Sistser Wives Kody Brown has a combined 18 children between his wives, but his poor parenting style has been tough to watch for viewers for years.
Kody Brown has demonstrated in Sister Wives season 18 that he is an emotional leader, which makes it clear how poor a parent he has been to his 18 children. Kody has been married to Christine Brown, Janelle Brown, and Meri Brown in the past. He is currently wed to Robyn Brown. Nearly 30 years have passed since the Brown family entered into plural marriage, but once Christine decided to leave the family during Sister Wives season 17, things started to fall apart for Kody and his family. Kody was deeply affected by Christine’s departure, sending him into a downward spiral that affected his interactions with Meri and Janelle as well.
While Kody’s relationships with his wives have always been tumultuous, he’s seemed to have a decent relationship with his children in the past. Long before Sister Wives season 18, Kody showed off his kids and was typically seen moving from home to home to be with his wives and children. As things progressed in his relationship with Robyn and Kody’s kids from his other marriages got older, his relationships with his children changed. COVID-19 brought about a new era for the Brown family, and with Kody’s stringent rules, his relationships with his children grew cold and impossible to repair.
Kody Tries To Pit His Children Against Each Other & Their Moms
While Kody has always been aware of each wife’s place in the family, he has been quick to try to alter how his kids view their relationships. With Janelle and Christine, Kody has six kids who all arrived at about the same time. After adopting Robyn’s three children from a previous marriage, he had one child with Meri and five with her. Kody hasn’t always been the most involved dad in his children’s lives because he has 18 kids to keep track of, and it manifests in the way he treats them. Most of Kody’s kids don’t respond well to his parenting approach, but he is blissfully unaware of this.
While Kody feels he’s being supportive of his children, he spends his time with his kids trying to buy their affection in some way or another or attempting to pit them against one another. Kody is likely very aware of how little energy he spends on his kids, especially in recent years as they’ve grown. When he does see them, he tries to make himself look like a fun, cool parent. With Robyn’s kids, whom he spends the most time with, Kody tries to paint himself as the victim of all the rest of his kids’ attitudes. Kody creates conflict between his children where there doesn’t need to be any.
Kody’s Kids Compare Notes About His Behavior
Although Kody’s children have been isolated from each other in the past, when they were growing up many of them spent a lot of their time together. Christine’s kids and Janelle’s kids grew up spending most of their time with one another, as they were all around the same age and their mothers stepped in to help one another out. As the kids grew older, they all began to understand their father’s role in the family and how little time he truly spent with any of them.
Though Kody was present in their lives, it was difficult to truly know or get attention from their dad, and the kids were all forming familial relationships with their siblings instead. Since they were growing up together, by the time they reached a maturity level where they could vocalize their concerns about their father, the Brown children were likely fed up with his behavior towards them and their mothers. After Robyn joined the family, many of the Brown children have explained they saw a shift in the way Kody acted. They’ve shared that after speaking together, many of them changed the way they operate in their relationships with their father.
Kody Feels Entitled To His Children’s Time
With Kody working hard to ensure that his children still view him as a parental figure despite spending minimal time with his kids, he often speaks about how annoyed he feels when his older children don’t make time for him. Kody’s younger children include his two youngest with Robyn and his younger daughters from Christine and Janelle, and though he spends most of his time with his and Robyn’s kids, he rarely spends time with Truely, who he shares with Christine, or Savannah, who he shares with Janelle. When Kody does want to spend time with his daughters, he makes it clear that he’s entitled to as their parent.
Kody speaks about spending time with his kids as though it’s a chore rather than a privilege. He acts like he’s tried to spend as much time with his kids as possible when he’s spent very little time with his children over the course of their lives. He’s made it clear that with so many children, it’s hard to divide his time in an equal measure. When he puts all of his attention on one set of kids it’s hard to say he’s actually trying to make things equal. Kody has done this in his relationships with his wives and his children, and the tactic doesn’t seem to be working.
Kody Tries To Buy His Kids’ Affection
Kody previously admitted on Sister Wives season 18 that he was making every effort to ensure that his children understood how much he loved them throughout the holiday season. The Browns were split up throughout the holiday season rather than doing this by spending time together as a family. Even though Janelle pleaded with Kody to halt their argument, two of his sons, Gabe Brown and Garrison Brown, were engaged in it. Instead of attempting to develop an emotional bond with his children, Kody has attempted to purchase their love by providing extravagant gifts and experiences while neglecting those with whom he finds it more difficult to establish a relationship.
Kody’s Always Been Too Selfish To Be A Good Parent
Although Kody has claimed time and time again that he’s a great parent to his 18 children, the Sister Wives star has shown that he’s anything but. From putting his relationships with his wives first to allowing his emotions to govern his life in an unhealthy way, Kody has spent the entirety of his time in public eye proving that he’s selfish. He only ever considers the way things will look when it comes to him, not his kids or his family as a whole. For Kody, being a parent is something he had to do in order to progress forward in his life.
Having kids was an achievement or milestone to check off his to do list, and rather than fostering his relationships with his children, Kody has chosen to neglect his kids and spend his time working on himself and his relationships. For Kody, his time on Sister Wives has proven that he’s always been selfish, but his actions in recent years have made it clear that his selfish nature has made him a bad parent, and is consistently causing him to do worse with his children.