The Matt Walsh Show
Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Sat, 18 Jan 2025
Matt Walsh takes to Reddit to react to parenting advice questions and correct the bad advice they receive. - - - Today’s Sponsor: PDS Debt - PDS Debt is offering a free debt analysis. It only takes thirty seconds. Get yours at https://PDSDebt.com/walsh
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I could not go on without you Lisa. You're scaring me. You are lying. I never hit you. You are tearing me apart, Lisa. Okay, we're ready, Matt.
Okay, as we do some times here, we're going to take a look at... Go over to Reddit, where people often go seeking advice. Advice in many different areas of their life. But in particular, this is somewhere where parents will go looking for advice, which is like the worst possible place to go. And so...
We're going to go through some of these questions, and they may be looking for advice from strangers on Reddit, but instead they're going to get advice from me, which, as you know, the advice that I give is at least a little better than what you'll get from random people on Reddit. So I'll say that much for myself. Okay, there's this one, says, I can't wait for today to be over every day.
I'm literally wishing away my life and time with my toddler while she's still so young. I can't wait for her to go to bed every night. This is a me problem, not her. She's amazing, fun, and funny, a good sleeper, good eater, generally very well behaved, but I'm overwhelmed as a parent, overstimulated, tired, and just want to veg out every night because my brain is too full. I feel so guilty.
Has anyone else felt like this for a long time, like 19 plus months? What did you do? How did you get over it? And reading the responses, and of course everyone is saying, yeah, it's totally normal and okay to feel this way. And that's all you're ever going to get from Reddit. That's all you're going to get from a lot of people, especially the internet.
If you pose a dilemma like this on the internet anywhere, not just on Reddit, you get people encouraging you to continue along a path that you obviously feel bad about.
You're going down a path I can't follow.
Because of Michael Knowles. Now, can any parent relate? Well, yeah, of course. I have found myself on plenty of occasions eagerly awaiting bedtime. But that doesn't mean that it's fine. We actually should not have this attitude as parents. So you should fight against it.
Fight back, you coward! Fight back!
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