- Are you enjoying being a parent?
- That is a complicated question.
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I am enjoying being a parent more often now
than I was a year ago.
I think that there are people out there
who are just like, "Ah, I love being a parent.
It's my calling."
It's really hard, relentless, and not always super fun.
Our kid is still so young, requires a lot of
assistance with everything
and is learning to cope with her feelings.
- Aren't we all?
- I am also.
Do you enjoy being a parent?
- Yes, but obviously there are drawbacks.
With anything that's worth it takes a little work.
- [Chyna] With most other things,
on a day that you're just really not feeling it,
you can just, like, take the day off.
- [Craig] Has parenting changed you?
- Extremely, in pretty much every way.
- Has it changed me?
- I think less so.
- I think less so too.
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- In some ways I'm more tidy.
That is like a way for me to support my mental health.
And in a lot of ways
I'm less tidy. (woman screaming)
Letting tidiness go is another way
to support my mental health.
And it's okay that the house looks like this.
- The house doesn't look as clean as this here.
It looks more like this.
I'm gonna cut to something.
What should I show them?
- [Chyna] I don't care, whatever.
Just show the house.
Just show the house!
- We are much less minimal now.
- But it's all her stuff. (laughs)
And a lot of times I'm like, "This is literally garbage."
And she's like, "It's my favorite thing ever.
And if you get rid of it,
I'll be in therapy for the rest of my life."
We have toilet paper rolls all over the house.
- She calls them I-See-Yous.
You look in them and you go,
- [Both] "I see you!"
- I clean the kitchen more often.
I enjoy it, 'cause I know things will go easier
if everything's where it's supposed to be.
But if we didn't have a kid,
I wouldn't even feel like it was necessary.
I would just be like, "Eh."
- [Both] Whatever.
(both laugh)
- Basically what I'm saying is
I care about the kitchen more because I'm a dad.
- And I care about you caring about the kitchen more.
- Okay.
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- More desire to do mundane things.
Because being a parent was hard.
This isn't as true now but early on
when we first had her...
What's her name?
- I can't remember. - Okay.
- We would argue over who got to,
like, clean up the kitchen.
The other person has to actively parent.
I get to have her like a podcast break.
- We would prefer to drive - [Chyna] Oh, yeah.
- As opposed to trying to make sure
she's not crying in the back.
- Uh-huh.
Before we had a kid my anxiety
was mostly social anxiety.
And now I have no social anxiety
but my anxiety is all "What could happen to us?
What could happen to her?"
- [Craig] When I lived by myself,
I drove a 91 Corolla in 2010.
- [Chyna] And it had an airbag insight.
- [Craig] It was falling apart and I didn't care at all.
It's just me, whatever. - [Chyna] Whatever.
- Now I wanna get the safest thing out there.
So we're gonna get rid of our car
and we're never going anywhere.
- I'm in therapy to try to keep myself
from ending up in that place.
Oh, if I don't keep ahold of the reigns
I could end up not leaving the house.
(dramatic music)
- [Craig] There's just like a few hours
at the end of the night, when she goes to bed
that we have to ourselves.
Before we had a kid that was all the time.
- Like, sometimes I'll just sit there
and try to picture what it felt like to be that free.
I can't do it.
- I'm two ways about it, though.
One, "Yeah, it was awesome."
Two, like "That's a whole lot of time
to really have nothing to do.
What was I doing all day?"
I was just kind "Eh, what do you wanna do? Eh."
- [Chyna] I definitely did a lot of nothing a lot of days.
Well and when the pandemic started
I remember thinking, oh, it would be so much easier
if we weren't parents right now.
Later, I was like, actually
I think being parents is better.
We had structure to our day.
I think it made the time pass more easily.
And I think that we use our free time
more thoughtfully now.
- [Craig] Yeah, we're not just sort of ambling.
- [Chyna] Ambling through.
- Yeah. (Chyna hums)
"Eh, what do you wanna do? Eh."
(peaceful music)
I used to envy how much you slept.
- If you had told me five or 10 years ago,
like, "You're gonna become a morning person."
I would've laughed.
"Oh my God, I have, like, so much free time,
like, oh, who cares?"
- My YouTube channel's dying.
I gotta do something like quit sugar for a month
or something to revive it.
One day you will be a morning person.
(Chyna laughs)
- That was me laughing until I died.
- You died?
- I mean, years later.
- Oh, yeah.
- (laughs) Death.
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The swing has bird poop on it!
Now, time to go back to other Craig and Chyna
and talk about everyone's favorite topic.
- (gasps) Is it guilt?
- It's guilt.
Whenever I do something now that's not watching Ada,
there's a hint of guilt.
"I should be helping Chyna watch Ada." Or...
- That's why I text you so much when I'm out.
"How's it going? Everything okay?"
And then I spend a lot of, like, time at night
just feeling bad about the job I did parenting that day.
I wanna go wake her up and cuddle her.
- You're a good parent.
- Thank you. I try.
- You're a good mom.
You're a great mom.
- Thank you, you're a great dad.
(dramatic music)
Oh my God, packing all our stuff up
and getting on a plane sounds terrible.
A lot of stress and it is getting better.
I think in another year or so
we're gonna be in a real sweet spot.
- [Craig] Yep. - [Chyna] For going places.
(dramatic music)
- Like, I just recently watched "Kramer versus Kramer"
Dustin Hoffman is preparing food for his kid.
He's normally the one working
and the kid's constantly like
"Mama doesn't do it that way."
- I think you forgot the milk.
- I didn't, I just wanna see
if you were paying attention,
because it's been a long time since I made this.
- I don't like it when it's in pieces.
- Look, it's french toast, tastes the same
whether it's in pieces or whether it's whole.
- We're very familiar with that tune in this house.
- Very relatable.
- "Mama doesn't do it that way."
- [Craig] If a parent is making not necessarily the best
per parental choices, there's less judgment.
- I'm also less judgmental of people in general.
In real life you are probably trying your very best.
God speed.
I wish the best.
(playful piano music)
- [Craig] I'm in conflict with another person
multiple times a day.
- [Chyna] It's very stressful.
- [Craig] Before having a kid
I could avoid people who disagree with me.
You're forced to interact with this little person,
who's constantly saying "No!"
- If literally any other person on this planet
said the things to me that she says sometimes
I would just be like, "Screw you.
I'll never speak to you again."
But, like, she's my kid and I love her.
- Yeah.
- And she's learning and she's struggling too,
and you have to just keep doing it.
Even though what you wanna say is, like.
(beep)
(audience laughs)
- I understand why dad jokes become a thing.
You know, many would accuse me
of already doing dad jokes well before.
- Also Nunavut today, on this day in 1990
Canada made the Nunavut act
recognizing Nunavut as a territory.
Resisting the urge to make the obvious pun
that I've made before and I hear
people make all the time.
Resisting the urge to make the obvious pun
that I've made before, that I hear people make all the time.
(indistinct)
I hate this pun, I will have none of it!
No!
(baby grunts)
But I get it more now. Just making her laugh is the best.
- Oh my gosh, that's the best thing in the world.
- She almost bumped my head with her head
and I said, "Oh, you almost headbutted me."
And she went (laughs) "Head butt.
That doesn't make any sense."
And then she tried to bump her butt on my head
and I said, "No, that's a butt butt."
And she also thought that was hilarious.
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- [Chyna] Little things can seem big and exciting.
Looking at flower buds, splashing puddles
when it's raining.
- I forgot that splashing in a puddle is fun.
- Because you're seeing her
see things for the first time.
Going to the grocery store, we're looking at the flowers.
We're looking at the balloons,
going up and down the aisles and playing games.
- [Craig] We'll go through a tunnel while we're driving.
"Get ready, there's a tunnel!"
- [Chyna] Oh, yeah.
- [Craig] Tunnels are amazing now.
- [Chyna] Tunnels are the best.
- [Craig] When we're walking and she asks me to pick her up
and she hugged me while I pick her up, I feel so important.
- [Chyna] Or if she's upset, she wants to cuddle.
And I put my arms around her.
I can feel the tension leave her body.
It's like, "Oh, I did that."
- I showed her E.T and she liked it.
That was very exciting. (Chyna giggles)
I was the parent helper at school.
One day, Remy, her friend, said "You're my best friend."
And Ada said, "You're my best friend."
- Oh my gosh. (Craig laughs)
Oh!
- I wouldn't have cared.
If you told me that a kid told another kid
that they were their best friend.
I would've been like, "Okay, get outta my face.
I'm going back to Zelda and beer.
Thank you, outta my way."
- [Chyna] Last weekend I got to watch her
play video games with you a lot.
- [Craig] Oh, yeah. That was awesome.
- [Chyna] That was so cool.
- [Craig] She's starting to be able to control Link
on "Breath of the wild."
- Just watching you two, like,
share a passion is very, very cool.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
She's a good kid.
- She's a good kid.
- We got the best one, sorry everybody else.
- Oh, we shouldn't have told them.
People don't need to know that.
- Oh, sorry.
I mean, your kids are great.
- You're all right.
(clock ticking)
What would you say to non-kid-having Chyna.
- Go do more stuff while you can.
You are gonna not like this sometimes
and that is okay, that does not mean
that you don't love your kid.
Don't beat yourself up.
Put 'em to bed, get some sleep,
wake up, make a cup of coffee.
- Basically, you're gonna make it through this?
- You're gonna make it through this.
It all comes out in the wash.
What about you?
- Everything that's gonna happen
when you have a kid is perfectly normal.
Well, as far as I know, anyway.
You and Chyna are gonna do the best you can
and that's gonna be good enough.
Maybe work on those biceps and triceps a little
'cause you're gonna be carrying a heavy kid.
Start doing videos where you quit
doing unhealthy things for a month.
- There you go.
- 'Cause people seem to like those a lot.
- Yeah.
And also buy a lottery ticket.
One, seven, 16, 43,
84, 112, six.
I don't know how the lottery works.
- Oh, okay.
Well then that's not gonna be useful.
- Okay.
- Where is she?
- I don't know.
Do you let her out this morning?
- To go poop? (laughs) - Yeah.
- That's our dog.
- Oh! Okay. - Yeah.
- Wait, which one?
- Ada. - Which one's that?
- The one that doesn't poop outside.
- The hairy one?
- Well, she has hair.
- Hmm.
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