The MRL Show: Parent Fantasy
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00:00I think we all had a different idea of being parents before we were parents.
00:06My wife had a different idea about me as a parent when Dean was born.
00:10I had a different idea of the dynamic in my household before I was a parent.
00:16I really thought Dallas would be the disciplinary, and he's not. It's me.
00:20See, knowing you, I don't think that's surprising, but it's interesting what you thought.
00:25Yeah, I don't know. I just always thought I'd be the fun parent.
00:27Because my dad was the disciplinary in my household growing up, so I just assumed that that would be the roles that we took.
00:35Right.
00:35I was so wrong.
00:37But I found an article, and there's a lot of tweets in this article that I think are really good,
00:45because people are sharing their parent fantasies that they gave up after having kids.
00:50Okay.
00:50Like going on vacation with your children will be fun.
00:57It'll be a family event.
00:59No.
01:00If you have ever been on vacation with your children, you know it is not a vacation for mom and dad.
01:06Wrong.
01:07Right.
01:08How about this one?
01:09We'll just let them cry it out.
01:11They'll be fine.
01:12Three minutes later and a lot of vomiting, and you're like, we're never doing this again.
01:16Wait, who's vomiting?
01:17The parent or the child?
01:18Yeah, right.
01:19My children have cried so hard that they vomited.
01:23Oh, wow.
01:23Are you not supposed to let them cry it out?
01:25No, you are supposed to let them cry it out.
01:26Oh, okay.
01:27I think.
01:27I mean, it depends on your parenting style.
01:29Yeah, we did that.
01:30Just let them work through it.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Yeah.
01:32It worked for Jackson, did not work for Cash.
01:35Okay.
01:36So, just depends.
01:38We'll cook together, and he'll eat whatever we make.
01:42No.
01:42You're like, parents, we know, especially for like those first five years, we're making two
01:47different meals.
01:48Oh, yeah.
01:49Right.
01:49And the kids are going to win.
01:50Yep.
01:51I won't be vulnerable to tantrums or whiny children.
01:55Now, you're just like, ah, make it stop.
01:58What do you want?
02:00It is so true.
02:01You win, uncle.
02:02The big one that I got was when Dean was born, and we would tell people we have to leave.
02:08We have to go put him to bed.
02:09Like, he's on a sleep schedule.
02:10He's on an eating schedule.
02:12And somebody told me that the kid lives your schedule.
02:14You don't live the kid's schedule.
02:15Both of those things are also on this list.
02:17And I was like, ha ha, that's cute.
02:19No, you live the kid's schedule if you want to have any, you know, life at all.
02:25Or else your kid's going to be miserable and crying the whole time.
02:27Yep.
02:28And then, finally, the last one of the parenting fantasies that people gave up when they had
02:33kids was, oh, we're going to be a no-screen-time household.
02:37Yeah, that's cute.
02:38Now everybody hands over the phone or the iPad.
02:41Yeah.
02:41I would go to restaurants before we had kids, and I'd be like, oh, that's so annoying that
02:45the kid's sitting there looking at that.
02:46Like, you can't engage the child in conversation.
02:48And, bro, they have the screens as soon as they get in there.
02:52We don't go out to eat because our kids can't handle it.
02:55My nieces.
02:57Well, hold on.
02:57You don't go out to eat with the kids.
02:59Let's be fair.
03:00Right.
03:00You know, my niece and my sister does a really good job monitoring how much screen time usage
03:05they get.
03:06How about this?
03:07She gives them deactivated dead phones.
03:12And they're good with that.
03:13But they can play games and stuff.
03:15No.
03:16No.
03:16Like, they're dead.
03:16Did they just want to hold it?
03:18They just want to hold it and look cool.
03:19Come on.
03:20I'm not kidding.
03:21I was noticed over the weekend was my niece's birthday party, and I'm like, does she have
03:25a cell phone in her back pocket?
03:28She's six years old.
03:29You know, and I'm like, she shouldn't have this.
03:30She just wants to look.
03:31She just wants to look.
03:32And so, like, my sister gives them, like, a dead phone, and they're good.
03:37That's amazing.
03:38Because my kids would never buy that.
03:39My daughter, who's going to be four in August, knows the password to get onto the iPad now.
03:45I used to have to do it for her.
03:47And then she said, Dad, can I do a little ABC mouse, a little game?
03:50And I go, yeah, you can do it.
03:51Let me get it.
03:51She goes, I got it.
03:53Now, granted, it's all ones, but still, she didn't know that.
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