You Won't Believe How Grown Up Fitzy's Kids Are

Fitzy's son has started high school and has started doing something which has dumbfounded Fitz. He now can take care of himself !

Plus, have you heard of 'dumpling squishies'?

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Speaker 1: This is a Fitzy Whipper in Hay podcast.

Speaker 2: Let's talk about growing up a bit of black one

Speaker 2: A two for you. There it is. It's a do

Speaker 2: you know what?

Speaker 3: I want to talk about parenting and I think it's

Speaker 3: mandatory for every kid to push back on their parents

Speaker 3: when you're trying to get them ready. I want to

Speaker 3: focus on the routine for school, getting out of bed,

Speaker 3: brushing your teeth, going into the shower, actually cleaning yourself, properly,

Speaker 3: packing your lunch, being on time really hard to do,

Speaker 3: you know what?

Speaker 2: Thirteen twenty four to ten, And I'd love to hear

Speaker 2: from you. Who was it or what.

Speaker 3: Happened in your child's life that changed their routine where

Speaker 3: they actually started doing it now. This could either be

Speaker 3: a mentor it could be a teacher, It could be

Speaker 3: a coach, could be a crazy uncle that you catch

Speaker 3: up with every now and then. But I can tell

Speaker 3: you one thing, Kate, Your kids don't listen to you,

Speaker 3: that's for sure.

Speaker 4: Can I just add something to fits for any parent

Speaker 4: that might be listening right now that struggles to get

Speaker 4: one to even three of their kids ready and out

Speaker 4: the door in the morning.

Speaker 2: I'm here with you, man.

Speaker 4: It is a battle, and it teaches you patients at

Speaker 4: one hundred miles an hour, and you learn the hard

Speaker 4: way that if I blow my top, if I start screaming,

Speaker 4: we're not going to get anywhere.

Speaker 2: So how am I going to make this work? Absolutely?

Speaker 2: You need to roll model the behavior I'm trying, Kate.

Speaker 3: So this is what's happened. Hard Lenny's twelve moment. He's

Speaker 3: in year seven, right, he's thirty eight.

Speaker 2: She's I got to get that wrong. Yeah, which kid is?

Speaker 2: He's the second one? Ye? So anyway, Lenny really hard.

Speaker 3: He usually gets up at six thirty seven, so he's

Speaker 3: up early. But then he'll he'll like to go on

Speaker 3: and get onto the television for a bit, and then

Speaker 3: it's tough to get him into gear. Doesn't want to

Speaker 3: go to school, doesn't wash, he's doesn't clean his teeth properly.

Speaker 2: I tell you what's happened. Come on.

Speaker 3: All that's come down to is a group of mates

Speaker 3: who have now said to him, we're going to catch

Speaker 3: the bus and go hang out at the local shopping

Speaker 3: center before school.

Speaker 2: And why do they do that? Fits? Well, do you

Speaker 2: know what it is? It's the dumpling squishes.

Speaker 3: Have you heard about the dumpling squishes that are going

Speaker 3: around at the moment, Tommy, you know about it.

Speaker 1: Dumpling squishies look like dumplings all the rate in the classrooms,

Speaker 1: and you don't know what you're going to get.

Speaker 3: So it comes in the little steam the bamboo basket.

Speaker 3: Give buy a little bamboo basket for five bucks. Cake,

Speaker 3: you open it.

Speaker 2: Up, got the purple dumpling squishy.

Speaker 4: Okay, so it's a like that doll thing, that demonic

Speaker 4: doll thing that was getting around.

Speaker 1: But I know what you mean, and it gets them

Speaker 1: up and about can't listen to this.

Speaker 3: He puts his own alarm on, he gets up early,

Speaker 3: He showers by himself, He goes downstairs, prepares his own

Speaker 3: lunch cash, and he walks to the bus stop forty

Speaker 3: five minutes earlier than he ever has before.

Speaker 2: I missed him this morning. I was driving back from

Speaker 2: the gym. Guess he's at the bus stop, Lenny with

Speaker 2: his thumbs up.

Speaker 1: Are you seriously do you know what this proves? If

Speaker 1: they want to do it correct, they can like I had.

Speaker 1: I heard of a high school once upon a time.

Speaker 1: Say if your child is it even in primary school

Speaker 1: or heading into high school and they claim to not

Speaker 1: be able to turn on the washing machine.

Speaker 2: That is such a.

Speaker 1: Lie, because they can use the TV.

Speaker 2: The iPad, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: Is the simplest of all the tools.

Speaker 2: What changed your kid's routine? He's another one for you.

Speaker 3: I want to Lenny's mates says, has got himself a girlfriend.

Speaker 2: Now.

Speaker 3: I spoke to the parents the other day and they

Speaker 3: were going, we've always had a problem with him and

Speaker 3: his hygiene, like gets into the shower for twenty seconds,

Speaker 3: hardly cleans his teeth. This kid is now getting up early.

Speaker 3: Kate puts jel in his hair. It's the first time

Speaker 3: in his life. His mum said, he's wearing.

Speaker 2: Deodorant and he's having long showers.

Speaker 3: And he's a completely different kid because of.

Speaker 2: His new relationship. Doesn't listen to us at all.

Speaker 3: But then when there's a girlfriend waiting at the other

Speaker 3: end of school drop off, bang, he's on or.

Speaker 4: It's a squashy dumpling or whatever that thing was. Do

Speaker 4: you know the other thing too? They'll go straight to

Speaker 4: bed with a babysitter, that the babysitter will put them

Speaker 4: to bed and they walk or maybe not, but ours will.

Speaker 4: But then when it comes to us putting them to bed,

Speaker 4: every ailment under the sun comes out. And I mentioned

Speaker 4: the other day I've got a sore eyeball.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4: Actually, Itchy Vagini herds.

Speaker 3: Tom Tommy, you've always said rub a bit of gim

Speaker 3: beam on the that was your big thing.

Speaker 2: You took it from your greyhounds, your kids, did you? Absolutely? Yeah,

Speaker 2: the old.

Speaker 3: But it is it just goes you know, understand the

Speaker 3: mentors parents, You push parents.

Speaker 2: Away and we're going through this at the moment.

Speaker 3: But after all those years of torment, now they can

Speaker 3: do it just because there is a dumpling dumpling squishy

Speaker 3: on the other end of it.

Speaker 4: Fitzy couldn't do it, but the dumpling Squshy could this.

Speaker 3: He is a Fitzy whipper.

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