The Unhelpful Parenting Podcast

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?FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify, and review on Apple, and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK8sNwyXfyuxdzCc0FI5xwINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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!FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK8sNwyXfyuxdzCc0FI5xwINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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.FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK8sNwyXfyuxdzCc0FI5xwINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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 doneBec'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 hardThen 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 answerThen 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!FOLLOW US FOR MORE!Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website.Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK8sNwyXfyuxdzCc0FI5xwINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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?FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHK8sNwyXfyuxdzCc0FI5xwINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

Strap in for some eye watering parenting confessions and the hilarious kids quotes parents sent in! #kidssaythedarndestthingsWe 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!FOLLOW US FOR MORE!Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website.Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnhelpfulParentingPodcastINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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!FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnhelpfulParentingPodcastINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com

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! FOLLOW US FOR MORE! Catch questions and story requests on our social media accounts, or send us your confessionals through our website. Subscribe to YouTube, rate on Spotify and review on Apple and tell us what you think!YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnhelpfulParentingPodcastINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/theunhelpfulparentingpodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Unhelpful-Parenting-Podcast/61556566731913/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunhelpfulparentingpodWE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: Send us your stories & parenting confessionals! https://www.theunhelpfulparentingpodcast.com