Riddhi Deorah argues that parenting becomes significantly easier when caregivers have the right tools, knowledge, implementation skills, mentorship, and guidance. She uses a simple analogy—feeding a child soup with versus without a spoon—to show how the same task can be messy and stressful without proper tools but straightforward and less distressing with them, and she invites the audience to choose how they want to parent.
Have you ever tried feeding soup to your child without a spoon? Of course not. Why? Because the soup would spill over your child, would be all messy, and you would not feel good as a mother. But imagine doing the same thing with the right tool, which means a simple tool like spoon can make the experience so much better. Same child, same spoon. But having soup is so much easier now. And parenting is exactly the same. When you have the right tools and the right knowledge, parenting becomes a lot easier. But if you don't have the right tool, if you're not learning, if you don't have the right information, the same process of parenting can be so challenging, overwhelming. It can make you feel depressed, anxious, you're fighting with your child, your child is not listening to you. And all of this is happening because we don't have the right tools and the right knowledge. So. So when we have the right tools, knowledge, information, implementation, mentorship, guidance, the same act of parenting becomes so much simpler. So I want to ask you, how do you want to parent your child with the right tool or without any tools?