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Kicking off 2025 with a parenting bang! Sending you this while we are on holidays - so it's a short speed round from us with dad jokes and babysitting fails to keep you laughing into the new year through your parenting experience.
Starting with New Year's themed dad jokes to unhelp your goal setting this year ;)
Then we share a list of babysitter fail stories from parents online - because this is the time of year when you're getting sitters for the Christmas and New Year's parties and sometimes they get a bit in over their heads (or the kids throw them the curve balls!).
Stories include:
- mixing up juice with wine and a drunk toddler!
- a prosthetic eye falling out
- sneaky kids making contracts for later bed times
- kids repeating dad's comments ft. 'I hate this $#!@'
- a poo party (again)
- spicy enchiladas
- a disappearing (rolling) baby
- red bull and a 2 year old!
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Strap in as we go over 2024, pulling out some of our favourite parent stories, confessions, fails and funny moments. If you’re anything like us, you may have forgotten a lot of these, so welcome to the greatest hits!
Keeping it short and sweet, we’ll keep you laughing this holiday season – regardless of what parenting or child disasters you’ve faced!
First we bring back some of the Christmas stories that were shared earlier in the year that missed the December episodes – with sweet Christmas present moments turned insulting and eggnog drunk kids.
Then we chat briefly about some of the things this year has taught us (aka. We promise to never again do a poop-focused episode! And you’ll always get a Santa warning).
Then we revisit our top 3 stories.
Bec’s top 3:
- How are babies made? (from episode 1)
- Run away toddler found in handcuffs (from episode 2)
- Greeting the door knocker with a boob out (from episode 5)
Sam’s top 3:
- Wiggles turned beatles – and finding out 13 years later at a Paul McCartney concert! (from episode 8)
- 3 major disasters at once – blood, flood and poo! (from episode 3)
- Toilet training compliments to a dad from a son. (from episode 15)
Plus if you’re looking for more banger episodes, here are a few favourites:
- Episode 6 – the first from the mouth of babes episode (including ‘your next trip can be to heaven’)
- Episode 9 – the first school fails and tales episode (with 3 of our most viral parenting video clips from socials)
- Episode 12 – The great parent debate – was 90s kids shows better than todays? A great walk down memory lane for millennial parents.
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This week we are following up the Christmas fails episode with a couple more stories and then the stories you sent about your holiday and vacation travels with kids!
First we catch up with...
Bec's yay: kids being cute dressing themselves
Bec's nay: surprise haircuts
Sam's yay: cute kids again but this one wants a baby T-Rex
Sam's nay: all the 'stuff' at Christmas
Sam gives us a Christmas gift... In dad jokes he thinks are hilarious.
Bec brings back parents in the news - with fun stories we've found from around the world that us parents appreciate more than most.
We've got a personal follow-up from the killer hamster story, a toilet interruption from a tiger (but all moms can relate), a reverend ruining Christmas for a room of 10yos, and a criminal imitating Santa and trying to hide down a chimney.
Then we've got some Christmas followups from last week with a Santa biter and a kid putting Santa on a diet!
But the piece de resistance is the fail stories sent in by parents from their holiday travels.
We've got the sickness stories, the plane and airport fails, and a swimming nappy dad fail.
Make sure you comment and weigh in on whether a baby (who of course cries the whole way) in business class is a yay or a nay...
Stay tuned for some shorter episodes but we will be back over the Christmas break to keep you laughing through your parent journey.
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It's CHRISTMAS TIME! And we are getting into the season by sharing the funniest stories we got sent about Christmas from parents! Get ready to laugh through these fails and funny parent stories - cos Christmas is one of those times when even the best parenting intentions can go sideways!
We kick off the episode with some yays and nays of our week including...
Bec's yay: day time naps that were underrated pre-kids
Bec's nay: having a child that has the same stubborn streak as her
Sam's yay: all the sleep-ins he gets while travelling
Sam's nay: sitting through graduation ceremonies for every year level
Sam's Christmas dad jokes give us a little laugh before heading into the main event - the funny Christmas stories!
We asked 'what's the fails or funniest stories from Christmases past'... and these ones are some the families will never forget!
We have...
1. Rollerblading dad breaking his pelvis
2. A bad gift from a mother-in-law
3. Santa getting the credit for all the presents
4. Mom caught tipping out Santa's milk...
5. Dad dressed up as Santa mistaken for an intruder
6. Trying to make snow in North QLD
7. A terrible scavenger hunt present disaster
8. The cutest tree decoration story
9. A midnight present unwrapping
10. Presents falling apart after a little too much beer...
11. A transformers present (or part of it...)
12. Kids thinking they just saw Santa drown!
If your Christmas doesn't quite go to plan - you are in great company with these parents! We don't come with any helpful advice - but we come with parental encouragement because the chaos that sometimes gets you down happens to all of us from time to time!
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We asked: what's the funniest thing your kid has said in public - and we are still laughing at the answers! Join us this week on the best parenting podcast for making your feel better about your parent journey.
Kicking off we are talking our weekly yays or nays including...
Bec's Nay: she feels behind in Christmas shopping but has no where to hide presents from the kids!
Bec's Yay: her kids were 'best friends' (for a whole 2 minutes)
Sam's Yay: Giving the kids their 'best day ever!'
Sam's Nay: The amount of effort that goes into a best day ever
You'll then get a blind man skydiving dad joke and two funny parenting news updates! This week's headlines are:
- Dad nearly dies after being bitten by family's bet hamster, and
- 10 year old calls 911 for math homework
Then we are nonstop laughing with the funny things your kids say. From mispronounced words, mixed up words, awkward (LOUD) conversations and insults - we can't get enough. Kids say the funniest things! Kids quotes include:
'the Australian virgin'
'kick him in the guts, that'll f'n get him!'
'good dog'
'something smells like poo'
'shark got leg'
'n***er'
Love these quotes? Kids saying the darndest things is a recurring segment we do cos we get so many stories (and more have already come in since recording!).
Here are some more episodes to look up for more hilarious kid quotes...
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LINKS FOR MORE FUNNY KIDS SAYINGS:
episode 32: https://shows.acast.com/65939048e90f1d0017bd2f4b/670e51e8488fde85598a8368
episode 21: https://shows.acast.com/65939048e90f1d0017bd2f4b/669fbe4f677694c9278350d0
episode 10: https://shows.acast.com/65939048e90f1d0017bd2f4b/6630e201f1e606001383574c
episode 6: https://shows.acast.com/65939048e90f1d0017bd2f4b/660ba92ce4090900169dfd35
episode 1: https://shows.acast.com/65939048e90f1d0017bd2f4b/65dd7db2c54eb600189b86f0
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We are catching up on some hilarious confessions and funny parenting stories that were sent in this week!
First we catch up and have a quick yay vs nay of our weeks – something we are loving and not loving.
Bec’s yay: school holidays are coming (and we are still at the point where this is exciting…)
Bec’s nay: teaching a 5yo to sleep who thinks it’s too ‘boring’
Sam’s yay: we found the mystery smell in the house (we’ve mentioned in a past episode)
Sam’s nay: it was really gross and he had to clean it!
Sam’s dad joke came in threes this week and we had a good laugh. They may be bad dad jokes… but isn’t that what makes them good?
Bec shares another ‘parents in the news’ (or ‘random a*s facts by Bec’ as Sam likes to call it), where she catches us up on funny and odd news from around the world that us parents would find funny. This week we had teachers worried about a shoe stealing, foot fetish motivated thief at a Japanese kindergarten…
Then this parenting podcast gets into what we are really here for – to laugh at the funny stories that happened to real life parents in the thick of parenting.
This week the funny parents and embarrassing stories sent to the confessional include:
A toddler crying over his poop
A parent who’s attempt to explain their dog dying doesn’t go as planned
A hilarious little girl who’s bored of church
A toddler who didn’t get the memo about the pandemic!
A travelling with kids nightmare story
One of our own sneaky stories from this morning before recording!
A dad who left a kid behind
An awkward commentary at a restaurant
And a funny teacher story from a kid who obviously didn’t understand the question!
A huge thank you to the parents of these funny stories! The Unhelpful Parenting Podcast is all about making these ridiculous parenting moments something we realise we all have. It’s not just your kids who do hilarious(ly frustrating and insane) things.
Keep sending in your stories as we laugh through parenting together and check out our other episodes on this funny parenting channel!
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We asked what the funniest thing your kid has cried over and the answers did not disappoint! From not being allowed to eat from the bin to looking for booger that’s fallen out of their nose – these kids are funny and your parenting stories are hilarious.
The kids weren’t the only ones either – the pregnant mom stories and reasons you’ve cried while pregnant had us in stitches too!
But to start the episode we kick off with our weekly yays and nays.
Bec’s yay: Sam’s turned into a Christmas elf! He loves Christmas now!
Bec’s nay: She tried doing groceries with the 3 kids and has major regrets.
Sam’s yay: The kids are making him love Christmas – the magic is real!
Sam’s nay: There’s not enough room in our house for Christmas stuff now.
Sam’s dad joke is met with a few crickets but that’s what makes a good dad joke right? And just before it gets him in any trouble, we head into parents in the news – or as Sam likes to put it ‘Random ass facts with Bec’.
This week in the off beat, random news we’ve got:
A follow up from swapping babies, with another news story out of Norway where babies were swapped, and the health authorities didn’t say anything when they realised 10+years later, and left it for 60 years before the families discovered it themselves!
A kid in the UK shutting down the school because he brought in a ‘historic incendiary device’ that was a live explosive in for show and tell!
A DNA test that showed mum and dad of 3 kids were actually cousins and never knew!
Then we’ve got the answers to what your kids have cried over. There’s heaps of funny kid stories and a few funny parenting moments!
With toddler meltdowns over not being able to say goodbye before flushing the toilet, to getting a new microwave – most of these reasons for tears had us in tears too!
We finish off with the reasons pregnant moms have cried too – from how beautiful the fireworks are to making sandwiches – the hormones are rough but the stories we get for the podcast are hilarious.
Make sure you keep sending us your funny parent stories for the Christmas and Vacation editions – what’s gone horribly wrong, or hilariously funny over the holidays for you as a parent in years gone by?
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The confessional is back with 2 hilarious parent stories, plus Bec has more parent news with 2 mind-blowing stories for parents. Then we share the answers you sent to our question: what's the funniest lie your kid has tried to tell you.
To start, we catch up with our weekly yay and nays...
Bec's yay: It's Christmas time! Kids make Christmas magic!
Bec's nay: Our kids hate pizza (are they even our kids?!)
Sam's yay: Our baby is growing up (this is also his nay!)
Sam can't help squeezing in a dad joke and we shake our heads at it all the way into the confessional.
The confessional is a funny parent's dream this week! We've got two stories that are both embarrassing and hilarious!
First: a throwback to the days of Blockbuster and an awkward moment when the church pastor arrived and had an enormous miscommunication thanks to the kid. Second: an honest observation moment from a kid that felt more like an insult.
Bec then has two 'parents in the news' stories - that Sam likes to refer to as 'Bec's random ass facts'. She shares the stories from recent news on the Wicked dolls with an awkward typo on the box, and a baby swapped at birth who found out in the strangest of ways!
Then we've got all your stories in the answers to the question 'whats the funniest lie your kid has tried to tell you?' We've got:
Kids blaming inanimate objects and siblings for their behaviour, telling mum what they have definitely NOT done, uncreative teenagers, and another that didn't realise they were on a shared account.
We finish by putting the call out for the next few weeks.
What is the funniest thing someone has cried over in your house? Kid tantrums, teenage meltdowns, pregnant mom moments - we want to know why you cried!
And then in the lead-up to Christmas - start sending us your Christmas and holiday fail stories! What's your vacation horror story? What's your Christmas horror stories? Or funny moments? The ones that become legend or the little ones that you still remember.
Come back next week for more laughs and make sure you send us some love on socials!
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Welcome to the new mess-isode! This week we asked ‘what’s the worst mess your kids have made?’ and the answers were as hectic as you’d expect! Plus we’ve got a new segment and other fun and messy parent life laughs.
Here’s what’s coming…
Starting with our usual yay and nay of the week:
Bec’s nay: Doing a whole week solo while Sam was away for work (when do single parents shower?!)
Bec’s yay: the tuckshop lunch app – again! The disorganised parents lifeline!
Sam’s yay: my kids STILL love me (the card even said so)
Sam’s nay: daylight savings makes working between states a bit of a mess.
Sam slips a dad joke or three into this episode and signs himself up to dress up as batman in the office (we wish that was a joke).
Then Bec introduces a new short segment (while the confessional has a siesta) called ‘Parents in the news’. This week sharing a new Bluey story where a police strike force (called strike force bandit) recovered over 40k of the 63k Bluey ‘dollar bucks’ coins that have been released by the Royal Australian Mint. Yes, this is real. And yes, they are selling on ebay for way more than they should!
We are then sharing the mess stories! From a few unfortunate poo-paintings, to real life paint paintings, all the toys, wall drawings and food attracting ant nests – there’s a few doozies that will make you feel like you’re not the only parent who’s had a bad day (or week, or month!).
We wrap up with a ‘would you rather’ mess edition – comparing mess scenarios and which would be worse (though we think we’ll take none of the above thank you!).
We wrap up with a reminder to send us your stories, SHOW US SOME LOVE and follow us on all the social platforms you’re on.
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With laughs and gobsmacked moments, this week we are talking about some of the creepy things kids do!
To kick off this podcast for parents (and anyone who wants a laugh!) Sam and Bec say hi and catch up with their yay and nays of the week:
Bec's yay: actually getting a moment to get her eyebrows done
Bec's nay: the baby won't say her name!
Sam's yay: the baby only says 'dada'
Sam's nay: traveling for work when you have kids is hard
Then Sam shares a dad joke that unintentionally gets him signed up for a tens machine birth experience! Make sure you comment if you want to see this happen!
We move to the confessional for a good laugh at some of the things parents have had thrown at them lately including:
- sleep-deprived yelling at babies
- things you don't want to hear coming from the bathroom and
- a really intuitive question we'd have no idea how to answer
Then we are sharing all the creepy things people sent in that their kids have said and done. We are talking creepy comments, talking to things we can't see, weird night time movements and knowing things they shouldn't!
If you're not a big Halloween lover - that's okay cos we manage to laugh about a lot of these (and as Australians don't go too hard on Halloween) - but that doesn't make some of these stories any less creepy! Some of these parents must be sleeping with one eye open!!
Send us your stories, show us some love on socials and come back next week for some more laughs!
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This week we are talking white lies, some bigger than others and a few hilarious backfires and parent fails. We've also got some great confessions, and a dad joke or two thrown in!
Starting off, we catch up with our weekly yay and nay - but Sam is captain negative and accidentally planned two nays and no yays!
Bec is yaying: Facebook memories of the kids and funny moments from Sam hurting himself while she was in labour.
Bec is naying: the silly sounds and songs we make up to keep the baby awake in the car when they're trying to go to sleep minutes from home!
Sam's nay #1: waking up to a three year old wanting to play and punching him in the face.
Sam's nay #2: is the kids birthday party chaos and sensory overload!
Catch a bad dad joke or three before we head into the confessional where we have:
- kids cutting their hair
- parents hitting their kids heads putting them in the car
- sending your kids to school when school isn't on!
Then we are right into all the white lie stories that were sent in -with bonus points for the ones that backfired!
We've got the usual Santa, Toothy Fair and Easter white lies, and then 'spicy' food, reverse psychology and mummy and daddy 'wrestling', just to name a few!
Laugh with us, subscribe and share this with someone who you think would love to laugh along too!
Come back next week and send us your stories as we ask the question: what's the creepiest thing your kid has said or done?
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Strap in for some eye watering parenting confessions and the hilarious kids quotes parents sent in! #kidssaythedarndestthings
We kick of with our yays and nays, celebrating the wins and fails of our past week.
Bec’s nay: having the baby sync up with the podcast, giving us severe sleep deprivation the day of the last episode release!
Bec’s yay: the validation of watching Sam flounder to get the kids to school while she was unexpectedly out of action (he did great though!).
Sam’s nay: trying to find everything without Bec for school run (and another round of sickness!).
Sam’s yay: the birds on our family trip over the weekend. But more than that, seeing our kid’s personality come through, facing their fears to hold the birds too.
There’s no bird-themed dad jokes however, just some good old fashioned eye rolling jokes to take us into the parenting confessional.
This week the confessional is back, starting with a personal one with our daughter misunderstanding the stern warning from daddy after losing her last waterbottle, and thinking now she lost another that she wouldn’t be allowed to drink water!!
We had a single parent reach out to share their confession and co-parenting struggles, with a dad who will buy allllll the toys.
Then there’s THE biter story that will have all the dad’s eyes watering and legs crossed. We then close out the confessional with a parent rewarded with farts to the face for delaying the toilet training process.
ENTER THE FUNNY KIDS QUOTES!
From hilarious reactions to messed up words and repeating all the secrets and things you don’t want them to say, listen along to hear the funny things kids say – and send us yours for next time cos this segment is a keeper that we return to regularly!
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In this episode of the Unhelpful Parenting Podcast, we dive into the chaotic world of sleep-deprived parenting, and trust me, it’s a wild ride!
We share some hilarious stories you sent in —like that time a mum accidentally poured water into the toaster or another tried to crack eggs back into the carton. We also chat about the serious side of sleep deprivation, including dodgy driving and those emotional meltdowns that hit us out of nowhere.
With plenty of laughs and a few heartfelt moments, we want you to know you’re not alone in this chaos.
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Sam is running the show today – so look out! We are talking dad jokes, washing machines, single parent shoutouts, hilarious kid mispronunciations, ‘cool’ parent attempts, and a never have I ever parenting edition.
Kicking off with our weekly ‘yays’ and ‘nays’…
Bec’s yay: her washing machine. Other mums often ask what to buy before having kids – Bec says buy a big washing machine so all the bedding can go in at once! Her
Bec’s nay: her latest nickname from the 3yo who is learning he is a ‘big boy’ so she is a ‘big mummy’ to him.
Sam’s yay: having school back, not cos he hates the holidays but because he loves the routine.
Sam’s nay: is our latest wave of all-over-the-place weather, bringing a new wave of bugs and viruses.
We do a special shoutout to the single parents. We recognise a lot of our banter and experience is around parenting as a married couple, and wanted to take a moment to appreciate that single parents have an added complexity to an already complex part of life – so to all the single parents – we salute you!
INTO THE CONFESSIONAL! This week we have 3 stories off the back of the one we got sent last episode. From the parent poorly explaining what a stripper was, and then having his daughter tell people that’s what she wanted to be (cos who wouldn’t want to dance for money?), we have… the boy who wanted to be a hooker (cos squirrels), the boy with the hooker truck (cos that makes so much more sense than a tow truck), and the kid who thought he was dressed as a ‘child predator’ for Halloween!
Finishing off with another parent story sent in, confessing to trying to be cool and using the latest slang the wrong way (who knew ‘skibbidy’ was an insult?!). We laugh about all the latest slang and how we already have no clue!
In the final segment of this parenting podcast, we play an extremely unhelpful (but fun!) round of ‘never have I ever’, parenting edition. Play along and see how many you get – have you dozed off on the toilet? Or ran an errand just to ‘get away’? We come close to almost ALL of them, but Sam wins out this round (just!). We do all the parent talk and laughs in this one!
Come back next week where we are talking sleep deprivation – and send us your funny stories of what you’ve done cos you were sleep deprived!
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Get ready for the most mind-boggling confessional and dad fail we've been sent by a parent!
This episode we have 3 epic confession stories and are back with would you rather 2.0.
Starting with our yays or nays, Bec is yaying her reverse nesting doing the baby stuff chuck out (but the resulting chaotic mess is Sam's nay!). Bec is naying the insanity it is to juggle 3 kids' schedules plus her own, with a new appreciation for her own mum. Sam adds his yay that it's beach weather where we are, and for the first time in a long time we are getting to soak it up without morning sickness, being heavily pregnant or a teeny tiny baby keeping us indoors.
Sam then throws in his dad joke for the week that leaves us rolling our eyes into the confessional.
We hit the confessional with 3 hilarious and almost unbelievable parenting stories:
1. The dad who explained things badly so their kid announced they wanted to be a stripper at school.
2. The kid who took dad's 'special' magazines to school for show and tell and,
3. The dad who played unconscious and went to hospital after sleeping through his school pickup responsibilities!!!
When we get done laughing at that, we go through another round of Sam's parenting would you rather - because the gastro vs lice debate continues in the TikTok comments.
We are comparing many awful realities like forever having Baby Shark stuck in your head or giving up wine, or being trapped all day in a room with a child learning the recorder or a room with some spiders in it...
Ending with a reminder to come back next week, subscribe and please share this with your mum and dad friends to lighten their parenting woes and let them know we are in this together!
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Warning! By the end of this episode Bec almost wets herself laughing!
We are back with a whole lot of parent support through laughter! Whether you're looking for parent conversations or some solidarity through the stories we get sent in - we are here for you!
We start every episode catching up with our parenting yay or nay for the week. Bec is yaying celebrating their child's 1st birthday, surviving a year of 3 young kids, while managing to pull off a super last minute birthday party! The nay being the xylophone toy she asked family not to buy and then SAM DID!!
Sam is of course yaying the xylophone and how he still thinks it was a great present, and naying the way wives and partners will say no to food and then want to share yours later.
He gets a little dad joke in before we launch into the confessional!
This week's stories are branded 'the brutal things kids say', hearing stories about kids destroying their parents egos - starting with Bec experiencing our 5yo this week asking why she was getting so fat. There's kids insulting their parents' looks, age and then trying hard to be mean and failing (Cue: I'll put you in the trash!').
Then we are in with the helpful hacks sent in - but being the unhelpful parenting podcast we had to keep it fun and a little less helpful so Sam is tasked with inserting unhelpful parenting facts after each hack.
The mom hacks and parent hacks are extremely helpful, but the facts take a turn and Bec comments that they've likely managed to somehow offend everyone with the funny parent facts.
We end up in hysterics as Sam tries hard to back pedal from his hilariously bad facts - but they did the job and kept us laughing at funny and relatable parent feels.
Between laughs we manage to remind you to like, subscribe and share what we hope is the best parenting podcast (or at least the one that makes you laugh!) to show us the love and keep the stories flowing in!
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We are back with the Unhelpful Parenting Podcast, this week with more confessions, funny stories, un-motivations and would you rathers.
Kick starting with the yays and nays, we catch you up on our highs and lows of parenting this week.
Sam is yaying the cute personalities coming out as each kid grows, but naying the way we sometimes just snap as parents (especially at 1am in the morning!!). Bec is yaying reaching the 1 year mark with baby number 3, but naying getting in trouble by the empathetic 5yo for killing a bug. She sneaks in an extra nay, feeling terrible for how poorly organised the first birthday if baby 3 is and how neglected the third child is in comparison to the first 😅
Sam gets his dad joke in and then we hit the parenting confessional with 4 hilarious stories sent in this week...
1. A new mum getting a baby carrier cover and skirt mixed up.
2. Siblings bribing each other to leave.
3. Toddlers pulling on clothes and flashing mamma's boobs at the bank.
4. Another dad who landed himself in ICU when he found out his wife was in labour (this time from a nut allergy and eating the wrong chocolate bar!).
We ask that you keep sending in your stories and funny kids quotes, but this week Bec has collated all the brutal things you've sent in that they've said. Sam cues the track and we have a beautiful un-motivational moment reading through some like 'you're ruining my life'. Just what every parent wants to hear.
This takes us to a deeper parenting discussion on failing as parents and modelling how to fail for our kids. We aren't meant to be perfect parents, but we are the best parents for our kids.
That's as close to helpful as you'll get as Sam finishes us off with a would you rather? We are talking gastro vs nits and head butts vs standing on Lego.
We finish with a call out for your helpful hacks. Send us the little things that make parenting just that slight bit easier for you! We are talking the tabs on juice boxes turning into handles, or oats to bulk up expensive breakfast cereal!
Share us with your friends and show us some love (while we contend with the nasty side of the internet comments on recent posts!) and come back next week for more!!!
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It was our father’s day on the weekend so here are some hilarious dad fails and stories as we laugh together at the parent life realities!
But first, our *croaky* voices are back and still in recovery, just in time for our 11 month old baby to start teething. For obvious reasons, Bec’s yay is baby Panadol – cos what did parents do without it?! And her nay is the teething and how she forgot the molars are the worst. When the molars come through one cusp at a time, it’s like 4 different teeth! Sam starts with his nay, and the cost of renting with kids, and how your priorities shift from fun entertainment features to practical, toy storage requirements. But his yay is father’s day and getting some really quality time with the kids and how much it fills their cups.
Because it was father’s day, Bec promises no eye rolling or comments about how many dad jokes Sam is bringing this week, which she fails at straight away when he announces he has SIX! But they are quite funny so the eye rolling is replaced mostly with laughter.
Then we hit the dad-fessional. Funny stories, fails and laughs thanks to the dads. The stories include:
A personal one from a family member, with a dad promising a theme park visit but delivering with an at home DIY version. He meant well but the kids were devastated!
A dad thinking he was cool taking his daughter to get a nose piercing without talking to mom first. Not a good idea.
A dad who fell over and needed stitches in his head when his wife went into labour. Good news – he made the birth.
A dad who’s signature move is letting it rip during family photos and getting hilarious photo reactions.
A dad getting the pop culture references wrong trying to fit in with the kids.
A lego fanatic dad who got the surprise of his life finding out they were pregnant.
Then we follow Bec down a rabbit hole of lesser known facts and interesting things relating to parenting in this ‘Did you know?’ segment.
Share this with your mum friends and dad friends and help us spread the word that the tough times of parenting happen to everyone and it’s okay to laugh about it!
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We are back from our completely unplanned 2 week sick break! We’ve got all the laughs and heaps of your stories built up and ready to go though!
There may still be a cough or two, but we share a small insight into the hell that parenting while sick is. Sam’s YAY for the week was spending some one-on-one time with the baby (which doesn’t happen often cos he’s #3!), and his NAY was WHAT THE *F*LU?! Being sick with kids was actually a nightmare. Bec tags on her NAY of parents not having sick days – we could literally be on fire and the kids would still ask for snacks. But her YAY was the incredible family support network that we know we are very blessed and grateful to have.
Before we get to the dad jokes, Sam has to give an APOLOGY! A few episodes ago he had a rant about American Hershey’s chocolate and how gross it makes the KitKat in comparison to what we get in Australia. We aren’t sorry for that (unless you’re in the States and have to eat that…), but he did say KitKat was a Mars product, when it is actually made by Nestle! We wouldn’t normally correct a mistake in such detail, but more than one of our devoted listeners were appalled, and so were we because we know chocolate is critical for parenting through some days! 😉
Bec gives Sam’s dad jokes and obligatory eye roll and laugh – which means they’re actually quite good dad jokes, and then we head to the parenting confessional.
We start by sharing the top 6 follow up stories that came in off the back of the dad being questioned by a security guard for carrying out his screaming child from the shops. It turns out that that dad was not alone at all – and there are lots of stories of kids chucking tantrums or screaming about being kidnapped and getting their parents in trouble!
Then we share the story of a kid who went ‘missing’ trying to lie as flat as they could in bed, and hear the story of an incredibly entitled mum who expected the school teachers to throw her child’s birthday party during class – and didn’t even stick around to set up!
After, we do a quick catch up on a few incredibly surreal parenting moments Bec has had since we’ve been away. From being mistakenly asked if she was pregnant, to inappropriate and unhelpful comments travelling solo with a baby on the plane, and then being unsure whether to call the police or knock on the neighbours door at 4am – A LOT has happened!
As always, we wrap up sharing that you are not alone in this parenting journey – even at the worst moments – because they clearly happen to all of us!
Before you leave, make sure you send us your Father’s Day stories for the next episode, and share this with your mum friends and your dad friends.
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Well we aren’t really back this week! We are down, out and feeling rubbish. Baby, toddler and 5 yo down with the flu bug – IYKYK!
Rather than leave you hanging (especially if you’re new here!), we’ve pieced together some of the best parenting stories and confessions we’ve been sent since we started earlier in the year.
This is only a few favourites – comment and tell us which is your favourite! We think Bec saved the best for last 😉
Enjoy and send us your funny stories and fails for the confessional in future…
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