Honey You're Ruining Our Kid - My Kid Won't Wash - My Kid Is A Hoarder - My Kid Has Diarrhoea Constantly!

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

September is a truly testing month for parents, we hope you are all surviving your little darlings and all the new germs they are bringing home. We've been out on the road and Jarlath had a brutal encounter with a heckler!Question 1- Collecting things is a much loved, often very individual hobby. Hoarding however is different and can be something that takes over our lives and our space. If you’ve noticed a hoarding tendency in your child how do you manage it and extinguish it before it gains ground. What is the reason behind the hoarding, is there an anxiety or experience that has led to the development of this new behaviour. Can you help them through it? Is there hope?  Or will they someday need a Biggest Hoarder TV intervention in their future. Question 2- Teenagers and body odour. How do we protect them from themselves? What do you do if you have a pre teen who is refusing to shower? How do you help them understand that showering is both for them and their community. How do you get across the importance of hygiene? Is there a way to awaken their sense of pride in their appearance without making them overly body conscience or body aware?Question 3- Runs down your leg like the yellow  from an egg - Diarrhoea! Diarrhoea!!Diarrhoea is something we all dread, Liam Neeson nailed the brutality of it in this year's Naked Gun. Luckily most of us only ever have to deal with it on the odd occasion. What do you do and how do you help your child if diarrhoea is a normal part oh their day. Thank you for listening in to another episode of Honey You’re Ruining Our Kid. We will be back in two weeks with another episode so get your questions into us by emailing [e-mail]  Visit www.jigser.com for more info and tour dates.

By the time you hear this, Tina and I will be in the EU Parliament. Yes. We've been invited by MEP Nina Carberry to come on over and talk about life, health, and getting, going and moving in the world. Yeah. It is very important. And that's the voice in which I'm going to do my speech. Oh, are you? Are you going to do it?

I have a 10 minute speech to do it. guys. Yeah. Hasn't written it. I've got to be, you've got to be running around. You've got, you can't sit around the whole time.

The funniest part of this, Tina, I think you're worried, oh my God, my word. This trip. Trip, that's it. Is that our son is acting like

he's getting to go to Disneyland. We're bringing him with us and he's so excited. Yeah, and the Mickey Mouse of the EU is Ursula von der Leyen. He kills. A little photo. But, you know, it is pretty exciting, and I'll be boasting all about it.

And then, no doubt, in a couple of weeks' time, telling you guys exactly how it went down. Yeah, we're a little bit nervous. Yeah, this is why we're a little bit late with the podcast today and a little bit stressed out, trying to get out the door. You know how it is. We started to record earlier on and then realize, oh, shit, we've got to get to the hospital to do bloods. Yes. So we raced in and out to the hospital, but this is all, isn't this? What parenting is?

Yeah, the bloods are okay just because Jarlet does what he normally does when he goes in there, which is take off his clothes. It's like, Jarry, you just have to roll up your sleeves. Stop taking all your clothes off. It's actually the nurses that insist I take up my clothes. Let's be totally honest. We've got three banger questions for you, as always, on honey you're rooting our kid today. Starting with one, which was very triggering for Tina when she read it.

And that relates to an issue that I share with this child. We need to help this parent before it gets out of control, like you are out of control. Right now we're recording from Honey or Rooney Arcid HQ, which is my office and it's just shoe boxes, newspapers, envelopes, old shoes. Yeah, paper bags, just full of shite. D drawers if you open them, have like, empty boxes of strepsels and receipts. Empty bottle of receipts. Receipts would be a great thing, jar. Yeah, it's never receipts.

It's never a receipt. It's always like clothes, tag. Rappers. Are you living with somebody like this? Nuts, it makes no sense. If you're not somebody who believes that if I buy that shirt, I should keep the tag in case, I don't know why I'm keeping the tags on the shirt.

You're too lazy to walk over to the bin. Well, I'm just interested to see how you're going to handle this question because obviously this starts early in life that I always remember not really having much stuff. So I was always very protective of my stuff. Well, your parents are not hoarders. your mother does a clear out every few months. Every few months.

Every few months. It is brutal. What's that woman, Mary Condu? She's nothing on your mom. Mary Condu's gone back on all that stuff. Yeah, since she had kids. Yeah. She's like, you know that?

Just let them keep the shit, whatever the fuck they want to put in their room. Let them. Yeah. Your mom's amazing. Like, they could sell their house tomorrow and they wouldn't have to pack anything up. Yeah, yeah. It's ready. It is ready to go.

It's a showhouse. And it's all up in the attic. Yeah. Yeah. I had a great rummage through the. Is there anything like a rummage through an attic? Jerry Seinfeld said that the attic is just one step closer to the dump and the garage is even one step closer.

It'll be interested. I'll be interested to hear what your response to this question is. Maybe you've got a kid who's a hoarder or has some sort of issue like that. We'd love to hear from you. Honey, you're ruining our kid at gmail.com. The email address is in the info. Let's get to it. The email address is so stupid.

My fault. My fault. I don't know what it should be. Honey, I think it should be H, Y, Y, or OK, but instead it's, honey, you are ruining our kid at email.com. Well, question number one goes like so. I love the podcast. I'm forever recommending it to other people. I have a bit of a hoarder of a nine-year-old.

Okay, that's extreme. But every few months, we have to sit down with her while she goes through her room and parts with the garbage bags full of little. cluttery plastic junk, papers, artwork, pens, pencils, and just plain rubbish, mixed with hangers, clothing, toys, stuck under and behind the bed in the closet, behind the dresser, it's a nightmare. We have tried so many times to help her start fresh, and within a month or two, it's a mess again. We make her clean it up regularly. She does the work. We don't do it for her. She's nine years. She's nine years old after all. For that reason, it takes eight hours and it's a battle that ruins the entire day for everyone. Any commiserations or advice would be massively welcome. Anonymous.

I think, Tina, the word that pops out is artwork, right? Yes. I mean, I mean, there's so many things. There's so many letters here to this. I'm sorry for yawning again. The miniature artists are talking. No one knew. No one knew. The minute you're talking, I fall asleep. And we looked into it and that means you just make me feel really safe. Do I? I'd say that was written by a wife that her husband was putting her to sleep. Yeah, the artwork, like, obviously something happened

in the early years where something got thrown out or dismissed and it made this little girl very protective. Is that obvious? Is that really the center of why people are hoarders? I think so. They lost something to them that was priceless. Yeah, something I feel, I'm not saying everyone should feel

that's an insecurity though that something was taken away something got moved or lost and something they really liked and then they're like well I have to be so careful and protect everything Right Is it possible that there's a bigger insecurity

in terms of they don't want things to change there's an aversion to change itself they're just going to be like I just I just never want things to move to that like there's that kind of sense. I mean maybe but from what I've seen let me see how to explain it like when we lived in

England a really great tradition of reusing stuff over there passing stuff on there's no shame in it people aren't afraid than anyone knows you'll see it all the time we lived on a road where once a week there was a table put outside somebody's house with loads of I nearly said shit on it and people would walk buy and take whatever they wanted. And it was lovely because it was no shame in a hand me down over there. No, no shame. And I do feel over here in Ireland there's a little bit of, you couldn't buy a new one. You couldn't afford a new one. Well, people have that idea, don't they? That's why this up cycling is great. But certainly these tables were everywhere. Yeah. And the only mistake that

was being made at these tables is that parents were not giving their children enough warning. So you would see a child walk by or any warning and then they'd lose their shit they'd be like that's my favorite thing that's my favorite teddy how could you do this to me and i was saying to jarlet earlier that the christmas fair or the summer fair with the secondhand teddy's oh my god that was carnage so many kids were claiming their teddy you were seeing woody from toy story real life toy story events taking place yeah where woody had found himself at the school fair yeah and how do we and he spots them in the crowd Yeah. How do we prevent that? It's so easy. Sit down with the kid. Talk to them about what the idea is. See if they're on board and what they're willing to give away. So unfortunately, we do this all the time as parents. You know, we, something doesn't seem precious to us. It gets bent. Like a piece of art that just looks like there's one line on it, throw it in the bin. Whereas that child thinks they've drawn a masterpiece.

Some of the art is pretty shocking. Yeah, but not to them. To them, it's precious. Yes. Well, like, do you start, is there an argument then for, as a kid that was just obsessed with drawing and painting and all everything artistic, and very reluctant to throw a lot of it out? And as a result, there are some really obnoxiously poor drawings of Michael Jackson still to be found somewhere in my mother's house, although she could have cleaned them out last week, who knows? They're probably all gone. Do you start going, right, well, these are rough work. This is. finished work. This is your portfolio. We're keeping this stuff to mark your third year in school. There's a much easier way to do it. I mean, this poor child is hiding things. There's a sense of shame here. We need to take that shame out of her life. Shame, really? Well, she's hiding the stuff, Gerard. She's putting it under her bed or in the back of her wardrobe. I feel like she just needs to be sat down and told. We get that you're very artistic. You see a lot of magic in things that other people don't see. we have to organize it though we can't be allowing it to grow into such a mess in your bedroom

here is a box for your art stuff here is a box for your precious things here is a bin some of this is the biggest one yes some of this stuff is rubbish and we can't hold on to it it's actually not good for us to have rubbish in our room and we need to pop it in the bin and we can take it down to the recycling center and explain to her that there they will make it into something else and we will do our contribution will be bringing it down and recycling it and then you mentioned the art at some point that box gets full now that's a really nice opportunity to sit down with your kid and go through the artwork to show them how much you're without criticism yes without criticism and then to tell them okay these are shit these are good

the box is full now we need to try and you know pop some these in the bin. Which ones are you willing to part with? We need to make space for your new work. I love them. But I love them. Like everyone is going to relate to this question because I think everyone has a period with their child where the teddy bears that were once crucial are now gathering dust and are becoming germ festivals. Yeah. And they're never going to get thrown. They're not going to get passed on to kids coming to this country who've had to leave all their toys behind, you know, maybe that is the other angle on if it's if it's a case of, well, look, the Lego is out of control now and you're no longer playing with it. I mean, I think we're

facing a Lego epidemic in terms of all of these kids that fill their houses with Lego and now are turning 15 and 16 who just have a couple of ornaments with Lego, but boxes are of it everywhere, the amount of accumulation of waste that's going on, is there just like when you would say to kids, you've often recommended on the show, Tina, then if some kid is having difficulty letting their poo go. Yeah. You talk to them about the pipes, the human sewage system and you work through it scientifically as to where it's going to go. Yeah. Do you need to have a discussion with your child about how we reduce, reuse and recycle and where things that aren't love to go. Absolutely. I mean, that's a really positive thing to bring into your child's life.

Now, when they collect something or bringing something back to the room, she's consciously aware that if I put it in this box, we're bringing down to a recycling center, it's going to go to good use and I'm doing something good for the environment. Or when you expect your child to part with some toys, they're aware that, yeah, I have outgrown these toys. I don't love them enough to want to keep this toy in my room forever. Like, I still have a peachy and a dozy. And I love them And they are mine forever And

What got thrown out of yours though That you're like Why? Why did you throw that away? I loved that. I guess I had one of those You remember those Teddy's that were fluffy on their back

And you could also turn them into a bowl I do remember them yeah Yeah, that was gone And he had a tail I don't know But he had a tail that was a little bit letter And I used to love to bite it Oh my God, how young were you

I just really. Not that young. Are you still holding on to that? I mean, I was just talking on over lunch about the parental grudges that all our parents have. Like, I'm never even in that place again. And the way we're expected to move past, you threw that thing out of me.

Oh, my God. Are you still pining for that teddy? But I had a house move that happened when I was 17. Yes. And I went to school one day and came home and we moved. And I think it's something similar. I think it does make you conscious of exactly what is upsetting to your kid. And maybe they've seen someone else do this or they've heard of this.

But like this is what's underneath it. But like at the end of the day, it is a messy feckin bedroom. Yeah, but we know parents are doing this all the time. They're wondering where their kids are, you know, so precious about things. I've seen you throw the arch in the bin. I was at a house one day where I saw a kid open the bin and start taking the arch out

and they were like, you were there too and she was like, but mommy these are my drawings. And honestly, I was no help to the mother because I was right there. I was like, what the hell are you thinking? Why would you do that? It's like, how could you put it as me?

What is my artwork doing in the bin? Oh. It was rough and I was like right there with her. what did you do that for? How could you do that? This is a moment in time when she's this good at ours. We had a...

I hope that's been to help, right? But we know what your hoarding really was, Tina. It was the fancy paper. I didn't actually have that much fancy paper and anyone who was super into it like I was knows. You have one piece of each one. And what you're looking out for is the rarest ones.

I was into gambling. my fancy paper. Me and Anne Tobin got a rester. We would gamble and we would fight and we would cry. We would eventually give back the piece of fancy paper. Our friendship was more important. It did get banned out of the same polls. Yes. Too much. You were not allowed swat pants fancy paper. It's raising temperatures. The fancy paper is a thing. I still have my fancy paper. You pulled out the envelope. We need to post that because if your kid is exhibiting Something along the lines of this. We want to hear from you.

Honey, ruining our kid at gmail.com. Honey, you are ruining our kid at gmail.com. But you're on to something there. If your child is exhibiting a hoarding tendency, why not turn it into a positive and allow them to collect something nice? Like tanks. Asher.

When we first met, Tina's nickname for me was Mr. Nice. smelly guy. That's all she knew. There was no, that's Jarlett. It's just the guy in politics. Oh, it smells nice. And isn't that the best review of a teenager? The guy, that smells great. It actually wasn't my nickname for you. It was my friend Karen who coined it. She came home one day and said, I met this guy in politics. And he stinks. And he smells, really nice. And I was doing sociology, but I switched politics. When you heard about the smell. It's so boring.

I've got to get the smelly guy in my life. And then you kept sitting near us and I didn't understand. Didn't put it together. No, I didn't. But I did think you sound nice. Why is this guy sitting there again? Maybe he's trying to initiate conversation, you fucking idiot. I was like moving.

They were shifting along the road to get away from him. I actually thought I did smell. That was probably why I was wearing so much aftershed. I was like, Karen, he's behind us again. Like, what's going on with him? Not once did I think Oh, maybe he likes me Well, our second question of the day

Comes from a parent Who's deeply concerned about this very issue Now we were at our parents association meeting the other week We were Just about, you know Getting kids changed after PE The stink that's residing in the PE clothes Basically all the parents there were going

Can they not just wear their PE gear that day And stop making them change Making them change back into uniform which seems to be the standard. I was making the argument around that that for a lot of kids getting undressed in front of your classmates. Not much fun.

Jared, it still can't believe what a good point he made because all the parents are like, that's actually a really good point. It's a point that the school can't argue with. No, they couldn't. They actually, it's the only one they took on board and there was another mom there who was like,

I just need the stink out of my car. I actually love that mom, she's so cool. Do you know what the stink is? The polyester. material that these things are made out. Now, I know this from the running gear. The poorer running gear that I wear, the less high quality stuff holds that stink.

What less high quality stuff? How much money do you have to spend on running gear? Well, I'm talking about stuff you get from a race, like where the race goes. You get your finisher's t-shirt. And if it's not a named brand, it can be a real little stench magnet. But also boys are smiling.

I'm sorry, they really are. Well, that's natural. No, if you're... I mean, Tina, I don't think you smell, but we all have a smell. What? You cannot date it to me. Tina's a smell o'clock. I am terrified of smell.

She is a smell of chondria. I am terrified. It is like my worst nightmare. If somebody said, Tina, you smell. I don't think I'd ever get over it. I don't think I would. And I'm driving my son crazy. It's kind of the same thing that's driving this question.

Because this mom's really concerned because I'll read it out, right? Okay. I'll absolutely love the podcast. I love reading that bit. Love the podcast. Recommend it to absolutely everybody I meet. I've been listening since day one and was even a subscriber on Patreon. Which is pause.

Which is pause for the moment. So if you want to come over there and get free Patreon, you can get access to everything. You won't have to pay for it. But anyway, maybe I'll cut that out. Maybe I won't. Yeah, so here she goes. I have a 12-year-old son who won't shower. I know it's the age

and boys don't want to shower or take care of themselves at that age but it's a constant battle to get him to shower taking his gaming console and his phone does nothing for him as he will just sit there it's the constant back talk

that really does it for me and he doesn't respect me like he does his dad I don't know what else to do showering once a week just don't cut it in my book please help She's right. And I feel so sorry for her because there is nothing more troubling than when you're, you feel like your child doesn't respect you the way they respect you. They're growing up in his life. What can she do? Well, first of all, I'm sorry. He needs to have at least three showers a week. I mean, he's a smelly boy.

And he's going to get smellier. This is the thing. He's only 12. Like, it's not going to improve. No. I wonder does she need to take him out and allow him to pick out the shower gel and shampoos? stuff he wants to use. Get him a nice deodorant and buy him a nice perfume. I don't know why we're wasting all this money on this because I'm not using them. I'm not going to do it. You can buy me all the shampoo you like, Mom.

I'm not doing this. Whenever I do that, do you guys don't get to say if Tina's faces like, imagine that was my son. I imagine that's what he was doing. But like it does sound like she's meeting, like when she says he will just sit there. That is.

how is he not had an infection or some weird skin thing by now? Someone told me the other night that they have an outdoor shower at their house so that when they come back from running outside they basically are able to not bring the stink into the house and I was like, I need that. Where we live, the notions are right here. When I come in though, Oh, Char, you're so smelly. You and Mikey hold your noses and run from the room and act like I've put on what was the name

of the after shave in Anchorage? man sex panther but you're so smell you smell like a corpse when you come back from running it's like how many corpse have you smell like that's my thing I'm always like they smell like dead people I don't think I've ever smelled a dead person

I'm sure dead people are lovely really nice people by and large quality quality people I don't want them to be insulted if they're listening the issue here is respect.

It's not, no, no, it's not even showering. It's your mom told you to take a shower, get up that stairs. Yeah, but you don't want to get to there. So, like, this is where the family meetings always come great. And you need dad there and you need dad briefed before. He, you can say in the family meeting,

look, we've afforded you the opportunity to show us that you were grown up enough to be able to shower when asked or when you think you have to. Yeah. You've not been able to do that. Now we're setting out days of the week, times of the week, where you shower. Now, you do get a choice in this.

You can choose if you shower in the morning or nighttime. And that's a choice. You always have to offer them a choice. You've got to be as fair as you can. But be very careful that you and your husband or partner or whatever is united. And that he understands by the time the meeting is over, showers are non-negotiable. We've agreed when there to happen. and if you don't take us seriously and listen, there will be a consequence.

Now, I don't think they're really taking his phone on gaming away because he's not taking them seriously. Yeah. The consequence has to matter and it has to be effective. And you only get effective with giving out warnings of consequences if you have the balls to follow through. I was going to say, or the vulva, I don't know how to follow true. You've enough vaginal fortitude.

Yes. Oh, I like that. That's good, Darren. To follow true. It's all about the follow true. And when you say follow through, I mean, you, Tina means that like you take it. And it's, it's not a case of whether you were good now, so I'm giving it back to you. No, yes. It's like you follow through for the lot of time. Yeah. Whatever the warning you gave, you do it and you stick to it. And that's why don't say anything that's going to make your life miserable to. Be so careful. anyone. Traders is on tonight. I'm fucking missing it now. Like I don't like, I don't like negative reinforcement.

I don't. I'm all about positive and if you can get it. But if you have to deal out a consequence, you have to follow true. You're exceptionally good at knowing, I find one of Tina's skills in this area is knowing how to make it so that the consequence isn't my world has ended. And you're a horrible individual.

You are able to find that happy meeting where, look, we discussed it. You did it again. It's happening now. The consequence is happening. But also, this is the caveat I wanted to put in, is you often go, there is the opportunity to win it back, to work it back over time. Yeah. And that would be the opportunity where he's obviously not going to do it right away.

Well, I know. can go and take a shower and prove you wrong. Well, I think what you actually said there last isn't absolutely true. Really? Because that is something you added in. And for the sake of us working as a team, I've been okay with it. But I'm never that great about it when I'm like, I've just put in the consequence. Now you're immediately telling him there's a way to win it back.

Well, look, it has worked. Yeah, it has worked because we were, you came to that with me. And I was like, okay, we'll give it a go. But what I am saying is if you start the consequence thing, the follow true thing, no matter what, if you start that young, you will find you never actually have to deal out a consequence because telling them there's one and they know early on you follow true will be enough. Yeah. Yeah. I mean. That's like when people, I don't mean to talk over you, I'm sorry, but when you see people going, I'm going to count to five and the kids like,

whatever, that's because the counting to five or three or whatever has never worked because when you got there, you just count it again. They figure you out so fast. I hate seeing a parent go in one, two, three. The kid's like, whatever, she's not going to do anything. Whereas with our kids or any kid in my class, if I had to do that, I always only got to one because they knew she's going to follow through on this. I mean, I wish this mom the best to look at this because shame isn't something you want to put on your kid either.

Fear isn't something you want to put in your kid. either, but in this instance, around hygiene, there is a couple of fears and there is a certain amount of shame. And I would say that if she says the dad holds some weight here, that particularly when it's a boy, girls are just always prim and proper and they're always like plaiting their hair for no reason. He isn't on the understanding that I had, coming back to our first Mr. nice, smelly guy, came, that I knew that the pristine smell and, you know, hygiene was attractive. Now, you might be into girls or boys yet, but if dad leads it that, like, this is what us men do. Yeah.

You know, if it's a, well, you know, babies don't. Babies have bath night. Yeah. And Saturday. You're not a baby. Yeah. Okay. You're a young man now.

But also, there is another option. his finger, I'm. You know, you a baby and then go, me. There is another option here where you can actually get them to do a reflection sheet on this. You can have your family meeting. And if they're pushing back and pushing back, you can end it by going, okay, I'm going to give you a piece of paper here. And you're going to outline for me the reasons why you think it's not okay. You don't need to have a shower. And just them having to reflect and sit in that, can be reason enough for them to go, okay, I'm an idiot. Yeah, because it's an utterly. reasonable expectation. And I think that your family meeting is going to solve this because it's kind of like you to come back to the EU. It's like the UNHCR would be like access to running water and a shower is like it's just part of being in a community. But it can't be making his life easy because he has to smell and the poor mother is trying

her best. It's so tough. When your kid stinks like that, it doesn't matter how much you wash the clothes. they're stinking the close out too best to look with it let us know how you get on honey you are ruining our kid

at gmail dot com the in bit stand-up tour is coming to an end I'm very sad to say this show I'm actually really sad it's gone all around the world now

and it's still on its way to Australian New Zealand its way I say that I'm going to Australian New Zealand in November for five final shows and two more shows have been added in Chicago

at the Den Theatre at the end of October so there's still a couple of chances to see it the whole thing sold out and there's been so many highlights but definitely

pavilion theatre Dunleary the sentence I said was Irish women hold Irish men to ridiculously high standards a woman nearly stood up from her seat and shouted bullshit.

Yeah, I had forgotten. That happened last week. Happened last week. You're telling me and I was like, oh my God. And then what happened? I'm like, oh my God, this happened. I'm like, oh my God, this happened. We never get that at our shows.

I never get heckled. And I didn't think that I was saying anything controversial. You were actually paying Irish women compliments. I was trying to say that this is the reason why Irish men are revered abroad is because they've had to live to these. Very high standards. You can either live with the standards or hit their old. Yeah, I love when you say

they were raised in the youth system. Yeah, the youth system of these high standards. She is freaking out. She's so angry. So furious with me for saying this. And I was like, you haven't heard what I'm about to say.

And the whole room was so shocked because it is done leery at the end of the day. They're not expecting. And she sounded very pot, to be fair. And she was saying things like, you know me. And she was like, I know you.

I was like, what's that got to do anything? You couldn't even see her. Like, later on afterwards, she got removed. She had to be removed. She wouldn't stop. She was so angry.

Literally, every time I tried to start, she said, it's like, it's a joke. I'm telling you a joke. This isn't a TED talk. You were well able to handle her.

I had so much fun handling her. Like, really, if you want to heckle at my shelves, bring it. Because I love putting people away. But Dunleary, the staff there are incredible. and they were like, she's out. Security guy. Great guy from Eastern Europe

who was clearly living in Ireland and then doing, he was one of those guys who's also got a bit of a Dublin accent as well as the, he's a good European, but also makes she nervous. She was a fucking messer so she was. We took her out, there was no problem. Get a little phogon taxian.

I just love when the two accents merge, it's the most beautiful thing. He came into her row and stood above her and said, you got to go. I'm sorry, you got to go, get the fuck out.

Yeah. She wouldn't do it. She was refusing to leave the seat and I've never seen anything like it. He stood above her until she left.

But he did a good job because you didn't notice that she was gone. But like, we should have had it in her head a little bit because the people who worked there

kept saying, Saturday 9 Delary gets crazy. And we were like, we've been here all week. It's been fine. Yeah, we did three shows

here, there's no issues. It gets crazy tonight. Like he was talking about Vegas or something. Yeah, we're like, oh, this is what you mean. He was like, yeah, they just drink too much prosaq. In Limerick, I had someone walk out, right? On this tour, somebody walked out early doors.

And the husband left as well. And I was like, that's very odd. Didn't return. Oh, God. Get the email the next day. She had some wrong fish before the show. Oh, okay. Explosive.

Explosive diarrhea. She didn't tell you that. In the email, she did. Oh my God. She said, didn't make it. Didn't make it. No. Didn't make it.

Oh no. They just had to get in the car and go. Oh no. That's awful. It's quite the journey home, which leads us on to question number three, which is, Explosite diarrhea is no fun. No, and it's also the funniest bit in that movie we went to see naked gun. Oh, my God, lad.

Like, Liam Neeson does such a good. If you haven't gone to see naked gun, the new one. I know he wet my pants laugh. at that. I hunched over the chair in front of me and cried. I was like, did he follow me around for inspiration for this bit? This poor kid, like, if you think Frank Drebens' diary, it was bad. This poor kid, like, I'm not laughing about this.

Oh, no, we never laughed at a kid. It brings us around to the issue, but like, this woman's face when she was leaving, like, I thought she'd seen a ghost because she was. Leaving the place like I had said something grossly offensive, but instead it was her body. But who orders fish? You just don't believe in eating fish. No, but remember we were at Leger, not this year.

Oh, no, we can't reveal that. Why not? Well, someone we know had fish at us. Deirdre O'Kane. And I was like, what are you doing? You're a lunatic. Why haven't I? Oh, yeah.

Oh, I told you were going to be a lunatic in that moment. She sat down to have her food with us and I was like, Tearderterter, nobody orders fish from the catering. What are you thinking? Again, it's like Seinfeld saying, you're ordering a hot dog in the cinema. You've got a death wish. Yeah. Hi, all.

I need a little help. I have a, oh, wait, sorry, I'll scroll back up. This is where it begins. I have a spirited nearly three-year-old son. Three-year-old. It's great. Oh, right. So, sorry, I'll get my head together here.

The current problem I'm having is that my toddler has consistent diarrhea. Nearly every day, I collect him from crash, and he's leaked and needs clothes change. Yesterday, he came home stinking. He leaked through again. But as he was outside, they either didn't notice or just sick of changing him. Well, that's a very worrying God. That's not okay. Yeah.

He has improved. He has improved. He used to poo everywhere, maybe three times a day, eight times a day. What? Or now it's two to three. and he sometimes occasionally has a solid one. I'd say he has had a total of 20 solid poos in his lifetime. Oh, but he's only a little.

He's only a little. For ages. But for ages, their poos are soft. Okay, okay. She says she's gone to get bloods done. Yeah. She's had the bloods done to rule out celiac, trilomoth, dairy, which, again, really good shouts on both of these things.

Spoken to dietitians, we've gotten, used to it but I am wondering do you have any tips for toilet training him I really don't know if he knows he's going unless it is a solid poo and what's more he's happy enough to fester in his own squalor yeah but you know what we say that sometimes and as parents when we're exhausted we kind of think they're doing it on purpose and stuff like that it can feel that way yeah it can definitely feel that way but we have remember no child no child is doing these things on purpose because it'd be giving a terrible rash as well speaking from experience yeah he'd be very uncomfortable yeah let's be honest uh i think incredible mom

she's so on it she's brought him to the doctors everything i think perhaps there is a reason to maybe try the dairy for a little bit longer i've definitely in my in my experience when i have seen this taking dairy away for a while has definitely helped right so she's probably done the test and has been told or she said she trialed him without doing. But do you think the trial needs to be sustained for a bit? Yeah, because it's so hard to go without dairy. It's so part of our stuff.

Yeah, it's so part of how we cook and how we make everything. I'm trying to be good at the moment and it's just so hard. It's really a lot on the family to put out dairy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you think a sustained test on that because really what she's describing here, if it's this consistent

you're going to need the school on board a little more than what it sounds like that even having that feeling that they're doing that like she's a mom she's got great intuition she's so connected to her child she knows she knows that might be happening there's an easy way to go in and talk about that with the school get them on side and ask for their advice

tell them you know he's coming home really upset even if he's not because then they won't want that happening they won't want a child upset and say we really all I need everyone's help I'm trying really hard we all need to be on top of this

and get him to be successfully going to twill at all time now with toilet training I'm always like pre-2 would be great but she's had a genuine issue here and I think there's no point toilet training that child

until his poos are more solid because he won't be successful and it's going to be so confusing and toughen him because there is every chance he does not know when that's happening. Quick question, is it possible that there's an emotional aspect to this? Well, I mean, it's always possible, but I would think that a lot of boys struggle with poos. Most of the time, it's not being able to let them go to actually do the poo. I think maybe he needs a bit more fiber in his diet, maybe a bit more, you know, roughage to help him have more solid number twos but i also think that a lot of toddlers do go through

this phase and she does need the nursery on side and while he is in a nappy it's okay to say to him maybe every half hour let's go check and see if you've done a poo we need to have a check and be aware of our body when did you get this email all during a summer yeah because i would be interested to know the summer went, it just occurred to me that there may be a juice box or smoothie that's being given in that school that is the root cause. Because if it's not been an issue, and we could hear about this next week, if it's not been an issue through the summer, maybe quiz them a little bit on what might be handed out because there can be a berry or maybe there's a snack, you know, you used to have your snack table that might not be agreeing with him. Let's say, for example,

he's had a yogurt at the start of the day and then they have an orange. juice on top of that find me an adult that won't be affected digestively by those two being mixed and also you mentioned a snack table there mostly that is fruit and some kids sit down and have 20 apples in a row and they just keep going for it and apples will do it to you too yeah so I would actually get a little more meticulous and atomic in terms of well I need the school to chart what's going in to produce that's dangerous area though because if he becomes aware of that then you're making him aware of eating. Right. So it's to go on over his head.

It's a very hard path to who I am well aware. Okay. But I'm just saying that's obviously for them to just keep an eye on what's he at. What's he chewing on? But the toilet training I would just say to her, you can't even start until it improves because you're just leading him to fail and that will impact him terribly. I think we need to do an episode around this. If you've got a specific where you feel like I'm on my own on this, I feel like I'm the only one with this.

with my kids going through, I can't really find similarities, get in touch. Let's do an episode around this specifically because all of this stuff is like we're reluctant to talk about it, but this is a safe place. This is the whole point. There's no judgment here. I know from working with kids that age that there's no way the other kids aren't going, you smell. No. They are so brutally honest.

And I get, I think this is one thing that needs to happen in this, if it's still happening, like you say, over the summer, things might have changed. got to get the nursery to take it seriously that you can't be sending him home and if you collect him and you think that he soiled you can say I got to bring my kid in and change him before we get in the car and that's okay

they should have taken care of him they are in charge of his personal development that includes hygiene yeah so two hygiene questions to finish it up today Tina and I know it's a short sharp and snappy episode this week

but we will be back with more and follow us on Instagram for some weekly reels, kind of bite-sized chunks. Yeah, I have to start doing those. But Tina's got them and, you know, the most common things that you're coping with, getting them to bed in the evening, getting them out of your bed, getting them to the table, getting them eating, getting them doing what you'd like them doing. And also setting up your own boundaries that are healthy for your child. I always go back to the most important question

you can ask yourself as a parent. Who is this for? Is this for me or the kid? If it's for you, check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself. Go to jigser.com for more tour shows. The Gasman tour starts on January 3rd.

And within that time, I have the misery of going on the work and progress tour. The misery of the work and progress tour. It's so stressful. The show is as good as written. At this point, I cannot believe that I'm able to say that. But we do this work in progress tour around the country where I go to some of my smaller favorite theaters with support acts, and we have such a blast.

Well, I do. Tim sits in the wings. To be fair, to be fair, I do get some of the biggest laughs because when you go wrong or forget, I'm on the floor. I'm on the floor laughing. My God. Yeah. That's the enjoyment she takes, right.

Shad and Freund at its best. We'll let you know how Belgium goes. him is better in Brussels. We'll be back next week. Hopefully Mikey gets to meet as a fancy lady. How do you say her name again? Ursula von der Leyen.

Shout out to Ursula. And we will talk to you guys next week. Thanks, Tina. Oh. Thanks.