Matt Walsh got into an argument with some randos that wanted to make the point that being a parent was hard work and totally a bad deal. Well they long ago have blocked the thread from their side. Walsh has made some good points about the value of being a parent and many people have reinforced his statements with equally mature and measured opinions. I think it’s true that some people shouldn’t be parents. But I base that on the well-being of the children who end up with immature and selfish parents. That is a sin.
I understand feeling overwhelmed, stressed, etc. I have six kids. It’s not like I have some idealized, naive vision of parenthood. But all great things in life can also overwhelm and stress you out. It’s the price of admission. No sense whining about it.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 14, 2023
Being a parent often means having nerves of steel, but the reward is definitely worth it. When I saw my children graduate college, then my gtandson, it was a feeling that I had not lived my life in vain.
A saying i read somewhere claimed:
“I was a warrior, so that my son could be a merchant, and his son, a poet.”
Well said. I understand that completely. I wish that the original tweet from the whiner were still there to see. It was so self-absorbed and weak it made me angry just reading it. It was the words of a spoiled petulant child.