Today on the Matt Walsh Show, one of Trump’s best achievements as president just came this week, at the very end. His administration’s 1776 Report offers a needed corrective to the anti-American brainwashing in schools. Of course the Left is steaming mad about it. Also Five Headlines including Katie Couric wondering how conservatives might be “deprogramed,” and Nancy Pelosi discusses the “trauma” congress suffered during the riots on January 6. And in our Daily Cancellation, we will cancel some very bad parenting advice on Tik Tok.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of Trump's best achievements as president just came this week at the very end.
His administration's 1776 report offers a needed corrective to the anti-American brainwashing in schools.
Of course, the left is steaming mad about it, as they tend to be.
We'll address their criticisms today.
Also, five headlines, including Katie Couric is wondering how conservatives might be deprogrammed.
And Nancy Pelosi discusses the, quote, trauma Congress suffered during the riots on January 6th.
In our daily cancellation, we will cancel some very bad Parenting advice on TikTok, probably all parenting advice on TikTok should be canceled.
All of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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A few months ago, President Trump announced that he was forming the 1776 Commission to counter the anti-American, anti-truth indoctrination in our schools and other institutions.
The focus was especially on debunking the noxious lies told to the public, and in particular our children, by proponents of critical race theory and the 1619 Project and similar things.
Ultimately, the commission's goal was to offer a corrective to leftist historical revisionism and to promote, as Trump calls it, Patriotic education.
Now, to my mind, this is not only a noble endeavor, but perhaps one of the most important things Trump has done with his presidency.
Any attempt to reverse the cultural tide must begin by addressing the fundamental sickness in our education system.
Entire generations are being trained from the youngest ages to hate their country, and if they're white, despise their ancestors and themselves.
So this is not simply a matter of kids being brainwashed into a lack of patriotism.
At a much deeper level, they're being conditioned to believe and build their worldview around what is not true.
So I would much rather we call the corrective truthful education rather than patriotic education.
I'm not going to quibble much over those sorts of details, but that's really what we're talking about here.
Yesterday, the 1776 Commission released its report, reaffirming the basic truths of America's founding and offering its critiques of the radical leftist version of history.
The final product is about 45 pages long.
It's well worth the read.
And if you take the time to read it, you will already be one step ahead of most of the report's critics, who do not appear to have even skimmed the document before issuing their many denunciations.
For example, CNN's headline declares, Trump Administration Issues Racist School Curriculum Report on MLK Day.
By the way, that's not an op-ed.
That's their news article calling it racist.
The Washington Post quotes, outraged historians who are incensed by the report's, quote, outright lies.
The New York Times also claims that, quote, historians are, quote, deriding it for its false narratives.
Now a brief sampling of the Post article gives you an idea as to the general flavor of the criticisms.
It says, quoting now, I don't know where to begin, said public historian Alexis Coe.
This report lacks citations or any indication books were consulted, which explains why it's riddled in errors, distortions and outright lies.
Callie Nicole Gross, a history professor at Rutgers and Emory Universities, and the co-author of A Black Women's History of the United States, said it was dusty and dated, and the usual dodge on the long-lasting harmful impacts of settler colonialism, enslavement, Jim Crow, the oppression of women, the plight of queer people, as the true threat to democracy.
This report makes it seem as if slave-holding founding fathers were abolitionists, that Americans were the early beacons of the global abolitionist movement, that the demise of slavery in the United States was inevitable.
Boston University historian Ibram X. Kendi tweeted, It's very hard to find anything in here that stands as a historical claim or as the work of a historian.
Almost everything in it is wrong, just as a matter of fact, said Eric Rocheway.
I may sound a little incoherent when trying to speak of this because the report itself is not coherent.
It's like historical whack-a-mole.
Okay.
You'll notice here, as you'll notice in nearly all the denunciations of the 1776 report, that little attempt is made to engage with the specific and most essential historical claims that it makes.
We're simply assured that the report is completely false and misguided and silly and racist, but nobody issuing these assurances will bother to explain why.
That CNN article that called it racist, at no point in the article did it defend or justify or explain that characterization.
It just said, well, it's racist.
You know, of course it is.
In fact, the critics say, you know, the report isn't just wrong, but incoherent.
And this causes me to suspect that perhaps these professional historians are having trouble with the document because they're illiterate, which would explain quite a lot about how history is taught these days, and would explain why they, by their own admission, cannot seem to understand a report that lays out its case very clearly and cogently.
You can agree or disagree with what the report says, but any literate person should at least be able to comprehend what is being said.
These historians can't even do that, they say.
They just don't understand it.
They're completely confused.
Mostly it seems that the scholarly community takes great umbrage with the report's section on slavery.
That's the part that's gotten the most attention.
Which they say dismisses, or as a Huffington Post headline claims, justifies the practice of slavery.
That's what they're saying.
They're saying that the report justifies slavery.
Defends it.
So let's read what it actually says on the subject.
Hopefully you'll find this at least coherent.
I mean, you tell me if you can, at a minimum, understand what's being said.
Okay.
This is a quote now from the 1776 Commission Report.
The most common charge leveled against the Founders, and hence against our country itself, is that they were hypocrites who didn't believe in their stated principles, and therefore the country they built rests on a lie.
This charge is untrue and has done enormous damage, especially in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric.
Many Americans labor under the illusion that slavery was somehow a uniquely American evil.
It is essential to insist at the outset that the institution be seen in a much broader perspective.
It's very hard for people brought up in the comforts of modern America, in a time in which the idea that all human beings have inviolable rights and inherent dignity is almost taken for granted, to imagine the cruelties and enormities that were endemic in earlier times.
But the unfortunate fact is that the institution of slavery has been more the rule than the exception throughout history.
It was the Western world's repudiation of slavery, only just beginning to build at the time of the American Revolution, which marked a dramatic sea change in moral sensibilities.
The American founders were living on the cusp of this change in a manner that straddled two worlds.
Okay.
Did you understand that?
It seems coherent, isn't it?
I had no trouble understanding the point.
It goes on to discuss the attitudes that the Founders had towards slavery.
Some were against it, some were for it.
Some wrestled with the issue throughout their lives.
Ultimately, of course, slavery was abolished in this country, and it only took America 90 years to do it.
America was only a country for 90 years, give or take, before slavery was abolished.
Compare that to the track record of other nations, some of which have been around for millennia, and still, to this day, have not completely abolished it right now.
And when you do that, you see that our country is not guiltless, but its guilt is no greater than most any other nation on earth, and in many cases, it's quite a bit lesser.
Now, it may be hard for media people and scholars to understand the simple but crucial point being made here, but that's either because they don't want to understand, or they're too stupid to understand, or both.
The goal of critical race theory and of the modern left generally is to saddle white Americans with a special and lasting guilt stemming from these historical injustices and to paint America itself as uniquely evil and almost singularly responsible for atrocities like slavery.
This is wrong.
And it matters that it's wrong.
We cannot assess our own history or the people who comprise it if we do not have an accurate and a complete understanding of the context in which these people lived and acted.
So we can quite easily and self-assuredly sit here right now from our comfortable position and condemn men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson for not being racially enlightened enough.
But to thoughtful people, it should make a difference.
That Washington and Jefferson lived at a time when almost nobody on the entire planet was racially enlightened by our standards today.
Slavery was indeed a foregone conclusion, a normal part of life for nearly everyone, everywhere, through all of human history until the last couple of centuries.
We could have an interesting discussion about why this was the case.
How was this the case?
How is it that the whole world could have been so blind to a moral truth that we all now see so clearly?
And when I say we all, I mean we in the West, because in other parts of the world, they still don't see it.
But we cannot have that discussion if we insist on absolving everyone everywhere of guilt, except for white men in North America.
The discussion becomes absurd at that point, and pointless.
And whatever conclusions you draw will be false and harmful.
They'll be the conclusions of the 1619 Project and critical race theory, which the 1776 report rightly condemns.
Now the report ends with this passage, which I like.
It says to be an American means something noble and good.
It means treasuring freedom and embracing the vitality of self-government.
We are shaped by the beauty, bounty, and wildness of our continent.
We are united by the glory of our history.
We are distinguished by the American virtues of openness, honesty, optimism, determination, generosity, confidence, kindness, hard work, courage, and hope.
Our principals did not create these virtues, but they laid the groundwork for them to grow and spread and forge America into the most just and glorious country in all of human history.
Admittedly, some of that is a matter of opinion.
I'm not sure there is any objective, factual measure for the gloriousness of a country.
But it's good for a person to feel this way about his country.
And there is good reason to feel this way about our country.
It's how many other people in many other countries feel about their countries.
And all of those countries have their own troubled histories, their own sins, their own guilt, in many cases much worse than our own.
Yet nobody would mock or scold them, the people in those countries, for their patriotism.
It's only us.
We are the only ones, the only ones, who are supposed to be ashamed of our country and its history and its heroes.
We are the only ones who are not supposed to be too enthusiastic in our patriotism.
We're supposed to issue a thousand apologies as a preamble for every good thing we say about our country.
At least that's what they tell us.
At least that's the rules they want to impose.
And we should not listen.
We should reject that.
Absolutely.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right, by the way, I just have to, this is more a question I'm asking.
I just have to say this 'cause I don't know where else to say it,
but it's something that's really been, it's been a source of great contention in my home
and something we've been dealing with.
But those robotic vacuums, I don't know if you've gotten one of these things,
like a Roomba, the robotic vacuum.
Seems like a great idea, right?
You get the Roomba.
I think we got a knockoff version.
Maybe this is the problem, but we just got it.
And I was very excited about it because the idea is you just put it on the ground and you never have to sweep again or vacuum.
Just does it on its own.
You got a robot in your house doing a chore.
It's everyone's dream come true.
They're very excited about it, but the thing is useless.
It just ambles around on the rug.
I was watching it yesterday and there was a Cheerio on the ground and it navigated around the Cheerio like three times.
And I'm just sitting there like, get the Cheerio.
I'm not going to bend down and pick it up.
I'm too busy.
For instance, I'm sitting here watching the vacuum cleaner.
Do you need a better brand or what's the deal?
Do these things actually work?
That's my question.
Someone can answer that for me, please.
Maybe more important issues to talk about.
Number one, Katie Couric and Bill Maher are, well, they're worried about deprogramming Republicans, because that's the project that they're going to have to undertake in the years ahead in this deprogramming, because we're all brainwashed.
And let's listen to that now.
It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten.
But I also think some of them are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24-7, on the internet, by their constituents, and they bought into this big lie.
And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?
Deep program.
And she talks about the cult of Trump.
Of course, we know that she's not only referring to that.
When we hear this from the media, they're not, they're not, that's, they mean conservatives in general.
Now, I'd be the first to admit, and I've said many times, there is among, there has been in some quarters, this is a minority of conservatives, but there has been among some a, a cult-like dedication and obsession.
A personality cult.
There's no denying there has been a personality cult around Donald Trump.
I don't think any rational person could possibly deny that.
And I've talked many times about how damaging personality cults are no matter where you find them on the political spectrum.
And you find them on the left and right.
Now, they bother me a lot more on the right because that's where I am.
And I don't like to see that where I am.
I don't like to see it so close to home.
But we know about the personality cult around Barack Obama.
The messianic Way that he was that he was celebrated and embraced by the media.
So that that is that is an issue, but that's not what that's not what they're talking about.
That's maybe what they're saying.
That's not what they really mean.
And the point is, you know, it's it's one thing.
When they talk about conservatives, like we're all a bunch of evil racist bigots.
That's troubling enough, especially when these people seize control of the entire government as they are about to.
What's even worse, though, is when they talk about us like we're sick.
That's what you really have to look out for.
If they're just screaming at you, you're a big meanie, you're a bigot, okay, fine.
When they start talking to you and about you like you're sick, like you need to be treated for a disease, like your ideas are a disease, that's the really disturbing thing.
That's when things can go in a very dystopian direction.
Speaking of which, number two, Representative Steve Cohen has concerns of his own.
And he's worried that, you know, basically that the D.C.
right now is militarized.
It's under military occupation.
But he's not worried about that.
He's worried instead about the race of some of these National Guard guardsmen that are there.
Let's listen to this.
It was certainly raised this morning.
I was reading about this on my Twitter account, I guess, and people were reminding people of Anwar Sadat and Indira Gandhi, who were killed by their own people.
You know, I was thinking the Guard is 90-some-odd percent, I believe, male.
Only about 20% of white males voted for Biden.
You've got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative, and I see that on my social media and we know it, they're probably not more than 25% of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden.
The other 75% are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something.
Who might want to do something?
Just what does that mean?
I think we all know what it means.
Just casually accusing National Guard of being a bunch of potential assassins?
Eh, no big deal.
But of course, that's what he's focused on, is the racial makeup.
Meanwhile, there are real criticisms that you could lob against the fact that D.C.
is essentially under military occupation at present.
You remember when, in the midst of the BLM riots, and finally, Finally, after days of it, there was a response.
And a response that almost met the violence coming from the rioters.
And the media all day long was complaining about it.
It's militarized.
It's overboard.
Yet they seem to have no problem with this.
You know, I have friends who are in D.C.
sending me pictures or talking about the experience.
It's just eerie.
It's like they've never seen anything like this in any American city, least of all Washington, D.C.
So if we're going to be criticizing it, I think that would be the issue.
No matter the race of the people who are doing the occupying.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi was on Hillary Clinton's podcast.
Now, I just learned that Hillary Clinton has a podcast, apparently.
I don't know, who would sit down and listen to a Hillary Clinton podcast?
Of all things, but I guess some people do, at least Nancy Pelosi does, and she was on the podcast talking about many things, but really focusing on the trauma that people in Congress suffered on January 6th during the riots.
Let's listen to that.
I, as an American, am incredibly grateful for your steadiness and your devotion to our democracy.
How are you holding up?
Well, first let me just say I was very much looking forward to being with you.
The kind words that you say I accept on behalf of my House Democratic Caucus colleagues.
They've been so courageous, so steadfast, so patriotic, so committed to their oath of office.
And they said, at that point, that they were storming the Capitol and the security just whisked away.
But it was stunning.
But I know, again, they are protective.
And I thought, well, OK, yeah, I'll go with you because it's your job to make sure that I do.
And I don't want to endanger anybody else.
And I'm a target, you know.
So when we got in the car, I said, well, where are we going?
Like, to another room.
No, we're going to an undisclosed location.
You know, when I hear talk of the trauma, and they haven't stopped talking about how traumatic it was for them, this whole experience.
But whenever I hear this, in my mind, I go back to a story that you may have forgotten about or you may not have heard at all because it wasn't exactly something that the mainstream media was eager to report.
But just one example, you know, you go back to the riots throughout the summer.
So many, just, you have your pick of the litter, you can pick so many examples of traumatic things that regular American citizens suffered.
And people like Nancy Pelosi never said a word about that, never spoke a word about the trauma of people who live in these cities that have been wracked by rioting.
The businesses burned down, family members killed.
You know, I don't know, the family members of David Dorn, for example.
Nancy Pelosi ever say anything about that?
The trauma they're suffering?
But my mind goes back to one particular incident.
The Chicago Ronald McDonald House Cancer Center for children, during the rioting in Chicago, which there was rioting all throughout the summer, right?
During the BLM rioting, the cancer center was attacked by rioters.
Yes, they attacked a cancer center for children.
And there were kids inside, there were families inside.
And they were terrified, because they're listening to the windows being smashed downstairs.
Now just imagine that for a second.
I mean, imagine you're a child, and you're sick with cancer, and you hear this commotion outside, these unruly crowds, you hear the windows being smashed in your building.
Imagine you're a parent of a child going through that.
There was one young child, and we talked about this at the time, so maybe if you've been listening to this show, you've heard about this at least.
One young child, Owen, I believe was his name, two years old, fighting stage four cancer, and he was supposed to go home to celebrate for his birthday party that day, and he couldn't go home.
He missed his birthday party.
Now, they celebrated it later, but he missed his birthday party that day because of the rioting outside.
It was unsafe to leave the building.
So, you know, I don't know.
When I think about trauma that people suffered, emotional trauma that they suffered during rioting, I am much, much more concerned about those kids.
And many other children too affected by it.
But even just that one case, I'm more concerned about their emotional trauma.
Think about the emotional trauma they are suffering.
That's something that they're going to remember in their nightmares, probably for the rest of their lives.
I just, I'm a lot more concerned about that than I am about the trauma, the emotional trauma of grown adults, powerful people, politicians in Congress, That's just me.
I certainly reject the idea that we're supposed to be more concerned about that, about their trauma, the politicians.
And what happened to them was so much worse.
It was desecrating sacred ground and sacred people, apparently.
I absolutely reject that.
All right, number three, from Variety, it says, Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been added as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project unveiled by President Donald Trump in July.
As he began his final 40 hours of president, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the planned statuary park.
So there's all kinds of, all kinds of names.
This is going to be a whole park.
It's kind of like a wax museum that he's got planned now.
So I guess that these are going to be, you know, these are going to be sculptures, statues.
Um, so Kobe Bryant, Humphrey Bogart, Miles Davis, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Stewart, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole.
I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus is going to be there, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, so we're throwing some of them in too.
Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, Amelia Earhart.
So it does seem like kind of a random assortment of people, but I like the idea.
Of course, my only issue with any statue or monument project being undertaken right now Right before Democrats take over is that all that stuff is just going to come down.
But I'm in favor of just keep building the statues.
And if this is what it comes to, every time we have a Republican president, just build like a thousand more statues.
Just keep building them.
All right.
Number four, I wanted to play this for you just because I thought it was very inspiring.
Personally, I was inspired by it.
We played yesterday, Kamala Harris talking about her shoes.
And that also was pretty inspiring.
But here she is with some invigorating words of encouragement just for anyone out there.
She says she's kind of a motivational speaker and she's a mentor.
And these are her words of encouragement.
I thought this was pretty great.
Listen.
I was raised to understand many people will tell you it is impossible, but don't listen.
I mentor a lot of people and I tell them that there will be people who will say, it's not your turn.
It's not your time.
No one like you has done it.
And I'll tell them, and don't you listen.
And then I will go on to tell them I eat no for breakfast.
So authentic.
So authentic.
It's the parade of cliches.
Throw a bunch of cliches in a blender.
You know?
Blend it up and pour it out and that's what you have every time Kamala Harris speaks.
I eat no for breakfast.
Do you really say that?
Is that really what you say to people?
I hope you don't say that in real life to people.
In a normal conversation, hey listen, I eat no for breakfast.
You what?
Why would you say that?
But you know, on the other hand, I have to Credit where it's due.
Kamala Harris, early on in her career, to establish her political career, it cannot be denied that, you know, she took a very hands-on approach.
Hands on, you know, hands all kinds of places.
I mean, she really took a hands on approach and she was going to get down and dirty and really make sure that she got her political career going.
And that much you do have to respect.
That's all I'll say.
By the way, I just saw that Sarah Fuller, kicker for Vanderbilt.
Remember, she was the woman they brought in to kick at Vanderbilt.
She's going to be at the inauguration.
Apparently.
Which means there will be a person who won the job because of her gender, despite a mediocre performance, and also Sarah Fuller will be there.
So that's gonna be great.
Number five.
Chicago prosecutors say that, this is from Daily Wire, Chicago prosecutors say that 36-year-old Aditya Singh lived in the city's O'Hare International Airport for three months to avoid flying home to Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic.
This is one of those very strange stories.
I've seen it everywhere, and I kind of assume we're going to find out in a couple of weeks that half of this is just wrong.
It didn't happen.
Because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
CWB Chicago, which regularly covers the city's bond hearings, noticed Singh's case on Sunday when Singh came up for bond on charges of criminal trespass to a restricted area and petty theft, apparently for continuing to use an airport worker's misplaced credentials.
So he first arrived in Chicago on a flight from Los Angeles on October 19th, and then he just decided to stay there, and he's been relying on other passengers to provide him with food.
Shouldn't that, I mean, the moment you have a panhandler in the airport, so you're telling me this guy was panhandling in the airport, and it took him, took people three months to notice?
An airport of all places?
With security everywhere?
Because I've never seen that.
I've never seen... In Chicago, you see panhandling everywhere.
The only place you wouldn't see it is in an airport.
So, I don't know.
I guess people just... They were going through Chicago airport.
They figured, well, this is part of the culture here.
So he... Let's see.
He was using the credential and he... I don't know.
We don't know where he slept.
Or what he did.
My first question is, why O'Hare of all places?
I can understand spending a few months, you know, in maybe the Minneapolis airport, or even Charlotte, but O'Hare?
Chicago?
The only good thing about O'Hare is that it's the one place in Chicago where you probably won't get shot.
But other than that, it doesn't have much to recommend.
As much as I kind of like airports, actually.
Good thing about airports, you can drink at 7am, nobody judges you.
It's like the one place in the world where you can do that.
That and a cruise ship, I guess.
But that's a strange story.
I guess we'll have to keep our eyes on that to see when the update comes next week saying, oh yeah, you know, this never happened.
But for now, we can enjoy the story as it exists.
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We made our entrance into the entertainment space with a big feature film, Run, Hide, Fight.
And this is a movie, is a tense, exciting, very well-made movie.
And that's what I keep telling everyone.
If you're worried about, oh, is this one of those, it's one of those typical movies that you get from conservative companies, or it's just the acting is pretty bad and the script is bad.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling someone who dispensed some bad parenting advice on TikTok.
Really, I suppose we should just cancel all parenting advice that is given on TikTok.
Frankly, I'm horrified to discover that parenting advice on TikTok is even a thing.
But it is a thing, apparently, and very much so.
Our culprit today has a TikTok account with 100,000 followers, and the video we're going to play in a moment has 7 million views and 700,000 likes.
Okay, so the sad reality, as much as we might hate to admit it, is that a great many young
people are going to learn about parenting and get their parenting wisdom and advice
from TikTok.
So it does matter that the advice is so abysmally stupid and also dangerous.
So we'll go through this video.
It's less than a minute, but here it is.
And we'll start here and we'll discuss.
Why I don't use a crib for my five month old.
You look at a typical American nursery, you will notice that it's set up for the parents
benefit, not the child's.
Okay, you're right.
That's true.
Let's just stop right there.
The nursery is for the parent's benefit.
In fact, everything in the house is for the parent's benefit.
In the sense that it's all set up how it's set up because the parents want it that way and know they need it that way.
They also know their kids need it that way, even if their kids don't want it that way.
You know, if it were up to my kids, we would be living in refrigerator boxes outside, defecating in the yard, eating fast food for every meal.
Yes, I'm teeing up for a San Francisco joke here, but it's probably not necessary to spell out the punchline.
The point is, the nursery, the kitchen, the living room, everything in the house, they're all going to be set up to the parent's specifications for the benefit of both the parent and the child.
I cannot imagine what a nursery set up to an infant's specifications would look like because infants don't have specifications because they're infants.
Okay, let's get back to the clip.
The artwork is usually up high where babies can't even see it.
We literally buy these little baby jail cells so that we can just leave our baby in there and walk away.
Well, again, yeah.
I wouldn't call it a jail cell.
That might be a bit dramatic, but it is certainly a huge benefit to be able to put your baby down and walk away.
The other option is to what?
Never walk away from your child ever?
You mean just 24 hours a day, every day?
You're never in a different room?
See, this is how you know the young lady here only has one child and only has been a parent for a few months.
And it's also why nobody with one kid who is still, and the kid is still a baby, should be giving any parenting advice at all, ever, to anyone.
If you're still at the point where you're scandalized by the idea of a parent putting their child down for a minute and walking away, then you haven't been in this game long enough.
You need a few more circles under the eyes, a little more drool and spit up on the shoulder, a little dirt under the fingernails, or something under your fingernails.
You hope it's dirt.
You never know when there are kids in the house.
I can tell you how many times, as a parent, I've been holding a child or even like sitting in a chair
or something and then I look down and there's some sort of Ominous substance on me
And I think what the hell is this? Is this pudding? Please tell me this is pudding
Who had pudding?
Anyway back to the video I don't have a crib because I will never enforce my baby to
have a bedtime Babies are people too and forcing anyone to sleep when they're
not tired is inhumane Imagine if your partner locked you in a container you couldn't get out of and told you you had to sleep even though you weren't tired.
That would be abuse, and you'd probably leave them.
Kids deserve the right to bodily autonomy just like we do, and that involves sleep.
Okay, many problems here.
First, your baby is not your partner.
That is a Very strange way of characterizing it.
Your baby is not your partner in any sense at all.
Your baby is your baby.
And the thing about your baby being your baby is that he's a baby.
As such, he has no idea when he's tired.
He has no idea when he needs to sleep.
Babies cry when they're tired, okay?
It's extremely irrational behavior.
I have turned to my kids when they're crying Because they're tired.
And I have said, hey, if you're tired, just go to sleep.
You're a baby.
Don't you understand that?
You could literally just lie on the floor right now and sleep and nobody would judge you.
I can't do that.
I wish I could.
I can't just pass out on the floor.
What are you crying about?
I should be the one crying.
You've kept me awake for the past nine months.
I'm hallucinating.
I'm literally going to die.
You don't see me crying.
I've said this to our babies many times, but it's no use, I've discovered.
These are the lessons you learn with parenting.
They can't be reasoned with.
They don't understand anything.
They don't know that they're supposed to sleep when they're tired.
Think about that.
This is how clueless kids are.
This is your job as a parent.
You have to teach them that you're supposed to sleep when you're tired.
That is not something that comes naturally.
You have to give them that structure and guidance.
You know, my 14-month-old was fussy and tired the other day, so she literally started... This is what she was doing because she was tired.
She was running in circles in the living room, periodically throwing herself on the ground and crying, and at other points, laughing hysterically.
This is the behavior of a lunatic.
But she gets a pass because she's 14 months old.
That's why I had to pick her up, put her in the crib, and say, okay, bedtime.
So forcing your child to sleep is one of the best things you can do for them.
Give them structure, get them on a schedule, make sure they're rested.
It's a very good idea.
All right.
Let's, let's, let's finish this, put ourselves out of our misery.
One last clip.
Let's go.
This is our current setup, but we also have a floor bed.
The floor bed allows the baby to sleep when the baby is feeling sleepy and get up and move around when the baby's not.
My God.
Get up and move around whenever he wants?
He's five months old!
What is he gonna do?
Walk out to the kitchen and fix himself a sandwich in the middle of the night?
Don't mind me, Mom, just grabbing a midnight snack.
By the way, please, and this is all joking aside, and I really mean this, everyone, if you're watching the video, you can see this image of the child.
As a parent of four kids, this to me is one of the most terrifying things I've ever looked at in my life, this picture right here.
You tell me that's the bed of a five-month-old?
Please, do not put your babies in beds with blankets and pillows and stuffed animals.
As this woman has apparently done.
I am genuinely concerned for the child's welfare.
They can easily suffocate at that age with that sort of stuff in their bed.
Do not do that.
I mean, really, you want to be...
I'm maybe a little bit more paranoid about choking and suffocation as a parent than I need to be, but what I would say is you want to be well into their second year of life.
You want to be well past the one-year mark before you start putting them in bed with any kind of blankets or pillows or anything.
They don't need it.
And at five months, do not do that.
Do not do that.
That stuff gets wrapped around their head, and that's how you get SIDS.
That's how kids die in their sleep.
It happens.
So put your baby in a crib.
Treat your baby like a baby.
Because he is a baby.
That's what you should do.
Basically do the opposite.
This is my recommendation.
You can take it from the guy with four kids or the woman who's had one kid for five months.
What I would say is do the opposite of everything you just heard from our friend in the video.
All of that.
Take all of that and just do the opposite of it.
That's a good way of being.
Because for now, she is Canceled.
And I really hope to God someone talks some sense into her.
And soon.
And that'll do it for us today.
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