www.ted.com Babble.com publishers Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, in a lively tag-team, expose 4 facts that parents never, ever admit — and why they should. Funny and honest, for parents and nonparents alike.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
#1 by kozeraag on August 25th, 2011
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Definitely interesting, although the constant “um” was really distracting.
#2 by covmeister on August 25th, 2011
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@GrimJackal
Hahah, thanks dude you made me laugh
#3 by Aresftfun on August 25th, 2011
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@soulmman Yet quite possible under normal circumstances.
#4 by soulmman on August 25th, 2011
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@Aresftfun Depends on your definition of miracle. I would say childbirth is a miracle. It’s disgusting and scary, but beautiful and transcendent.
#5 by Claire17 on August 25th, 2011
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@rufgrisc I agree, if you aren’t a parent or expecting to be one, there’s no way that you can truly understand what these two are talking about. So there’s no point to children and random people giving their two sense about it
#6 by Claire17 on August 25th, 2011
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These two are real parents openly talking about their own experiences. They never said it applied to every person, what they pointed out is that they saw overlap between their experiences and those of their family and friends. Every actual parent I know who has seen this video, has agreed with these two, with the general ideas that they present. There is a false advertising with parenting, and generally speaking every parent you talk to will tell you that their actual experiences were nothing l
#7 by thepoeticmole on August 25th, 2011
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@regresseur
This is the first time I’m posting on youtube because I felt like this comment was really full of indirect self-loath. I thought the couple were different, but they surely weren’t bad speakers.
#8 by rufgrisc on August 25th, 2011
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It is interesting here to see the inconsistency between the likes and the comments. This video has received 447 likes, 78 dislikes, and 25,000 views. Meanwhile the comments are largely mostly cranky snark from 15 year old boys. I guess that’s who posts comments on youtube.
#9 by decuadie on August 25th, 2011
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@nublex I agree with schifty
My sister has a son too. She’s responsible for in the end (feeding, putting him to bed, keeping an eye on him, …) . All the time, every day. I can’t even imagine that. I get the fun parts, Playing with your niece is not the same as raising a child. And it has only been 2 weeks, they’re talking more long therm)
#10 by GrimJackal on August 25th, 2011
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I was listening to this in the background and thought Ray Romano was the speaker.
#11 by KaylinJH on August 25th, 2011
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Look at muh baby look at muh baby look at my baby look at my baby miricale baby look at it.. baby BABY
#12 by ailidhe on August 25th, 2011
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Woman stop saying UHM! I can’t take this any more.
#13 by wecaan on August 25th, 2011
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Some here are complaining about the decline in the quality of TED videos, but there seems to be a more alarming decline in the average intelligence of the viewers.
#14 by StonedReviewer on August 25th, 2011
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i wish people would stop posting slimy pictures of their babies
especially on a giant fucking screen
#15 by regresseur on August 25th, 2011
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they also try to pass off this idea that everyone, not just they themselves or the subjects of the studies, go through this “deep, dark depression” that must “necessarily be tied” directly to raising children. lastly, early in the video it seems like she’s trying to blame some of their failures as parents on all the “magazines they subscribed to” and books they read; i didn’t know books and magazines were a parts of the natural world. what came first, the chicken or the magazine on parenting?
#16 by regresseur on August 25th, 2011
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they work as a couple because he’s goofy and oblivious and she’s hawkish and condescending. notice how she closely monitors him every time he opens his mouth. because of his personality he’s able to sort of sidestep her condescension and in a sense manage it. it’s strange how miscarriage made this list; despite presenting the stat that shows it’s a minority issue they present it as if it’s par for the course. her then-loneliness is easily attributable to a flaw in their own relationship.
#17 by MomoTheBellyDancer on August 25th, 2011
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All this video does is verify that parents are just damn boring. I often saw the most interesting people turn into huge whining morons once they get children.
#18 by MomoTheBellyDancer on August 25th, 2011
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@Aresftfun
“FUCK I hate it when people call childbirth a miracle.?”
Well, it’s quite amazing how that big head manages to squeeze through.
#19 by Crazylalalalala on August 25th, 2011
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hehe, mack truck of love is a volvo
#20 by Aresftfun on August 25th, 2011
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@rodfreier What?
#21 by rodfreier on August 25th, 2011
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@Aresftfun I can’t believe you couldn’t hear the sarcasm in their voices several times when they referred to childbirth as a miracle.
#22 by juliecranford on August 25th, 2011
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@JamesWitte I explained what you did that was idiotic. Why the hell am I still seeing messages from you? I put you on ignore. WTF.
#23 by shiftyjake on August 25th, 2011
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@nublex Yeah, kids are real fun when they’re ultimately someone else’s responsibility. Speaking frankly about one’s parenting experience being different than one felt one had been led to believe it would be is no sin. Chill out and deal with your international anger issues.
(And I thought the world hated the US b/c of Bush…)
#24 by nublex on August 25th, 2011
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what the fuck is this shit
i have a 2 week ol sister
you know what i cal it?
fun
i hate when a bunch of yanks exaggerate about everything. the cunts. that’s why the whole world hates USA
#25 by tienlo on August 25th, 2011
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I bet they talk like babies to each other, even when there aren’t babies around.