You Will Drop Your Baby
Inspired by on Lenny's Podcast
At some point, you will drop your baby on its head - and that's not a failure of parenting, it's a lesson in accepting imperfection.
Annie Duke raised four kids and tells every new parent the same thing: at some point, you will drop your baby on its head. Not because you're careless, but because babies can't move - until suddenly they can. You turn your back for one second, confident the pillow will hold them, and then they roll off the couch. It happened with every single one of her children.
This isn't about being a bad parent. It's about accepting that mistakes will happen, that you can't control everything, and that children are remarkably resilient. We evolved carrying babies through the wilderness in caves - they're built for a rougher world than our padded modern homes.
The real lesson? Don't beat yourself up when things go wrong. The mistake isn't dropping them once - it's not learning from it. Notice, adapt, move on. Your baby will be fine. And so will you.
PM Theme: Learning from failure / safe-to-fail experiments
Parenting Theme: Accepting imperfection in parenting
“At some point, you will drop your baby on its head. So I bet this has happened to you already... Here's the thing about babies, is babies can't move. And so you get very used to as a mom or a dad... And then one day without warning, your baby can roll over.”Annie Duke · 00:11:18
“It happened with every single one of my children. And they don't fall that far and whatever, but they're totally fine and you're not a bad parent.”Annie Duke · 00:12:21
