You know sometimes on this show I like to read questions and quandaries from the clueless souls on the internet especially Reddit and try my best to provide them with a little bit of guidance

and that was a plan the plan that I had for this segment but then my producer McKenna suggested that I go to the

sub-reddit called Regretful Parents to find some fodder. I did issue recommend it and I can report that it is one of the most

depressing places I've ever encountered on the internet, which is obviously saying a lot.

Just post after post of parents who view their children as nothing but a burden.

And I thought, well, I'm not going to attempt to talk about this on the show. It's just so bleak and so horrific.

But then I decided that maybe I might have a useful thing or two to say to these people.

Sadly, a sizable number of parents feel this way.

We like to think that, well that no one ever regrets having kids.

Actually they do and when that happens it is a terrible thing. Terrible for the kids most

importantly. So I'm gonna start by reading a few of the posts or snippets of posts. I hate mothering. I enjoy maybe 1% of it.

It's given me misery on top of misery on top of pain every single day since she was born.

Giving birth was medieval torture. I don't like playing with her. I don't like talking to her.

I don't like taking her to the park. I can barely think about anything I enjoy with her.

Maybe cooking for her, I don't even know.

Another says, my kids are one and three and they took away

everything I enjoyed. I'm going through the wildest mental and physical

challenges of my life. I had goals and dreams that are not realistic anymore.

All my favorite activities are replaced by draining micro tasks and it's grinding me to

my knees every day.

Someone else says, if I only knew this subreddit existed, I probably could have avoided the biggest

regret of my life, which is becoming a mother.

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