August 7, 2023 • 5 mins
Watching Your Kids Change - An 18yr Old's Point Of View
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you've just woken up and haven't heard the news.
Matilda's had a big win last night too, nil Denmark
went through to the next round. We're playing either is
it Jamaica or Rocco Morocco. I think it is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Morocco or France France, and according to my sons, we
want Morocco.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes. Yeah, I saw that they're like sixteen to one
or something, so they're not looking great, so that'd be
good for us, okay, and it would be great for us.
It was an awesome game, but it did finish late
for a lot of people, but for you, Robin, not
so bad because you're over in London at the moment
and you were able to watch like daytime football.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know it was an eleven o'clock and we were
all having a beer. I mean, you know what's not
to love about day drinks supporting.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Australia if you're trying to do a breakfast radio show
that night. Okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now ten thirty pm. You know, to be fair, But
you know, if you guys have been listening for a while,
you'll know that it's been quite the journey for me
because my three sons decided to do this massive trip,
and it was culminating. They've been gone for nine weeks
and it was culminating in a wedding in Scotland where
I saw them for the very first time, and that
(01:08):
happened last week and I noticed them coming back with
all of us coming back together, just how much they've changed,
particularly the youngest one. You know, he's eighteen and he
finished school last year. And there was a defining moment,
like within the first day where he sort of said
to me that he didn't want me to speak to him,
you know, the way that I had been, which was
(01:29):
probably the mother child thing, like I was still treating
him like a young fella, and he was absolutely saying
to me, you know, I want to be treated like
an adult like you treat the other two. So that's
caused me a lot of, you know, angst, and we
talked about that last week, but I wanted to get
his take on how he thinks he's changed. So in
(01:50):
a quiet moment, you know, literally when he couldn't, I
think we were walking down the street, actually we were
going to meet up with his brothers in a pub.
I got out my phone and I asked that question.
And this is his interesting response, I was just saying
to not stress because I just figured itself out eventually.
Is that what's happened since you've been traveling? Yeah, just
(02:12):
overcoming stuffs, not that deep, because I've just been super
stressed today about dressing you guys in kilts for the
wedding which is tomorrow. You're freaking out about taxis and
every thing you could freak out about, and we're just like,
we'll figure it out, And damn it, we did figured
it out every time, no matter what what would have happened, though,
if we couldn't have got killed, then we would have
(02:33):
got suits where from we would have found that out.
We didn't need to find it out, but we would
have found it out. Is that truly what you've learned
from this? Like I'm when I was in Sicily, my
phone was dead in the place where they didn't speak
any English. Outside the front of airbnb at one am,
they weren't letting me in. She got to figure it out,
(02:54):
don't you? Were you stressing out? Though?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I was had my big backpack on which screamed to
rob me on the two was standing in the middle
of the street at one am at a place I
don't know and you just figure it out. I yes, okay,
I didn't die. He didn't die. You know what I
think has changed is that I think you want me
to treat you more like an adult. Now. Do you
think that's what's changed? Probably?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How about acting like an adult? So they treated like
an adult?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Is that what happened when you got angry at me? Yeah? Exactly.
Okay that's kind of exciting and heartbreaking all at once.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And you've moved on interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So you know, we're having this full on conversation and
then we walk into the puppy seas his brothers and
it was gone, you know. So his take on all
of this is that he now just doesn't stress about
stuff and I should stop stressing too, And that was
a bit of a like back off, mum, you know,
just let things unfold the way they should.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So how much of that? It's an interesting thing his
age and personality, like you know what I mean? I think,
because it just like the yeah, don't stress about it's
going to work out. Was he always that personality or
is that just come with age?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I think he's And how do I say this really carefully?
Because his brothers I think would agree I think he's
been very eighteen, which is stepping out into the world,
So I think it is a bit of his personality.
But I also think that this is the kind of
right of passage that happens, and it certainly happened with
my other two. I just wasn't anticipating it, and I'm
not sure why. Maybe with the other two it was
(04:31):
a gradual thing. But because I've been away and then
I've come back and it's like really kind of slapped
me in the face. And you know, all three of
them have been really thingy with me about stressing about stuff.
And I actually said to them today because obviously that
conversation was across the weekend, actually said to them today,
you have to be kind to your mum because for
(04:51):
the first time in twenty five years, I actually am
now having to relearn how to deal with all three
of you, and nat is going to take me some time.
And they were kind of like, oh, well, can you
hurry up?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Could you do it by the time we get this
next round a chance you do that, like like, we're
all good, can you just get on board catch up
mum and stop stressing. I love the idea of you
not stressing. That's like telling it a future of the swim,
just exciting you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
On
If you've just woken up and haven't heard the news.
Matilda's had a big win last night too, nil Denmark
went through to the next round. We're playing either is
it Jamaica or Rocco Morocco. I think it is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Morocco or France France, and according to my sons, we
want Morocco.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes. Yeah, I saw that they're like sixteen to one
or something, so they're not looking great, so that'd be
good for us, okay, and it would be great for us.
It was an awesome game, but it did finish late
for a lot of people, but for you, Robin, not
so bad because you're over in London at the moment
and you were able to watch like daytime football.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I know it was an eleven o'clock and we were
all having a beer. I mean, you know what's not
to love about day drinks supporting.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Australia if you're trying to do a breakfast radio show
that night. Okay, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now ten thirty pm. You know, to be fair, But
you know, if you guys have been listening for a while,
you'll know that it's been quite the journey for me
because my three sons decided to do this massive trip,
and it was culminating. They've been gone for nine weeks
and it was culminating in a wedding in Scotland where
I saw them for the very first time, and that
(01:08):
happened last week and I noticed them coming back with
all of us coming back together, just how much they've changed,
particularly the youngest one. You know, he's eighteen and he
finished school last year. And there was a defining moment,
like within the first day where he sort of said
to me that he didn't want me to speak to him,
you know, the way that I had been, which was
(01:29):
probably the mother child thing, like I was still treating
him like a young fella, and he was absolutely saying
to me, you know, I want to be treated like
an adult like you treat the other two. So that's
caused me a lot of, you know, angst, and we
talked about that last week, but I wanted to get
his take on how he thinks he's changed. So in
(01:50):
a quiet moment, you know, literally when he couldn't, I
think we were walking down the street, actually we were
going to meet up with his brothers in a pub.
I got out my phone and I asked that question.
And this is his interesting response, I was just saying
to not stress because I just figured itself out eventually.
Is that what's happened since you've been traveling? Yeah, just
(02:12):
overcoming stuffs, not that deep, because I've just been super
stressed today about dressing you guys in kilts for the
wedding which is tomorrow. You're freaking out about taxis and
every thing you could freak out about, and we're just like,
we'll figure it out, And damn it, we did figured
it out every time, no matter what what would have happened, though,
if we couldn't have got killed, then we would have
(02:33):
got suits where from we would have found that out.
We didn't need to find it out, but we would
have found it out. Is that truly what you've learned
from this? Like I'm when I was in Sicily, my
phone was dead in the place where they didn't speak
any English. Outside the front of airbnb at one am,
they weren't letting me in. She got to figure it out,
(02:54):
don't you? Were you stressing out? Though?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I was had my big backpack on which screamed to
rob me on the two was standing in the middle
of the street at one am at a place I
don't know and you just figure it out. I yes, okay,
I didn't die. He didn't die. You know what I
think has changed is that I think you want me
to treat you more like an adult. Now. Do you
think that's what's changed? Probably?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How about acting like an adult? So they treated like
an adult?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Is that what happened when you got angry at me? Yeah? Exactly.
Okay that's kind of exciting and heartbreaking all at once.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And you've moved on interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So you know, we're having this full on conversation and
then we walk into the puppy seas his brothers and
it was gone, you know. So his take on all
of this is that he now just doesn't stress about
stuff and I should stop stressing too, And that was
a bit of a like back off, mum, you know,
just let things unfold the way they should.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So how much of that? It's an interesting thing his
age and personality, like you know what I mean? I think,
because it just like the yeah, don't stress about it's
going to work out. Was he always that personality or
is that just come with age?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I think he's And how do I say this really carefully?
Because his brothers I think would agree I think he's
been very eighteen, which is stepping out into the world,
So I think it is a bit of his personality.
But I also think that this is the kind of
right of passage that happens, and it certainly happened with
my other two. I just wasn't anticipating it, and I'm
not sure why. Maybe with the other two it was
(04:31):
a gradual thing. But because I've been away and then
I've come back and it's like really kind of slapped
me in the face. And you know, all three of
them have been really thingy with me about stressing about stuff.
And I actually said to them today because obviously that
conversation was across the weekend, actually said to them today,
you have to be kind to your mum because for
(04:51):
the first time in twenty five years, I actually am
now having to relearn how to deal with all three
of you, and nat is going to take me some time.
And they were kind of like, oh, well, can you
hurry up?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Could you do it by the time we get this
next round a chance you do that, like like, we're
all good, can you just get on board catch up
mum and stop stressing. I love the idea of you
not stressing. That's like telling it a future of the swim,
just exciting you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
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