Jackie ‘O’ Henderson fears her daughter, nine, is taking advantage of her

Radio presenter Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has vowed to be a stricter parent after her nine-year-old daughter, Kitty, started taking advantage of her during coronavirus lockdown.

She explained on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday that Kitty, who is being home schooled via Zoom, had been asking for snacks ‘like it’s hotel room service’ and leaving a mess around the house. 

‘I’m cleaning up after her constantly and I’m doing a lot of her work,’ she said.

Her co-host, Kyle Sandilands, said: ‘That is not how I would parent. You’d make your own food and drink or you’d starve to death.’

Jackie didn’t quite agree, but did concede she was being too soft on her daughter. 

‘I’ve decided that I’m going to become a stricter parent now,’ she declared.

When Kitty demands food during class, Jackie said, she is going to respond with something like: ‘You know where the fridge is.’

Kyle didn’t think she was being tough enough, and told her sarcastically: ‘That is so strict. I wouldn’t be able to handle that strictness!’

The mother-of-one, 45, replied: ‘I don’t want to go too strict because she’s really sensitive and she’ll cry.’

This comment made Kyle and newsreader Brooklyn Ross immediately skeptical, and they both suggested Kitty was trying to emotionally manipulate her mother.

‘Do you think she’s having me on?’ Jackie asked. 

‘[The crying] was happening so much that I started to think, “She’s been turning it on this whole time and I’ve been falling for it.”‘

It comes after she revealed on air last week that she had suffered an embarrassing moment during one of Kitty’s classes on Zoom.

Jackie, who is broadcasting her KIIS FM breakfast show from her home in Sydney, had loudly called out to her daughter so she could record a soundbite.

Kitty was in the other room on a video call with her teacher and fellow students, and Jackie was left mortified because they had all heard her shouting.

‘She’s on Zoom… S**t!’ she said, sounding mortified. ‘Can you put the teacher on mute?’

Jackie shares custody of Kitty with her ex-husband Lee Henderson.

The couple separated in 2018 after 15 years of marriage, but remain on amicable terms as they co-parent their daughter.

Kitty previously lived with her father during the week to accommodate Jackie’s early starts as a breakfast radio host, but she is now living with her mother, who is broadcasting from a home studio during the coronavirus pandemic.