No Blueprint to Parenting: Inflation, Hypervigilance & Co-Parenting | On the Contrary

Season 2, Episode 9 "No Blueprint to Parenting" Every generation thinks they're doing it better than the last.

And every generation has something they completely got wrong. Rah Ali, Kash the Sexologist, Luis, Rico, and Taz are back at the table.

This episode, they're getting into the conversation every parent has at 2 AM but nobody wants to say at the school pickup line: are we actually doing this right?

Luis gets honest first—he started too young, and the opportunities he couldn't give his kids early on still sit with him today.

Kash talks about the hypervigilance that comes with motherhood that nobody warned her about, the part of your brain that turns on the moment you give birth and never fully turns off. Rico cuts straight to it: inflation.

Raising two kids in 2026 is the financial equivalent of raising four in 2006, and daycare alone is rent. Taz brings the perspective of doing something for the first time while knowing that getting it wrong affects somebody else's entire life.

Then the conversation goes deeper—co-parenting, discipline, who you choose to have children with, and the legacy you're building whether you're thinking about it or not.

The first relationship your child learns is the one they have with you, and that becomes their classroom for every relationship that follows. Nobody handed any of them a manual.

And they are all still figuring it out in real time. Be very mindful of who you procreate with. You are making a lifelong decision.

We're not letting anybody off the hook. On the contrary. We're not letting anybody off the hook. On the contrary.