Dr. Becky: You’re Not a Bad Parent, You’re Overwhelmed

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Kids are not trying to make your life harder. Parents are not supposed to know everything. Most of what we think of as “bad behavior” is actually a nervous system short-circuiting. And most of what parents call “failure” is really lack of support. Dr. Becky joins Trevor and Eugene for a conversation about tantrums, overwhelm, shame, lying, attachment, repair, and what it means to grow up in a world that was never designed to support families. This episode explains why kids explode, why adults collapse, and why the most important sentence a parent can say is “I am still here.” If you want to understand your child, your parents, or yourself, this episode is worth your time.

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0:00.0	An advisory from the certain general found nearly half of parents say most days their stress is completely overwhelming.
0:05.7	And when parents are stressed out, it affects their kids.
0:08.2	Parenting is a full-time job.
0:10.1	I know we all work, but parenting is hard.
0:12.1	Parenting is not easy.
0:13.7	Never has been, never will be.
0:15.1	At good inside, we believe parenting isn't something you're supposed to just know.
0:22.6	It's something you can learn. That's the one and only Becky Kennedy, aka Dr. Becky, as she's known,
0:25.6	also known as a millennial parent whisper.
0:27.6	Many parents love the clinical psychologist videos and podcasts on everything from tantrums to mom rage.
0:33.6	She's got more than 4 million followers across social media platforms.
0:36.6	And she believes that parents and children are good inside.
0:44.9	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:50.5	This episode is presented by Whole Foods Market.
0:53.4	Eat Well for less.
0:59.3	Dr. Becky, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. I told you right before we started
1:04.5	recording, but I'll tell you again, I don't think there's a topic that excites me more than
1:09.7	parenting.
1:12.5	Genuinely, genuinely, genuinely.
1:15.5	Like, I followed your work.
1:20.1	I think I first became aware of you like most people during the pandemic, you know,
1:23.0	when everyone was forced to be at home with their actual kids. And then they started realizing that they don't like them.
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