Mum's The Word! The Parenting Podcast - Georgia Kelsey 2026 New Years Special

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

Georgia Jones and Kelsey Parker are back in the studio to welcome in the New Year with the Mum’s The Word 2026 New Year’s Special and nothing is off-limits.As they close the door on a tough and testing 2025, the girls reflect honestly on the challenges they faced, what motherhood taught them over the past year, and the lessons they’re carrying forward.From the hard moments to the small wins, it’s a reminder that growth often comes from surviving, not thriving.They also look ahead to 2026, sharing their hopes, intentions, and realistic resolutions, the kind that fit around school runs, exhaustion, and real life.And of course, it wouldn’t be Mum’s The Word without it… the first We Listen and We Don’t Judge of 2026 with listener confessions that prove parenting chaos doesn’t clock off for the New Year.This episode is the perfect way to step into 2026 together.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, we're back people. Welcome to a brand new episode of Moms the Word. I'm Georgia Jones. And I'm Kelsey Parker. And today we bring you our Moms the Word New Year's special. Woo! Get ready for our New Year's resolutions. So grab a cup.

Get comfy. And let's jump into this brand new episode of Mums the Word. Happy New Year! How are you? Are you? Ready for 2026. Yep, that's it. Yeah, I'd have to try and remember that.

Do you know what? Last year was a bad year. We were shedding our skin of the snake. Oh. This is what we were doing. We were shedding the skin. Like loads of people, 2025 was all about learning.

Oh. So we learnt about ourselves. How do you know this? Because I know everything. She does. She's a wise. I know everything. Wise woman.

We were learning, you know, maybe you had boundaries. that you were setting for yourself, you were on a learning journey last year. I mean, I was on a learning journey, and learning journeys were quite tough. However, this year, yes, manifestation, good things are coming. This is going to be your year. You're going to continue with... That's great.

You are going to continue the path that you cemented at the back end of last year because you were very busy. Yes. And this is going to continue. And you've made these partnerships with brands, and it's going to be a good year for you. Yeah. You're going to earn so much money. You're going to buy me a house.

No, but this is your goal. This is your manifestation. This is what's going to happen because last year you cemented these little relationships with people. Yeah. You set boundaries and now this year, all right, Kals. God, you really inspired me there. I feel more of it and ready to go. Good to me.

She'll right back out here. What she said? I'm senting with the powers. No, but it was. I think for a lot of people, 2025 was a really hard year. 2025 was a shit year for you and me, when it kills.

And we shedded the skin. Okay, my skin is shedded. You're over that year. It's done. We box that and we move forward now. Okay, I'm ready to do that, actually. So what are your intentions? What do you want this year?

What do I want? I want to continue working hard. Yeah, because you and me love work, don't we? I need to know what your human design is. We're going to do this after. What does that mean? Who you are, what you can. Because if you're like a manifester or a manifesting generator, then we need to work on this.

Well, I... I am a reflector. Oh, I don't know what the hell I am. She doesn't know what her human design is. I do know that I had to make a mood board one time and put the fear of God into me because I was like, I don't know. All I do is cut things out of a magazine. Well, who made you do that? I was on a retreat

I was away on a retreat and we had to cut things out of magazines and make a mood board and I just panicked But you should do that This is the time Yeah, I know But I panic when I have to

Actually really think about my life So do you not really manifest No, I tend to just live in the The moment The moment of that day That's good though But what do you want this year? Do you know what?

I want to get my strength back Because not physically and mentally actually, but mainly physically, because basically I've been a bit, right, and I know everybody does this after Christmas and I like, oh, once it's out back at the gym,

I don't see a problem with that, you know? I think, because over Christmas, like towards the back end of 2025, I absolutely did stop going to the gym or going on my runs, which is what I do for my mental health.

Because I did have bloody time. It is time. I did not have time. And I know everyone goes, get up earlier. It's like, no, because I'm knackered. You want your sleep as well? I want my sleep as well.

So what happens is then you do get into January and everything else calm down and you get your time back. But then you don't really feel like you can talk. And you've eaten your body weight in cheese. You've drank your body weight in red wine and you just want to feel a bit better about yourself. And I don't think there is a problem with that.

It's not a problem in that. And I'm going to do it and I'm going to own it. And I'm going to go. I swear every year we say the same thing though. Yeah, I know. We do. Last year, rewind. Rew-W-W-W-W-W-W-R-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W.

Well, I say it going into Christmas as well, every year going into Christmas, I go, do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to work out so hard throughout December so that when it gets to Christmas Day, I feel really good about myself and I feel fresh and I feel like I can eat my weight in everything because I've worked really hard to just have a binge. And I don't, I don't do it. And she didn't do it. And I don't do it.

But I do feel like that over Christmas, you are on the, I say the Benny Hill Like I just feel like I'm going like There's no time for anything No I actually forget who I am my name What I want in life And then that's why I think you get to the new year

And you're like right Right This is what I want What do you want cows? I just want a better year Because that was really really tough And shit I think continued the path

Of you know Is there a baby This year for me I could have one this year this year, which is exciting. Also, I think keep raising awareness, keep doing my, you know, charity work because I think now people need it.

Try and make a difference in the brain tumor community because nothing's still being done, which infuriates me. Oh, I know. I know. It's sad, isn't it, when you don't see any progress. No, but like, for me, it's like, you know, even for Tom, this will be four years.

So we've got two more months. March is Tom's four years. We've lost Tom. Yeah. And think I had then 18 months. So you're like five and a half years. Nothing has been changing five and a half years. That's mad, isn't it?

What change do you want? I want, you know, stuff to be, well, I just think they need more. They need more funding. They need more resources. And they need to get stuff out of phase two, fucking trial. It's just so frustrating because you're like, how can things, like, not be moving?

Oh, I know. I know. Same as like the, you know, like the, that Anna motherfucker does about working moms. I mean, she has been campaigning for years. And like things are changing, but slowly. It's so slowly and the wheels turn so slowly. Yeah.

There needs to be changed. There needs to be changed. So we want change in 2026. Yeah, that's it. I need to look after my body a little bit more. I want to look after my, just my well-being a bit more. I need to be a bit healthier because. Come to me. Come to me, my darling.

I'm going to go and have a crystal session with Kelsey. No, but it's not about crystals. That's not about crystals. But also, the crystal session will help you. Come into a circle will help you. Come to one of my retreats. Listen, maybe I will. You would love it.

Would I? It would all make sense. Would it? Yeah, I think you'd actually love it. You'd cry your eyes out. You'd love it though. Oh, I know, I'd cry. I mean, I'm a cry.

Everyone cries. Did I mean, Kelsey's just... You? No, so I have to hold it together because I'm hosting. Oh, okay. I got you. Yeah. But little Kel,

she just sits in crying to everybody's stories. I'm like, Kel, does she? Shut up crying at everyone. She's my spirit animal. Yeah. I think as well,

going into 2026, I want to just be a bit more chill with my, like, parenting and I was with one of my friends the other day, and they paired up a pair of socks, a pair of my socks, my washing was on the side.

I was like, oh, you've not done that right. She was like, does it matter, though? Does it really matter how I just paired those socks? Well, how do you pay your socks, George? Well, in a certain way. I'll maybe post a picture so people can see.

Do you fold your clothes a certain way? Are you that person? Yep, fold my towels a certain way. I'm very particular. Yeah, let it go. Life's not that important to worry. Let things go a little bit. Let things slide a little bit.

I'll be walking down the street. Everyone's like, wow, George has really let herself go. Like, what? Listen, I'm just a hippie now. Yeah, that's it. I'm doing what I want. I'm not going to pair my socks the way I used to all, right? I'm not even going to pair my socks.

No, I am. That would put the, no. Oh, yeah, you have to pair socks. You have to pair socks. The other day, Cooper was like, oh, when we've got to go to school in, um, odd socks, I was like, ooh. Yeah. I don't like.

I can't, you can't. I can't. It's for charity. Oh, okay. We'll do it then. If you could replay a moment from last year and do it again in 2026, is there anything? Is there anything, like, positive? For me, I'm not that person.

am I? That was that. You can't replay, can you? You done, I think anything in life, you know, what you said and what you've done is there and that's how you felt in that moment and you can't go back and you can't change it because that is how you felt and that's okay. Even, you know, with your parenting, yeah. If you've, you know, lost your temper and shout at your kids there and then, that's how you felt there and then you can't, you can't change that. Yeah. You have to, that's it. Yeah. You just move forward. It's true. I do want to try and like manage my because you know when you're tired

and can I say that's how people get anxiety as well how? Because when you're replaying things that's how you get anxiety because you're like why did I do that? Why did I say that? Like it doesn't matter you said and you've done how you felt at that time so don't judge yourself

because then you're just playing it and playing it and you're actually being cruel to yourself and that is how anxiety starts playing it's manifest you know when people after you've had a drink and you go oh like I don't drink a lot anymore but sometimes when I drink and I go oh god what did I say that because I literally I'm wild when I drink because I just say what I am wild but I don't really drink anymore no you don't do you really but I would overplay that and think oh my god but they're not even thinking

about what you've said but you're tormenting yourself yeah yeah you can be your own worst enemy sometimes with stuff like that can't you even like after you've done this pod do you go away and think about what you've said I don't actually no I don't Not anymore. You used to though, didn't you? I did for a period of time, but no, I don't so much anymore now. No, because you've said what you've said and that's it. And that's how you felt in this room.

In these four walls? In these four walls, Kel. Just getting out to all these people. Yes, thousands of people. Would you replay anything can change it? Would I? I don't think so. I wish I'd enjoyed the house renovation a bit more.

But then when you're in that, you're in it. When you're living something, can you're in it? and it's great to go, oh, when I'm taking a step out and looking in, oh, I wish I enjoyed it. But it's stressful, George, as if anyone's enjoying a house renovation. Yeah, it is. I know. Unless you are a multi-millionaire and you're putting in like, oh, somebody else is doing it. And they're going, oh, my interior designer did that. And this person, you're going, I've got the builders in, I've got to do Cooper's dinner.

I've got to go and get his homework. I've got to get into guitar lesson, then Danny's doing that. Yeah. I think that's something that, like, you know, like that parental. So why do you bother paying for a therapist? Just come to me. I know, just do. This is not mum's the word anymore.

This is Kelsey and Georgia's therapy session. Live. Live through therapy. Maybe we just get people guessing and you give them therapy. That's what we'll do. Not being paid enough. No, and I think, I think as well, like, I want to just, like, slow down my pace of life, as in I don't have to do everything.

with everyone. Like, if I'm tired, and I did start doing this a little bit in 2025, if I'm tired, if it's too much, I can say, actually, do you know what? I'm not going to do that.

I'm not going to come to this or do that. I think there's a real fine line, and I did speak about this just before Christmas, because I was going to an event. And for me, like, I wasn't claiming that I've got anxiety,

because I don't think I've got anxiety. I think I've got, Fear of other people. Right. For me in my situation. So when I'm going somewhere and people are looking at you and you're thinking, I know what you're thinking and you don't actually know what to say to me. So you're going to walk across over there and not actually talk to me because you don't know what to say. Yeah.

It's that. Yeah. So I can't say, oh, I've got anxiety about going out. But I think we've fed this narrative a bit of like say no, say no. But I think say yes. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Obviously, I think if you're run to the ground and you actually can't cope anymore.

Yeah. You do like going out. I love going out. I absolutely love it. And you don't, yeah, we're more yesers than no. Yeah, we are. And like, maybe what I want to is more for me rather than for other people. Yes.

And I think in the industry we're in, you get invited to a lot of places. And I think that's the circumstance where you need to look and go, what am I getting from this? Yeah. What's children you getting from this? Yeah. Are you going because you want to have the nice food and the nice drink? And that's absolutely fine.

I do quite like the nice food and the nice drink actually. We always like the nice food. People can invite us to the events where there's nice food and nice drink. And a goody bag preferably, actually. The good goody bag. But do you what I mean? I think you need to look at and go, what am I going to get out of it? Because that's not selfish.

That's just thinking about you. And maybe what people around you are getting from it. And I don't think it necessarily is a bad thing to be a little bit selfish sometimes. Like, because we don't think about. ourselves a lot. As mothers, especially, we don't think about ourselves. I think a lot of moms are selfless and they just go, it's all

about your kids. Well, we put ourselves at the bottom of the power. I am, the other day, one of my best mate, she messed to me, she was like, book that doctor's appointment and book whatever it was because I just haven't, because I've gone, oh, it's fine, I'm too busy, I've got this to do, and X to do, and Cooper needs me for this, and I just don't have time. And I was like,

actually I need to. I think it was my smear, Mathematous test And I just kept putting it off And I was like We have them for a reason We We probably don't think we do But I do think we have them for a reason

You know we need to have them Personally, my opinion Personal opinions And I just kept putting it off Just didn't go And it's because I'm too busy Being a parent Yeah

So I think Yeah In that respect I do need to be a little bit more selfish I definitely want to book myself Do you remember last year I booked myself that trip away

By myself in the middle of nowhere Being snowed in Got snowed in And it was bliss Quite scary but bliss Because I was bit scared on a night time I'm definitely going to do that again Because it was quite

transformative I would say for me Because you just had you And you had thoughts And you was in your own thoughts So it's great And I watched all of Ted Lassau Which is great

I mean I don't remember the last time I've just sat And what was great about it, and I'd suggest anyone to do this, even if it's just going to like a bloody, some cheap hotel, anything, just to sit in a room on your own

and not feel guilty for not doing anything. I feel guilty for just being a bit lazy. Yeah. Having a bath at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It's the guilt. It's the guilt that gets you though. It is, isn't it? I really think it is.

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I got a big plan this year. I feel that was a secretive answer. Yeah. No, I have got big plans that I was speaking about last year that I'm going to put into action. Into action. Big things are going to happen. Oh, girls. Watch the space.

And you're a manifester, aren't you? I actually don't really manifest. Oh, you don't manifest? No. Okay. I am in the moment and I just think I put positive thoughts out there so hopefully the positivity will come back to me. Well, I mean, I'm sure.

Because it's positive vibrations. Yeah. And also you can't look at the negative, can you? No, well, you can't, but you shouldn't. Yeah. Fun fact. So last year I came into the podcast. It was in November.

and I said to Kelsey, I was like, oh, Kelsey, you like this. I just looked at my phone and the time was 11-11 and I made a wish. And Kelsey was like, oh my God, well, this is amazing because it's 11th of the 11th. And you looked at the time that was 11-11. And guess what? What? One of my best friends, little girls, was born that day as well. She was little Winnie.

She was born on the 11th of the 11th. And I'd looked at my phone. She picked when she wanted to come in. Oh, yeah, we were waiting, weren't we? We were waiting. And I forgot to tell you, you wouldn't believe it, she was then born on the 11th. Oh, Winnie's here to change the world and do big things. Yeah, she's picked that date for a reason.

To come into the world. That's interesting. Ooh, I love it when Kelsey tells me things like this. It's like, but what's Winnie going to do? What is something that you've learned about parenting that you're going to put into action this year, that you maybe learn about parenting last year? Sometimes you don't have the right answers that your children want to listen to.

Yeah. And that's okay. How old are your kids going to be this year then? Odie's going to be six and a regularie is going to be seven. Oh my gosh. Wow. It's going to be eight. I can't believe it.

I know. But, and maybe for them, there doesn't have to be an answer to everything. Yeah. And they need to learn that now because we don't all have the answers to life, do we? Well, absolutely not. this year I'm going to be more proactive with making Cooper eat different food because my parenting is very lazy when it comes to Cooper and his food because he is so fussy and I pick him up from school

and by the time we've got home and got settled the last thing I want to do is I have an argument with him about him eating something he doesn't want to eat because we're both tired and you just passed it and arguments are hard yeah And also, if he has actually got the fear, I mean, I was in there thinking, see my homeopath. She might be able to help. Yeah, maybe.

You're so negative. I'm not. Listen. What if it works? He might genuinely have a fear of food, though, as well. He's not got a fear of food. He's just a fussy bugger, really. But there might be something going on as to why.

Do you think so? We need to come. We need to find out why. I think it's just because he really likes chocolate and things that are breaded. We all just like chocolate. I mean, if I could eat you. To be honest, if I could eat fish, fingers, waffles and beans every night, I absolutely would. Or turkey dinosaurs.

Yeah, that's it. I love for turkey dinosaurs. The thing is your body does crave certain things. This is a different talk, George, off camera. People are, oh my God, she's actually mental. Actually, maybe should share all my beliefs and stuff this year and be more open with it. Maybe you should. Do you know what?

Everyone is actually doing it. I think the change of, like, health in this country has, like, massive. jump to people being actually on board with what I'm saying. We are all very different as well. Just because I think one thing doesn't mean you have to think the same thing. Oh no, I definitely don't. I definitely don't. Me and Kelsey are quite different.

But we get on. But no, and I've just learned so much. I feel like last year as well, the learning. I think whenever anything big happens in my life, the learning I do is massive because these people come to me. Yeah. and teach me even more. Yeah.

And I think what I've learnt this year and what I'm going to do with the kids will just be so different within their health and everything. So... Do you want to travel anywhere in particular this year with the kids? Yeah, I would like to see the world more.

Maybe America would be on the cards. I quite like to... Because they are getting to an age where we could probably do the trip now. Yeah, do that length of time. I'd quite like to do more like outdoor activities with coops, like camping and... You know. Come and join us in sandwich.

Why? What do you do in sandwich? Camp every year. Do you? Oh, is that what you did? Yeah, it's the camping trip. Shall I? Yeah, come.

She would do a mum so well. You would literally love it because you'd just be with Julian Dye and drinking the red wine. You'd literally be in your element. I would, yeah. That's exactly what I would do. You would love it. Hung over in a tent is not the one though, is it? Yeah, but I feel like as well, because you're out in the fresh air.

Your hangover isn't actually as bad, even because you're out in the fresh air straight where you wake up. Yeah, I mean. Kels, I turn 40 at the end of this year now. Oh yeah, you've got your list. You've got a big year. You've got a big year ahead of you. Oh, God, I do. You've forgot about your list of things.

Do you know, as well, I want to go to a tulip farm. What? What? Is this from your flower arranging days? No, but, Kel. And we go back to our roots. I don't know whether you can see this on the screen. I've only got one thing and it just says tulip farm on my list.

I need to, right. She's going back. To her roots. Yes. Well, I am a florist daughter, you see, and I've never been to a tulip fan. And she did do flower arranging for her special talent when she won. Was it Miss World? I didn't win Miss World.

Miss England. But I did it in Miss World as well, you know. The wave's gone. You've lost the wave. Lost the way. You've lost it. Do it again. Do it again.

Is that what you have to do? Isn't it more like that? Well, you'd have entered then. That's what I was doing, wasn't I? No, it wasn't as like curve. Look at that hand. Sorry. Somebody went to performing arts. Yes, I want to go to a tulip farm.

I've never been to a tulip farm. Right. I think maybe your list is a bit short as well. You have big plans in 2025 of your faulty list. Was that just for an episode? I need no. She had horse riding as a hobby. She was off the list. I just hadn't started writing it, but I need to put horse riding.

You got your cabin in the words. Hang on. This is live, guys. Coming from, mum's a word live. I'm writing my 40 before 40 list. Cabin in the woods. Gabbing in the woods. What was my other one?

This is the problem I forget. Horse riding. Horse riding. Okay, we've got three things now on my list. Great. If anybody's got any ideas, though, for what I can put on my list, send them in. Outdoors, you just said outdoor activities with Cooper.

Oh yeah, outdoor activities. See, this is the problem, girls. Outdoor activities. Camping. Camping. Okay. Yeah, if anyone's got any ideas. send them in and we can read them out on the next episode, can't we? Actually, I tell you what, send them in.

Kelty can read them out to me and I'll do a yes or a no. Yeah, yeah, yep, no. Yeah, that's what we'll do. Is there any risks you'd like to take in 2020s? Risk taker. Are you a risk taker? Am I a risk taker? Are you a risk taker?

It depends what your risk is. Like, what are we talking risk-wise? That's a hard question. I'm sorry, I like to ask the hard question. Are you a risk-taker? No. You just like to play it safe? I think so.

Maybe I should take more risks. But it's like what risks are we talking about? More like safe risks. Yeah, and sailing down a cliff like, no, I'm okay for you. Yeah, like that. I don't think I'd take the risk of going on the back of Danny's motorbike. I don't think I'd do that risk. No.

He's going to be upset though. Does he want you to go on the back of the motorbike? Yes. He goes on. I feel like men as well when they have a hobby, they almost like want you to do it with them. Some do and some don't. Yeah.

Like, I've got friends that are like... Goals different. Go and do golf by yourself. I think men do golf to get away from their wives, do they not? I'd get really annoyed if Danny started jumping in on all my hobbies. Because I'd be like, I'm doing this hobby because I need a break. I need time. I need time.

I'm doing this. Because I need alone time. Shall we do? Our first... We listen and we don't judge. 2026. Can we say this first one? I don't think you can read that one.

Right. I'm going to read this, but Dom, producer Dom is going to be in trouble if this is something, well I mean, I don't think it is something we can say. So, oh, it said it is a food though. Yeah, it is. Shouting Faggots, that's a food I had for tea last night.

Oh, so this must have been... In Priscilla Queen of Desert. In the Priscilla Queen of Desert's musical. I think their kid must have shouted it. Do you? I have no idea. I don't understand that one. we listen and we don't do it because faggagg is a food it is a food isn't it so i wonder whether

their kid had shouted it at what my daughter told her teacher she saw me shaving my bum oh i'd love to know whether this person was shaving their front bum or their back bum though i reckon the bum mom do you think so yeah i reckon the front bum bum oh it's like when you change your tampon in front of your kid for the first time what's that? I think Cooper nearly passed out. I didn't want to do it actually. I was, but I don't think I had a choice. He was just in there with me.

He still gets shocked when I, if ever I do a little pump in front of him. You don't fart, do you? I don't fart, so sometimes my shoe might squeak and he's shocked. My son pooed and it went through the nappy. I was covered in yellow baby poo in the middle of the park. I think that's happened to majority of us. There's no judgment there. Also, yellow pooed.

Yellow baby poo is not the bad one, is it? It's when they start eating solids and it turns to actual proper poo. Yeah. The yellow poo doesn't, well, right, don't judge me. You're listening and you're not judging. Yeah, I'm listening. I don't mind the smell of new baby poo. You know, when it's a new...

Yeah, it doesn't smell, no. When it's just that yellow kind, I think it's really non-offensive. It's non-offensive. She'll deal with that. It's now the poos. Yeah, it's the adult... The adult poo. ...smelling poos.

I accidentally sent my child. into nursery in pajamas, they thought it was a new outfit. I think the parent thought it was a new outfit. I thought it was a new outfit. To be fair, some pajamas do look like a little co-od. I don't think that was anything wrong with that. Sometimes, like, Rayleigh's got such a nice, like, Christmas pyjama set that she could get away with it being like an actual, like, because it's like, uh, velvet.

Yeah, yeah. Like, it could look like an actual going out outfit. Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's fine. Anyway, I don't think people. people care anymore. I think you can wear what you want when you want and be who you want. So don't worry about it.

Wear whatever you want. Told my kids, I couldn't find their tablets they were charging behind the sofa. I've done the old, it's out of battery darling, so I'm afraid you can't go on that now. But does Cooper not know now? He's like, well, I'll just put it on charge. Can we do this? I don't think it is, mummy. I'm like, no, it is. But do you know, we accidentally left Cooper's switch at my sister's while back last year, actually. and it was wonderful. To have the break. Yeah, because like it forced him to have a detox from screens. And he actually didn't seem to miss it too much.

Well, that was my best thing that I did last year. Yeah. Go out of the screens. Yeah, you're not a screen girl, are you? It's been a gang changer. And even in the mornings, we don't do any TV. Do not? They would just watch TV in the evenings.

But then Aradia's activities till like six, seven o'clock. So she's just literally coming in, eating dinner, and yeah it's been really good Yeah I think more for Aurelia than anyone Yeah Because Bodie can

He's not affected by them But she actually When she actually said to me It does funny things to my brain Yeah That was a bit like Oh okay She can't actually cope with it

And you know what With her you can see In certain situations That her brain can't cope with it Like if there's lots going on She's a bit like Whoa this is too much Do you think

But you know Because we say Well you say think she's probably got ADHD. Yeah. Do you think there's probably a link to kids with ADHD being affected by screens more? Yeah, and I think they're addicted more because they've got the addiction in them, haven't they? Yeah, of course. It's like an obsession.

She would fixate and when she'd come off it, she wasn't very nice. No. And she is actually a lovely little girl and she said, mum, it does funny things to my brain. Oh, yeah. So for her to actually verbalise that. It's good she verbalised it, though. Yeah. It's really good. Because she knows, because she's like, oh, actually, I get really angry when I get off it.

So I think, you know, it is hard to do that as a parent because I think the tablets are a bit of a lifeline. Yeah, they are. Like when you are at the end and you're like, right, just have the tablet. Yeah, just to go on that while mommy does, while mummy goes off and does this. I mean, we're saying all this, but I'm 99.9.9% sure for Cooper's birthday, which will be very soon because it's the 27th of, oh my God, have I forgot my child's birthday? 27th. 27th of January.

No, so all of a sudden I got the number 8 in my head because he was born in 2008. Yeah. Good Lord, I got worried. He's probably going to have a gaming party. So I've just contradicted myself quite heavily there, but do you know what?

We listen. And we don't judge. No, and I do think boys are more PlayStation and gaming. And also the problem is with a January child. You can't get out. What birthday parties are you doing? Oh God, unless you rent out of the church hall and then...

And he's getting a bit old for that. Yeah, he's getting a bit old. He doesn't want that, he's going to want the gaming party. Exactly. So, yeah. Anyway, look, no judgment. No judgment. Well, that's a wrap, Kels, on another episode.

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