Parents Just Don't Understand | Reading Reddit Stories

**Shayne Topp** (0:00)
Hello, and welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shayne, and today's theme is parents, parenting. And I am joined by two people who are parents, one of a baby boy and one of a little tiny napkin.
Amanda and Trevor, thank you for joining me.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (0:17)
I hope that you're doing well. I know it's tough.

**Trevor Evarts** (0:19)
It is tough. Yeah, it's tough because he does this thing where he in the morning at like 8.3 on the dot, he gets up and he starts licking my eyeball because he wants breakfast.

**Shayne Topp** (0:28)
We should be clear that napkin, when I say napkin, it's a dog.

**Trevor Evarts** (0:32)
It is a dog.

**Shayne Topp** (0:33)
Not a napkin.

**Trevor Evarts** (0:34)
Not an actual.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (0:35)
That would be so bizarre. My son also licks my eyeballs when he wants food, and I'm like, how did you get here?

**Shayne Topp** (0:41)
He's stuck.

**Trevor Evarts** (0:42)
How did you get here?

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (0:43)
Where did you come from?

**Shayne Topp** (0:44)
My haunted baby.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (0:47)
Don't even start.

**Shayne Topp** (0:48)
I don't think we might have, I don't think we've done a parents episode.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (0:52)
I know, I feel like I'm on my best behavior right now. I feel a little very polite. We'll see how long that lasts.

**Shayne Topp** (0:58)
Do you think you have takes on parenting that have changed or new ones?

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (1:03)
Totally changed. Yeah. Really? Yes.

**Shayne Topp** (1:06)
Interesting.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (1:08)
I would say one of my favorite books is like Bringing Up the Baby. It's like the French book.
It's a little bit more hands-off. I don't know though. It's all intuitive. You cannot plan how you're going to be as a mom until you become a mom. That's what I'm going to say.

**Trevor Evarts** (1:23)
Okay.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (1:24)
How do you feel about that with Napkin?

**Trevor Evarts** (1:26)
I feel that way with Napkin. Yeah. I mean, when we first got Napkin, I mean, he was peeing all over himself.
Then it was like we had to figure that out. But it's figured out now and he's great. No, I have a really great relationship with my actual parents. I feel like they're amazing. I feel like they just set me up really well. I know that when I am a dad of a human child, I'm obviously not going to be ready, but I feel like they were really good examples for me.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (1:54)
Everyone always says you're never ready, but let me tell you, your intuition does actually kick in. You weirdly know what to do.

**Shayne Topp** (2:02)
Okay. Let's get into some of these parenting stories.
Our first one comes from Today I Fucked Up, and it was posted in July of 2020

**SPEAKER_4** (2:13)
Whoa.

**Shayne Topp** (2:13)
Bad year. Anyways, this story goes, Today I fucked up by telling my daughter, her hero, Bob Ross, was dead.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:23)
That's her daughter's hero?

**Shayne Topp** (2:25)
What if I was like, he died?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:27)
Wait.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:27)
No, he's still painting. Down the street.

**Shayne Topp** (2:29)
He's still painting.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:31)
Wait, do you not?

**Shayne Topp** (2:35)
What's next? Mr. Rogers?

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:37)
No, he doesn't know who Bob Ross is.

**Shayne Topp** (2:39)
You don't know who Bob Ross is?

**Trevor Evarts** (2:40)
Of course I know who Bob Ross is.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:41)
Then what was happening there?

**SPEAKER_5** (2:43)
I was just really sad that he died.

**Trevor Evarts** (2:45)
Oh, I thought he did now. No, I already knew he's dead, but it just brought back up some emotions.

**Shayne Topp** (2:52)
Let's get into this.

**Amanda Lehan-Canto** (2:52)
Okay.

**Shayne Topp** (2:55)
Obligatory, this was two years ago. My daughter was four at the time. My daughter's love of Bob Ross started in the womb. I had a terrible insomnia throughout my pregnancy, and I would listen to Bob Ross painting tutorials each night to fall asleep. At the time, I thought it helped me sleep because it was essentially soothing background noise. But recently, I've learned about ASMR, and I realized that I am super susceptible to certain sounds, such as quiet, calm voices and the scratching of paint brushes and tools. Anyways, after my daughter was born, I continued to have a hard time sleeping, this time because of a crying and demanding baby. So every night, I'd lay down in my bed with her next to me in the bassinet, and I'd play Bob Ross. As my daughter got older, she began to demand Bob Ross. We'd read a board book or two before bed, and then we'd watch one half-hour tutorial. By the end of these videos, my daughter, and often myself, would be sound asleep. For years, this routine was continued. It continued through my second pregnancy, and now with my second daughter as well. We watch Bob Ross every single night. We've seen each and every Joy of Painting tutorial, all 403 episodes, multiple times.