Ep. 520 - If We Don't Close Schools For The Flu, Why For COVID?
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media, Democrats, and teachers unions are pushing for schools to remain closed due to COVID. But the actual facts about the virus make it clear that schools can and should be re-opened. Also Five Headlines including Bill De Blasio fretting over his BLM mural while babies are shot dead in the street. And today for our Daily Cancellation, long overdue, I will be canceling mommy bloggers.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media, Democrats, teachers unions are pushing for schools to remain closed, seemingly indefinitely, I guess, due to COVID-19.
But the actual facts about the virus make it clear that schools can be reopened, should be reopened.
So what's this really about?
Why are they actually trying to keep schools closed?
We'll talk about all that today.
Also, five headlines, including Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York fretting over his BLM mural that was painted on the street, which is really more glorified graffiti than a mural, fretting over that while babies are shot dead in his city.
We'll talk about that.
Also, today for our daily cancellation, long overdue, we will be cancelling mommy bloggers.
It's time.
It needs to happen, and that's going to happen today.
But, beginning with this, it's been strange, you know, I have to say, because I have been Reliably informed, we've all been reliably informed over and over and over again that our teachers, our sainted teachers, especially our public school teachers, are self-sacrificing heroes who care only about educating our precious children, right?
We've all heard that, okay?
Equipping the next generation, you know, getting our kids ready for the future.
They're doing the hardest job, they're doing the most important job, but they're passionate about it, they love doing it, they care.
They care about our kids.
Right?
I remember hearing this.
Don't you remember that?
Many times, in fact.
Incessantly, even.
Until the point of nausea, you might say.
But now we're being told that many teachers don't want to go back to work.
They don't want to go back to school.
They don't want to educate our kids because they're scared of the virus.
As the NYT reports in this headline, they are fearful and angry about being pressured to go back to school.
They're making demands, as teachers seem to so often do.
The LA Teachers Union has a long list of demands that will need to be met before they'll go back to school.
Many of them seemingly disconnected entirely from COVID concerns.
For example, they want to defund the police.
That's part of the... What does that have to do with COVID?
Who knows?
Apparently, I don't know, the police are out there intentionally spreading the virus, those bastards.
It's just yet another thing that the evil police are doing.
But the mellow drama from teachers is really off the charts.
Newsweek reports that teachers in Texas are writing their wills because they have to go back to school.
They're also getting medical power of attorney established.
They're taking out extra life insurance policy.
This is all according to what some teachers in the article are saying.
And these dramatics are echoed by the media and many other people in our country.
Some in the media, like Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post, have flat-out said that sending our kids back to school is killing them.
We are giving them a death sentence by sending them back to school.
That's what's being argued.
Now, let's look at the actual facts.
Those pesky things.
I'm going to show you some graphs here, and I posted this on my Twitter.
You can go there as well.
I got all this information from the American Council on Science and Health, the CDC, the National Center for Education Statistics, and an article in Business Insider.
That's where I get all these statistics.
Okay, here is the infection fatality rate for COVID by age.
All right, there's the chart.
And you see it's minuscule for kids, school-aged kids.
From .001 for the youngest set to .0003 for the middle school to high school bracket.
Okay, that's the mortality rate for COVID for school-aged kids.
Now, here's the important point.
Via Business Insider, the death rate for the flu in that same bracket is substantially higher.
Still low, still very low, but substantially higher.
So, if you've never said that sending our kids to school during flu season is a death sentence and we're killing them and it's a heartless and cruel thing to do, but you are saying that now about COVID, then I have only one question for you.
When did you become such a shameless lying hack?
That's my only question.
See, I don't want to hear this stuff about, oh, so you're saying even if the death rate's .001%, you're saying that's okay?
You're okay with that?
You're okay with those kids dying?
Well, that's what you say during flu season.
Every single flu season, that's what you say.
By your own logic, anyway.
That's what you say.
As for teachers, because that's what this is all really about, we see that the death rate for adults is also very low until you get to the 50 plus range.
And then it really skyrockets at 65 plus.
And many of those in 65, because 65 plus is a large age bracket, right?
Many of those are going to be 75, 80, 85 years old or older in nursing homes.
And we know that's one of the reasons.
The death rate for COVID is precipitously declining even as cases go up.
And one of the reasons the case is going up is because they're testing more for it.
But either way, the death rate is going down in this country.
You wouldn't know that from all the hysterics in the media.
But it is.
Why is the death rate going down?
Well, one of the reasons Is that many of these states, as we have covered, as we covered extensively when it was happening, many of these states intentionally set COVID-infected people into nursing homes and it just decimated the nursing home population.
And they're not doing that anymore.
After months of doing it, finally they've been shamed into stopping.
And what do you know?
Now that we have actually successfully protected the nursing home population, the death rate is declining.
Significantly.
Okay, so those are the death rates by age group.
What's the average age of teachers, though?
Do we have a majority of 65-year-old teachers?
Well, no.
The average age for teachers in America, according to this graph, is 42.
Only a relatively small minority are in the highest-risk age group.
What this means is that The vast majority of people in a school, from the students to the teachers, administrators, are not at any substantial risk.
Students especially.
And that's probably why the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidance strongly urging that schools be reopened.
What the American Academy of Pediatrics says, and this is hardly a right-wing organization, What they say is that it's better for the kids and healthier and safer for them if we send them back to school.
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So let me read this a little bit.
This is from the NPR report on the American Academy of Pediatrics.
As a nation's pediatricians have come out with a strong statement in favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall wherever and whenever they can do so safely.
The American Academy of Pediatrics guidance, quote, strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.
The guidance says schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and well-being.
The AAP cites mounting evidence that transmission of the coronavirus by young children is uncommon, partly because they are less likely to contract it in the first place.
On the other hand, the AAP argues that based on the nation's experience this spring, remote learning is likely to result in severe learning loss and increased social isolation.
Social isolation, in turn, can breed serious social, emotional, and health issues, child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation, it cites as as particular risks.
Now, all of this said, okay, are there risks involved in opening schools?
Well, of course there are, there are always risks.
There are risks from disease, there are risks from violence, there are risks for all kinds of risks that go
with just leaving your house and certainly setting your kids at school.
There are risks involved with that.
But what is the other option?
Okay, you see, that's the question that the COVID fear mongers have never answered.
They always avoid, they refuse to answer it.
They complain about reopening, they go into their hysterics anytime it happens, launching into this whole dramatic production, but they never explain what they would prefer to see happen.
Except in very vague terms.
They'll say something like, well, it needs to be better.
That's what I know.
This isn't good.
We need a better.
Well, what's your plan?
What should we do instead?
Something better?
That's what we should do.
We should have a better thing than this.
That's my idea.
Oh, very, very, very good.
Very helpful.
Thank you for that.
No, they won't go into specifics.
They won't, they won't lay it out.
So I will.
You know, they're not going to do it, so let me do it.
There are broadly two options here.
Only two.
One is to reopen schools while the virus is still out there and there's no cure, and to do our best to manage the risks.
The other is to keep them closed indefinitely, possibly for years, until an effective vaccine is ready and available.
Whenever that happens, if it ever happens.
That's it.
Okay?
There are different ways of approaching those two options, but those are the options.
One way or another.
It's going to be some version of one of those.
Door one or door two.
Here's the irony.
Most of the people who go with option two, even if they won't quite say it explicitly, it does appear that option two is what they want, keep schools closed indefinitely, even if that means for years, however long it takes for the virus to go away.
And by the way, before I get to that, Another dodge that you'll hear from people is to say, well, we need to wait until the virus is under control or we have to wait till the curve is flattened.
Well, we did flatten the curve and we are getting the virus under control, especially when it comes to the death rate, which is declining.
But the point is that whatever we do, even if the curve, whatever magical curve we're talking about, if it goes away, if we get it under control, whatever that means in your head, if it's still out there and there's no cure, Then whenever you reopen, it's probably going to start surging again because it's still there.
So whatever you do to get it under control by hiding in your house, it's because you're in your house.
Whatever you leave your house, it's still going to be there and then it's going to reappear and it's going to happen again.
The only way to avoid that happening completely is to just stay in your house until there's a cure, a vaccine.
So we go back to really it's option one.
Either we are getting back to our lives when the virus is still out there or not.
It has to be one of those two, right?
Now most of the people that would apparently go with option two, keep the schools closed indefinitely, are also invariably the people who would say that the school experience is vital to the growth of our children.
Vital to their development and their maturity and their very lives.
So they're willing to potentially give up on a whole generation of children, give up on their education, because they're scared of getting sick.
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Now, talking about sending kids back to school, the irony is that although I'm taking the position of being in favor of opening them up again, I actually don't think that public schools are essential to the growth of children.
That's not my position.
I think they're often an impediment to growth.
I think that our education system is a disaster, and it destroys more children than it helps.
So, you know, I am here trying to hold the other side to its own standard, to its own rhetoric, but as far as my own perspective goes, I think kids can do just fine without the public school system.
So I'm almost arguing, you know, I'm trying to do a favor for the other side, I guess, in saying let's get the schools open because the kids need it.
That's what they're supposed to be saying.
The problem, though, of course, is that when it comes to shutting down the schools, The real problem is that our whole society is built around the public school system.
The broader societal structure is made so that it's essential to have free daycare eight hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year.
The biggest hurdle then, if you're shutting down schools, is to adjust to accommodate the loss of that daycare system.
But as far as the kids themselves, and that is a serious problem for a lot of families.
There's no dismissing or discounting that.
You know, if you're a two-income family, if you need two incomes to stay afloat, and you can't afford a private school, What are you going to do?
What have you been doing?
Now, I've heard different things, but it has been a very serious, very hard, even disastrous time for a lot of families because of that issue.
As far as the kids themselves go, though, on the other hand, on the matter of education in and of itself, homeschool is better for them anyway.
So, you know, maybe that's the silver lining here.
The school system is saying, you don't need us.
We're not essential.
Teachers are basically saying, we're not essential employees.
You don't need us.
Well, maybe we should take them at their word.
Maybe we should say, okay, fine, take the year off.
Matter of fact, take forever off.
We got this.
And then we go and take charge of our children's education again.
Which wouldn't be such a bad thing.
Now, again, I have always been a proponent of moving away from the factory assembly line system of education where we put all the kids into this system and this cookie cutter thing that they're supposed to fit into and we stuff 30 kids into a classroom and we have it handled by government employees.
I've always said that we need to move away from that as a society.
Now, I think that ideally we move away from it gradually so that society has time to adjust and families can adjust.
Doing it all at once like this can be disastrous, and that's what we're going through right now.
But the point is that the schools are the ones saying, apparently, that our kids don't need them.
And leaving aside all the concerns with, you know, who's going to take care of your kids during the day, when it comes to education, I guess my answer is, I agree.
We don't.
No matter what happens, though.
Last thing I'll say.
Please, God.
When the teachers do go back, don't let them start doing TikTok dancing videos.
Please.
I know it's gonna happen, but I'm begging.
Our country can't handle it.
We have suffered enough.
So please, anything but that.
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Let's go to Headlines, number one, Bill de Blasio, the big, dumb cantaloupe come to life, is overseeing a city that has plunged into violence and anarchy.
A baby was shot in the stomach and killed a couple days ago.
People are dying every day.
But here's what he's worried about.
From de Blasio, it says, to whoever vandalized our mural on Fifth Avenue, nice try.
Let's see, we've already fixed it.
The Black Lives Matter movement is more than words and it can't be undone.
This is what this dumb oaf is worried about.
People are dying left and right, and he's focused on the mural on the street.
A mural which, by the way, isn't really a mural, can I just say.
Words spray-painted on the street are not a mural.
That is state-sanctioned graffiti.
Let's not do it the favor of calling it a mural.
That's not a mural.
Murals have artistic value.
That doesn't.
But either way, artistic value or not, it doesn't matter.
No one cares about your stupid painting, you idiot.
Number two, here's a shocking turn of events.
A few weeks ago, a student at Texas A&M claimed that he found racist notes on his car.
They said, all lives matter, you don't belong here, and then another one had the N word.
He posted it online, it went viral, media covered it, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth.
And then what do you know, hoot-a-thunk, Terenzati wrote it himself.
I am floored.
I know you probably are too.
Who could have guessed that the old racist note left on the windshield thing would end up being fake?
I mean, it's only fake every single time.
Who could have possibly imagined that this one would be fake too?
Here's how ridiculous it's gotten.
That hate crime hoaxes are so common That there are now genres of them.
There are identifiable, recognizable genres.
And everyone has their own favorite, right?
Like there's this one, the racist note left on the car windshield gambit.
There's the racist graffiti, oftentimes sprayed on a garage or, you know, side of a house or somewhere else.
There's the racist note on the receipt, the fake racist note on the receipt.
That's maybe my personal favorite genre of the hate crime oaks.
There's of course the racist noose, obviously.
There's the racist note on a Starbucks cup is another one.
And then there are sometimes people, there's the genre bending, genre defying,
more ambitious efforts like the Jussie Smollett, for example.
You know, the thing is, I appreciate the Jussie Smolletts, I do, to have that ambition and to be a little bit more inventive.
Although, you know, you could argue that his hate crime hoax was derivative because all he really did was combine a few of these other genres and throw them together in kind of a grab bag sort of way.
There wasn't There wasn't much of a compelling narrative there, but I appreciated the effort, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
But really, when it comes down to it, my thing is no reason to get inventive.
You'll call me old-fashioned, but I like these quaint, you know, a little cliched genres.
So if you're gonna go with the hate crime hoax, I say stick with the classics.
You know, oldies but goodies.
Play the hits.
That's sort of my way of looking at it.
And that's what this guy did here.
He's just doing them, going with the standard, note on the card type of thing.
Not a lot of effort put into it, but that's okay.
Doesn't matter.
And the other thing is, of course, people on the left, doesn't matter how obvious it is, they'll accept it.
Doesn't matter.
So no reason to put some effort into it.
And usually we're good for about one a week now from at least one of these genres.
And, you know, it's a lot of fun.
But remember, America is systemically racist.
We have actual genres of hate crimes, but America is systemically racist.
Number three, I thought this was also a lot of fun.
Tweet from Ilhan Omar says, Income inequality is the greatest determinant of your health and life expectancy.
Our economy needs to work for the many, not the few.
The really interesting thing is that Ilhan Omar and the other people in Congress, AOC,
other members of the squad, as much as they talk about income inequality and how concerned they are
with it, they're making $174,000 a year as members of Congress, which is well over $100,000 more
than, significantly more than doubled the average American salary. So they could lead by example and
call for Congress to impose significant pay cuts on itself so that the salaries of our congressional
members reflects the average American salary, and then at least you're doing your own part
to solve the income inequality problem.
But they're not doing that, funny enough.
They're not interested in that.
And also Ilhan Omar, she apparently, allegedly, has been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her campaign to her husband's consulting firm.
It seems like she's, not only is she not doing things to solve the income inequality problem, but she is going out of her way to perpetuate that problem by making her own income all the more unequal to everybody else's.
Really strange how it works.
I mean, it's almost like, call me crazy, it's almost like these people don't give the slightest damn about income inequality at all.
You would almost think that, wouldn't you?
Number four, and as the wheel turns, another name change is being demanded.
This is from the Washington Post.
It says, uh, the Texas Rangers team name must go.
Members of the Texas Rangers force were violent agents of white supremacy.
So Texas Rangers were next to go.
I knew this was coming.
I saw this coming.
And what they're saying is that Texas Rangers were white supremacists.
They were violent men.
They killed Native Americans, so on and so forth.
Which, by the way, they were violent men and they did kill Native Americans.
The only thing that, you know, oftentimes is not mentioned by the people who advocate things like this is that they were doing battle with Indian tribes who themselves were extraordinarily violent.
And in fact, the Texas Rangers would have been battling the most violent Indian tribes in the entire country.
The Plains Indians, the Comanches in particular, You know would as we talked about last week
you know par for the course standard operating procedure for a tribe
like the Comanches was to Invade either neighboring tribes or it didn't matter if you
if you were it wasn't like they were just Lashing out against white expansionism. No, they would they
would treat you whether you were a white outsider or an Indian outsider
They would treat you the same and what that meant was invading your village or your tribe
Killing as many people as they could gruesomely Scalping, taking scalps as souvenirs.
Any men who were captured would automatically be tortured to death.
Again, standard operating procedure.
It was just understood that's what they would do.
Babies were automatically killed.
Women were gang raped and then killed.
Children were taken as enforceably adopted by the tribe.
And this is just how it went for centuries.
This is just what they did, how they operated.
Um, and that's what the Texas Rangers were up against.
They themselves were violent men.
It was a violent time and everybody was violent.
Um, but of course, you know, the Texas Rangers were the undisputed bad guys somehow, even though they're up against people who are doing Some of the most, committing some of those brutally horrific violent acts you could imagine, and even a lot of stuff you couldn't possibly imagine, even though that's the case, they're still totally the bad guys, 100%.
And the other side is entirely innocent.
Right.
Number five.
Finally, Johnny Depp, I guess, is in divorce proceedings with his wife, Amber Heard.
And I've seen these headlines pop up, I don't really care.
Except I did see, this I did care about a little bit.
I saw this photo was released today, shown in court.
It's Johnny Depp passed out, covered in ice cream.
And this is supposed to prove, I don't know, that he's a monstrous figure.
I'm not sure.
I just want to say, in his defense, okay, who has not fallen asleep covered in ice cream?
Haven't we all been there?
This is me three times a week.
I mean, my wife definitely has found me on the couch late at night with a plate of food, asleep, head hanging down like that, and the food just falling off into my lap.
I'm not high, I'm not on drugs, okay?
I'm not drunk.
It's stone cold sober.
But, you know, it happens.
You go for the late night snack, it's midnight, you're tired, and you fall asleep in the middle of eating.
Am I the only one?
Maybe I am.
Maybe it's just me and Johnny Depp.
Also, on a slightly more serious note, I suppose, I keep seeing these pictures of Johnny Depp in these compromising positions.
What kind of wife... I have no dog in this fight at all.
I don't even understand what the fight is.
I mean, it's a divorce, okay?
I guess that's pretty self-explanatory.
But what kind of wife takes pictures of their husband?
Like, you find your husband in a compromised position and you take a picture of him?
That's your first reaction?
You're really concerned about his health, and so you take pictures of him?
And save those pictures, and now you bring him out in court?
Yeah, that's a real loving and attentive wife there, he had for himself, I suppose.
Let's go to our daily cancellations, a very important one.
Well, they're all important, but this one especially.
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We're gonna be canceling mommy bloggers all of them They needed to be cancelled years ago.
I think it's probably too late for intervention at this point, but someone has to try because the entire mommy blogging genre is vapid and toxic, family and brain cell destroying.
It mostly consists of women complaining about their children, their husbands, and doing so publicly, of course, but trying to dress it up like it's an insight.
It's really nothing, it's just one long complaint, one complaint after another,
but it's supposed to be insightful somehow.
Exhibit A, we have this article, which has been getting shared on social media a lot the
past few days, from the mommy blog, scarymommy.com.
This was actually written a little while ago, but there's no statute of limitations on cancellations,
as we have learned.
So, I'm still going to cancel this and all mommy blogs because of it.
The title is, My Daughter is Hard to Like and I'm Sorry.
Alright, here's a little bit of the thing.
It says, The day that I realized my child is that child was a turning point for me as a mother.
It's the day I started to feel ashamed of my daughter and the way she behaves.
The day I started to wonder if there was something wrong with her or with me as the one who gave birth to her and is responsible for making her into a decent human being.
Yes, bingo.
You know, I think... See, right at the top there, she stumbles on the truth.
There is something wrong with her.
But then she proceeds to talk To go on for 2,000 more words talking about her daughter, not herself.
She says, it happened on a day like any other.
We were having a play date at our house with friends whom we know very well and have invited over countless times before.
My five-year-old and her four-year-old friend were running laps around the couch playing tag.
My daughter was it.
And when she couldn't catch up to her friend, she collapsed on the ground, pouting, close to tears, and shouted, I can't catch you.
You have to slow down.
You have to.
I won't play anymore if you don't.
And I looked at her with a sigh, as I always do at times like this.
And I looked at her friend, who is almost always smiley and agreeable, and that's what I knew.
I knew that a hypothesis that had been building in my head and my heart for months and months now was unequivocally true.
My child is not easy to like.
Well, I think part of the problem here is that your child's acting like a brat in public and acting out, and your response is just to sigh?
You're just staring at her as your child has a temper tantrum, just going, oh, jeez.
Here she goes again.
What are you gonna do?
Well, you could do something.
You're the mother.
And it wasn't because of that one event.
It was because that wasn't an isolated event at all.
Things like that happen all the time.
All the bloody time.
Whether she is alone with her siblings or with her friends or at home or in public, my daughter is the bossy one, the demanding one, the one making a scene at the store as she cries on and on and on because I won't let her buy a gymnastics leotard.
She is quick to cry, yell, throw the kind of tantrum that I once thought only two-year-olds were capable of.
She's disrespectful and rude.
She's moody.
Unable to share and overly concerned about every damn toy.
Insistent upon doing things her way.
Impossible if things don't go her way.
Manipulative.
Always thinking only of herself.
And always prepared to tell you exactly what she thinks and feels in that very moment.
If she doesn't like what you are doing, you will hear about it.
On and on.
I mean, just a long... Oh my goodness.
It's a long list.
This is a long indictment that this woman is publishing about her five-year-old.
And she says, later on she says, for those of you who encounter my darling big-eyed brat, you will be forgiven if you don't like her.
I often don't like her myself.
I am her mother and I love her because I have enjoyed her at her best.
I recognize her potential.
I know her strengths.
And then it goes on and on.
As women tend to do.
And finally, at the end of it, she pleads for the public to help her parent by straightening her daughter out with peer pressure.
She actually tries to solicit peer pressure against her daughter because she's given up on actually parenting.
Okay, a few things here.
First of all, you shouldn't love your child for their potential.
You're supposed to love them, period, just to love them because you're the parent.
Loving your child for her potential is a problem because what if she never lives up to the potential, your idea of her potential?
Are you going to stop loving her?
I guess so.
Apparently so.
Second, your child is a reflection of you.
Okay, which isn't to say that a child who acts out, you know, or whatever, or misbehaves, always has a bad parent.
That would be ridiculous, of course.
All kids act out.
All five-year-olds are varying degrees of difficult.
Kids also have their own minds and personalities, and you can only do so much to control them.
And kids will go through especially difficult phases at one point or another.
I think it's probably different for all kids.
You hear about the terrible twos.
You know, my wife and I talk all the time about, we never really experienced that.
Two, for us, is a pretty easy age.
Three becomes the difficult age.
So it's more, you know, three is more of the, it's the terrible threes more than the terrible twos.
But it's different for every kid in every family.
That said, if your child is an absolute terrorist, Then yes, you're doing something horribly wrong, most likely, in the child-raising department.
To dislike them, to dislike your own child, is not only pretty horrible in its own right, but it misses the point.
If you're going to dislike anyone, you should dislike yourself.
They're taking cues from you, okay?
This isn't happening in a vacuum.
Kids can often be a mirror reflecting ourselves back to us, and that can often be the most difficult thing about them.
In fact, I find that the aspects of my children's personalities that are the hardest for me to deal with are the aspects that are exactly like my own personality.
Stubbornness, temper, absent-mindedness, you know, all of that.
That's me.
Being disorganized, you know, another thing.
That's how I am.
That's my kids.
Am I going to resent them for, what, failing to be a better person than me?
Failing to be more mature than I am?
That's absurd.
But I really think that's a lot of the anger that parents experience at their kids is this.
Now, they don't think of it like this, but a lot of the time they're angry at their kids for failing to be better than themselves.
They hold their kids to a higher standard than they hold themselves.
And on the outside, for outsiders, it's always easy to identify.
So I don't know the first thing about this woman, but I'm willing to bet if you knew her and you saw her kid, all the ways her kid's acting, you would say, oh yeah, well that's exactly how the mom is.
It's no surprise at all.
Bossy, bratty, you know, always have to have your way, materialistic.
I'm betting that the mom is exactly like that.
Yet here she is, proving that she's in fact a lot worse than her kid, because she resents her child for doing all the same stuff she does.
I mean, if you do it, how could you possibly expect your kid not to do it?
That's not fair to them.
We have to understand the limitations of a child.
Which is another challenge of parenting.
To understand a kid's limitations.
And to work within those limitations.
And to not expect more than what is possible.
If you're expecting your child to be better than you, and to be more virtuous than you and more mature, And to overcome personality defects that you have not overcome, well then you are expecting too much of your child and you have no right to do that.
Straighten yourself out first.
Because the main thing is with kids, you know, and this is nothing radical or revolutionary, but 90% of what they learn, they learn not based on what you say to them, but just based on copying what you do.
So if you want them to act a certain way, then exhibit that behavior.
Show them what it's like.
If you never show them, it's like all these parents walking around, and all parents lapse into it sometimes.
I know I do at times, but I always try to catch myself.
But it's the dumbest thing.
When parents are mad at their kids, For not acting in a way that they, the parents, have never demonstrated.
Okay, you want your kid to be a certain way?
Show them how.
Don't just tell them.
Don't just stand there.
I demand that you be better than this.
Be better.
I demand it.
For some reason it doesn't resonate with a five-year-old.
Show them.
Demonstrate.
And they'll copy you.
If you're not doing that, there's no hope.
If you're not even trying to demonstrate good behavior to your child, then your child's gonna be a brat.
And you know what?
It's not their fault.
It's your fault.
You have no right to be angry at them.
You really don't.
100% your fault.
And then finally, third, you know, even aside from all this, however your kid acts, brat or not, you really don't need to put this online.
These are things that you save for your therapist or your husband, God help him, or a friend or whatever.
But this doesn't need to be online for everybody.
We don't all need to hear it.
But this is what parents do now, where they just vent about their kids on a public forum.
You're venting about your child to millions of people.
And your child one day is going to grow up and read that themselves.
And see what an utterly insufferable, selfish, whiny, petty brat you were.
Which maybe will be helpful for them to see that.
And then they can start to recover and heal themselves.
But even so, I would say it's probably better just to keep all that crap to yourself.
We don't need to hear it.
And that's my advice.
But anyway, mommy bloggers are cancelled anyway, so you can't say anything anymore online because you're cancelled.
And that's it.
We'll leave it there.
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