Luke Combs Offers Bobby Bones Honest Parenting Advice

Luke Combs is a dad of three boys, including his newborn, Chet Wiley Combs. With a house full of little ones and plenty of parenting experience under his belt, the country star is basically a pro, making him the perfect person to share some advice for new parents.

That’s why, when he appeared on Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast, now streaming on Netflix, the show’s host Bobby Bones made sure to ask Combs for parenting tips. Bones is currently preparing to become a first-time dad himself, and is feeling all the nerves that come with the new chapter.

Combs and his wife welcomed their first child, Tex Lawrence Combs, in June of 2022, followed by Beau Lee Combs in August of 2023 and Chet in early 2026. At this point, he has seen just about everything that comes with parenthood and after all of it, his best advice for Bones is simply, “just don’t worry about it.”

He explains that overthinking every situation that could happen will simply add too much stress. While parenthood has certainly caused a “polar shift” in his life with days filled with a new level of chaos, he’s learned to accept that at the end of the day, it’s all out of his control.

“You’re never ready. You’re not going to be ready,” Combs told Bones. “I mean, this is a stark comparison, but a soldier is never ready for war and it’s not the same thing, obviously, but that’s the only metaphor I can come up with. You’re never ready to do that until you’re there and then you’ve done it and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I guess I can do this because I kind of have to.’”

Additionally, the North Carolina native stresses the importance of Bones being there for his wife above anything else. While she is devoted to caring for the new child, he feels it’s the husband’s duty to cater to her needs, which will ultimately lead to success all around.

“I would say my biggest piece of advice is that…when the infant comes, it does not need you in any way. Your wife needs you a lot though,” he explained. “Your wife is going to be so tired. It’s going to be so exhausting because she’s going through the same thing you’re going through, but there’s also a physical element for her. Her body is going to be completely different after this thing and it’s going to be like she’s never experienced that before and she’s going to be dealing with all these new emotions and you’re going to be going through all these things.”

Combs continued, “So helping her and helping her through it and doing everything to make her life as comfortable and easy as it can be through that process, to me, is the most benefit that you can be for the child because the child needs your wife. It does not need you. It needs you to help the wife so she can help the baby.”

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Even in the toughest moments, when both partners are at their peak tiredness, Combs says you “can’t ever lash out” at each other because it’s a team effort at the end of the day.

“This is the new team. The new team has three players on it now. And it’s like, how do we dish the ball to the new teammate? How do we get everybody involved? And that’s your role. You’re basically point guard. Don’t ever shoot. Just set everybody up for success,” he added.

The “Where The Wild Things Are” singer seems to have found a good balance of life at home, life on the road and still finding time to get into the studio. Along with discussing parenthood, Bones and Combs also discussed his very first gig, early days in Nashville, his love for good-quality watches and his new album, The Way I Am, arriving March 20.

When building out the track list for his sixth studio project, Luke Combs reveals he recorded 40 songs and only ended up using 22. With how busy life has gotten, Combs found himself leaning more on his fellow songwriters to help him create this collection. The result is an album he has written the least amount of songs on in his catolog.

“This album that I’m about to put out is the album that I’ve written the least songs on. I still wrote a lot, but there’s not many that were like my idea from inception. A lot of them were ideas or starts that came from my buddies. And then some of them are songs that I didn’t write on at all.”

He explains some of his favorite tracks on the record do not include his name in the credits, like the title track, as well as his latest release, “Be By You.” Part of the reason he took this approach was out of necessity because balancing time at home with his family, staying present, and playing shows left him with little time to write. Regardless, he is proud of the project and ready for fans to hear more of what he has been cooking up.

More of Luke Combs’ conversation with Bobby Bones can be found in the latest episode of Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast, now streaming on Netflix. Episodes drop every Tuesday and Thursday, with audio versions available on iHeartRadio and all major podcast platforms.