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Ben Shapiro has waded into the parenting conversation this month with a pair of pieces that should shame the narcissists treating child-rearing like a viral talent show. In commentary and reaction pieces published in January 2025 he reminded readers that parenting is messy, imperfect work — not a series of curated moments for likes and clicks.
The blunt truth Shapiro offers — that nobody is “good” at parenting all the time — is worth repeating in an era of sanctimonious online experts selling shortcuts and gimmicks. Social media parenting “hacks” can be funny and occasionally useful, but they are no substitute for steady leadership, consistent discipline, and the moral framework families used to take for granted.
Too many of today’s viral parenting trends reward performance over substance, teaching children to prioritize attention instead of character. Left unchecked, these performative tricks hollow out responsibility and create a generation raised on applause rather than on work, sacrifice, and duty to family and country. Parents who care about raising resilient kids should reject the cult of convenience and reclaim the basics.
Worse still, schools and institutions too often step into the vacuum left by parents, importing fashionable ideologies and bureaucratic dogma into childhood. Conservatives have warned for years that when the state and the classroom replace parents, we lose not only authority but the right to raise our children according to our values. That’s not culture war rhetoric — it’s a commonsense warning about who shapes a child’s mind.
The remedy is simple and unapologetic: stop outsourcing parenting to apps, influencers, and combative bureaucrats, and start rebuilding communities of faith, extended family, and neighborly support. Teach children truth, beauty, and goodness; expect work; enforce clear limits; and model fidelity to country and family over fleeting trends. Those are the real hacks that leave a legacy, not a trending hashtag.
Conservative families should also push back politically — demand transparency from schools, fight classroom indoctrination, and safeguard parental rights at the ballot box. If conservatives don’t stop pretending parenting is a private hobby and instead treat it as the nation-building project it is, the left will continue to rewrite childhood in its own image.
So to every hardworking parent out there: don’t be intimidated by the parade of online perfection. Love your children, correct them, teach them to work, and defend their future from the nanny state and the attention economy. That’s how we rebuild a culture that honors family, freedom, and the next generation of Americans.
