It Doesn't Happen Often But We Celebrate Parenting Wins!

We heard a quote that said Parenting is the best, worst job you'll ever have and some days it's just relentless, but other days you get a small win that makes you happy. This is what this segment is all about!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So obviously today, with a lot of families around the
Gold Coast, parenting was harder than normal because people three days,
we'll do that to you after another short week the
week before. I was at Westfield Helen's well today and
I saw a lot of pain, a lot of anger,
and that was just the parents, the kids having a ball,
having a last But there was there was one lady

(00:22):
I saw and the little girl.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
She said, I'll go.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
She said, I really like a banana, and you could
just see the mama just had like enough, it was done.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It was done.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
And so the little girl ran off got a banana
and brought it back and she goes, did you go
and get that all by yourself?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
And she said, though in the shop, we're going to
pay for it.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
And she goes, yes, mummy, and she goes, that's the
first time that you've done that.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well done.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I think we get so overwhelmed with parenting and life
and everything else, we forget to celebrate the wins. Like
when I came home today to pick up the boys
to bring them here.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Both of them were fully dressed. They'd wash their own.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Clothes, I know, And I was like, that's amazing, Or
like when you say to your kids, go and find
like you go and they go and find two matching socks.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Parenting win or you that hasn't happened yet in my house?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Or if you wash the dishes and then leave them
on the sink to dry, and then you come home
and they're away.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
When someone replaces the toilet paper when the roll's empty.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh does that not happen to you? What do you do?
That's good, dad, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Those parenting celebrating the tiny joys and only parents will
understand that's what we're doing this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Keep from you. My three and a half year old
eats the first time I asked him to. Oh, that's amazing,
well done. Do actually happen, Kim? How does a couple
of times? A couple very often?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It has a couple of times?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You know what I like, Kim? When the kids have
finished their meal and they walk over to the sink
and they wash out their bowl and just leave it
on the side.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
He won't wash them up.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
He does go and put them in the sink. He
will go and collect the bowls and play aft the
That's impressive.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I just like it when they just rinse their bowl out.
I'll wash it. They just rinse it.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think when I came home at.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah three, I think when I came home at telve
o'clock today, my dishes were still.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
On the table. It's about setting an example that they're
not your Everyone has over, that's.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
What we do.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
We thought, that's just where you're collecting them.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
And then Jack's sneaks out the window and we drive
past the.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's like spaghetti.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
We didn't have to carry big for the driver.