening. I'd never even thought about it.
But as soon as you say no, I feel rejected.
So that's why I was worried about it. I was
worried that I had offended them or hurt their feelings. However,
I did catch them one time. We had like three
hours between whatever we were doing in dinner, and I
was like, you guys can go to dinner without me.
It's like it's fine. I go to dinner somewhere. It's
all good. I'll go to Tim Horton's or something. Get
(03:47):
you get a donut. Okay, if you've been to torn so
I'll go to Earls. I'll go to Earls and get
me an Earl's a girl. It'll be fine. Don't you
worry about it. I've been there twice in the last month.
I'm basically Canadian now. So but then they were like, yeah, yeah, well, yeah,
that's great. We're gonna take a nap. We'll meet you
at dinner. And I'm like, and I told them, I said,
I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna go out for a walk.
And that's what I did. I went out for a walk. Now,
(04:07):
about half an hour later, I walked back. They're coming
out of the elevator for their walk. But they told
me they were napping, so I and they looked at
me like they looked scared when they saw me, Like
I like, I think they wanted to hang out without me,
and that's totally fine, or maybe they changed their mind.
But as soon as I saw them, I'm like, uh,
huh on that, huh, yeah, I see how it is.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You wanted to ditch me. It's fun. And then I
felt rejected.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh oh, see this is why three people can never
travel together.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I did this company. I didn't really, No, that was good.
That's all good.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Do you know there's a bar there called Friend's Not Here.
I have a picture of it, and I really wish
I would have I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't think I did know that because I probably
would have gone to that bar.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm sorry, hand me that is your bar.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But anyway, just for those of you who were wondering,
I did not there no shenan against none whatsoever, damn
and I did. I was like on the dating apps,
I'm like, what if what? I just let me just
match with some random person and bring him to dinner.
But then I was like, that's awkward for them. You know,
that's awkward for everybody. So I didn't do anything. I
just was the third wheel and it was fine. I
think it was fine. I mean they were they were
(05:17):
talking about future endeavors. So I feel like that means
that they.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You invited back, right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I guess I think I passed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I also was the one who flew them there, so
they had if they wanted to return to their country,
then they had to be nice to meet.
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Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh it's courting, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right, it's the honorable Kiki is here eight Kik Yeah,
take it away, please.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. It says Kiki,
am I wrong for telling the other mom at my kids'
school that she is raising a screen zombie. I have
a ten year old daughter. Her name is Lily. She's active,
artistic and very social. She used to be friends with
another girl in her grade named Mia. Now MIA's mom, Jessica,
and I were casual friends because our daughters, you know,
(06:35):
hung out together.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But lately it's been very tense. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Every time, Lily would go over to MIA's house, all
Mia wanted to do was sit on her iPad for hours.
No conversation, no playing, no creativity, just roadblocks and TikTok.
Lily would come home bored and frustrate it. I talked
to Jessica about it once, casually, and she brushed it off,
saying that this is just what kids do now. So
(06:59):
Lily stopped one to hang out with Mia. I didn't
make it a big deal, you know, kids grow apart,
but Jessica approached me at the school pickup last week
and asked why was Lily ghosting Mia. I tried to
be polite and say that their interests have changed, but
she pushed, so I finally said, look, girl, your daughter
is always on screens. Lily wants to actually do things
(07:20):
when she hangs out. She's not into just sitting around
being a screen zombie. I even brought up how she's
allowing Miss Rachel to raise her youngest child. My kids
are limited to thirty minutes of screen time a day,
so that is what Lily is used to.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Miss Jessica freaked out on me and said I was
insulting her parenting. She said, I was shaming her and
her daughter and creating drama. She told a few other
moms that I'm judgmental and toxic, and they've since removed
me from the mom group chat. But I just feel
like parents need to stop using screens as a babysitter
and be a real parent.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
If you can't leave.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Your house without your child's iPad, then you are the problem.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Am I wrong? Do I need to apologize?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Judge Kiki girl?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I mean yeah, I think you do need to apologize,
Like you don't know what her mom is going through,
and you know, I know your daughter is saying she
goes over there and they're just watching screens all day,
but like thirty minutes only a day. I can't even
get through my other Like I can't get through my
emails in thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, what's the point of even hanging out if you're
just gonna stare at screens?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I understand the same room, Like what's the pot.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You don't have to call the lady her kid a
scream zombie and say she's a bad mom because she's
watching letting the kids watch Miss Rachel Like, come on, lady.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I mean she asked, you know you better have
to close on a bad mom. But she asks, why
is your daughter not wanting to come over anymore? And
she answered the question honestly because there's no there's no
there's nothing happening. There's no conversation, there's no you know, bonding,
there's no camaraderie. You go over watch TV like I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't need to that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
You don't think it's a little judge when she says
you're not a real parent if you're letting screens be
your babysitter and if we leave home without the iPad
and you're the problem, like, ma'am out my barney back
in the day that I mean, my mom was a
bad mom.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Let me ask you a question, Giggy, if you an
eight five five three five to get a call, because
you guys are the jury. If you had a kid,
would you want your kid spending as much time on
social media as you do? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Please?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Oh no, but but yes, because what am I going
to do entertain the kid all day?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Absolutely not exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So you agree, you agree that that's too much.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think that there should be a limit.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I don't, I don't know, I don't think just because
you decide that thirty minutes is the limit that should
be the standard for all parents, and if they don't
follow that, then they're a bad parent.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't think that, you know, m.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Yeah, as a parent, I think one of my biggest
fears is a couple when a I'm supparenting our screens.
I know one day my daughter is going to pick
up she's one, she's gonna pick up an iPad and
she already knows how to pick up my phone and
look at herself and start to scroll. And that does
scare me because I don't want my daughter to be
I'm going to call it an addiction because like I,
(10:16):
as an adult, feel like I am addicted to screens
like my phone and everything, and if I don't have it,
I constantly like I feel like I'm missing something and
I don't want my daughter to have that.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Is that unrealistic?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yes, because she's going to be born and raised in
this era right of the technology.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's just the truth.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But I do believe in limiting screen time and access
to what they're seeing and have access to you on
the screens because I don't think I'm no doctor anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was once and not anymore.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
But I from my understanding, it's not that beneficial for
your kids to be on screens all day, every day.
Right Again, I'm no doctor, I'm no expert, but it
can't be good. So that's why I feel like she's
not wrong for what she said, but the delivery was
completely wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You don't call another mom a bad mom. You don't
judge them.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
If you said they could be going through something you
don't know, if it's like a one pair household. And
there's no Miss Rachel slander on this show. Because I
love Miss Rachel, that is my co parent. But however,
I do I do limit the screen time with Miss Rachel.
So even though she's taught my daughter sign language and
other things, you know, it's hard.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's it's really hard, I think with the screens.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, I mean, you know, why parent when you've got YouTube?
I mean just an endless possibility. I mean, seriously, why
pay for a babysitter? Hey, hey, Kim, how you doing, Kim?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Kim? I'm doing great? Thanks for Colin? What do you
think you hear this story? What's your take?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
My cake is there's a way to say things and
the delivery was really bad. The way she said it,
she could have said it in a more polite way.
She could have handled it, maybe not calling her saying
she's the type of mom she is.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Just maybe like my my.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Child doesn't like to be on on her you know,
her computer, her tablet, whatever may be the case, as
much as as that, and I think she should apologize,
maybe tell her that my delivery could have been better,
and I apologize for how I came across.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yes, she didn't have to call her a bad mom,
but the woman asked the question. She answered the question honestly.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I mean, she gave it to her straight but it's like, oh,
it just sounded so mental.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Here, nobody likes the judger. You shouldn't judge and straight forward.
Sometimes people can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You have to be Yeah, yeah, Kim, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Have a great day. You too, have a great day,
as you called. I love you too. Yeah, Hi, Mike,
how you doing.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
I'll go a good so, Mike, I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Doing all right. Man.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So this woman, you know, if you just are just
tuning in, it's two moms interacting with each other and
they both have kids and and one mom used to
send her kid over to the other mom's house, but
all they would do is watch TV basically, or screens
or you know, iPads or phones or whatever. And so
the kid didn't want to go over there anymore, and
so did the mom. Asked the other mom more, well,
(12:59):
how come the kids that coming over? And then she said, well,
because you're a bad mom because all you do is
let the kids watch TV. Now, I don't think you
had to say that, but I think you could say, hey,
my daughter was you know, she likes to be a
little more active than that, and she don't want to
sit there and watch TV. She wants to go do
stuff and your daughter doesn't. So that's the answer, right, right,
I'd have.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
To agree with you.
Speaker 9 (13:19):
My daughter is the same way. She loves being outside
doing things, drawing.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Building, whatever it is.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
But if I'm just going to send her over there
to watch some TV, she can do that at home.
That to me, that that's you know, what's the point
of being the kid when you're just watching the screen.
So yeah, I definitely have to agree. My daughter is
very active and she could have been more tactful with
(13:46):
it that that could have been. But you know, the
lady did push her to keep asking, you know, what's
the issue, so she did. Yeah, she gave her the response,
and then she didn't like the response, so she tried
to make her out to be the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, yeah, Mike, good points. Thank you, have a good days.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Maybe what this mom could have done was invite her,
the kid the screen zombie over to.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Her house so she could see a tree.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, you know some activity.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This is place called a park. It's free and they
have stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You can YouTube.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Yeah, let me show you a slide, you know, a
monkey bar or something.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And I get to a certain extent, this is generational,
Like I know that there are a lot of kids
who interact.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We talked about this all the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
They interact primarily through technology and not face to face.
That's kind of what it's causing problems. It is. And
I have a buddy whose daughter just graduated in high school,
and she's a wonderful girl and they're a wonderful family.
But her interests are primarily, from what I understand, playing
video games on the computer. And she'll lock herself in
the room for hours and hours and hours, and that's
(14:52):
how she interacts with her friends, real life people but
his thing was, Hey, that's cool, but why am I
paying to send my kids away for college when more
than likely, for the time being, she's gonna sit in
her dorm room, and you know, she's gonna go to
class and do her homework and then she's gonna sit
in her dorm room and play video games with her
friends on the thing.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
We can do that from home. Yeah, I don't have
to pay for a dorm for that.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
True.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Now, I mean you could argue, well, you got to say,
you know, if you have the opportunity to send your
kid away, then you know there's some growth and all
this stuff. She'll have to fend for herself in some ways.
But you know, if she's gonna sit in the room,
I kind of see his point. It's like, maybe she
goes to community college and stays here until she grows
out of this thing, and maybe when she has an
interest in like sort of expanding her horizons, then maybe
that's when we send her away, right because you know,
(15:37):
does does the venue matter if you're not going to
leave the room, you know what I mean. I see
his point. I see I see his wife's point too,
which is, well, we need to push her out and
maybe she'll, you know, have to figure this out when
when we're not here to pull her away.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know, Lowland, Hi, Lolan, how you doing.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
It?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Like Ronald? As it is?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's what it says. And I'm dumb, but it looks
like Lowland and Donald lolland it like Ronald. I've see
that name Donald Donald. But the way that she spelled it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Was l O l A n D. Is that how
you spell your name?
Speaker 8 (16:21):
L O n A l D.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That would have helped anyway, So go right ahead. I'm
a dumbie, but the spelling would help. What do you
think Kicky scored?
Speaker 8 (16:30):
So I'm pairing a two three and an almost seven
year old. We limit them to so little screen time.
They get about twenty minutes during the week when we
do their hair, and on the weekend they get an
hour maybe two tops with me and my wife are
feeling lazy that day. And I am not a fan
(16:51):
of carrying a screen out anywhere, like we out, they
don't get our phone. You need to learn to be bored,
to learn how to entertain yourself. We'll pack some crowns
or a coloring book like read them in you I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Read read them for you like that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I would think as a parent, it would be very easy,
Paulina to just hand your kid the iPad to turn
the TV on. And I think at times it's probably
a tool, right guys like you, uh, you know, when
you absolutely have to get something done or cook dinner
or something, it's like here, okay now. But like if
you just don't feel like it, the whole parenting thing,
(17:34):
I think that could become a crutch.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That would be me.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Well, yeah, if you yeah, you shouldn't have kids in
my opinion, if you can't parent, that's number one. But
number two, yeah, you're absolutely right cooking dinner, getting laundry,
doing something I need to, you know, have her in
this one spot.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
We'll put the TV on. Okay, I'll give her that.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
But like the screen and everything with the with the
iPads and the phones like that to me is just
so much trickier too, because I think from my understanding,
TV and iPads are actually different, like as far as
their engagement and like their focus because it's the access
to scrolling. I mean, like I'm not saying it's worse,
but it's not great either for a child to be
scrolling all day.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We'll give you g off a TikTok man. I mean,
come on, young.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Blowing up right now on TikTok. I can't get her
off anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Don't tell her she's gonna want money for creater fund. Okay, Hey,
thanks for calling. I have a great day. I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
All right, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Donald not spelled Lowland kids need to learn to be bored.
That's real. Oh, that is so real. It is real.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think that is actually excellent advice. Yes, I do, yes,
Like what's it like to just sit for a second
with no stimulation, just just for one minute, like just
let your brain, you know, breathe.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
For a second. Oh God, is it me?
Speaker 9 (18:44):
She?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh, I said it right? Thank god. Hi, Good morning
Kiki's Court. What do you think?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Well, personally, I think that the other mom was wrong
for having the one mom lead it off the mom
group chat. Yeah, and I didn't hear in the story
that the original mom said that the other mom was
a bad mom, Like, did she tell her to her
face she thought she was a bad mom or that
(19:14):
different philosophy?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
That was her going off at the end, she said,
if you can't leave your home without your child's iPad.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You are the problem.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
So I don't necessarily think that the first mom is
wrong because she has her way of raising her kids
like we all do. And then the kid is just
not happy going over there. So the woman kept pushing
and asking what was it? What was it?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (19:39):
And the mom said, look, your daughter's on the iPad
all the time during the visit, so what's the point.
And I think that the other lady's projecting. She decided that, oh,
I must be a bad mom. You know, she's calling
me this, she's calling me that. And I think that's
how it all blew up, because the other lady knows
deep inside that made the first mom is onto something.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
She asked and she got an answer and she didn't
like the answer. So yeah, it's true. Thank you so much,
have a good day.
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