To be a parent

Name: To be a parent
Uploaded: 2024-12-14T11:00:12+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Vanessa Marin
Description: Transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Vanessa Marin and another speaker) critiquing universal parenting advice. Speakers argue that people…

14 Dec 2024 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:44

Transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Vanessa Marin and another speaker) critiquing universal parenting advice. Speakers argue that people often generalize from their own single experience and prescribe one-size-fits-all rules, and they emphasize that parents’ situations and children differ, so blanket judgments are unfair.

If we did have kids, I would still say I don't understand what it's like for you to be a parent. Oh, yeah, I don't have your kids. I'm not living your life. I'm not in your situation. And I think that's actually one of the biggest problems with parenting focused content these days, is there are so many people out there saying, like, all parents should do this. You're a bad parent if you don't do that.
Speaking from my, like, my observation of like n equals 1. My observation of I have my own experience of my child or my children, and therefore. Or I can tell you how to raise your kids based on your situation that I don't actually understand.
Yeah. I mean, I actually think I would be infuriated by that if I was a parent. And, like, hearing somebody say, like, you have to do this or you're bad if you're doing this.
Yeah, it works for me. So why wouldn't it work for you?
Yeah, it's like, you're not living my life. You don't have my kid. You don't know me. You don't know me.