All right, so today we'll go back to our lost souls of Reddit to deliver some life advice

based on questions that are posed over on Reddit.

And I can't promise that my advice is good.

It's not legally, I can't be held legally responsible if anyone takes my advice and it goes poorly

for them.

But I can say that the advice I give is at least better than what you would get from the community at Reddit, which is as low a bar as it can possibly get. Okay, is parenting supposed to be this heart? I, 30 female, have two kids aged 5 and 3. I love them so much, but I also feel like they're making me so down all the time. I feel like a terrible parent. My husband has gone on holiday for a week with some friends and I've really struggled. I ended up getting so angry at my three old yesterday because she asked me to take her to the toilet three times whilst I was trying to eat my dinner. I know it's not her fault if she needs the toilet, but I was so tired and I was so tired and I was so tired and I was so tired and I was terrible afterwards. I really missed my pre-child life.

Everything was so much easier and I was happier. I'm so stressed and tired all the time now. Even trying to get them to go to bed in the evening is such a battle. Sometimes I just want to leave and have my freedom back. Does everyone feel like this? Or am I just not supposed to be a mum? British. I'm picking up on British from whilst and mum, so that's my, you know, I'm really good at these kinds of things.

Okay.

Well, I can answer the last question.

You're supposed to be a mom because you are a mom, so that solves the riddle.

You know, if you're a parent, you don't need to sit around thinking, was I supposed to be a parent? Well, you are. Like, you are. So, yeah, you're supposed to.

In fact, most people are supposed to be parents. So you're doing a thing that billions of people

have done before you. It is the basic path that almost everybody follows.

And most of the people who don't follow that path,

it's only because they weren't able to for one reason or another.

So yeah, you were supposed to.

And as to your other question, does everybody feel like this?

Well, if by like this, you mean occasionally frustrated, stressed out,

irritated, sure.

If you mean wanting to be able to eat a meal in peace,

again, sure, definitely. But if you mean, like, pining for your childless past, constantly missing

the times before you had kids, sort of wishing that you weren't a parent.

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